William or Bill Richardson may refer to tocright Irish politicians WilliamRichardson 1656 1727 , MP for Armagh and Hillsborough WilliamRichardson died 1755 1690 1755 , MP for Augher WilliamRichardson 1710 1758 , MP for Armagh WilliamRichardson 1749 1822 , MP for Armagh Sir WilliamRichardson, 1st Baronet died 1830 , MP for Augher and Ballyshannon American politicians WilliamRichardson Maryland politician 1735 1825 , Revolutionary War soldier William M. Richardson 1774 1838 , U.S. representative from Massachusetts, 1811 1814 William Alexander Richardson 1811 1875 , U.S. senator from Illinois William Adams Richardson 1821 1896 , Treasury secretary William N. Richardson 1839 1914 , U.S. representative from Alabama, 1900 1914 William B. Richardson 1874 1945 , Minnesota state senator William Emanuel Richardson 1886 1948 , U.S. representatives from Pennsylvania William S. Richardson 1919 2010 ... Congressman, withdrawn 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate William P. Richardson 1824 1886 , Republican politician from the state of Ohio, USA Sports figures WilliamRichardson cricketer, born 1894 1894 1971 , English cricketer with Worcestershire WilliamRichardson cricketer, born 1938 born 1938 , English cricketer with Derbyshire William Ginger Richardson, known as W. G. Richardson , 1909 ... Richardson baseball 1878 1949 , American baseball player Other WilliamRichardson martyr 1572 1603 , beatified Roman Catholic martyr WilliamRichardson classicist 1743 1814 , Scottish professor and scholar WilliamRichardson governor died 1829 , Deputy Governor of Anguilla William A. Richardson 1795 1856 , sea captain and early California entrepreneur WilliamRichardson bishop 1844 1915 , Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar, 1895 1901 William Pallister Richardson 1873 1930 , British trade unionist William J. Richardson born 1920 , American philosopher William R. Richardson born 1929 , U.S. Army general William C. Richardson born 1940 , President of Johns Hopkins University, 1990 1995 Will Richardson ... more details
about the Illinois senator William Alexander Richardson the United States Secretary of the Treasury William Adams Richardson Infobox person name WilliamRichardson image William Richardson.jpg alt caption birth date Birth date 1795 08 27 birth place London , England death date Death date 1856 04 20 56 death place Sausalito, California other names known for occupation nationality WilliamRichardson ... the bay and taken possession of the rancho, while still serving as Port Captain of Yerba Buena. Richardson had money problems in his later years and died bankrupt. Legacy Richardson Bay and Richardson Ave. in San Francisco s Marina District are named for WilliamRichardson. References Reflist http www.inn california.com Articles biographic richardsonwabio.html William A. Richardson Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Richardson, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE ... Sausalito, California DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Category Businesspeople from California Category ... 1856 deaths pl William Anthony Richardson tr William A. Richardson ... of Yerba Buena town Yerba Buena which later became San Francisco, California San Francisco . Richardson ... he founded the city of Sausalito, California Sausalito . Life Richardson arrived aboard the British ... presence in the now Mexican territory. By 1825, Richardson had assumed Mexico Mexican citizenship ... . His ambitions now expanding to land holdings of his own, Richardson submitted a petition to Governor ..., to be called Rancho Saucelito . ref Robert Ryal Miller, Captain Richardson, Mariner, Ranchero ... filing his claim, Richardson had used the spring as a watering station on the shores of what is now called Richardson Bay an arm of the larger San Francisco Bay , selling fresh water to visiting vessels .... Richardson temporarily abandoned his claim and settled instead outside the Presidio, building the first .... After years of lobbying and legal wrangling, Richardson was given clear title to all convert ... more details
Infobox Lt Governor name William Shaw Richardson image order 2nd state Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii ... Judge, Politician spouse footnotes William Shaw Richardson December 22, 1919 &ndash June 21 ... us about william s richardson index.html title About William S. Richardson accessdate 2007 05 13 ... nhlawctr article2 1.htm title Director s Column Honoring Chief Justice William S. Richardson accessdate ... 4 September 2011 ref Controversies William S. Richardson s tenure as chief justice of the Supreme ..., 2007 cite web url http library.law.hawaii.edu title William S. Richardson Law Library accessdate 2007 ... William S Richardson dies.html title Honolulu Star Advertiser accessdate 2010 06 21 S start S off ... Persondata . NAME Richardson, William S. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American judge DATE OF BIRTH 1919 12 22 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2010 06 21 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William ... military personnel of World War II sv William S. Richardson ... okina i, Richardson was Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii lieutenant governor under John A. Burns . Previous ... i Democratic Party . Early years Richardson claimed Native Hawaiians Native Hawaiian , Chinese people ... of Cincinnati College of Law . Richardson served in World War II with the 1st Filipino Infantry ... of the indigenous Hawai ian people. Under Richardson, the court held that the public s interest ... by lava floes belonged to the state, not to nearby property owners. Richardson declared, The western ... sought the right to a water source, Richardson cited precedent from the court of the Kingdom of Hawaii .... The Richardson court recognized previously ignored claims of the indigenous Hawaiian people Native Hawaiians . Legacy Before his retirement from the bar, Richardson was memorialized with the naming of the state s only law school in his honor. The William S. Richardson School of Law was his crowning achievement, as he fought for its establishment for decades. Richardson, who is fondly referred to as CJ ... more details
