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# William Cochrane

William Cochrane is the name of:
* William Cochrane (MP) (died 1717), Scottish MP
* William Arthur Cochrane (1926–2017), Canadian physician, pediatrician, academic, and medical executive
* William Avery Cochrane (1842–1929), American politician, soldier and teacher
* William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald (1605–1685), Earl of Dundonald
* William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald, Earl of Dundonald
* William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald, Earl of Dundonald
* William Cochrane, 7th Earl of Dundonald, Earl of Dundonald
* William Cochrane, Lord Cochrane from Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton
* William J. Cochrane (1873–1940), British surveyor and philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1923
# William Brindle

William Brindle (24 May 1853 – 16 September 1900) was an English footballer who played his club football at left-back for Darwen and Blackburn Olympic. He made two appearances for England in 1880, scoring once. He was previously erroneously referred to as Thomas Brindle in various sources.

## Career

Brindle was born in Darwen, Lancashire and played junior football in the local area before signing with his local club, who were then one of the major forces in the game. He helped them to win the Lancashire Cup in its inaugural season of 1879-80 defeating Blackburn Rovers 3–0 in the final.
In March 1880 he became the first Darwen F.C. player to represent England. Having successfully negotiated his way through a North v South trial match at the Oval on 6 March, he made his debut in a friendly game against Scotland, played at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 13 March 1880. The match ended in a 5–4 victory for the Scots (the most goals England have ever scored in a game and lost). Two of England's goals came from Charlie Bambridge, whereas Scotland's scorers included a hat-trick from George Ker.
Two days later, he played his second (and last) England match, when they met Wales at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham. Six players made their England debut in this match which England won 3–2 with two goals scored by Francis Sparks of Clapham Rovers. Brindle scored the opening goal in the 50th minute, but had to leave the game 15 minutes later due to injury, and England played on with ten men. He was the first full-back to score a goal for England from open play, which caused a small sensation at the time, as defenders rarely ventured into the opponents' half of the field. Doubt has been cast on the attribution of the goal to Brindle; a Welsh newspaper report of the time claims that this was an own goal by goalkeeper, Harry Hibbott.
In 1881, he was a member of the Darwen team which reached the FA Cup semi-finals, when they were beaten 4–1 by the eventual winners the Old Carthusians. In the book "An English football Internationals Who's Who" written by Douglas Lamming, he describes the Darwen left full-back as: "a powerful strong kicking back and a real workhorse".
During the mid-1880s, he left Darwen and moved to Blackburn Olympic.
# Willi Schneider

Willi Schneider (1903 – 1971), brother of Rudi Schneider, was an Austrian medium exposed as a fraud.
His physical mediumship was investigated by notable psychical researchers such as Harry Price, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Eric Dingwall, the Research Officer of the Society for Psychical Research. Willi, like his brother Rudi, was also caught cheating in the séance room. Warren Vinton, who investigated Rudi, also attended sittings with Willi in 1926. According to Vinton there was movement of some curtains and a sheet of paper which were performed by Willi's blowing.
Author Roy Stemman documented a picture of Willi in a séance with a "faked cloth phantom".
# William Beckford

William Beckford may refer to:
* William Beckford (politician) (1709–1770), Jamaican-born politician and planter
* William Beckford (novelist) (1760–1844), English novelist, art critic, planter and politician
* William Beckford of Somerley (1744–1799), Jamaican-born planter and writer
# William Mace

William Mace (died 1767) was an English Gresham Professor of Law, from 1744, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Mace is known also for philosophical interests, where he has been considered a follower of George Berkeley, and a thinker who anticipated David Hume. He was a correspondent of Francis Hutcheson. His views on the mind-body problem, Hutcheson reports, were in circulation in Dublin. He also was in touch with John Colson, and associated with Ephraim Chambers.
Mace has frequently been confused with Daniel Mace, the real author of the anonymous New Testament in Greek and English of 1729.
# William H. Carpenter (1821–1885)

