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William Boyd
William, Willie, Will or Bill Boyd may refer to: Academics * William Boyd (educator) (1874–1962), Scottish educator * William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian professor and author * William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster * William Beaty Boyd (1923–2020), American university administrator Arts and entertainment * Bill Boyd (musician) (1910–1977), American musician, leader of the band Bill Boyd and the Cowboy Ramblers * William Boyd (actor) (1895–1972), American actor, better known as "Hopalong Cassidy" * William "Stage" Boyd (1889–1935), American actor * William Boyd (writer) (born 1952), Scottish novelist and screenwriter Sports * Bill Boyd (baseball) (1852–1912), American baseball player * Bill Boyd (poker player) (1906–1997), American poker player * William Robert Boyd (1930–2015), American basketball player and coach * Willie Boyd (born 1958), Scottish footballer Others * Bill Boyd (Canadian po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd (educator)
William Boyd was a Scottish educator (1874-1962) and head of the Education Department at the University of Glasgow for nearly four decades. He is best known for his classic ''The History of Western Education'' which received 10 editions from 1921 to 1972. He was active in the Scottish Council for Research in Education. References 1874 births 1962 deaths Academics of the University of Glasgow 20th-century Scottish educators {{UK-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd, 4th Earl Of Kilmarnock
William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (12 May 170518 August 1746), was a Scottish peer who joined the 1745 Jacobite Rising, was captured at Culloden and subsequently executed for treason on Tower Hill. His family were supporters of the government and Kilmarnock had not previously been involved with the Stuarts; he later stated "for the two Kings and their rights, I cared not a farthing which prevailed; but I was starving." His title was declared forfeit and his heavily mortgaged estates confiscated; they were later returned to his eldest son James, later Earl of Erroll, who fought at Culloden on the government side. Biography William Boyd was born in 1705, only son of William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock (1683–1717) and Eupheme Ross (1684–1729). His father supported the government during the 1715 Jacobite Rising, but was deeply in debt when he died in 1717. Educated at the University of Glasgow, Kilmarnock reportedly had "an Aversion to rigorous Study of Letters" and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyde
William Boyde (born March 1950) is a British actor, best known for his work on the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' (1986–1989, 1992, 2017). He was educated at Cheltenham College where he appeared as an extra in the film If...which was filmed at the school. His character James Willmott-Brown became one of the soap's most renowned villains after raping barmaid Kathy Beale ( Gillian Taylforth) in 1988, and then terrorizing her in 1992. In September 2017, Boyde made an unannounced return to ''EastEnders'' and eventually departed on 28 December at the conclusion of his storyline - in which he was revealed as the boss of Max Branning ( Jake Wood) in their vengeful plot to destroy the square. Boyde has also appeared in '' Just William'' (1977); the BBC drama '' Secret Army'' (1978); '' Bergerac'' (1981) and the detective series '' Dempsey and Makepeace'' (1985). In 2001 Boyde played Tim the pub landlord in the Johnny Vaughan cult sitcom '' 'Orrible''. In 2004 Boyde guest sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Boyd (other)
Will Boyd can refer to: * Will Boyd (musician) (born 1979), American bass guitarist for the band Evanescence * Will Boyd (politician), a candidate in the 2022 United States Senate election in Alabama See also * William Boyd (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Boyd (other)
Billy Boyd (born 1968) is a Scottish actor and musician. Billy Boyd may also refer to: * Billy Boyd (ice hockey) (1898–1940), Canadian ice hockey forward *Billy Boyd (footballer) William Gillespie Boyd (27 November 1905 – 14 December 1967) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre-forward. He is most notable for playing for Clyde – during his time there he scored 91 goals in 111 league appearance ... (1905–1967), Scottish professional footballer * Billy Boyd (politician) (born 1921), Northern Ireland Labour Party activist See also * William Boyd (other) {{hndis, Boyd, Billy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd III
William Boyd III (born 1968 or 1969) is an American politician who has served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives since 2021, representing Hillsborough County's 21st district, which contains the town of Merrimack. A member of the Republican Party, Boyd ran in an April 2021 special election to succeed Dick Hinch, who died of COVID-19 in December 2020. Boyd defeated the Democratic nominee, former state representative Wendy E.N. Thomas, by a margin of 2,531 votes to 2,144. Boyd's campaign was assisted by Mike Pompeo, a former United States secretary of state, and Tom Cotton, a United States senator from Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma .... Boyd previously served on the Merrimack Town Council and the New Hampshire Drinking and Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William C