Category People who died at sea Category Burials at sea UK astronomer stub da William Christie astronom de William Christie Astronom fr William Henry Mahoney Christie it William Christie astronomo nl William Christie ja ru , sl William Henry Mahoney Christie sv William Christie astronom tr William Christie astronom ...Infobox scientist name William Christie image William H M Christie.jpg image size 240px birth date birth date 1845 10 01 df y birth place death date death date and age 1922 01 22 1845 10 01 df y death place At sea near Gibraltar nationality United Kingdom field Astronomy work institutions alma mater King s College London br Trinity College, Cambridge doctoral advisor doctoral students known for Astronomer Royal influences influenced prizes footnotes signature Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie Fellow of the Royal Society FRS 1 October 1845 &ndash 22 January 1922 was a British astronomer . He was born in Woolwich, London, the son of Samuel Hunter Christie and educated at King s College School , King s College London , and at Trinity College, Cambridge . He was Wrangler University of Cambridge fourth wrangler in 1868 and elected a fellow of Trinity in 1869. ref Venn id CHRY863WH name Christie, William Henry Mahoney ref Having been Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich from 1870 to 1881, he was appointed to replace George Biddell Airy George Airy as Astronomer Royal in 1881 and remained in office until 1910. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1904. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1881. ref cite web url http www2.royalsociety.org ... Astronomer Royal to retire at 65 all previous incumbents bar Airy and John Pond had died in office ... Astronomers Royal Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Christie, William ALTERNATIVE ... 22 January 1922 PLACE OF DEATH At sea near Gibraltar DEFAULTSORT Christie, William Category 1845 births ... more details
William Joseph Hussey August 10, 1862 &ndash October 28, 1926 was an United States American astronomer . He is most famous for the discovery and study of close binary star s. In the period from 1898 to 1899, he reobserved all binaries discovered by Otto Struve , with at least three observations of each. His amazing efficiency is demonstrated by these numbers he made 1,920 observations in one year, with a record of 80 in one night. At the conclusion of his double star work in 1905, he had discovered and measured 1,327 close binaries. For this work, he was awarded the Lalande Medal in 1906, which he shared with Robert Grant Aitken . In 1897, he was elected president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . A Impact crater crater on Mars was named in his honor. External links Obituaries http adsabs.harvard.edu full seri JBAA. 0037 0000019.000.html JBAA 37 1926 19 http adsabs.harvard.edu full seri MNRAS 0087 0000260.000.html MNRAS 87 1927 260 http adsabs.harvard.edu full seri Obs.. 0049 0000347.000.html Obs 49 1926 347 http adsabs.harvard.edu full seri PASP. 0039 0000035.000.html PASP 39 1927 35 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hussey, William Joseph ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1862 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1926 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hussey, William Joseph Category 1862 births Category 1926 deaths Category American astronomers US astronomer stub es William Hussey ... more details
Sir William Peck small FRSE Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society FRAS small 3 January, 1862, Castle Douglas , Kirkcudbrightshire 7 March, 1925, Edinburgh was a Scottish astronomer and scientific instrument maker. He was the director of the Edinburgh City Observatory from 1889 until his death. ref name Waterston cite book last1 Waterston first1 Charles D last2 Macmillan Shearer first2 A title Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 2002 Biographical Index url http www.rse.org.uk fellowship fells indexp2.pdf accessdate September 25, 2010 volume II date July 2006 publisher The Royal Society of Edinburgh location Edinburgh isbn 9780902198845 ref Works The handy star map 1880 The constellations and how to find them 1887 Popular Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy 1890 The observer s atlas of the heavens 1898 The Southern Hemisphere constellations and how to find them 1911 References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Peck, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1862 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1925 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Peck, William Category 1862 births Category 1925 deaths Category Scottish astronomers Category Scientific instrument makers Category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Category People from Castle Douglas Category People from Edinburgh Category Scottish science writers Category Burials at Warriston Cemetery Scotland scientist stub UK astronomer stub pt William Peck ... more details