William Henry Carpenter (1821–1885), was U.S. Consul to Fuzhou, China, during the American Civil War years. He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln in March, 1861, and recalled by President Andrew Johnson in December, 1865.
Prior to his appointment to the consulship, Carpenter was proprietor of a livery stable in his hometown of Auburn, Cayuga, New York and was active in local civic matters, serving as postmaster of Fleming village in the early 1850s, state commissioner for development of the salt springs at Montezuma, New York from 1858, on the first board of directors for the city waterworks company from 1859, and as a founding member of the Cayuga County Historical Society in 1877. He was sometimes styled "Colonel", a rank-equivalent title from his service as a consul.
Carpenter also was active in state politics, identifying with the Republican Party in its formative years, and supporting New York Governor William H. Seward, 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, who became a lifelong friend. After his service in China, Carpenter retired to Auburn, where he lived until his death at the age of 64, on Sunday, October 25, 1885.

## Personal

Carpenter was a son of Erastus and Mary (née Taylor) Carpenter, born in 1821 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, where his father was an early merchant. He married Sevira Wethey in 1848, with whom he had two children before her untimely death in 1864.
# William James Zimpel

William James Zimpel (25 February 1859 – 3 December 1923) was a Hungarian-born Australian furniture manufacturer, furniture merchant and local government councillor who founded the Australian furniture company Zimpels.

## Early life and career

Zimpel was born on 25 February 1859 in Pesth, Hungary, to David Zimpel and his wife Anna. The family moved to Constantinople, Turkey when Zimpel was 5; following the death of his parents, Zimpel emigrated to London with his brother Adolf and his sister Klara. Having been exposed to the furniture industry while in the Ottoman Empire, Zimpel found employment as an art furniture manufacturer under John Stringer. In 1884, Zimpel moved to Perth where he was selected to work in John Grave's Federal Furniture Factory. On 2 February 1886, he married Frances Nellie Harland at St George's Anglican Cathedral in Perth. They had eight children. Zimpels later set up his own wholesale and retail furniture business which became the largest in Western Australia with some one hundred workers in its employ.

## Later years

Zimpel testified before a couple of legislative committees in 1893 and 1899 and became a local municipal councillor in Western Australia. He died on 3 December 1923 in Cottesloe and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. His son, Cecil Edward William, took over was Zimpels' managing director; in 1981, Parrys Esplanade Limited acquired Zimpels.
# William LeFanu

William Richard LeFanu FSA (9 July 1904 – 1 April 1995) was an Irish librarian. He was the husband of composer Elizabeth Maconchy.

## Life

LeFanu was born in Ireland, the son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu and his wife Florence Sophia Mabel (née Sullivan). He was educated in England at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
In 1930, he married the composer Elizabeth Maconchy (later Dame Elizabeth Maconchy); they had two daughters, Elizabeth Anna (known as Anna, born 1939) and Nicola LeFanu (born 1947).
LeFanu worked for almost forty years as librarian at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
# William Etty (architect)

William Etty (c. 1675 – 1734) was an English architect and craftsman, best known for designing Holy Trinity Church, Leeds and (probably) Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland.

## Life and work

He was the son of John Etty of York (c. 1634 – 1708), also an architect and craftsman, to whom there is a monument in All Saints', North Street. William Etty's first known building was the Moot Hall, Leeds (1710, demolished in 1825). Holy Trinity, Sunderland, followed in 1719 and Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, in 1722–7 (the steeple is a later addition by R D Chantrell). He also worked at John Vanbrugh's Castle Howard from 1701 onwards and at Seaton Delaval Hall from 1719.
In York, he designed the reredos in St Michael le Belfrey in 1712, and may have been responsible for the Red House, Duncombe Place, and the frontage of the Mansion House.
Etty also contributed work to a number of country houses and estates, notably Temple Newsam House, Barrowby Hall (Austhorpe), Whixley Hall, Brocklesby Park, Holme Hall at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Scriven Park (Knaresborough), and Aldby Park.
In later life, he was clerk of works at Colen Campbell's Newby Park (Baldersby Park) in 1720–1, and, from 1729 until his death, on the mausoleum at Castle Howard designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. In 1727, he built Stamford Bridge, a stone bridge across the River Derwent at Stamford Bridge.
Etty died in 1734, and Hawksmoor recommended that his son, John Etty (born in 1705), should succeed him at Castle Howard. John, the last of the Etty dynasty, died in 1738.
# William Etheridge

William Etheridge (baptised 3 January 1708 – 3 October 1776) was an English civil engineer and architect, best known for his work on several wooden bridges of mathematical design.

