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William Grey (other)
William, Billy or Bill Grey may refer to: British public figures *William Grey (died 1551), MP for Reading * William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1562), military commander *Willam Grey (died 1574), MP for Bridgnorth * William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke (1593–1674), MP during 1621–22 *Sir William Grey (governor) (1818–1878), Governor of Bengal 1866–1871, Governor of Jamaica 1874–1877 * William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850–1910), scholar and philanthropist * William Grey Walter (1910–1977), American-born neurophysiologist, cybernetician and robotician * William G. Gray (1913–1992), ceremonial magician, Hermetic Qabalist and writer Clergymen * William Grey (bishop of Lincoln) (died 1436), also bishop of London * William Grey (bishop of Ely) (died 1478), medieval English churchman * William Henry Grey (1829–1888), African-American church leader and Reconstruction politician in Arkansas Characters *Bill Grey, Fox's dog friend in 1993's '' Star Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey (died 1551)
William, Billy or Bill Grey may refer to: Public figures *William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1562), English baron and military commander *William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke (died 1674) * William Grey (died 1551), MP for Reading * Willam Grey (died 1574), MP for Bridgnorth *Sir William Grey (governor) (1818–1878), Governor of Bengal 1866–1871, Governor of Jamaica 1874–1877 *William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke (died 1674), English politician *William Henry Grey (1829–1888), African-American storeowner, church leader, and Reconstruction politician in Arkansas *William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850–1910), English peer *William G. Gray (1913–1992), English ceremonial magician Clergy *William Grey (bishop of Lincoln) (died 1436), also bishop of London *William Grey (bishop of Ely) (died 1478), medieval English churchman Characters *Billy Grey, a character in '' Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned'' * Bill Grey, fictional character in the Starfox s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reading (UK Parliament Constituency)
Reading was a parliamentary borough, and later a borough constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It comprised the town of Reading in the county of Berkshire. From 1295, as a parliamentary borough, Reading elected two members of parliament (MPs). Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885,this representation was reduced to a single MP. The constituency was abolished in 1950, re-created in 1955, and finally abolished in 1974. History Reading was one of the boroughs summoned to send members to the Model Parliament. The boundaries (encompassing the whole of one parish and parts of two others) were effectively unchanged from 1295 to 1918. In 1831, the population of the borough was 15,935, and contained 3,307 houses. The right to vote was exercised by all inhabitants paying scot and lot, a relatively wide franchise for the period, and almost 2,000 votes were cast at the general election of 1826. Despite this high electorate, the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey, 13th Baron Grey De Wilton
William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton (1508/1509 – 14 December 1562), was an English baron and military commander serving in France in the 1540s and 1550s, and in the Scottish Wars of the 1540s. Early life Grey was the thirteenth Baron Grey de Wilton, fourth son of Edmund Grey, 9th Baron Grey de Wilton (died 1511) and Florence Hastings, eldest daughter of Sir Ralph Hastings. He was first summoned to parliament on 3 November 1529, by King Henry VIII of England. Service in France, 1544–1547 During the Italian War of 1542–1546, Grey was a commander in the expedition against France in 1544, under John, lord Russell, and assisted in the siege of Montreuil. There seems to have been some jealousy between Grey and the Earl of Surrey. Grey had been appointed chief captain of the army called 'the Crews,' and it was arranged in 1545 that this command should be transferred to Surrey, while Grey was to be appointed lieutenant of Boulogne under Lord Poynings. Upon letters f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willam Grey (died 1574)
Willam Belli (, born June 30, 1982), mononymously known as Willam, is an American drag queen, actor, singer-songwriter, reality television personality, author, and YouTuber. Willam came to prominence as a contestant on the fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in 2012, but was disqualified in the "Frenemies" challenge. Before appearing on ''Drag Race'', Willam worked as an actor, most notably playing the recurring role of transgender woman Cherry Peck in Ryan Murphy's medical drama ''Nip/Tuck''. She has continued to perform in a variety of films, television series and web series, often in drag. In 2018, she appeared in the critically acclaimed film '' A Star Is Born''. For her performance on the dark comedy web series ''EastSiders'', she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series. Since 2012, Willam has recorded three albums of comedy music, mostly consisting of parodies of popular songs. Her second album, ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgnorth (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bridgnorth was a parliamentary borough in Shropshire which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1295 until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until its abolition in 1885. It was represented by two burgesses until 1868, when it was reduced to one Member of Parliament (MP). Boundaries According to the 1881 census, the borough of Bridgnorth comprised the parishes of Quatford, part of Quatt, St. Leonard and St Mary (in Bridgnorth town), Astley Abbotts, Eardingdon, Oldbury, Romsley and Tasley. This was smaller than the municipal borough, which only contained the first four. History By the eighteenth century Bridgnorth had one of the widest franchises in England, consisting of "the burgesses and freement within and without the borough". There were more than a thousand voters in the contested elections of 1727, 1734 and 1741Pages 242 to 243,Lewis Namier, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey, 1st Baron Grey Of Werke