William Ellis , Fellow of the Royal Society FRS Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society FRAS FRMS 20 February 1828 11 December 1916 was an English astronomer and meteorologist . He was born 20 February 1828, in Greenwich, England , the son of Henry Ellis, an assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich . In 1841 he began working at the Royal Observatory, first as a Human computer computer and later as an observer. In 1852 he took charge of Durham University Observatory , before returning the following year to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich where he first headed the Time Department and later the Magnetical and Meteorological Department. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1864, a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1875, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1893. He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1886 and 1887. He succumbed to heart failure on 11 December, 1916, at Blackheath, London . References cite journal year 1916 title Obituary William Ellis, F.R.S. journal Nature volume 98 pages 312 313 url http www.nature.com nature journal v98 n2460 abs 098312b0.html date 21 December 1916 doi 10.1038 098312b0 Persondata NAME Ellis, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1828 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1916 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ellis, William Category 1828 births Category 1916 deaths Category English astronomers Category English meteorologists Category Fellows of the Royal Society Category Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society Category People from Greenwich UK astronomer stub ... more details
Category Knights Bachelor euro astronomer stub Ireland scientist stub de William McCrea it William Hunter McCrea ja pt William McCrea ru , sl William Hunter McCrea uk ...Use British English date February 2012 Use dmy dates date February 2012 Other persons William McCrea Sir William Hunter McCrea Fellow of the Royal Society FRS 13 December 1904, Dublin 25 April 1999 ref cite doi 10.1098 rsbm.2007.0005 ref ref cite news url http www.independent.co.uk arts entertainment obituary sir william mccrea 1090453.html title Obituary Sir William McCrea The Independent accessdate 20 July 2011 location London first Leon last Mestel date 30 April 1999 ref was an English astronomer and mathematician . Biography His family moved to Kent in 1906 and then Derbyshire where he attended Brookfield Community School Chesterfield Grammar School . His father was a school master at Netherthorpe School Netherthorpe Grammar School in Staveley, Derbyshire Staveley . He went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1923 where he studied Mathematics, later gaining a PhD in 1929 under Ralph H. Fowler . He was later appointed a lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in 1929. He also served as reader and assistant professor at Imperial College London . In 1936 he became head of the mathematics department at the Queen s University of Belfast . After serving in the war, he joined the mathematics department at Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway College in 1944 the McCrea Building on Royal Holloway s campus is named after him . In 1965, McCrea created the astronomy centre of the physics department at the University of Sussex . Discoveries In 1928, he studied Albrecht Uns ld s hypothesis, and discovered that three quarters of the Sun is made of Hydrogen , and about ... see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Maccrea, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH ..., William Category Irish mathematicians Category Irish astronomers Category English astronomers Category ... more details
William Ball or Balle , c. 1631 1690 was an England English astronomer . He was one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society . He was appointed the Society s first treasurer on 28 November 1660, and served until 1663. ref cite journal last Maddison first R. E. W. title The Accompt of William Balle from 28 November 1660 to 11 September 1663 journal Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London year 1960 volume 14 issue 2 pages 174 183 doi 10.1098 rsnr.1960.0030 ref He was the eldest son of Peter Ball MP Sir Peter Ball and his wife Anne Cooke, daughter of William Cooke of Highnam William Cooke . He became an ardent astronomer, and he gained ownership of a twelve foot telescope. In 1655, when the Rings of Saturn had apparently disappeared due to being seen edge on from Earth, Ball and his brother Peter Ball physician Peter observed them as a band or fascia upon the planet. The same year he established the rotation rate of the planet Saturn . ref name Armitage1960 cite journal last Armitage first Angus title William Ball. F.R.S. 1627 1690 journal Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London year 1960 volume 15 pages 167 172 doi 10.1098 rsnr.1960.0016 ref In 1660 he fell 30 feet onto hard ground. This accident left him in continual ill health. In 1666 he retired to his estate in Devon and in 1668 married Mary Posthuma Hussey, they raised six children. Managing his family s estate together with its distance from London left little time to follow his scientific interests. ref Joseph Gross, Ball, William c.1631 1690 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004 ref In a summary of Ball s observations of Saturn in 1665, his colleague Robert Moray ... Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata NAME Ball, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1627 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1690 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ball, William Category ... de William Ball Astronom fr William Ball astronome ... more details
