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William Forster (dean)
William Forster may refer to: *William Forster (English politician), MP for Berkshire in 1572–1576. *William Forster (bishop) (died 1635), Church of England bishop of Sodor and Man. * William Forster (mathematician) (fl. 1632–1673), English mathematician *William Forster (cricketer) (1884–1930), Australian cricketer *William Forster (philanthropist) (1784–1854), Quaker preacher and philanthropist. *William Forster (British Army officer) (1798–1870) British Army Officer. * William Forster (Australian politician) (1818–1882), Premier of New South Wales and poet. * William Edward Forster (1818–1886), British statesman, Liberal MP, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. *William Mark Forster (1846–1921), Australian philanthropist. *Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster of Lepe (1866–1936), also known as Henry William Forster, Governor-General of Australia. *William Forster (judge) (1921–1997), first Chief Justice of the Northern Territory. *William H. Forster William Hull "Bud" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (English Politician)
William Forster (died 10 Jan 1574/5) was an English politician and sheriff of Berkshire. William was the son of Sir Humphrey Forster of Aldermaston House in Berkshire and father of Sir Humphrey Forster. He was educated at Oxford University and Lincoln's Inn. In 1572, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, he was elected the Member of Parliament for Berkshire but died in office two years later. He was also appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1569. He died in 1575. He had married Jane, the daughter of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire (born by 1492, died 18 November 1558) was an English soldier, sheriff, and courtier during the reign of Henry VIII of England, and briefly Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire. Biography ..., Gloucestershire;they had five sons, including his heir Sir Humphrey, and three daughters. References History of Parliament Online - FORSTER, William (d.1574), of Aldermaston, Berks. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (bishop)
William Forster, D.D. (died 1635) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1633 to 1635. He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and later becoming a Fellow of the college. He was appointed a canon of Chester in 1618. He was nominated bishop of Sodor and Man by William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby on 26 December 1633 and consecrated on 9 March 1634. He died in office on 23 or 24 February 1635 and was buried at St Bartholomew's Church, Barrow on 26 February 1635, where he had also been rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Forster, William 1635 deaths 17th-century Church of England bishops Bishops of Sodor and Man Alumni of St Catharine's Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (mathematician)
William Forster (fl. 1630–1673) was an English mathematician living in London, a pupil of the celebrated mathematician and astronomer clergyman William Oughtred (1574-1660). He is best known for his book, a translation and edition of Oughtred's treatise entitled ''The Circles of Proportion''. Oughtred invented horizontal and circular forms of the slide rule, and Forster persuaded his master to let him translate his writings about their form and use, and to publish them. The publication resulted in a controversy, because another student of Oughtred's, Richard Delamain the elder, during the two years (1630-32) in which Forster was preparing the book, brought out two treatises on the same subject claiming the inventions as his own, and addressing himself to royal patronage. Forster's work was dedicated to that eminent intellectual, Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), and the account of Oughtred's claim is found in Forster's ''Preface'', or ''Letter of Dedication''. Following the invention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (cricketer)
William Forster (1 March 1884 – 7 February 1930) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket, first-class match for Tasmania cricket team, Tasmania in 1907-08. See also * List of Tasmanian representative cricketers References External links * 1884 births 1930 deaths Australian cricketers Cricketers from Gateshead Tasmania cricketers {{Australia-cricket-bio-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (philanthropist)
William Forster (23 March 1784 – 27 January 1854) was a preacher, Quaker elder and a fervent abolitionist. He was an early member of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839. It was William and Stephen Grellet who introduced Elizabeth Fry to her life's work with prisons, but it was William's brother, Josiah, who accompanied Fry on her tour and inspection of prisons in France. Biography Forster was born in 1784. He initially trained as a land agent with his mother's brother in Sheffield, but he then started to tour England and Scotland as a minister. He visited the Hebrides in 1812 and Ireland in 1813–14. When visiting Newgate prison with Stephen Grellet, Forster was amazed at its state. He contacted Elizabeth Fry and she gathered together a group of women to help with improving prison conditions. Forster thereby alerted Elizabeth Fry to what was to be her life's work. In 1816, Forster married Anna Buxton and they moved to Dorset. When his brother-in-law, Sir Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (British Army Officer)
