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Billy Smith (rugby League, Born 1906)
William, Willie, Will, Bill, or Billy Smith may refer to: Academics * William Smith (Master of Clare College, Cambridge) (1556–1615), English academic * William Smith (antiquary) (c. 1653–1735), English antiquary and historian of University College, Oxford * William Smith (scholar) (1711–1787), English classical scholar and Anglican Dean of Chester * William Smith (Episcopal priest) (1727–1803), Scottish-born first provost of University of Pennsylvania * William Pitt Smith (1760–1796), American physician, educator and theological writer * William Andrew Smith (1802–1870), American college president and clergyman * William Smith (lexicographer) (1813–1893), English editor and publisher of dictionaries * William Robertson Smith (1846–1894), Scottish philologist, physicist, archaeologist and Biblical critic * William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934), American professor of mathematics at Tulane University * William Ramsay Smith (1859–1937), Australian anthropologist * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smith (Master Of Clare College, Cambridge)
William Smith, Doctor of Divinity, D.D. (1556–1615) was an English academic. Smith was born in Princes Risborough and educated at Eton College. He entered King's College, Cambridge in 1573, graduating Bachelor of Arts, B.A in 1578 and Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), M.A in 1581. He was Fellow of Kings from 1576 to 1586. Smith was ordained a priest in the Church of England and was Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, Chaplain to Elizabeth I of England, Queen Elizabeth then James VI and I, King James. He held Rector (ecclesiastical), incumbencies at Kingston, Cambridgeshire, Kingston, Halstead, Little Bardfield, Barfield and Willingham, Cambridgeshire, Willingham. He was Master (college), Master of Clare College, Cambridge, Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1598 until 1612; List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge during 1602; and List of Provosts of King's College, Cambridge, Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1612 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, rapper, and film producer. Known for his work in both Will Smith filmography, the screen and Will Smith discography, music industries, List of awards and nominations received by Will Smith, his accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards. Films in which he has appeared in have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. Smith first gained recognition as part of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, a hip hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom he released five studio albums which contained five Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top 20 singles—"Parents Just Don't Understand", "A Nightmare on My Street", "Summertime (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince song), Summertime", "Ring My Bell (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince song), Ring My Bell", and "Boom! Shake the Room"—from 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hart-Smith
William Hart-Smith (23 November 1911 – 15 April 1990) was a New Zealand/Australian poet who was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His family moved to New Zealand in 1924. He had about "seven years of formal schooling" in England, Scotland and New Zealand before getting work at 15. His first job was as a radio mechanic. In 1936 he emigrated to Australia, working in commercial radio, and then the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He then did army service, returned to ABC, and resigned spending a year in the Northern Territory, becoming a freelance writer. Hart-Smith was connected with the Jindyworobak Movement and had some of his work, such as ''Columbus Goes West'' (1943), published by them. However he spent only a decade in Australia, returning to New Zealand in 1946. From 1948 to 1954 he taught in adult education. He spent several years in Perth from the late 1960s, associating with younger poets including Andrew Lansdown, Hal Colebatch and Lee Knowles. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Twigg-Smith
William Twigg-Smith (né Smith; November 2, 1883 – April 21, 1950) was a New Zealand-born painter, illustrator and musician, who lived most of his life in Hawaii. During World War I, he was one of the first artists to serve in the American Camouflage Corps. After the war, he worked full-time as an illustrator for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association. He also had solo shows, featuring his landscapes of the region. Several of his works are held by the Honolulu Museum of Art. Early life Twigg-Smith was born, the third of four children, in Nelson, New Zealand to Frederick Charles Smith (1847 - 1905) and Alice Madeline Smith (née Thomas) (1858 - 1884). He left home for the U.S. to study art at age 16 at the Art Institute of Chicago under Harry M. Walcott. In 1916, Twigg-Smith moved to Hawaii. He worked with Lionel Walden and D. Howard Hitchcock on creating the Pan-Pacific Carnival dioramas, which were exhibited in 1917. In September 1916, Twigg-Smith held his first art exhib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brooke Smith
William Brooke Smith (died 1908) was an American painter and friend of Ezra Pound. His death from tuberculosis greatly affected Pound, who dedicated his first poetry collection, ''A Lume Spento'', to Smith. Life William Brooke Smith was living in Philadelphia by 1901. In a 1921 letter to William Carlos Williams, Smith's friend Ezra Pound wrote "How in Christ's name he came to be in Phila.—and to know what he did at age 17–25—I don't know." Pound's friend Hilda Doolittle recalled that Smith was "tall, graceful, with a 'butterfly bow' tie", and that a letter he had sent Pound was "poetic, effusive, written, it appeared, with a careful spacing of lines and unextravagant margin". Smith met Pound, then a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1901 or 1902, when the latter was aged sixteen. The two became friends, in one of Pound's first true friendships. As Smith was an avid reader, he introduced Pound to the works of English decadents such as Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jardine Smith