William Scott 8 October 1825 29 March 1917 , was a Church of England clergyman and became the colonial astronomer for New South Wales . Background Scott was born at Hartland, Devon, brought up at Braunton near Barnstaple, and educated at Blundell s School , Tiverton. In 1844 he went up as a scholar to Sidney Sussex College Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge . ref Venn id SCT844W2 name Scott, William ref After a college fellowship Scott was given a mathematical lectureship in 1850. Made a deacon in 1849, he was ordained as a priest in 1850 by Thomas Turton Bishop Turton of Ely and worked as a curate in the Cambridge slums of Barnwell, Cambridgeshire Barnwell . Scott married a widow Elizabeth Anne Yonge, n e Roberts on 8 November 1851. She had three sons by her first husband and the family responsibilities resulted in Scott becoming a mathematics coach his first interest had always been in mathematics . He built up a useful connections at the university and later published a small textbook on plane co ordinate geometry. Australia In April 1856 Scott took the position of colonial astronomer in New South Wales . Scott arrived with his family in Sydney in October 1856 to find the astronomical works were somewhat neglected. He supervised the building of the Sydney Observatory at Dawes Point , ensured the appointment of an observatory board and established the keeping of meteorological records ... complete in every respect . On 31 October 1862 Scott resigned as astronomer giving the reason as ill health. However, it seems likely that the reasons were the departure of his patron William Denison ... of Goulburn Syd, 1937 Colonial astronomer papers, Votes and Proceedings Legislative Assembly ... id A060112b title Scott, William 1825 1917 accessdate 29 March 2009 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Scott, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 8 October 1825 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 29 March 1917 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Scott, William Category 1825 births ... more details
William Edward Wilson 19 July 1851 6 Mar 1908 was an Irish astronomer. He was born the only son of John and Frances Wilson of Daramona House, Streete, County Westmeath, Ireland and was privately educated. ref name TSD cite web url http www.eaas.co.uk news daramona.html title The Story of Daramona accessdate 2011 04 18 ref He became interested in astronomy and travelled to Oran in 1870 to photograph the solar eclipse. In 1871 he acquired a reflecting telecope of 12 inches 30.5 cm aperture and set it up in a dome in the gardens of Daramona House. He used it to experiment on the photography of the moon with wet plates and also began to study solar radiation using thermopiles. In 1881, he replaced the original telescope with a Grubb reflector of 24 inches 61 cm aperture and a new dome and mounting that had an electrically controlled clock drive. The new telescope was mounted in a two storey tower attached to the house with an attached physical laboratory, darkroom and machine shop. ref name TSD Wilson s main research efforts, in partnership with P.L. Gray, was to determine the temperature of the sun using a differential radio micrometer of the sort developed by C.V. Boys in 1889, which combined a bolometer and galvanometer into one instrument. The result of their measurements was an effective temperature of about 8000 C for the sun which, after correction to deal with absorption in the earth s atmosphere, gave a value of 6590 C, compared to the modern value of 6075 C. ref name TSD Other astromical projects included observations on the transit of Venus, determination of stellar motion, observations of sunspots and a trip to Spain to photograph a solar eclipse. He took a great many excellent photographs of celestial bodies such as nebulae. His astronomical ..., William Edward ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION British astronomer DATE OF BIRTH 1851 07 19 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1908 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wilson, William Edward Category 1851 births ... more details