General (United Kingdom), General William Frederick Forster Royal Guelphic Order, KH (17 December 1798 – 8 June 1879) was a senior British Army officer who served as Military Secretary (United Kingdom), Military Secretary from 1860 to 1871. Military career Brought up in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Forster was Officer (armed forces), commissioned into the 85th Regiment of Foot in 1813. In 1830 he was appointed Groom of the Chamber, Groom of the Bedchamber for the Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Duke of Gloucester. He became Deputy Adjutant-General in Ireland in 1854. He was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in 1855, and then Military Secretary (United Kingdom), Military Secretary in 1860, retiring from that post in 1871. He was promoted to General (United Kingdom), general in 1874. Forster was also Colonel of the 81st Regiment of Foot. He died in 1879. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Forster, William 1798 births 1879 deaths British Army generals 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (Australian Politician)
William Forster (16 October 1818 – 30 October 1882) was a pastoral squatter, colonial British politician, Premier of New South Wales from 27 October 1859 to 9 March 1860, and poet. Early life Forster was born in Madras, India, the son of Thomas Forster, army surgeon, and his wife Eliza Blaxland, daughter of Gregory Blaxland. His parents married in Sydney and travelled to India in 1817, Wales in 1822, Ireland in 1825 and settled down in 1829 in Brush Farm, Eastwood, built by Blaxland in about 1820, and the birthplace of the Australian wine industry. He continued his education in Australia at W. T. Cape's school and The King's School. Pastoral squatter Forster became a squatter and took up pastoral holdings near the Clarence River and later on the Burnett River (near Hervey Bay). In 1840, with his uncle Gregory Blaxland Jnr, he led his herds of sheep down from the New England tablelands into the Clarence Valley to set up a sheep station. Due to the high level of Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edward Forster
William Edward Forster, PC, FRS (11 July 18185 April 1886) was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman. His supposed advocacy of the Irish Constabulary's use of lethal force against the National Land League earned him the nickname Buckshot Forster from Irish nationalists. Early life Born to William and Anna Forster, Quaker parents at Bradpole, near Bridport in Dorset, Forster was educated at the Quaker school at Tottenham, where his father's family had long been settled, and on leaving school he was put into business. He declined to enter a brewery and became involved in woollen manufacture in Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire. In 1850 he married Jane Martha, eldest daughter of Dr Thomas Arnold. She was not a Quaker and Forster was formally read out of meeting for marrying her, but the Friends who were commissioned to announce the sentence "shook hands and stayed to luncheon". Forster thereafter ranked himself as a member of the Church of Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mark Forster
William Mark Forster (7 October 1846 – 6 June 1921) was an Australian philanthropist, founder of the Gordon Institute for Boys and City Newsboys' Society. Early life Forster was born at Rothbury, England, the elder son and third child of Luke Forster and his wife Anne, ''née'' Blackett. Forster arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 18 October 1852 on the ''Ellen'' with his parents when he was six years old and was educated at St Luke's School, South Melbourne. On leaving school he was employed by a softgoods merchant and commission agent. Businessman In 1864 Forster began business for himself as a commission agent and later as a general merchant in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, where he conducted business with the Chinese and was much respected and trusted by them. In 1871 he went to New Zealand establishing a saddlery, Forster & Son. He returned three years later went into partnership with his father in a saddlery business in Melbourne. Philanthropist In early 1883 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster Of Lepe
Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster, (31 January 1866 – 15 January 1936) was a British politician who served as the seventh Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1920 to 1925. He had previously been a government minister under Arthur Balfour, H. H. Asquith, and David Lloyd George. Forster was born in Catford, Kent. He attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, and in his youth played first-class cricket – in later life he served a term as president of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Forster was elected to the House of Commons in 1892, representing the Conservative Party. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury under Arthur Balfour from 1902 to 1905, and later Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1915 to 1919. Forster was raised to the peerage in 1919, and appointed Governor-General of Australia the following year. Unlike his predecessor, Ronald Munro Ferguson, he faced no constitutional challenges and had no influence on the political scene. Forster trave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forster (judge)
Sir William Edward Stanley Forster (15 June 1921 – 31 January 1997) was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory holding that position from 1979 to 1985. Before that he was the first (and only) Chief Judge from 1977 to 1979 and Senior Judge from 1971 to 1977, all positions which were effectively the same. Sir William was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 15 June 1921 and, after moving to Adelaide in 1929, attended St Peter's College, Adelaide. Early legal life Forster graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide. He was in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1940 to 1946 and was a Magistrate at the Adelaide Police Court from 1959 to 1961. He was District Registrar of the High Court of Australia from 1966 to 1971 and before that was District Registrar from 1961 to 1966; and was Master of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1966 to 1971 and Deputy Master from 1961 to 1966. A member of the Standing Committee Sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
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-Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
