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William Fraser (historian), Fraser, Sir William
William Fraser may refer to: Military people *William W. Fraser (1844–1915), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient *William Archibald Kenneth Fraser (1886–1969), British army officer *William Fraser (British Army officer) (1890–1964), British army officer *William M. Fraser III (born 1952), United States Air Force general Politicians * William Fraser, of Fraserfield (1691–1727), Scottish landowner and politician, MP for Elgin Burghs 1722–25 *William Fraser (Clerk of the Signet) (died 1802), British politician, Clerk of the Signet and an Undersecretary of State *Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet (1826–1898), English politician *William Fraser (New Zealand politician, born 1827) (1827–1901) *William Fraser (Canadian politician) (1832–1909), member of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories, 1872–1875 *William Fraser (New Zealand politician, born 1840) (1840–1923) *William Alexander Fraser (politician) (1886–1962), Canadian politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William W
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest 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 or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (rugby Union)
William Edward "Will" Fraser (born 29 October 1989) is a retired English rugby union flanker who played for Premiership side Saracens. He had previously spent time dual registered with Bedford Blues and at international level has represented the England Saxons. Club career Born in Watford, Fraser was educated at Berkhamsted School and Dulwich College and joined Saracens in 2005. In 2009 he spent six months with the Western Province Academy in South Africa and the following year signed on dual registration terms with Bedford Blues. He made his Bedford debut as a replacement against Doncaster Knights in September 2010, making a further five appearances over the next two months. After a six-month gap he made his last appearance for the club in the Championship play-off semi final defeat to Worcester Warriors in May 2011. He remained dual registered with Bedford for the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons but did not make any appearances due to his commitments to Saracens, who he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser, 3rd Baron Strathalmond
William Roberton Fraser, 3rd Baron Strathalmond (born 22 July 1947) is a British hereditary peer. He was educated at Loretto School Loretto School, founded in 1827, is an independent school (UK), independent boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18. The campus occupies in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. History The school was founded by the Reverend Th .... In 1973, he married Amanda Rose Taylor. Their son William Gordon Fraser was born in 1976. Arms References 1947 births Living people Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom People educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh Strathalmond {{Noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kerr Fraser
Sir William Kerr Fraser (18 March 1929 – 13 September 2018) was a British civil servant, who served as Permanent Secretary at the Scottish Office, and as Principal and later Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Early life William Kerr Fraser was educated at Eastwood High School in Glasgow. He studied at the University of Glasgow (M.A., LL.B.), where he was President of the Students' Representative Council from 1951–52. Civil Service He joined the Scottish Home Department, part of the Civil Service, in 1953, becoming Private Secretary to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in 1959, and to the Secretary of State in 1966. In 1967, he became Assistant Secretary at the Regional Development Division, and in 1971 became Under-Secretary at the Scottish Home and Health Department. In 1975, he became Deputy Secretary, and in 1978 Permanent Secretary at the Scottish Office, serving until 1988. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1978, and created a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser, 1st Baron Strathalmond
William Milligan Fraser, 1st Baron Strathalmond (3 November 1888 – 1 April 1970) was a Scottish oilman. Fraser served from 1941 to 1954 as the fourth and final chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and from 1954 to 1956 as the first chairman of British Petroleum. Biography Fraser was the second son of William Fraser, of Glasgow, the founder of the Pumpherston Oil Company, and his wife Janet Loch. He joined his father's firm in 1909 and became a director in 1913 and joint managing director in 1915. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 for his work in increasing oil supply during the First World War. Fraser joined the board of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1923. He became deputy chairman (to John Cadman) in 1928, and played a great role in expanding the oil production in Iran, Iraq and Kuwait, becoming known as a leading expert on Middle East oil. In 1941 he succeeded Cadman as chairman, a post he retained until 1956 (the firm was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mackenzie Fraser
William Mackenzie Fraser (6 April 1878 – 13 September 1960) was a New Zealand labourer, civil engineer, local politician, conservationist and ethnological collector. He was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand on 6 April 1878. References 1878 births 1960 deaths Local politicians in New Zealand New Zealand conservationists New Zealand ethnologists 20th-century New Zealand engineers {{NewZealand-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (architect)