## Biography

William Etheridge was born around 1708 in a small village of Fressingfield, Suffolk, England. His parents were Charles Etheridge and Elizabeth Brett. He came from a long line of carpenters from Fressingfield and Stradbroke.
From 1744–1749, he worked on the supporting wooden structures during the construction of the Westminster Bridge, first as a foreman and then as the master carpenter.
Around 1748, he designed Old Walton Bridge.
Sometime before 1750, he designed the Old Bridge at Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
In 1752, George Semple consulted Etheridge on the rebuilding of Essex Bridge in Dublin.
Etheridge died on the 3 October 1776 in Westminster.

## Old Walton Bridge

In 1747, businessman and plantation owner Samuel Dicker moved from Jamaica to a newly acquired estate in Mount Felix near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. In order to facilitate easier access to his new home, he lobbied for an Act of Parliament, the Walton-Shepperton Bridge (Building and Tolls) Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 22) granting him rights to build a bridge and collect tolls on the spot.
The resulting latticework wooden bridge, known as Old Walton Bridge was designed by William Etheridge and built by Mr White of Weybridge between 1748 and 1750. When it opened, its central span of 130 feet was the longest in Britain (succeeded in 1756 by William Edwards's 140 feet long single-arch Pontypridd Bridge). At the time, it was widely admired for its "strength, contrivance and remarkable great arch" and was even dubbed "the most beautiful wooden arch in the world" by one observer.
The bridge was depicted by contemporary painters, most famously in two pictures by Canaletto.
Despite Dicker's initial projections of 200 years lifetime, a 1778 survey found the bridge to be severely decayed. It was soon demolished and replaced by a brick-and-stone version built in 1783–1786.

## Mathematical Bridge

The Mathematical Bridge is the popular name of a wooden footbridge in central Cambridge. It bridges the River Cam, connecting two parts of Queens' College, Cambridge. The bridge was designed by Etheridge and built by James Essex in 1749.

## Old Coleraine Bridge

Sometime before 1750, Etheridge designed the Old Bridge over River Bann at Coleraine, Northern Ireland. It was a timber construction on masonry piers, replacing an earlier bridge damaged in 1732.
# William Ettrick

William Ettrick (1651 – 5 December 1716) was an English politician who represented the constituencies of Poole and Christchurch in the House of Commons of England.
He was a Member of Parliament at the time of the Acts of Union 1707 and sat in the First Parliament of Great Britain.

## Life

He sat in both the House of Commons of England and the House of Commons of Great Britain.

## Family

He was the son of MP Anthony Ettrick.
# William Nassau de Zuylestein, 2nd Earl of Rochford

William Nassau de Zuylestein, 2nd Earl of Rochford (1682 – 27 July 1710), styled Viscount Tunbridge from 1695 to 1709, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1705 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 until 1709 when he succeeded to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He was killed in battle.
William Nassau de Zuylestein was baptized on 9 July 1682, the eldest son of William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 1st Earl of Rochford, and his wife Jane Wroth, daughter of Sir Henry Wroth of Durrants, Enfield, Middlesex.
Tunbridge was an aide-de-camp to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in Flanders in 1704, and was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in the 32nd Regiment of Foot in January 1706. On 12 April, he received a commission as the colonel of a new regiment of foot, part of the Irish army, and on 1 February 1707, he was appointed colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Dragoons (succeeding the late Lord Cutts), which embarked for Spain in 1708.
Tunbridge was returned for the Whig party as an Irish Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City in 1705. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Steyning at the 1708 British general election. In January 1709, he succeeded his father as Earl of Rochford, and vacated his seat in the House of Commons to sit in the House of Lords. He was commissioned a brigadier general in January 1710.
Rochford was killed on 27 July 1710 at the Battle of Almenar while leading his regiment, aged 28. He was succeeded by his brother Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of Rochford.
# William McFadzean, Baron McFadzean