William Wales 1734? &ndash 29 December 1798 was a United Kingdom British mathematician and astronomer . Early life Wales was born around 1734 to John and Sarah Wales and was baptized in Warmfield cum Heath Warmfield near the West Yorkshire town of Wakefield that year. As a youth, according to the historian John Cawte Beaglehole , Wales travelled south in the company of a Mr Holroyd, who became a plumber in the service of George III . ref name cooksoc cite web title William Wales First Voyage url ... Ill. 1968 ISBN 0 8379 1001 3 Francis Lucian Reid William Wales ca. 1734 1798 playing the astronomer ... see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wales, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION British astronomer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1798 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wales, William ... an 18th Century equivalent of New Scientist . In 1765 he married Mary Green, sister of the astronomer Charles Green astronomer Charles Green . ref name cooksoc In 1765, Wales was employed by the Astronomer ... 2009 08 06 publisher State Library of New South Wales title William Wales ref with the pair being ... Dixon and William Bayly to Norway . Due to winter pack ice making the journey impossible during the winter ... 009004 119.01 e.php?&id nbr 2203 title Wales, William author Glyndwr Williams accessdate 2009 ... replacing the astronomer and Wales brother in law Charles Green, who had died during the return leg ... William Wales accessdate 2009 08 06 publisher Ian Ridpath ref A major part of Wales duties was to test ... 1998 XY21 publisher JPL Small Body Database Browser accessdate 2009 08 10 ref Works by William ..., William http www.sl.nsw.gov.au discover collections history nation voyages wales journal.html Extracts of William Wales s Journal kept on his voyage aboard HMS Resolution http www.sl.nsw.gov.au discover ... Society http www.hbc.com hbcheritage learning ebooks wales.htm The Transit of William Wales Educational ... uncertain Category James Cook cs William Wales de William Wales fr William Wales ... more details
William Pearson 1767 1847 was an English schoolmaster and astronomer. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society of London, and author of Practical Astronomy , 2 vol 1825 and 1829. ref cite web last Gurman, S. J. & Harratt, S. R. title Revd Dr William Pearson 1767 1847 a Founder of the Royal Astronomical Society url http articles.adsabs.harvard.edu cgi bin nph iarticle query?1994QJRAS..35..271G&defaultprint YES&filetype .pdf publisher Royal Astronomical Society accessdate 17 April 2012 ref Biography William Pearson 1767 1847 , school master and astronomer, was born at Whitbeck in Cumberland on 23 April 1767. A son of William Pearson by his wife Hannah Ponsonby, he was educated at the grammar school of Hawkshead, near Windermere, Cumberland. He began his career as a schoolmaster at Hawkhead before moving to Lincoln, where he was undermaster at the Free Grammar School. He was interested on astronomy and constructed an astronomical clock and an orrery, probably used for public lectures. He matriculated at Cambridge University but does not appear to have been awarded a degree he was admitted a sizar at Clare College, Cambridge Clare College in 1793, but may not have come into residence. ref Venn PR793W Pearson, William ref Pearson was one of the original proprietors of the Royal Institution , and finished in 1803 a planetarium for illustrating Dr. Thomas Young scientist Thomas Young s lectures. On 10 January 1810 he was presented to the rectory of Perivale in Middlesex, and by Lord chancellor Eldon, on 15 March 1817, to that of South Kilworth in Leicestershire. In 1811 he became owner of a large private school at Temple Grove, East Sheen, ref cite web title History of Temple Grove School url http www.templegrove.org.uk UserFiles File TG 20History 20Nov 2009.pdf accessdate ... achromatic by Tulley, a transit by William Simms instrument maker William Simms , and a clock by Hardy ... References Reflist Attribution DNB wstitle Pearson, William DEFAULTSORT Pearson, William Category ... more details
William Selwyn Doctor of Divinity DD 19 February 1806 24 April 1875 was a Church of England clergy man, canon of Ely Cathedral , Lady Margaret s Professor of Divinity , and amateur astronomer. Life Selwyn was the eldest son of William Selwyn Queen s Counsel QC 1775 1855 and his wife Laetitia, daughter of Thomas Kynaston of Witham , Essex . He was one of four brothers, the most famous being George Selwyn Bishop of Lichfield George Augustus Selwyn 1809 1878 , the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, and after whom Selwyn College, Cambridge , was named. ref cite web url http www.bshs.org.uk travel guide ely solar astronomers title BSHS Travel Guild William Selwyn accessdate 2012 02 28 ref Selwyn was educated at Eton College and St John s College, Cambridge , where he graduated Bachelor of Arts BA in 1828, Master of Arts Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin MA in 1831, Bachelor of Divinity BD in 1850 and Doctor of Divinity DD in 1864. He was a Fellow of St John s from 1829 to 1832. ref name RS cite web url http www2.royalsociety.org DServe dserve.exe?dsqIni Dserve.ini&dsqApp Archive&dsqCmd Show.tcl&dsqDb Persons&dsqPos 1&dsqSearch 28Surname 3D 27selwyn 27 29 title Library and Archive catalogue publisher Royal Society accessdate 2012 02 28 ref Selwyn was ordained as a deacon of the Church of England in 1829 and as a priest in 1831. He was appointed Rector of Branstone , Leicestershire in 1831, Vicar of Melbourn , Cambridgeshire , in 1846 and Canon Residentiary of Ely in 1833, serving in that capacity until 1875. He was also Lady Margaret s Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1855 until his death in 1875. He became Honorary Joint Curator of the Library of Lambeth Palace in 1872. ref name RS Whilst at Ely he established an observatory in the College, an area of the cathedral precincts ... of Carr House, Doncaster. ref name RS References reflist Persondata NAME Selwyn, William ALTERNATIVE ... Selwyn, William Category 1806 births Category 1875 deaths Category British astronomers Category ... more details