William Fraser (24 October 1867 – 14 June 1922) was a Scottish-born architect, prominent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who practised in Great Britain and Canada. Early life Born in the town of Lochgilphead, Argyll, in western Scotland, Fraser was the second of eight children born to The Reverend William Fraser (1824–1892), Minister (Christianity), minister of the Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900), Free Church of Scotland in Lochgilphead, and Violet Ferguson (1835–1888). His younger brother was the missionary Donald Fraser (missionary), Donald Fraser. Fraser studied at the University of Glasgow. Career Scotland From 1883 to 1888, Fraser apprenticed with the architecture firm of John McLeod in Glasgow. In 1889, Fraser moved to London, where he served as assistant to architect William Warlow Gwyther and in 1891 was elected as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA). Fraser won the competition to design the Burns Memorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smith Fraser
William Smith Fraser (July 19, 1852 – April 27, 1897) was an American architect based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fraser is best known for his designs for the Herron Hill Pumping Station (1896), a City of Pittsburgh List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations, Historic Structure, and the original Joseph Horne Company Department Store (1893), a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks, Historic Landmark, though substantially rebuilt by later architects. Fraser was born July 19, 1852, in Wellsville, Ohio and studied architecture in New York City and in the office of William Burges in England. In 1879, he opened his architectural practice in Pittsburgh. In all, he completed about 50 commissions for homes, churches, schools, and commercial buildings, in a variety of styles, before his death from cancer in 1897. These included two of Pittsburgh's earliest skyscrapers: the National Bank of Commerce Buildin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (historian)
Sir William Fraser, (18 February 1816 – 13 March 1898) was a solicitor and notable expert in ancient Scottish history, palaeography, and genealogy. Life Fraser's family were farmers and craftsmen in The Mearns. He was the eldest of the two sons and daughter of Ann (died 1821) and James Fraser (1786–1834), a mason. His mother was the daughter of James Walker, tenant of the farm of Elfhill of Fetteresso, about from Stonehaven. The couple were settled and were feuholders at Links of Arduthie. Fraser was initially educated at a private school in Stonehaven kept by the Reverend Charles Michie. Michie graduated with an MA from Aberdeen's Marischal College in 1810, and spent his life teaching. On 23 August 1830, Fraser began a five-year apprenticeship with Messrs Brand and Burnett, solicitors in Stonehaven. He went to Edinburgh in December 1835, where he joined the firm of Hill and Tod, Writers to the Signet, Writers to Her Majesty's Signet. He continued his education at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (British India Civil Servant)
William Fraser (1784 – 22 March 1835) was a British India civil servant who was an Political Resident, Agent to the Governor General of India and Commissioner of the Delhi Territory during the reign of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar. He was a brother of James Baillie Fraser.William Dalrymple (historian), William DalrympleThe forgotten masterpieces of Indian art Spectator UK, 18 December 2019. He was assassinated in Delhi in 1835. Biography William was British officer in haryana The village of Rania, Sirsa, Rania, ''"was home muslim women of Rania Village, wife of William Fraser, and William also have his two Anglo-Indian sons and daughter from Amiban."'' His bungalow, a low domed structure in lemon yellow colour was situated near Kashmiri Gate (Delhi), Kashmere Gate area, behind St. James Church. He was killed near his home on 22 March 1835, by Kureem Khan, an assassin hired by Loharu State#History, Shamsuddin Ahmed Khan, Nawab of Loharu State, Loharu and Feroz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (bishop Of Arichat)
William Fraser (1778 or 1779 Glen Cannich, Inverness-shire, Scotland – October 4, 1851 Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and the first Bishop of Halifax in Nova Scotia from 1842 until the splitting of the diocese into two dioceses effective September 22, 1844, when William Walsh took formal possession of the Diocese of Halifax. Bishop Fraser, however, remains a celebrated figure in the Canadian Gaelic Bardic poetry composed in his Diocese and is still remembered as a legendary strongman in both his native district of Scotland and in Nova Scotia. In both countries, many tales have been collected of his exploits. Early life William Fraser was born in Glen Cannich, part of the wider Strathglass region of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, as the eldest of the 12 children of Scottish Gaelic-speaking parents John Fraser and Jane Chisholm. Like many others throughout the region, his family still belonged to the illegal and underground Catholi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (British Administrator)
William Fraser was a British merchant and administrator who was the Acting President of Madras from 14 November 1709 to 11 July 1711. Tenure as Acting President of Madras Accusations against Armenians On 13 January 1710, Lewis Melique, a European citizen of Madras presented a petition to Fraser accusing Khoja Safar, a prominent Armenian of St. Thomas Mount of sedition. Melique accused Khoja and other Armenians of St. Thomas Mount of conspiring to break away from Fort St George and establish their own independent factory with St. Thome as port. Khoja Safar on presented before Melique denied the accusations but despite Safar's insistence on his innocence, he was jailed on the condition that he would be released only on the provision of a security of 5,000 pagodas. Relations with the Mughals There existed a cordial relationship between the British at Fort St George and Zuddie Khan, the Mughal ''Foujdar'' of Bengal and Southern India with the frequent exchange of letters and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
