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William Page (other)
William Page may refer to: *William Page, 16th-century publisher who lost his hand as punishment for publishing a pamphlet by John Stubbs *William Page (painter) (1811–1885), American painter *William Page (cricketer) (1847–1904), English cricketer * William Page (politician) (1848–1925), Australian politician *William Davidge Page (died 1939), British geologist and creator and editor of ''Page's Weekly'' * William Main Page (1869–1940), British lawyer and esperantist *William Nelson Page (1854–1932), American engineer *William Hamilton Page (1829–1909), American type designer *William Page (historian) (1861–1934), English historian and editor of the ''Victoria County History'' *William Tyler Page (1868–1942), American, author of ''The American's Creed'' * William W. Page (1836–1897), Oregon Supreme Court justice * William Page (MP) (died after 1584), English politician *Will Page, economist *William Page, a character in the 1949 film ''Abandoned'' *Bill Page B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stubbs
John Stubbs (or Stubbe) (c. 1544 – after 25 September 1589) was an English pamphleteer, political commentator and sketch artist during the Elizabethan era. He was born in the County of Norfolk, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After reading law at Lincoln's Inn, he lived at Thelveton, in the County of Norfolk. He was a committed Puritan, and he opposed the negotiations for marriage between Queen Elizabeth I and Francis, Duke of Anjou, a Roman Catholic who was the brother of the King of France. Publication of ''French Marriage'' pamphlet In 1579 he put his opinions into a pamphlet entitled ''The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf whereunto England is like to be swallowed by another French Marriage, if the Lord forbid not the banns, by letting her Majesty see the sin and punishment thereof''. Copies of the text were later publicly burned in the kitchen stove of Stationer's Hall. The pamphlet argued that at forty-six years old Elizabeth was too old to have children and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Page (painter)
William Page (January 3, 1811October 1, 1885) was an American painter and portrait artist. Biography He came to New York City with his parents at the age of nine, and in 1822 received a premium from the American Institute for a drawing in India ink. At the age of 14, he began to study law in the office of Frederick de Peyster, which he soon left to enter the studio of James Herring, and in less than a year he became a pupil of Samuel F. B. Morse, through whom he also enrolled at the National Academy of Design. His drawings in the antique class at the National Academy won him the silver medal, but, having joined the Presbyterian Church, he determined to enter its ministry. For two years from 1828, he studied theology at the Andover Theological Seminar and Amherst College, at the end of which time he returned to art. After painting portraits in Albany for a year, he went to New York, where he executed likenesses of William L. Marcy and John Quincy Adams. In 1836, he was elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Page (cricketer)
William Page (29 April 1847 – 27 September 1904) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1881 and 1882. Page was born in Caverswall, Staffordshire the son of Samuel Page, a platelayer, and his wife Phoebe. He was a boilermaker and in 1881 was widowed with two children. He first played for Derbyshire in the 1881 season in June against Lancashire opening in the first innings but being out for a duck. He moved down the batting order in the second innings and made 9 which was the second highest score in the innings. In the 1882 season he made 19 in a match against Marylebone Cricket Club which Derbyshire lost by a large margin. In his next and final match against Yorkshire he was out for a duck in the first innings but was joint-highest scorer in the second innings with 14 before being bowled by England Test cricketer Billy Bates. Page was a right-handed batsman who played 6 innings in 3 matches at an average of 8.33 and a top score of 19. Page's cricketing career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Page (politician)
William Humphrey Page (1848 – 26 October 1925) was a British-born Indian Judge and Australian politician. Page was born in 1848. Following legal training in London, he served as a justice at the Bombay High Court. In 1897 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Hobart. He served until his defeat in 1900. He died in 1925 in Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ..., Belgium, having survived the occupation during World War Onref> His son was the noted legal writer and Prison reform, prison reformer Sir Leo Pag References 1848 births 1925 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub British India judges Irish Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davidge Page
William Davidge Page FRSE FCS FGS MIME (died 1939) was a British geologist, chemist, mining engineer and publisher, who created the weekly technical journal Page's Magazine aka Page's Weekly from 1902 to 1906. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Charles Bright, Sir William Henry White, Edwin Sachs, and Frederick Hungerford Bowman. He lived at Clun House on Surrey Street in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ....Writers and Artists Yearbook 1905 He died on 5 January 1939. References Year of birth missing 1939 deaths British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Main Page