Infobox person name William Gilbert image William Gilbert.jpg caption Dr. William Gilbert birth date ... Physician known for Studies of magnetism William Gilbert , also known as Gilberd , 24 May 1544 ... to as William Gilbert , he also went under the name of William Gilberd . The latter was used in his ... granted a royal charter . In 1600 he was elected President of the College. ref Gilbert, William ... Gilbert 22&cd 4 v onepage&q &f false William Gilbert of Colchester, physician of London . John Wiley ... of William Gilbert s Scientific Method , Journal of the History of Ideas 2 1 32, 1941 ref ref Duane H D Roller, The De Magnete of William Gilbert, Amsterdam 1959 ref was De Magnete De Magnete ... of a pivoted needle he called the versorium . ref cite book last Gilbert first William authorlink ... isbn a translation of William Gilbert 1600 Die Magnete , London ref Like others of his day, he believed ... William Gilbert, brief biography at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory ref ref http www.bbc.co.uk history historic figures gilbert william.shtml William Gilbert brief biography at bbc.co.uk ... Further reading Gilbert, William. 1600 , De Magnete About the Magnet . Translated 1893 from Latin ... 2003 title William Gilbert Forgotten Genius journal Physics World month November cite book author ... March 2010 External links gutenberg author id William Gilbert 1544 1603 name William Gilbert http galileo.rice.edu sci gilbert.html The Galileo Project &mdash biography of William Gilbert. http www.antiquebooks.net ... the 400th anniversary of De Magnete by William Gilbert of Colchester . http www.gutenberg.org etext 31999 The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors http hos.ou.edu galleries 16thCentury ... resolution images of works by and or portraits of William Gilbert in .jpg and .tiff format. Scientists ..., William ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilberd, William SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 24 May 1544 PLACE OF BIRTH Colchester DATE OF DEATH 30 November 1603 PLACE OF DEATH London DEFAULTSORT Gilbert, William Category ... more details
WilliamRichardson 1710 &ndash 1758 was an Irish landowner from Richhill, County Armagh . He was High Sheriff of Armagh in 1737 and represented Armagh County Parliament of Ireland constituency the county in the Irish House of Commons from 1739 to his death. He was the son of John Richardson, High Sheriff in 1715, and father of WilliamRichardson 1749 1822 WilliamRichardson , High Sheriff in 1773 and MP for Armagh 1783 1797. References http www.leighrayment.com commons irelandcommons.htm http www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk rev crozier1718c.html Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Richardson, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1710 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1758 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Category 1710 births Category 1758 deaths Category High Sheriffs of Armagh Category Irish MPs 1727 1760 ... more details
Other persons William Linton Infobox person name WilliamRichardson Linton image caption birth name WilliamRichardson Linton birth date Birth date 1850 4 2 birth place Diddington , Huntingdonshire , England death date Death date and age 1908 4 7 1850 4 2 df yes ref name Peerage cite web title Reverend WilliamRichardson Linton url http thepeerage.com p28326.htm publisher thePeerage.com year 2011 accessdate 2011 07 23 ref death place Ashbourne, Derbyshire body discovered death cause resting place resting place coordinates residence nationality United Kingdom English ethnicity White people Caucasian citizenship United Kingdom British other names known for education alma mater employer occupation Botanist , vicar years active home town title salary networth height weight term predecessor successor party opponents boards religion spouse Alice Shirley partner children Viola Marion Linton parents relations callsign signature Rev WilliamRichardson Linton handwriting source.jpg website footnotes The Reverend Rev. WilliamRichardson Linton Diddington , Huntingdonshire , April 2, 1850 Ashbourne ... individual.php?pid I7025&ged Tolliss.ged title Rev WilliamRichardson LINTON I7025 publisher Tolliss.com ... 9780950047409 Flora Derbyshire Clapham A.R Linton 0950047406 plp coauthors WilliamRichardson Linton ... specimensearch ?collector WilliamRichardson Linton&colid 2704&search search Herbarium specimens collected by Rev. WilliamRichardson Linton Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Linton, WilliamRichardson ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 2 April 1850 PLACE OF BIRTH ... DEFAULTSORT Linton, WilliamRichardson Category English botanists Category 1850 births Category ... Category People from Derbyshire Botanist stub be ca WilliamRichardson Linton eo WilliamRichardson Linton fr WilliamRichardson Linton id WilliamRichardson Linton it WilliamRichardson Linton ru , fi WilliamRichardson Linton ... more details
Expert subject date March 2011 WilliamRichardson 1656 1727 was an Irish politician. He was the MP for Armagh County Parliament of Ireland constituency Armagh in 1692 and Hillsborough Parliament of Ireland constituency Hillsborough in 1703. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Reynell, Lord Chief Justice of the King s Bench for Ireland , in 1695. ref http www.armaghorange.co.uk no2.htm ref References reflist Persondata name Richardson, William alternative names short description date of birth 1656 place of birth date of death 1727 place of death DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Category 1656 births Category 1727 deaths Category Members of the Parliament of Ireland pre 1801 Ireland politician stub ... more details
