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William Banks (other)
William Banks may refer to: * William Banks (alderman) (born 1949), alderman in Chicago * William Banks (rugby) (1925–1991), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s * William Stott Banks (1820–1872), English antiquary * William Banks (died 1676) (1636–1676), English politician * William Banks (barrister) (1719–1761), English politician * William Banks (cricketer) (1822–1901), Welsh-born English cricketer * William Banks (footballer) (1893–1963), English footballer * William V. Banks (1903–1985), radio station executive in Detroit * William M. Banks (1915–1983), American flying ace * William C. Banks (born 1948), American law professor * William A. Banks (born 1954), American neuroimmunologist * William Mitchell Banks (1842–1904), Scottish surgeon See also * Willie Banks (other) * Billy Banks (other) * William Bankes (other) William Bankes may refer to: * William John Bankes (1786–1855), egyptologist *Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Banks (alderman)
William Joseph Panebianco Banks (born July 28, 1949) was alderman of the 36th ward in Chicago from 1983 to 2009. Early career Banks is Italian-American; to avoid anti-Italian bigotry, Banks' father, Foreign exchange market, currency exchange owner Vincenzo Giuseppe Panebianco, anglicized his name to James Joseph and added "Banks" to their surname. All his sons continued to use "P" or "Panebianco" in front of "Banks." Banks earned a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. degree in 1971 and a law degree in 1975 from DePaul University. Before his election as alderman, Banks served as Chief Research Aide and Legal Counselor to Congressman Morgan F. Murphy. Later, Banks served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago. Political career Banks is the Democratic committeeman for the 36th Ward, a party position within the Cook County Democratic Party. Banks took over as committeeman when long-time ward committeeman Louis Garippo died in 1981. Banks is chairman of two well-funded polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Banks (rugby)
William Martin Banks (11 January 1925 – August 1991) was a Welsh rugby union and World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Maesteg RFC, as a scrum-half, i.e. number 9, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales, Other Nationalities, British Empire and Combined Nationalities, and at club level for Leeds, Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage № 558), Huddersfield, Whitehaven and Salford, as a , or , i.e. number 6, or 7. Background Billy Banks was born in Maesteg, Wales in 1925. After his rugby league career ended, he became a taxi driver in Huddersfield. He returned frequently to Maesteg to visit family and friends. He died in 1991 aged 66 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Playing career International honours Billy Banks represented Combined Nationalities and scored a try in the 15-19 defeat by France at Stade de Gerland, Lyon on Sunday 3 January 1954, won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stott Banks
William Stott Banks (1821–1872) was an English lawyer, writer, and antiquary. Life Banks was born at Wakefield, Yorkshire, on 9 March 1821, to father William Banks and mother Harriot Stott, and was baptised at the congregationalist Salem Chapel on 15 April 1821. He received a scanty education at the Lancasterian school in Wakefield. At the age of 11 he started his working life as office-boy to John Berry, a local solicitor. He was later clerk in the office of Messrs. Marsden & Ianson, solicitors and clerks to the West Riding justices, and upon the dissolution of the firm in 1844 he remained with Mr. Ianson, to whom he subsequently articled himself. After the usual interval Banks was admitted as an attorney in Hilary Term, 1851, and in 1853 became a partner, the firm being Messrs. Ianson & Banks. On the formation of the Wakefield Borough Commission in March 1870 he was elected clerk to the justices, an office which he retained until his death. Banks died at his house in Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Banks (died 1676)
William Banks (1636 – 6 July 1676) of Winstanley Hall, Wigan was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons twice between 1660 and 1676. Banks was the only surviving son of William Banks of Winstanley, by his second wife Sarah Jones, daughter of Walter Jones of Chastleton, Oxfordshire. He succeeded to the Winstanley estate on the death of his father in 1666. In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Newton and was Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire from around August 1660 to 1662, and from 1663 to his death. He was commissioner for assessment from August 1660 to 1674, commissioner for corporations from 1662 to 1663 and joint farmer of excise from 1665 to 1674. He was a J.P. from 1665 to 1666 and from 1670 until his death. He was a freeman of Liverpool by 1670 and a Vice-Admiral of Lancashire and Cheshire from 1673 to his death. In May 1675 he was elected MP for Liverpool Liverpool is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Banks (barrister)
William Banks (19 April 1719 – September 1761) was an English barrister and the father of Sir Joseph Banks, the naturalist. He was also a Member of Parliament for six years, and from 1733 to 1741 was known as William Hodgkinson. Life Banks was the younger son of politician Joseph Banks of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire. After being educated at Westminster School he entered the Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn ... in 1736 to study law. In 1741 he was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament for Grampound, sitting until 1747. He was unable to seek re-election after the loss of the use of his legs, due to an illness in 1745. Banks married Sarah, the daughter of William Bate of Derbyshire, with whom he had a son, Sir Joseph Banks the famous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Banks (cricketer)
William John Banks (25 April 1822 – 17 January 1901) was a Welsh-born English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and the amateur Gentlemen of Kent teams in the 1840s. He was born at Swansea and died at Oxney Court near Dover in Kent. As a cricketer played 10 first-class matches between 1843 and 1848. His highest innings was a score of 38 when he opened the batting with his brother, Edward, for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1845. His Wisden obituary quoted from ''Scores and Biographies'' which described him as "a hard hitter and an active field". Banks was the grandson of Sir Edward Banks who built the 19th century London Bridge Several bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It r ....Reference cites t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Banks (footballer)
William Banks (6 December 1893 – 20 March 1963) was an English footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool in The Football League. Banks started his career at Hartford Burdon in the Bluthe and District League before he was signed by professional team Ashington. He then moved to Tranmere Rovers and then on to Liverpool. He made his debut towards the end of the 1913–14 season featuring in nine of the last eleven games of the season. He made a further seventeen appearances before the advent of the First World War, which interrupted his career. Following the end of the war he signed for Tranmere again. He later moved to Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandswo ... where he played 43 matches between 1919 and 1921, scoring 12 goals. References 1893 births Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William V
William V may refer to: * William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969–1030) * William V of Montpellier (1075–1121) * William V, Marquess of Montferrat (1191) *William V, Count of Nevers 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 Engl ... (before 11751181) * William V, Duke of Jülich (1299–1361) * William V, Count of Holland (1330–1389) * William V of Jülich-Berg (1516–1592) * William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548–1626) * William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1602–1637) * William V, Prince of Orange (1748–1806) See also * Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1981), possible future regnal name * William, Prince of Wales (born 1982), possible future regnal name {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William M
William is a masculine given name of Norman French 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, Liam, 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 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-Germani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William C
William is a masculine given name of Norman French 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, Liam, 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 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-Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William A
William is a masculine given name of Norman French 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, Liam, 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 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-Germani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mitchell Banks
Sir William Mitchell Banks (1 November 1842 – 9 August 1904) was a Scottish surgeon. He was an early advocate of what is now called the modified radical mastectomy. Life Banks was born in Edinburgh, the son of Ann Williamson and Peter Spalding Banks. He received his MD in 1864 at the University of Edinburgh. He took up a post at the Infirmary School of Medicine, Liverpool, and was surgeon of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary from 1877 to 1902, when he resigned and was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He died on 9 August 1904, while travelling, in Aix-la-Chapelle. He is buried in Toxteth Park Cemetery in Liverpool. Work "Mitchell Banks deserves recognition both as a surgeon and as an organizer. The modern operation for removal of the cancerous breast is largely due to his practice and advocacy. He recommended, in the face of strenuous opposition, an extensive operation that should include removal of the axillary glands when most surgeons were contented with local amputation. He dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