William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke (1593 - 1674) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Early life Grey was the son of Sir Ralph Grey, of Chillingham, Northumberland and his wife Jane, daughter of WilIiam Ardlington, of Ardlington, Berkshire. He was created baronet on 15 June 1619. In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Northumberland. He succeeded to the estates of Chillingham and Werke on the death of his father and was created Baron Grey of Werke on 11 February 1624. Career Grey was commander of parliamentarian forces in the east in 1642. He was imprisoned for refusing to go as commissioner to Scotland in 1643. He was speaker of House of Lords in 1643 and was one of the Lay Assessors at the Westminster Assembly from 1643 to 1649. In 1648 he was appointed a commissioner of great seal but refused the engagement in 1649. He was pardoned at Restoration. Personal li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey (governor)
Sir William Grey (1818 – 15 May 1878) was an English administrator who worked with the East India Company in India and served as lieutenant-governor of Bengal from 1867 when he succeeded Sir Cecil Beadon and later as governor of Jamaica. Grey was the fourth son of Edward Grey (bishop), Edward Grey, bishop of Hereford while his mother was the daughter of James Croft of Greenham Lodge, near Newbury, Berkshire. Grey studied at Christ Church, Oxford, but did not complete studies and joined the war office as a clerk. Nominated to work in the Bengal civil service he entered Haileybury College in January 1839 and passed out in July 1840. During his first term, he was rusticated for late night parties in his room but made up for it in later terms. He went to Bengal in 1840 and worked for a while in various offices before becoming a private secretary to Sir Herbert Maddock in 1845. In 1851 he became secretary of the Bank of Bengal. He became a secretary to the government of Bengal in 1854 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey, 9th Earl Of Stamford
William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (18 April 1850 – 24 May 1910) was an English peer. Grey was born in Newfoundland, the son of Revd. William Grey and Harriet White, educated at Exeter College, Oxford and, from 1878 to 1883, Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Codrington College in Barbados. He was married in London in 1895 to (Elizabeth Louisa) Penelope Theobald, daughter of the Revd. C. Theobald. They had a son and heir, Roger, in 1896 and a daughter, Jane, in 1899. On the death of his first cousin Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford in Africa in 1890, he inherited the titles of Earl of Stamford and Baron Grey of Groby and the estate at Dunham Massey in Cheshire. Following a delay whilst the House of Lords considered the legitimacy of the 8th earl's son's claim to the title, he moved in 1906 to Dunham Massey to take up residence in the remaining family seat, which had been empty for many years. Once there, he set about modernising the electrical and plumbing systems and rede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey Walter
William Grey Walter (February 19, 1910 – May 6, 1977) was an American-born British neurophysiologist, cybernetician and robotician. Early life and education Walter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, on 19 February 1910, the only child of Minerva Lucrezia (Margaret) Hardy (1879–1953), an American journalist and Karl Wilhelm Walter (1880–1965), a British journalist who was working on the Kansas City ''Star'' at the time. His parents had met and married in Italy, and during the First World War the family moved from to Britain. Walter's ancestry was German/British on his father's side, and American/British on his mother's side. He was brought to England in 1915, and educated at Westminster School with an interest in classics and science, and entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1928. He achieved a third class in part one (1930) and a first class in physiology in part two of the natural sciences tripos (1931). He failed to obtain a research fellowship in Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William G
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey (bishop Of Lincoln)
William Grey (sometimes Gray) (died February 1436) was Bishop of London and then Bishop of Lincoln. Family William Grey was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Grey (1359 - 26 November 1400) of Heaton near Norham, Northumberland, by his wife, Joan Mowbray (d.1410), the daughter of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray (d. 17 June 1368), and Elizabeth de Segrave, daughter and heiress of John de Segrave, Baron Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Grey (chronicler), Sir Thomas Grey (d. 1369) of Heaton, and Margaret, daughter and heiress of William de Presfen (or Pressen). He had three brothers and a sister: *Thomas Grey (1384-1415), Sir Thomas Grey, executed for his participation in the Southampton Plot. *John Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, John Grey, 1st Earl of Tancarville (d.1421). *Sir Henry Grey of Ketteringham, Norfolk, who married Emme Appleyard. *Maud Grey (1382–1451), who married Sir Robert Ogle (d. 12 August 1436) of Ogle, Northumberland, by whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grey (bishop Of Ely)
William Grey (died 1478) was a medieval English churchman, academic, and Lord High Treasurer. He served as Chancellor of Oxford University and as Bishop of Ely.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 245 Family Grey was the son of Sir Thomas Grey, one of the conspirators in the Southampton Plot, and Alice Neville, the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, by his first wife Margaret (d.1396), daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford. He had three brothers, and four or five sisters, including: *Sir Thomas Grey (1404 – d. before 1426), who in 1412, at eight years of age, was betrothed to Isabel, then three years of age, only daughter of Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, and Anne Mortimer, but died childless. *Sir Ralph Grey (d. 17 March 1442), who married Elizabeth FitzHugh, daughter of Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh, and Elizabeth Grey, and left children. *Sir John Grey. *a sister who married a husband surnamed Arundel. *J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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