Expert subject date March 2011 WilliamRichardson c. 1690 1755 was the Member of Parliament for Augher Parliament of Ireland constituency Augher , Ireland , from 1737 to 1755. ref http www.leighrayment.com commons irelandcommons.htm ref References reflist Persondata name Richardson, William alternative names short description date of birth 1690 place of birth date of death 1755 place of death DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Category 1690 births Category 1755 deaths Category Members of the Parliament of Ireland pre 1801 UK politician stub Ireland politician stub ... more details
WilliamRichardson was a British colonial governor. He was Deputy Governor of Anguilla Deputy Governor of Anguilla from 1805 until 1829. ref cite web url http www.worldstatesmen.org Anguilla.html title Anguilla publisher World Statesmen accessdate 22 November 2011 ref References Reflist Persondata NAME Richardson, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1829 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Category Deputy Governors of Anguilla Category 1829 deaths UK politician stub ... more details
Blessed WilliamRichardson 1572&ndash 1603 was a sixteenth century Roman Catholic English Martyrs English martyr . Richardson was born in the village of Wales, South Yorkshire . He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at seminaries in Valladolid and then Seville, both in Spain. He was ordained sometime between 1594 and 1600. William was then sent back to England, where he used the alias William Anderson. Soon after arriving in England, he was betrayed by a trusted person, arrested in London s Gray s Inn an Inn of Court , and imprisoned. He was tried and convicted within a week and hanged, drawn, and quartered. His was the final martyrdom to take place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I as she was to die herself within a month. ref CathEncy wstitle Ven. WilliamRichardson ref His feast day is celebrated February 7 . References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Richardson, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1572 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1603 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Category Beatified people Category 1572 births Category 1603 deaths Category 17th century Roman Catholic martyrs Category 17th century venerated Christians Category People of the Tudor period Category English torture victims Category Executed English people Category People executed under the Tudors Category People from Yorkshire Category 16th century English people Category 17th century English people saint stub ... more details
File WilliamRichardson b1743.jpg thumb WilliamRichardsonWilliamRichardson FRSE 1 October 1743 3 November 1814 was a Scotland Scottish classicist and literary scholar. ref http www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk biography ?id WH2350&type P WilliamRichardson . Glasgow University multi tab page ref Born in Aberfoyle, Stirling Aberfoyle , Perthshire , ref cite web url http www.royalsoced.org.uk fellowship all fellows.pdf title Former RSE Fellows 1983 2002 publisher Royal Society of Edinburgh accessdate 31 March 2010 ref he was the son of James Richardson, the Church of Scotland parish minister of the same parish in which William was first educated. William attended the University of Glasgow in 1757 where he focused on his talent for learning languages. He graduated from the University in 1763 and was employed by Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart , as tutor to his two sons. William travelled to Russian Empire Russia with the Cathcart family, after Lord Cathcart was appointed List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Russia ambassador to Russia in 1768. It was during these travels that Richardson described Russia through a series of letters. He later had them published, in 1784, under the title Anecdotes of the Russian Empire in a series of letters, written, a few years ago, from St. Petersburg . These letters would later go down as a very accurate detail of Russian society. After returning to Scotland in 1772, Richardson was appointed Professor of Humanity, Glasgow professor .... Archives The archives for WilliamRichardson are maintained by the Archives of the University of Glasgow ... Biography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Richardson, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES ... OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Category Academics of the University of Glasgow Category ..., and also being a very popular lecturer, Glasgow became a prestigious institution. Richardson would also publish five works criticizing Shakespeare . Richardson was very interested in not only English ... more details
