William Bevan (other)
William Bevan is the name of the following people: * Bill Bevan (1913–1975), American football player and coach * Billy Bevan (1887–1957), Australian film actor * William Bevan (abolitionist) (c. 1800–c. 1860), Congregationalist minister in Liverpool and leading abolitionist * William Bevan (priest) (1821–1908), Welsh clergyman * William Bevan (psychologist) (1922–2007), former president of the American Psychological Association * William Bevan (sloopmaster) (fl. 1723–1737), Hudson's Bay Company explorer * William Emmanuel Bevan, British electronic musician known as Burial Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...

Bill Bevan
William Arnold Bevan, Sr. (March 26, 1913 – August 26, 1975) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Minnesota and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1934 College Football All-America Team. Biography He grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from St. Paul Central High School. He then enrolled at the University of Minnesota, where he was a member of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team under head coach Bernie Bierman. He played at the guard position on Minnesota teams that were undefeated for two consecutive seasons from 1933 to 1934 and was one of four first-team All-Americans on the 1934 Minnesota team that has been recognized as Minnesota's first national championship team. He was a consensus first-team selection for the 1934 College Football All-America Team. He was also a boxer who won the Big Ten Conference boxing championship in the light heavyweight class. After leaving Minnesot ...
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Billy Bevan
Billy Bevan (born William Bevan Harris; 29 September 1887 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian-born vaudevillian who became an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 American films from 1916 to 1952. He died just before new audiences discovered him in Robert Youngson's silent-comedy compilations. The Youngson films mispronounce his name as "Be-VAN"; Bevan himself offered the proper pronunciation in a ''Voice of Hollywood'' reel in 1930: "Bevan" rhyming with "seven". Career Bevan was born in the country town of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He went on the stage at an early age, traveled to Sydney and spent eight years in Australian light opera, performing as Willie Bevan. He sailed to America with the Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in 1912, and later toured Canada. Bevan broke into films with the Sigmund Lubin studio in 1916. When the company disbanded, Bevan became a supporting actor in Mack Sennett movie comedies. An expressive pantomimist, Beva ...
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William Bevan (abolitionist)
William Bevan is the name of the following people: * Bill Bevan (1913–1975), American football player and coach * Billy Bevan (1887–1957), Australian film actor * William Bevan (abolitionist) (c. 1800–c. 1860), Congregationalist minister in Liverpool and leading abolitionist * William Bevan (priest) (1821–1908), Welsh clergyman * William Bevan (psychologist) (1922–2007), former president of the American Psychological Association * William Bevan (sloopmaster) (fl. 1723–1737), Hudson's Bay Company explorer * William Emmanuel Bevan, British electronic musician known as Burial Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...

William Bevan (priest)
William Latham Bevan (1 May 1821 – 24 August 1908) was a Welsh churchman, archdeacon of Brecon from 1875. Life He was born at Beaufort, Breconshire, the eldest of three sons of William Hibbs Bevan (1788–1846), then of Beaufort, but later of Glannant, Crickhowell (high sheriff for Breconshire 1841), by Margaret, daughter of Joseph Latham, also of Beaufort, but originally from Boughton-in-Furness. With a stepbrother, Edward Kendall, the father carried on the Beaufort Iron Works, trading as Kendall & Bevan, until 1833. The youngest brother, George Phillips Bevan (1829–1889) was known as a writer. After Bevan's education at Rugby School under Dr. Thomas Arnold, he matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, on 14 December 1838; but he almost immediately removed to Magdalen Hall, on being elected Lusby scholar there. He graduated B.A. in 1842, with a second class in the final classical school, and M.A. in 1845. In 1844, Bevan was ordained deacon, and in 1845, after a short curac ...
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William Bevan (psychologist)
William Bevan (May 16, 1922 – February 19, 2007) was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA). He founded the Talent Identification Program at Duke University. Biography After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College, Bevan served in the navy. He completed graduate work at Duke University. Bevan was a Fulbright Scholar in Norway, served as provost and vice president at Johns Hopkins University, and was the executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He came back to Duke as the psychology department chair, served as provost and founded the Talent Identification Program. He was the 1982 APA president. William was a distinguished member of Psi Chi, PSI CHI]International Honor Society for Psychology Bevan died in 2007, nearly 20 years after suffering a serious stroke. The American Psychological Foundation sponsors the William Bevan Lecture on Psychology and Public Policy. References

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William Bevan (sloopmaster)
William Bevan (fl. 1723–37) was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and came to the Fort Albany on James Bay in 1723 from England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ... as mate of the ''Beaver'' sloop. He became Master there four years later, succeeding George Gunn in the third-highest-ranking position at the trading post. Bevan and a party explored the Moose River area and the site of the older Moose Fort trading post which Pierre de Troyes had captured from the HBC in 1686, which the English had burned to the ground in 1696. A new Moose Fort was built in 1730 and Bevan became Chief Factor and Commander there in 1732. A careless kitchen fire caused the fort to burn to the ground on December 26, 1735, resulting in the death of an Indigenous girl in the fire, and ...
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Floruit
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are Will (law), wills Attestation clause, attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones was born before ...
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