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William Jones (anthropologist), Jones, William
William Jones may refer to: Academics * William Jones (college principal) (1676–1725), Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 1720–1725 * William Jones (philologist) (1746–1794), English judge and philologist who proposed a relationship among Indo-European languages * William Jones (anthropologist) (1871–1909), Native American specialist in Algonquian languages * William Henry Samuel Jones (1876–1963), American author, translator and academic Arts and entertainment * William Ifor Jones (1900–1988), Welsh conductor and organist * William Andrew Jones (1907–1974), actor, better known as Billy De Wolfe * W. S. Jones (William Samuel Jones, 1920–2007), Welsh playwright and script writer * Wil Jones (artist) (1960–2020), Welsh portrait painter * William James Jones (born 1975), American actor * William Jones (game designer), American horror fiction writer and game designer Business and industry * William Jones (haberdasher) (died 1615), haberdasher, philanthropist and fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jones (college Principal)
William Jones (26 February 1676 – 29 November 1725), born Kidwelly, Wales, was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship ..., from 1720 to 1725. He had previously been a student of the college, obtaining his BA in 1697, his MA in 1700, his BD in 1708 and his DD in 1720. References 1676 births 1725 deaths People from Carmarthenshire Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford Principals of Jesus College, Oxford People from Kidwelly {{Wales-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William E
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 should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jones (Arfon MP)
William Jones (1860 – 9 May 1915) was a British Liberal Party politician. Early history Jones was born in Penmynydd in 1860, the son of William, a peasant farmer and Jane. His father died when he was a child, and the family subsequently moved into Llangefni. He was educated first at the British school at Llangefni, later becoming the pupil-teacher there. He continued his education at Bangor Normal College and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth He became a country schoolmaster, before working for the London School Board, and later as a private tutor at Oxford. Political career Jones entered the House of Commons as Liberal MP for Arfon in the 1895 general election. He was re-elected unopposed in 1900 and in 1906. In parliament he supported the 1908 Women's Enfranchisement Bill. He was re-elected in January and December 1910. In 1911 he was appointed to the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith as a government whip A whip is an official of a political p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nathaniel Jones
William Nathaniel Jones, commonly known as W.N. Jones, (20 March 1858 – 24 May 1934) was a Welsh Liberal politician, businessman and soldier. Jones, who served as a Justice of the Peace in Carmarthenshire, married Margaret Francis of Llandeilo. In business, he was a director of the Ammanford Gas Company and the Duke Anthracite Collieries Ltd and the owner of Birchgrove Steelworks, Swansea. He was appointed High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire for 1924. In 1889, Jones became an inaugural member of the Carmarthenshire County Council. He also served on Ammanford Urban District Council. Parliamentary candidate In 1926, Sir Alfred Mond the Liberal MP for Carmarthen defected to the Conservatives over the issue of land policy and the proposal by David Lloyd George that some agricultural land be nationalised. The policy had been set out in the publication ''Land and the Nation'' or the ''Green Book'' in October 1925 but it caused great debate in the Liberal Party and another MP, Hilt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jones (law Officer)
Sir William Jones (1631 – 2 May 1682) was an English lawyer and politician. Life Jones was the son of Richard Jones, of Stowey, Somerset, MP for Somerset in 1654, and his wife Joyce Woodward. He entered Gray's Inn on 6 May 1647. He was called to the bar, and acquired a practice in the Court of King's Bench. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham befriended him, and he was knighted and made a King's Counsel in 1671. He was generally considered to be a lawyer of considerable learning. He was Solicitor-General from 11 November 1673 until 25 June 1675, when he was appointed Attorney-General. He directed the prosecution of the victims of Titus Oates's plot in 1678, but resigned from the attorney-generalship in November 1679, saying that he had found the burden of work intolerable. As a man noted for his timid disposition, he was probably not well suited to be a law officer in a time of acute political crisis. He was returned to the House of Commons as member for Plymouth at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jones (Parliamentarian)
William Jones was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1647 and 1648. Jones was the son of Sir William Jones and his wife Margaret Griffith, daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Kevenamulch, Carnarvonshire. His father was a judge and MP. Jones was a barrister and he and his brother Charles were joint prothonotaries and clerks of the crown for Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire but surrendered the positions in November 1636. In 1647, Jones was elected Member of Parliament for Beaumaris in the Long Parliament. He was excluded from sitting under Pride's Purge Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England. Despite defeat in the ... in the following year. Jones became recorder of Shrewsbury on 1 March 1655 and held the position until 1660. References Year o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jones (of Treowen)
William Jones (died July 1640) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614. Jones was the son of John Jones of Treowen. In 1614, Jones was elected Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ... for Monmouthshire. He was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1615. He was responsible for rebuilding the family house at Treowen where he lived in 1628. Jones married Jane Gwillim (or ''Gwilym''), daughter of Moore Gwillim of Monmouth. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, William Year of birth missing 1640 deaths English MPs 1614 High Sheriffs of Monmouthshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jones (judge)
Sir William Jones (1566–1640) was a Welsh judge, and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Welsh Borough of Beaumaris. Life From a family settled in North Wales, he was eldest son of William Jones of Castellmarch, Carnarvonshire, by Margaret, daughter of Humphry Wynn ap Meredith of Hyssoilfarch. Educated at first at Beaumaris free school, he went at the age of fourteen to St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, where he did not graduate. He entered Furnival's Inn five years later, was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn on 5 July 1587, and called to the bar there on 28 January 1595. He was Lent reader of the inn in 1616 and was made a serjeant and knight on 14 March 1617; on 13 May of the same year he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland, in succession to Sir John Denham, who had been transferred to the English court of exchequer. While the Irish chancellorship was vacant he was a commissioner of the great seal. He was a Member of Parliament three times for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William A
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 K
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 should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William M
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 H
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] |