William Hunter McFadzean, Baron McFadzean, KT (17 December 1903 – 14 January 1996) was a British businessman and member of the House of Lords.
Born at Stranraer, McFadzean was educated at Glasgow High School and read accountancy at Glasgow University. He joined the firm of McLay, McAllister and McGibbon in 1922 and moved to Chalmers, Wade & Company in 1927. In 1932 he joined British Insulated Cables at Liverpool, rising to be executive manager in 1942. Following a post-war merger McFadzean became deputy chairman in 1947, and managing director from 1954 to 1961, of British Insulated Callender's Cables. He was also president of the company from 1954 to 1973. He became a friend of Harold Wilson in whose Huyton constituency the company was a major employer.
He was knighted in 1960, made a life peer as Baron McFadzean, of Woldingham in the County of Surrey on 24 June 1966, and a Knight of the Thistle in 1976. A committed pro-European, he made only one speech in the House of Lords, during the debate on Britain's entry into the European Community on 26 July 1971.
McFadzean married Eileen Gordon in 1933 and had a son, a daughter and one adopted daughter who prededeceased him. He died at Bath.
Coat of arms of William McFadzean, Baron McFadzean :
* CrestA lion's gamb Gules grasping a caduceus Or the serpents Vert within an orle of wild flowers Proper.
* EscutcheonVert a saltire Argent between in chief a thistle slipped and leaved in base a thunderbolt and in fess two garbs Or banded Gules.
* SupportersOn either side a lion Vert supporting a caduceus Or the serpents Vert.
* MottoEndeavour
# William Kennedy (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy GCB (4 March 1838 – 9 October 1916) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

## Biography

Born in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies where his father John Kennedy was the British chargé d'affaires, Kennedy joined the Royal Navy in 1851 and served with the Naval Brigade during the Crimean War. He was present at the bombardment of Canton in 1856, at the Battle of Fatshan Creek in 1857 and at the attack on the Peiho Forts in 1858 during the Second Opium War.
As a lieutenant he next was appointed to the sloop Wasp and on the journey to Cape of Good Hope he jumped overboard to rescue a man that had fallen in; he was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Humane Society. He later sailed on the Narcissus and Victoria, the Mediterranean flagship.
Promoted to commander in 1867, he commanded the Vestal on the North American station and then the Reindeer in the Pacific. From 1879 to 1881 he commanded the Druid and was senior officer on the Newfoundland coast. He then commanded a coast-guard ship at Queensferry and then on to the Ruby as senior officer on the south-east coast of South America. In 1889 he was promoted to rear-admiral and from 1892 to 1895 and was Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies. Promoted to vice-admiral in 1896 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1900. He was promoted to Admiral 16 June 1901 and retired in November 1901. He was also an accomplished author who wrote an extensive autobiography and other books.

## Family life

Kennedy married Edith Louisa Stopford in Daventry in 1868; they had one daughter Alice Emily Kennedy. His brothers included Sir John Gordon Kennedy KCMG, who became an eminent diplomat, and Gilbert George Kennedy who played for the Scottish XI in the second international football match against England.

