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William Hunter (other)
William Hunter may refer to: Politicians U.S. politicians * William Hunter (Vermont politician) (1754–1827), U.S. Representative from Vermont * William Hunter (senator) (1774–1849), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island * William H. Hunter (died 1842), U.S. Representative from Ohio * William Hunter (Assistant Secretary of State) (1805–1886), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; Rhode Island politician * William F. Hunter (1808–1874), lawyer and U.S. Representative from Ohio Other politicians * William Hunter (Aberdeen MP) (1844–1898), Scottish politician * William Hunter, Lord Hunter (1865–1957), Scottish politician and judge * William Hunter (Canadian politician) (1858–1939), businessman and politician in British Columbia Sports * Will Hunter (born 1979), American football safety * William Hunter (American athlete) (1883–1966), American Olympic athlete * William Hunter (British athlete) (1892–1974), British Olympic athlete * William Hunter (footballer, born 1888) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hunter (Vermont Politician)
William Hunter (January 3, 1754November 30, 1827) was an American judge and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont. Biography Hunter was born in Sharon in the Connecticut Colony to Rebecca Marvin and David Hunter. He attended the common schools. He resided near Ford Edward in the Province of New York from 1763 until 1775, when he moved to Windsor. He joined a Vermont militia company commanded by Captain John Grout and served in the Revolutionary War as an orderly sergeant and lieutenant, and took part in General Richard Montgomery's expedition to Canada. He served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1795, 1807, and 1808. He was the register of probate from 1798 until 1801, and judge of probate for the district of Windsor from 1801 until 1816. He also served as Justice of the Peace in Windsor. He was a Presidential Elector for Vermont in 1804, and voted for the reelection of Thomas Jefferson as President and new running mate George Clint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Hunter (footballer, Born 1880)
William Hunter (born 29 July 1880) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as a centre forward, featuring for clubs including St Bernard's, Airdrieonians, Kilmarnock, Rangers, Hamilton Academical, Motherwell and Cowdenbeath. He came to prominence with Airdrie, scoring 43 Scottish Football League goals from 51 appearances between 1907 and 1909 (plus four in as many games on loan at Kilmarnock) which earned him a move to Rangers. His scoring run continued at Ibrox with 19 goals in 17 matches in 1909–10 despite often being deployed on the wing, but by their high standards the club had a very poor season (fifth in the league, out of the Scottish Cup in the opening round, an Old Firm defeat in the Glasgow Cup final and not even making the final of the Charity Cup) and Hunter was not selected again, although he remained on the books until 1913, instead serving several loans. One of these was a short term deal with Hamilton with the intention of improving their team for the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Magee Hunter
William Magee Hunter (c.1834 – 7 November 1868) was a New Zealand soldier. He was born in County Antrim, Ireland on c.1834. He is remembered for leading the Pākehā forces against Titokowaru in the New Zealand Wars The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. They were previously commonly referred to as the Land Wars or the M .... References 1830s births 1868 deaths New Zealand military personnel People from County Antrim Irish emigrants (before 1923) to New Zealand New Zealand people of Irish descent {{NewZealand-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Guyer Hunter
Sir William Guyer Hunter, (1829 – 14 March 1902) was a British surgeon-general in India, principal of medical colleges and Conservative politician. He took part in official enquiries into vaccination and cholera. Life Hunter was born at Calcutta, India and was educated at King's College London and Aberdeen University. He began his training at Charing Cross Hospital in 1844 at the same time as Thomas Henry Huxley and Joseph Fayrer, and passed, in 1850, into the Bombay medical department as an assistant-surgeon. He became Principal of Grant Medical College in 1866, a post he held for ten years. He was appointed Vice Chancellor of Bombay University in 1880 by Sir Richard Temple. He returned to London and was a member of the Royal Commission on Vaccination which was initiated in 1879 and sat for seven years. Hunter was surgeon to the Queen in 1881. In 1883 there was an outbreak of cholera in Egypt which had fallen under British jurisdiction in the previous year. There was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hunter (statistician)
William Gordon Hunter, or Bill Hunter, was a statistician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was co-author of the classic book ''Statistics for Experimenters'', and co-founder of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement with George E. P. Box. Hunter was born March 27, 1937, in Buffalo, New York. In 1959 he received a bachelor's degree from Princeton and in 1960 a master's from the University of Illinois in chemical engineering. He then became the first doctoral student at the new department of statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison founded by George Box. He contributed to the book ''Statistics for Experimenters'' by Box, William Hunter, and Stuart Hunter (no relation to William Hunter). He founded the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality and the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement in Madison, Wisconsin. The Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality gives an annual award called the William G. Hunter Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wilson Hunter
Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 18406 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is most known for ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' on which he started working in 1869, and which was eventually published in nine volumes in 1881, then fourteen, and later as a twenty-six volume set after his death. Early life and education William Wilson Hunter was born on 15 July 1840 in Glasgow, Scotland, to Andrew Galloway Hunter, a Glasgow manufacturer. He was the second of his father's three sons. In 1854 he started his education at the 'Quaker Seminary' at Queenswood, Hampshire and a year later he joined The Glasgow Academy. He was educated at the University of Glasgow ( BA 1860), Paris and Bonn, acquiring a knowledge of Sanskrit, LL.D., before passing first in the final examination for the Indian Civil Service in 1862. Career He reached Bengal Presidency in November 1862 and was appointed assistant magistrate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bradford (playwright)
White Bostonian Joseph Bradford (1843–1886) was an American playwright who most famously helped write a landmark production, ''Out of Bondage'', the first African American musical comedy Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movemen ..., with Pauline Hopkins and the Hyers Sisters, debuting in 1876. The production featured Sam Lucas, a famous minstrel performer of the era. Bradford was also an actor, poet and journalist. He wrote for the Boston Courier as "Jay Bee". Works *''New German'' (1872) *''Law in New York'' (1873) *''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea#Adaptations and variations, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' (1874) Libretto *''The Conditional Pardon'' (1875) *''Fritz's Brother'' (1875) *''Out of Bondage'' (1876) *''In and Out of Bondage'' (1877) *''Our Bachelors'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hunter (martyr)
William Hunter was a Marian martyr burnt to death in Brentwood, England at the age of 19 on 26 March 1555, on Ingrave Road. He had lost his job in London as a silk-weaver because he refused to attend the Catholic mass, despite an order that everyone in the City of London had to attend, and had come to live with his parents in Brentwood, but got into a dispute when discovered reading the Bible for himself in Brentwood Chapel. He refused to accept the Catholic dogma of transubstantiation according to which the bread and wine of the communion become the body and blood of Jesus. He was taken before Antony Browne, then the local Justice, but later Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, but refused to retract his position. Hunter was then sent to Bishop Bonner in London. He resisted both threats and bribes—Bonner offered to make him a Freeman of the City of London and give him £40—and was eventually returned to Brentwood to be burnt. He was the first Essex martyr of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hunter (Asiatic Society)
William Hunter (1755 in Montrose, Angus – 1812) was an official and minister in India, then secretary to the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, Bengal. He made one of the first Bible translations into Hindi. He studied at the University of Aberdeen and went to India in 1781. He succeeded John Borthwick Gilchrist John Borthwick Gilchrist (19 June 1759 – 9 January 1841) was a Scottish surgeon, linguist, philologist and Indologist. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he spent most of his early career in India, where he made a study of the local languages. ... as the secretary of the Asiatic Society in 1804 and in 1805 was made the Secretary of the college.The Asiatic Society, 1784-1984: bicentenary souvenir Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) 1984 "Already in 1805 the Secretary of the Society, William Hunter had been made the Secretary of the College. In 1808 .." Publications William Hunter; "Observations on Nauclea gambin, : the plant producing the drug called gutta gambeer with cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hunter (surgeon)
William Hunter CB FRSE (1 June 1861 – 13 January 1937) was a British surgeon known primarily for his theories on oral sepsis, one of the inspirations for the Henry Cotton theory of focal sepsis which led to the increased number of tooth extractions and tonsillectomies in the 1910s and 20s (under the presumption that hidden sepsis could lead to a wider health decline in individuals). By the 1930s, this view had fallen out of favor, but not until after thousands of surgeries had been performed. Life Hunter was born in Ballantrae in Ayrshire, the son of Robert Hunter of Birkenhead.Inspiring Physicians , RCP Museum Munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved on 29 March 2020. He was educated at |
William Hunter (anatomist)
William Hunter (23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. His guidance and training of his equally famous brother, John Hunter, was also of great importance. Early life and career Hunter was born at Long Calderwood, now a part of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, to Agnes Paul (c.1685–1751) and John Hunter (1662/3–1741). He was the elder brother of surgeon, John Hunter. After studying divinity at the University of Glasgow, he went into medicine in 1737, studying under William Cullen. Arriving in London, Hunter became resident pupil to William Smellie (1741–44) and he was trained in anatomy at St George's Hospital, London, specialising in obstetrics. He followed the example of Smellie in giving a private course on dissecting, operative procedures and bandaging, from 1746. His courtly manners and sensible judgement helped him to advance until he became the lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hunter (merchant)
William Hunter was a Scottish merchant based in Edinburgh and Bristol active in the 1590s, who exported Scottish linen, and gathered intelligence in Spain for England. Hunter was a merchant, ship owner, and credit broker who had links in England, and married a wealthy woman from Bristol, the widow of a dyer. He had some dealings with John Williams, a Cheapside goldsmith. He called himself "banker to the King of Scotland". He traded with Portugal and exported English goods from Norwich to Spain, avoiding an English trade embargo in time of war. Hunter's petition Around the year 1601, with the blessing of James VI of Scotland, Hunter sent a petition to Elizabeth I which gives some details of his activities and willingness to spy for England. In 1588 he had sent his servant or employee, Patrick Morris, from St Lucar in Spain to London, with intelligence of the preparations and sailing dates of the Spanish Armada. Hunter himself came into suspicion in Spain and he was imprisoned for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