William Jardine Smith (1834 – 13 January 1884), also known as Jardine Smith, was an Australian writer and editor. Biography Smith was born in 1834, at Stockwell. In 1852, he emigrated from Liverpool to Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ... on the iconic steamer SS Great Britain, where he initially pursued commercial activities. Subsequently, he became a contributor to the '' Melbourne Punch'' and ultimately editor. He was also prominently connected with two short-lived and long defunct journals —the ''Spectator'' and ''Touchstone''. Smith was also a contributor to '' Fraser's Magazine'' and ''The Nineteenth Century''. For some years preceding his death Smith was one of the principal political leader-writers of the Melbourne ''Argus''. He died in Melb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Collingwood Smith
William Collingwood Smith (10 December 1815 Greenwich – 15 March 1887 Brixton Hill), was a British watercolourist. William's father William Smith worked for the Admiralty and was a musician and amateur artist. William had no formal training in art, but had studied under James Duffield Harding. Initially he painted in oils, but later became a proficient watercolourist. In 1843 he became an Associate, and subsequently a Member, of the ''Society of Painters in Water Colours'' which later became the Royal Watercolour Society, serving as treasurer for some twenty years, and starting its Art Club. He also joined the New Society of Painters in Water Colours. Specialising in marine and river scenes, and sweeping landscapes, he turned out more than a thousand paintings and drawings. He travelled extensively in Britain and on the Continent, often painting scenes which had news interest. His images were often engraved and reproduced in the ''Illustrated London News''. Shipping scen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thompson Russell Smith
William Thompson Russell Smith (Glasgow, Scotland 1812 – Glenside, PA, 1896) was a Scottish-American painter who produced iconic images of Pennsylvania's landscape inspired by the aesthetic of the Hudson River School. Early life and education Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Smith was brought to the United States in 1819 by his parents, who lived in western Pennsylvania and settled in Pittsburgh. Here, between 1828 and 1831, he studied art under the portraitist James Lambdin, a former pupil of Thomas Sully. Career Smith also served as curator of Lambdin's Pittsburgh Museum, where he met many of the city's scientists and intellectuals. At the beginning of his career, Smith found considerable success in painting commercial signs and backgrounds for theatrical productions. In 1835, he moved to Philadelphia in order to paint decorations for the Walnut Street Theater. During this time that he began to write poetry and produced smaller-scale landscape paintings that were inspired by his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smith (poet)
William Smith (15??-16??) was an English sonneteer, poet, and friend of Edmund Spenser. He participated in '' The Phoenix Nest'' (1593), ''England's Helicon'' (1600) and published a sonnet sequence ''Chloris'' or ''The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard'' in 1596. Works Smith in 1596 published a collection of sonnets, entitled ''Chloris, or the Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard'', printed by Edmund Bollifant, 1596. The volume opens with two sonnets, inscribed "To the most excellent and learned shepheard, Collin Cloute" (i.e. Spenser), and signed "W. Smith"; in a third sonnet addressed to Spenser at the close of the book Smith calls Spenser his patron. The content consists of 48 sonnets, and a poem in 20 lines, called ''Corins Dreame of the faire Chloris''. ''Corins Dreame'' was transferred to ''England's Helicon'' (1600 and 1614). The work was reprinted in Edward Arber's ''English Garner'', viii. 171 sqq. Attributions Verse signed "W. S." has sometimes bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Smith (comedian)
William James Smith (born 8 June 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, screenwriter, novelist, actor and producer. He is the Emmy-winning creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ drama thriller '' Slow Horses'' (2022–). He is also known for being part of the writing team of the BBC sitcom ''The Thick of It'' (2009; 2012) and its American HBO counterpart ''Veep'' (2012–16). Additionally, he starred as Phil Smith in the former. As co-writer and co-producer of the HBO sitcom ''Veep'', he was among the recipients of two Emmys and two Writers Guild of America Awards, and has received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Comedy. Early life and education Though born in Winchester, Hampshire, Smith grew up in Jersey and was educated there at Victoria College. His brother is the TV presenter and wine critic Olly Smith. Stand-up comedy Smith started his career in stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smith (teacher)
William Macdonald Smith (25 June 1939 – 21 August 2024) was a South African science and mathematics teacher who was best known for his maths and science lessons on television. Born in Makhanda (Grahamstown), he is the son of the ichthyologist Margaret Mary Smith and Professor J. L. B. Smith, the renowned chemist and ichthyologist who identified the coelacanth. Early life and education William Smith was born on 25 June 1939. He attended St. Andrew's Prep before matriculating at Union High School in Graaff-Reinet. Smith then went on to study at Rhodes University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and chemistry, followed by an honours degree ('' cum laude'') in chemistry at the same institution. Following that, he obtained a master's degree from the University of Natal ( Pietermaritzburg campus) in only seven months. During his time at school and university, Smith showed an interest in film and camerawork, scripting, shooting, and producing the 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smith (17th-century Actor)
William Smith (died 1696) was a British actor. Biography Smith was a barrister of Gray's Inn, and joined the Duke of York's company, under Sir William D'Avenant, a year after its formation. He was a man of social position, and acknowledged as such in aristocratic circles and in his profession. At Lincoln's Inn Fields, at Dorset Garden, and ultimately at the Theatre Royal and the new house in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields, he held a position in the first rank, and created many original parts of primary importance. His name appears on 8 January 1663 to the part of the Corrigidor (sic) in Sir Samuel Tuke's ‘Adventures of Five Hours.’ He was on 28 May Lugo in Sir Robert Stapleton's ‘Slighted Maid;’ on 1 January 1664 he was Buckingham in a revival of ‘King Henry VIII,’ and on 13 August the Duke of Burgundy in ‘Henry V,’ by the Earl of Orrery. In Etherege's ‘Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub,’ he was Colonel Bruce; in ‘The Rivals,’ D'Avenant's alteration of the ‘ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
