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Chuck Williams (other)
Charles, Charlie, Charley, Chuck, or Chuckie Williams may refer to: Actors *Charles Williams (English actor) (1693–1731), at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane *Charles Williams (American actor) (1898–1958), screenwriter *Charlie Williams (comedian) (1927–2006), English Yorkshire stand-up, former footballer Artists *Charles Williams (caricaturist) (before 1775—1830), British illustrator * Charles Insco Williams (1853–1923), American artist and architect in Dayton, Ohio *Charles David Williams (1875–1954), American book and magazine illustrator (Cross burning) * Charles Williams (artist) (born 1965), American-English Stuckist movement painter * Charles T. Williams (1918–1966), American sculptor Music and dance * Charles Holston Williams (1886–1978), American founder of dance company * Charles Williams (composer) (1893–1978), English film music *Charles Williams (musician) (born 1932), American jazz saxophonist ** ''Charles Williams'' (album), 1971 release by saxophonist *C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Williams (English Actor)
Charles Williams (1693–1731) was a British stage actor. Williams joined the company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1718 and remained with it to his death in the year of his 38th birthday.Brean p.173 Selected roles * Lorenzo in ''Love in a Veil'' by Richard Savage (poet), Richard Savage (1718) * Herbis in ''The Siege of Damascus'' by John Hughes (poet), John Hughes (1720) * Alan in ''The Briton'' by Ambrose Philips (1722) * Earl of Warwick in ''Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (play), Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester'' by Ambrose Philips (1723) * Ammon in ''The Fatal Constancy'' by Hildebrand Jacob (1723) * Duke Frederick in ''Love in a Forest'' by Charles Johnson (writer), Charles Johnson (1723) * Araxes in ''The Captives (1724 play), The Captives'' by John Gay (1724) * Decius in ''Caesar in Egypt'' by Colley Cibber (1724) * Julio in ''Double Falsehood'' by Lewis Theobald (1727) * Amyntas in ''Love in a Riddle'' by Colley Cibber (1729) * Freeman in ''The Village Opera'' by Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hanbury Williams
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Order of the Bath, KB (8 December 1708 – 2 November 1759) was a British politician, diplomat and writer. He was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament from 1734 until his death. Early life Hanbury was the son of a Welsh ironmaster and Member of Parliament, John Hanbury (1664–1734), John Hanbury, and his second wife, Bridget Ayscough, eldest daughter of Edward Ayscough (died 1699), Sir Edward Ayscough of Stallingborough and South Kelsey. With his father's marriage to Bridget came a fortune of £10,000 and connections with established political families. His mother was a close friend of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Charles went to Eton, where he befriended the novelist Henry Fielding. In 1720, he assumed the name of Williams, under the terms of a bequest from his godfather, Charles Williams of Caerleon. Career Williams entered Parliament in 1734, representing the Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency), Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Williams (Australian Politician)
Charles Bennett Williams (9 February 1890 – 1 December 1952) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Council The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative A ... (for South Province) from 1928 to 1948. References 1890 births 1952 deaths Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Place of birth missing Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia {{Australia-Labor-WesternAustralia-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cromwell Williams
Charles Cromwell Williams (February 9, 1896 – January 31, 1975) was a railway worker and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He represented Regina City in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member from 1944 to 1964. Williams was born in Moosomin, Saskatchewan and was educated in Wapella and at Brandon College. He was hired as a telegraph operator in Manitoba for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was wounded while serving in the Canadian Army during World War I. On his return, he worked as a station agent for the Grand Trunk Railway in the Canadian prairies, moving to Regina in 1931. He was elected to city council in 1937 and defeated in 1939. Williams ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in a 1938 by-election. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Regina in 1940 and then served as mayor from 1942 to 1944. He was Minister of Labour in the province's Executive Council and a city counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Williams (Torquay MP)
Charles Williams (21 April 1886 – 28 October 1955) was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was member of parliament (MP) for constituencies in Devon from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1955. On 1 January 1952 he was appointed a member of the Privy Council, in recognition of his political and public service. He was elected to the House of Commons on his first attempt, as a Coalition Conservative candidate for the Tavistock constituency at the 1918 general election, defeating his Liberal Party opponent with a majority of 13% of the votes. However, at the 1922 general election, the Liberal took the seat on a swing of over 10%. At the 1923 election, he stood in Torquay, where he lost narrowly to the Liberal candidate. He won the seat at the 1924 general election, and represented Torquay in Parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Williams (politician)
