William Horwood (other)
William Horwood may refer to: *William Horwood (composer) (c. 1430–1484), English composer and musician * William Horwood (police commissioner) (1868–1943), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police * William Horwood (novelist) (born 1944), English novelist * William Horwood (by 1504-57 or later), MP for Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency) *William Whorwood or Horwood (by 1505–1545), Solicitor General, Attorney General and MP for Downton *William Horwood (Chief Justice) Sir William Henry Horwood (November 5, 1862 – April 7, 1945) was a politician and the Chief Justice of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1902 to 1944. He represented Trinity from 1894 to 1897 and from 1900 to 1902 and Harbour Grace from 1897 to ...

William Horwood (composer)
William Horwood, also Horewud, was an English polyphonic vocal composer in the late-medieval period ( 1430 – 1484). In 1470, he was a singer at Lincoln Cathedral, in 1476, he was a vicar choral at Lincoln, and from 1477 until 1484, he was the Cathedral choirmaster. He is one of the earliest composers represented in the Eton Choirbook, with three complete pieces and one incomplete piece. There is also one incomplete piece in the fragmentary York mass manuscript, Borthwick Institute MS Mus.1; however, Theodor Dumitrescu in his edition of the mass manuscript suggests this may be a different composer with the same surname. The survival of these large-scale pieces makes Horwood the most important representative we have of the period between Dunstaple and early Tudor composers such as Fayrfax and William Cornysh. Horwood's "Magnificat secundi toni a 5" bears a strong resemblance to compositions of his near contemporary Josquin des Prez (c. 1440–1521), so much so that he might easily ...
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William Horwood (police Commissioner)
Brigadier-General Sir William Thomas Francis Horwood, (9 November 1868 – 16 November 1943) was a British Army officer who also served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of London's Metropolitan Police, from 1920 to 1928. Military career Horwood was born in Broadwater (now part of the town of Worthing) in Sussex and was educated at Highgate School. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the East Kent Regiment on 26 February 1887. At the age of 20, he was commissioned into the 5th Lancers, and was promoted to lieutenant on 14 January 1891. He married Violet Fife (1864/65–1941) on 27 April 1897; they had one daughter. On 27 January 1900, as a lieutenant, he transferred to the Reserve of Officers, receiving a promotion to captain on 26 May. Later that year he was appointed adjutant and recruiting officer of the 49th Regimental District, and in 1902 became brigade major of the 24th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. In 1904, he became an administrative off ...
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William Horwood (novelist)
William Horwood (born 12 May 1944 in Oxford) is an English novelist. He grew up on the East Kent coast, primarily in Deal, within a family fractious with "parental separation, secret illegitimacy, alcoholism and genteel poverty". Between the ages of six and ten, he was raised in foster care, attended school in Germany for a year, then went on to Grammar School at age eleven. In his eighteenth year, he attended Bristol University to study geography, after which he had any number of jobs—fundraising and teaching, among others, as well as editing for the ''London Daily Mail''. In 1978, at age 34, he retired from the newspaper in order to pursue novel-writing as his primary career, inspired by some long-ago reading of Frances Hodgson Burnett's ''The Secret Garden''. His first novel, ''Duncton Wood'', an allegorical tale about a community of moles, was published in 1980. It was followed by two sequels, forming ''The Duncton Chronicles'', and also a second trilogy, ''The Book of ...
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William Horwood (by 1504-57 Or Later)
William Horwood may refer to: *William Horwood (composer) (c. 1430–1484), English composer and musician * William Horwood (police commissioner) (1868–1943), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police * William Horwood (novelist) (born 1944), English novelist * William Horwood (by 1504-57 or later), MP for Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency) *William Whorwood or Horwood (by 1505–1545), Solicitor General, Attorney General and MP for Downton *William Horwood (Chief Justice) Sir William Henry Horwood (November 5, 1862 – April 7, 1945) was a politician and the Chief Justice of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1902 to 1944. He represented Trinity from 1894 to 1897 and from 1900 to 1902 and Harbour Grace from 1897 to ...

Huntingdon (UK Parliament Constituency)
Huntingdon is a constituency west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire and including its namesake town of Huntingdon. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Jonathan Djanogly of the Conservative Party. Huntingdon is a safe Conservative seat and was the seat of former Conservative Prime Minister, John Major. First established around the time of the Model Parliament in 1295, Huntingdon was the seat of Oliver Cromwell in 1628–29 and 1640–1642. History The constituency of Huntingdon has existed in three separate forms: as a parliamentary borough from 1295 to 1885; as a division of a parliamentary county from 1885 to 1918; and as a county constituency from 1983 until the present day. Representatives for the seat, the standard two burgesses per parliamentary borough, were summoned to form the first fully assembled parliament, the Model Parliament in 1295 and at all parliaments assembled from then until 1868, in which year the constituen ...
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William Whorwood
Sir William Whorwood (c.1500 – 28 May 1545) was a landowner in Staffordshire and the neighbouring counties, a distinguished lawyer, and a politician in the reign of Henry VIII. He achieved the positions of Solicitor General and Attorney General. Background and early years Whorwood was born before 1505: his elder brother John was aged 40 in 1534, and taking account also of the dates of his education, it can be assumed that William was born 1500–1502. He was the second or third son of John Whorwood of Compton, near Kinver one of a family of minor gentry, who had long lived at Compton, in Kinver, Staffordshire. The family name is also rendered ''Horwood'' or ''Horewode'', giving an indication of contemporary pronunciation. His mother was Elizabeth Corbyn, daughter of Richard Corbyn of Kingswinford, Staffordshire. Whorwood was admitted to the Middle Temple for legal training on 2 November 1519. Within two years he was acting as receiver of monies for the serjeants-at-law, ...
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