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' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd (priest)
William Boyd (6 January 1726 – 29 August 1795) was an Irish Anglican priest. Huson was born in County Kildare and educated at Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ..., He was Archdeacon of Leighlin from 1776 to 1777; and Archdeacon of Ferns from 1777 until his death."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p362 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Notes Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 1795 deaths 1726 births Christian clergy from County Kildare Archdeacons of Leighlin Archdeacons of Ferns {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd (minister)
William Boyd (died 1772), was an Irish Presbyterian minister. He is known as the bearer of a petition to Samuel Shute, the governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay, embodying a proposal for an emigration from County Londonderry to that colony.The petition is dated 26 March 1718, is signed by nine presbyterian ministers and 208 members of their parishes, who declare their 'sincere and hearty inclination to transport ourselves to that very excellent and renowned Plantation, upon our obtaining from His Excellency suitable encouragement.' Thomas Witherow reprints the document, with the signatures in full, from Edward Lutwyche Parker's ''History of Londonderry, New Hampshire'', Boston, 1851. Boyd fulfilled his mission in 1718; the intended emigration did not take place. In the same year (without awaiting the issue of Boyd's negotiation), James McGregor (minister of Aghadowey, County Londonderry, from 1701 to 1718), who had not signed the document, emigrated to New Hampshire with som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freeman Field Mutiny
The Freeman Field mutiny was a series of incidents at Freeman Army Airfield, a United States Army Air Forces base near Seymour, Indiana, in 1945 in which African American members of the 477th Fighter Group#Lineage, 477th Bombardment Group attempted to Racial integration, integrate an all-white Military officers' club, officers' club. The mutiny resulted in 162 separate arrests of black officers, some of them twice. Three were court-martialed on relatively minor charges. One, Roger C. Terry, was convicted. In 1995, the United States Air Force, Air Force officially vindicated the actions of the African-American officers, set aside the single court-martial conviction and removed letters of reprimand from the permanent files of 15 of the officers. The mutiny is generally regarded by historians of the Civil Rights Movement as an important step toward full integration of the armed forces and as a model for later efforts to integrate public facilities through civil disobedience. Backgrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd (colonel)
William, Willie, Will or Bill Boyd may refer to: Academics * William Boyd (educator) (1874–1962), Scottish educator * William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian professor and author * William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster * William Beaty Boyd (1923–2020), American university administrator Arts and entertainment * Bill Boyd (musician) (1910–1977), American musician, leader of the band Bill Boyd and the Cowboy Ramblers * William Boyd (actor) (1895–1972), American actor, better known as "Hopalong Cassidy" * William "Stage" Boyd (1889–1935), American actor * William Boyd (writer) (born 1952), Scottish novelist and screenwriter Sports * Bill Boyd (baseball) (1852–1912), American baseball player * Bill Boyd (poker player) (1906–1997), American poker player * William Robert Boyd (1930–2015), American basketball player and coach * Willie Boyd (born 1958), Scottish footballer Others * Bill Boyd (Canadian po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherd And Boyd
Shepherd and Boyd was an American silversmith partnership between Robert Shepherd (1781 March 6, 1853) and William Boyd (September 14, 1774 April 24, 1840), active at 136 Market Street, Albany, New York, from 1806 to 1830. Their work is collected in the Albany Institute of History & Art, Clark Art Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Yale University Art Gallery. References {{Reflist * ''American Silversmiths and Their Marks: The Definitive (1948) Edition'', Stephen G. C. Ensko, Courier Corporation, 2012, page 119. * ''Old Plate, Its Makers & Marks'', John Henry Buck, Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1903, pages 50–51. * ''Early American silver and its makers'', Jane Bentley, Mayflower Books, 1979, page 121. * ''Antiques Magazine'', Volume 60, 1951, page 50. * ''American Silver-Hilted, Revolutionary and Early Federal Swords, Volume II: According to Their Geographical Areas of Mounting'', Daniel D. Hartzler, Xlibris Corporation, 2015. "Shephe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