Charles Morgan Williams (21 April 1878 – 4 August 1970) was a mayor and Member of Parliament for Kaiapoi in Canterbury, New Zealand. Early years: farming and business C. Morgan Williams was born in North Wales in 1878, and worked as a letter sorter in London. There he was active in the Battersea Branch of the British Social Democratic Federation and later secretary of the Clapham Branch. He came to New Zealand in 1902, and worked as a farm labourer in the Kaiapoi district until 1906, when he bought and leased land in the Tram Road area and grew potatoes. On the peat land he developed an extensive drainage system to allow dairy farming and founded the Maesgwyn herd of pedigree Ayrshire cattle. Williams purchased the property known as "Waverley" from Richard Evans in 1925. He also established the grain and produce business of C. Morgan Williams and Son in Charles Street, Kaiapoi. Afforestation Morgan Williams was closely associated with afforestation at Kaiapoi for over fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Williams (Wisconsin State Legislator)
Charles Henry Williams (August 13, 1844February 2, 1922) was an American farmer and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate for one term, representing the 13th senatorial district ( Dodge County) from 1877 to 1879. Biography Born in Burnett, in Dodge County, Wisconsin, he served in various local offices, and was Town Supervisor of Westford, Dodge County, Wisconsin, where he also resided during his senate term. He was elected to one term in the senate and was defeated seeking re-election in 1878. He died in Minnesota in 1922. Family In 1869, Williams married Mary Elizabeth Wallace at Fox Lake, Wisconsin Fox Lake is a city in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,604 at the 2020 census. The city is located within the Town of Fox Lake. History Established in 1838, Fox Lake was the first settlement in Dodge County. The fi ..., with whom he raised eleven children. Electoral history , colspan="6" style="text-align: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Williams
Charles Henry Williams (later known as Charles Henry Basset, from 1880) (16 November 1834 – 1 February 1908) of Pilton House, Pilton, Pilton House and Westaway, Pilton, Westaway House, Pilton, Devon, Pilton, near Barnstaple, and of Watermouth Castle all in North Devon, was a British naval and military officer, Justice of the Peace, JP and Deputy Lieutenant for Devon, and a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency), Barnstaple, 1868–1874. He was master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds between 1887 and 1893. Origins He was born Charles Henry Williams, on 16 November 1834, being the fourth surviving son of Williams baronets, Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, Master of Foxhounds, MFH, of Tregullow, Cornwall, by his wife Caroline Eales, younger daughter of Richard Eales of Eastdon, Lieutenant Royal Navy, RN. In the 1850s his father had purcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles G
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watkin Williams (Liberal Politician)
Sir Charles James Watkin Williams (23 September 1828 – 17 July 1884) was a Welsh judge, doctor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880. Life Williams was the eldest son of Peter Williams, rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire, and his wife Lydia Sophia Price, daughter of the Rev. James Price of Plas-yn-Lysfaen, Denbighshire. Henry Wynn-Williams was his younger brother. After leaving Ruthin grammar school he studied medicine under John Eric Erichsen at University College Hospital, where he won the gold medal for comparative anatomy, and acted for a time as house-surgeon. He became the lifelong friend of Sir Henry Thompson and Sir John Russell Reynolds. But he soon decided to abandon medicine for law. He spent a few terms at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he matriculated on 1 May 1851, but never graduated. In the same year (1851) he entered at the Middle Temple, and read in the chambers of Horatio Lloyd, known as a special pleader. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Rockford, Illinois
This is a list of mayors of Rockford, Illinois, United States. One-year terms: 1852–1881 *Willard Wheeler 1852–1853 *Hiram R. Maynard 1853–1854 *Ulysses M. Warner 1854–1855 *Edward Vaughn 1855–1856 *James L. Loop 1856–1857 *William Brown (Illinois politician), William Brown 1857–1858 *Seeley Perry 1858–1859 *Charles Williams 1859–1864 *Albert Fowler 1864–1866, 1867–1868 *Edward H. Baker 1866–1867, 1868–1869 *Seymour G. Bronson 1869–1873 *Gilbert Woodruff 1873–1875 *Robert H. Tinker 1875–1876 *Levi Rhoades 1876–1877 *Duncan Ferguson 1877–1878 *William Watson 1878–1879 *Sylvester B. Wilkins 1879–1881 Two-year terms: 1881–1937 *Samuel P. Crawford 1881–1883 *Alfred Taggart 1883–1887 *Horace C. Scovill 1887–1889 *John H. Sherratt 1889–1891 *Henry N. Starr 1891–1893 *Amasa Hutchins 1893–1895, 1901–1903 *Edward W. Brown 1895–1901 *Charles E. Jackson 1903–1907 *Mark Jardine 1907–1911 *William Bennett 1911–1917 *Robert Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles K
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