## Honours and awards

* 22 June 1897 – To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria Vice-Admiral William Robert Kennedy is appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
* 19 June 1911 – On the occasion of the Coronation of King George V, Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy, KCB, is promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

## Works

* Sporting Adventures in the Pacific, Whilst in Command of the Reindeer (1876)
* Sport, Travel, and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies (1885)
* Sporting Sketches in South America (1892)
* Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in the Royal Navy (1900)
* Sport in the Navy and Naval Yarns (1902)
# William Kennedy (cricketer)

William Kennedy (1853 – 24 August 1889) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in five first-class matches for Wellington from 1877 to 1884.
# William Raven

William Raven (1756–1814) was an English master mariner, naval officer and merchant. He commanded the whaler and sealing vessel Britannia and the naval store ship HMS Buffalo in Australian and New Zealand waters from 1792 until 1799. While in command of Britannia under contract to the British East India Company, he mapped the Loyalty Islands of Maré, Lifou, Tiga and Ouvéa between August 1793 and May 1796.
Raven was granted 100 acres (40 ha) of land in the vicinity of Tennyson Point, New South Wales in 1795, plus another 285 acres (115 ha) in 1799. The grant was known as Grove Farm. These Eastern Farms, now Kissing Point, properties were managed for him by the brewer James Squire of Kissing Point until Squire's death in 1822. The tip of the peninsula into the Parramatta River at Tennyson Point is now called Raven Point.
# William Mogford Hamlet

William Mogford Hamlet (20 August 1850 – 18 November 1931) chemist, bushwalker and pedestrian, was born on 20 August 1850 at Portsmouth, England, elder son of William Hamlett, stay maker, and his wife Rebecca, née Mogkford. He later modified the spelling of both his middle name and surname.
Hamlet was educated at a private school in Bristol where he gained some knowledge of chemistry and electricity. He also visited the laboratories of scientists which strengthened his interest in the subjects.
He was apprenticed to a shipping firm in Bristol. However, he continued his scientific studies and attended the Bristol trade and mining school in the evenings, where he received the Queen's medal for inorganic chemistry. He gained a scholarship, which enabled him to proceed to the Royal College of Chemistry, where he studied under Sir Edward Frankland, After an appointment as demonstrator of chemistry at the Bristol Medical School, he entered into a contract with the Bristol agents of the Peruvian Government to analyse the consignments of natural Peruvian guano, then imported from the Chincha Islands and Guañape Islands.
Hamlet next received an appointment as official public analyst for the town of Kings Lynn and later fitted up a research laboratory for a large London brewery. He proceeded to the West Indies as chemist and assayer for a gold-mining company, however, he was obliged to return to England owing to illness.
He was advised to proceed to Australia for health reasons, and arrived in Sydney on 14 February 1884 where he was employed as a lecturer in chemistry for the Department of Education (New South Wales) and later as Assistant to the Government Analyst. In 1887, he was appointed Government analyst of New South Wales and retained the role until his retirement in 1915.
Hamlet was a member of the following bodies:
On 19 April 1887 Hamlet married English-born Ada Murray. They had five children. The family lived at Mosman, New South Wales and later at Glenbrook, New South Wales.
Hamlet was a keen recreational walker. In 1895 he was a co-founder of the Warragamba Walking Club, of which his friends Professor John Le Gay Brereton and Henry J. Tompkins were also members. In 1908, 1912 and 1914 he undertook three walking tours along the east coast of Australia. Accounts of these walks appeared under the title, "Pictures of Travel," in The Sydney Morning Herald, during 1908, 1912 and 1914.
Hamlet was a small man, with a mustache and beard. He was widely read and was an accomplished organist.
William Mogford Hamlet died at his residence, "Glendowan," Glenbrook, on 18 November 1931 at the age of 81 years, leaving a widow and three children.
# William Lunn

William Lunn may refer to:
* William Lunn (politician) (1872–1942), English Labour Party politician
* William Lunn (educator) (1796–1886), Canadian educator, businessman, and politician
* William Lunn (rugby union) (1926–1996), New Zealand rugby union player
* William Lunn (freestyle skier) (fl. 2010s) in FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2011 – Men's ski cross
* William Lunn (priest) (died 1747), Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech
# William Rushworth

William Rushworth may refer to:
* William Rushworth (cricketer) (1914–1966), English cricketer
* William Rushworth (trade unionist) (1879–1929), English trade union leader
* William Rushworth (organ builder) (1807–?), English organ builder