William Chase Richardson born May 11, 1940 ref http books.google.com books?id 3NSTvJvIZR4C&pg PA1410&dq 22Richardson, William Chase 22&hl en&ei 0Le1TdffPMT50gGLnbGzCQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CDQQ6AEwAA v onepage&q 22Richardson 2C 20William 20Chase 22&f false ref is a director of American electricity company Exelon , a position that he has held since March 2005. ref name Exelon http www.exeloncorp.com performance governance boardofdirectors richardson.aspx William C. Richardson, Ph.D. profile on Exelon Corporation website ref ref name Forbes He serves on Exelon s Audit, Compensation, Risk Oversight and Corporate Governance Committees. ref name Forbes Dr. Richardson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College and a Master in Business Administration degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Dr Richardson was previously a graduate dean and vice provost for research at the University of Washington , executive vice president and provost at Pennsylvania State University 1984 1990 , ref name Exelon ref name Tobacco http tobaccodocuments.org pm 2023225292.html Resume of William C. Richardson, Ph.D. from TobaccoDocuments.org ref and held various positions ... 1990 1995 . ref name Forbes http people.forbes.com profile william c richardson 24438 William C. Richardson profile on Forbes.com ref ref http webapps.jhu.edu jhuniverse information about hopkins about jhu past presidents index.cfm Past Presidents at Johns Hopkins University ref Dr Richardson devoted ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Richardson, William C. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1940 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William ... Richardson, William Category Living people Category 1940 births US academic administrator stub .... ref name Exelon ref name Forbes Dr Richardson left academia to head the Kellogg Foundation 1995 ... name Forbes Dr Richardson has also been a director business director on the boards of the Kellogg Company ... more details
William John Richardson, S. J. born 1920 is an American philosophy American philosopher , who was among the first to introduce the philosophy of Martin Heidegger to the English speaking world. He is currently professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston College . Bibliography Heidegger Through Phenomenology to Thought . Preface by Martin Heidegger. The Hague Martinus Nijhoff, 1963. With John P. Muller Lacan and Language, Reader s Guide to Ecrits . New York International Universities Press, 1982. Lacan and the Enlightenment Antigone s Choice, Research in Phenomenology , 24 1 1994 25 41. With John P. Muller The Purloined Poe, Lacan, Derrida & Psychoanalytic Reading . Baltimore, London Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. With John P. Muller , Ouvrir les crits de Jacques Lacan Lacan , adapt par P. Julien. Toulouse Eres, 1987. Heidegger Through phenomenology to Thought . Preface by Martin Heidegger. Fortieth Anniversary Edition, with New Writer s Preface and Epilogue. New York Fordham University Press, 2003. Secondary Literature Babette Babich Babette E. Babich ed. http From 20Phenomenology 20to 20Thought, 20Errancy, 20and 20Desire 20 20Essays 20in 20Honor 20of 20William 20J. 20Richardson, 20S.J. From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S.J. . Dordrecht Kluwer, 1995. Capobianco, Richard. Engaging Heidegger . Foreword by William J. Richardson. University of Toronto Press, 2010 softcover 2011. See also List of American philosophers External links http www.bc.edu schools cas philosophy faculty richardson.html Richardson s web page at Boston College Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Richardson, William J. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1920 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William J. Category 1920 births Category Living people Category 20th century philosophers ... fr William J. Richardson ... more details
for the California entrepreneur William A. Richardson This article is about the United States Secretary of the Treasury. For the Illinois senator, see William Alexander Richardson . Infobox US Cabinet official name William Adams Richardson image William Adams Richardson, Brady Handy bw photo portrait ... Politician , lawyer William Adams Richardson November 2, 1821 October 19, 1896 was an United States ...&printsec titlepage&dq william adams richardson Practical information concerning the public debt of the United States with the national banking laws , by William Adams Richardson. http books.google.com ... United States , by William Adams Richardson. http books.google.com books?id Dcg4AAAAIAAJ&printsec titlepage Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States , 2nd ed., edited by William Adams Richardson. External links http www.treasury.gov about history Pages warichardson.aspx Biography of William Adams Richardson at the Department of the Treasury s start s off U.S. Secretary box before ... Persondata . NAME Richardson, William Adams ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American politician ... States Court of Claims Massachusetts politician stub de William Adams Richardson ja no William Adams Richardson ru , sv William Adams Richardson zh ... Hackett cite book last Hackett first Frank W. title A Sketch of the Life and Public Service of William Adams Richardson publisher Private year 1898 location Washington pages 19 url http books.google.com ... of 1873 the money supply tightened drastically, causing the Panic of 1873 . Richardson responded ... for the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. In his last months in office Richardson became embroiled in the Sanborn incident . After leaving the Treasury, Richardson was appointed by Grant to serve ... OF DEATH October 19, 1896 PLACE OF DEATH Washington D.C. , United States U.S. DEFAULTSORT Richardson, William Adams Category 1821 births Category 1896 deaths Category United States Secretaries of the Treasury ... more details
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