William Main Page (8 October 1869 – 1 February 1940) was a British lawyer and Esperantist. Biography William Page was born in London. He went to Lasswade in his youth, and worked as an analytical chemist with an oil company in the Lothians. Later, he entered the legal profession, and joined the firm of Cairns, McIntosh, & Morton. At his death he left a widow and one son, the Rev. W. H. D. Page, minister of Kirk on the Green, Leslie. Legal/civil work * Senior partner of the firm of Cairns, McIntosh, & Morton, W.S., 31 Queen Street, Edinburgh at time of death. * Solicitor in the Scottish High Court * Vice-consul of Czechoslovakia in eastern Scotland. Religion He was a prominent layman in the Church of Scotland, and a well-known member of the General Assembly. Originally a member of the Episcopal Church, he became a Presbyterian, and was for many years connected with the Chalmers Church, West Port. In the General Assembly he was regarded as an authority on hymnology, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nelson Page
William Nelson Page (January 6, 1854 – March 7, 1932) was an American civil engineer and industrialist. He was active in the Virginias following the U.S. Civil War. Page was widely known as a metallurgical expert by other industry leaders and investors as well as state and federal authorities. William Page became one of the leading managers and developers of West Virginia's rich bituminous coalfields in the late-19th and early-20th century, as well as being deeply involved in building the railroads and other infrastructure necessary to process and transport the mined coal. Page often worked as a manager for absentee owners, such as the British geological expert, Dr. David T. Ansted, and the New York City mayor, Abram S. Hewitt of the Cooper-Hewitt organization and other New York and Boston financiers, or as the "front man" in projects involving a silent partner, such as Henry H. Rogers. In the town of Ansted, for 28 years, the Page family lived in a large Victorian mansion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hamilton Page
William Hamilton Page (1829–1909) was a type designer and owner of William Page & Company, a leading manufacturer of wood type for letterpress printing. Life and career Page worked as a printer for several newspapers before learning the trade of wood type manufacturing from John Cooley in South Windham, Connecticut. In 1856 he and James Bassett purchased the assets of the defunct H. &. J. Bill & Company and went into partnership as Page & Bassett. In 1859 he withdrew from this partnership and became partners with Samuel Mowry, forming William Page & Company, near Norwich, Connecticut. This firm quickly became the largest and most efficient manufacturer of wooden type in the United States. It was only in the 1880s that a serious rival, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company owned by J.E. Hamilton, emerged. When Page retired in 1891, he sold out to Hamilton for stock in that company, and Page's equipment and stock were consolidated with that of Hamilton in Two Rivers, Wisconsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Page (historian)
William Page (4 September 1861 – 3 February 1934) was a British prolific and pioneering historian and editor. For the last three decades of his life he was general editor of the ''Victoria County History''. Life William Page was born at his family's house at Norfolk Square, Paddington, London on 4 September 1861, the fifth of six children of merchant Henry Page and Georgina (née Forrester). He was privately schooled locally at Dr Westmacott's School and then entered Westminster School, where his education was cut short by the death of his father in 1875. The family moved to "a genteel part" of Lewisham, and Page was articled to a civil engineer. Page had two older brothers, one of whom moved to Australia; having completed his articles, in about 1881 Page followed him to take up an engineering post with the Government of Queensland. Page returned to London in 1884. Page's eldest sister married the record agent and antiquarian William John Hardy, who employed Page from 1885. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tyler Page
William Tyler Page (1868 – October 19, 1942) was an American public servant. He worked on the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. for 61 years, first as a page boy and later as a clerk of the United States House of Representatives. He was the author of American Creed and Story of Nation’s Capital. Early life Page was born in 1868 in Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland. He was the great-great-grandson of Carter Braxton, (1736–1797), a member of the House of Burgesses of the Province of Virginia. He was also a descendant of President John Tyler. Page began working "twelve hours a day in a printing shop and a paper-bag factory" at the age of 10. Career Page began working as a page boy for the United States House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. on December 19, 1881, and he became a clerk in 1919. Page worked for the Capitol for 61 years in total. In 1917, at 49, Page wrote "The American's Creed," as a submission to a nationwide patriotic contest suggested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William W
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 Page (MP)
William Page (died after 1584) was an English politician. In the 1550s Page was a servant in Venice to Peter Vannes. Returning to England, he became secretary to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, and entered parliament as Bedford's placeman. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Bridport in 1559, Oxford in 1563, Saltash in 1571 and 1572. Page became involved in the case of John Stubbs and his pamphlet ''A Gaping Gulf'', objecting to the proposed marriage between Queen Elizabeth I and Francis, Duke of Anjou, a Roman Catholic who was the brother of the King of France. Intent on distributing copies through Sir Richard Grenville Sir Richard Grenville (15 June 1542 – 10 September 1591), also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently ..., Page was tried with Stubbs and the publisher Hugh Singleton. Page and Stubbs could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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