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# William John McCallien

William John McCallien FRSE FGS OBE (1902-1981) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist and artist. He is known generally as William J. McCallien as an author, a common misconception is that he was also the artist known as W. J. McCallien , this was in fact his father.

## Life

He was born in Tarbert, Argyll in 1902. He was educated locally then went to Glasgow University to study Sciences, where he graduated BSc in 1923.
He began lecturing in Geology soon after graduating and was awarded a doctorate (DSc) in 1930. In 1931 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, George Walter Tyrrell, Robert Alexander Houston and Thomas MacRobert. He won the Society's Neill Prize for the period 1939–1941.
He left Scotland in the mid-1930s to take up the post of Professor of Geology at Ankara University in Turkey. In 1950 he moved to the University of Accra in Ghana. He stayed there until retiral then returned to Scotland.
He died in Helensburgh on 19 January 1981.

## Publications

* The surface features of Kintyre (1929)
* Scottish Gem Stones (1937)
* Late Glacial and Early Post-Glacial Scotland (1937)
* The Geology of Glasgow and District (1938)
* The Structure of South Knapdale
* Vitrification of Arkose
* A Visit to Sanda

## Known Artworks

See etc.
* From Tarbert, Loch Fyne
* Washing Nets, Tarbert
* Skiffs Discharging at Tarbert
* Mallaig
* Fishing Boats pulled up on a Beach
Eventide

## Family

In 1931 he married Catherine Duncan.
# William McLaren (illustrator)

William McLaren (1923–1987) was a Scottish illustrator.

## Life

Born in Ferniegair, Hamilton, McLaren grew up in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland with a crippling handicap that affected his feet. He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath, before going to college in Edinburgh. In 1944 he earned his Diploma and the Highly Commended Post Diploma from Edinburgh College of Art. After graduation and with a bursary from the Andrew Grant Fund he left Scotland and visited Italy and France. Throughout his life he remained a francophile and was fluent in French.
He earned a living as a commercial illustrator working for The Radio Times, The Listener and The Sphere. He is noted for illustrating and designing dust jackets for the popular gardening books by Beverley Nichols. He also painted murals at Wemyss Castle, St Adrian's Church in West Wemyss, Hopetoun House, Hawthornden Castle and Tyninghame House.

## Legacy

In 2009 a documentary film was made by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell about McLaren's life and work entitled 'William McLaren – An Artist Out of Time'. The film was shown at the 2010 Glasgow Film Festival as part of their 'Great Scots' strand before touring Scotland's regional cinemas.
In July 2011 Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery hosted an exhibition called 'New Additions'. The exhibition included works by William McLaren, Anne Redpath and Sir Joseph Noel Paton.
# William Matteuzzi

William Matteuzzi (born 12 December 1957 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian operatic tenor renowned for his impressive vocal range and prominent upper register, reaching a high F (above the tenor high C) in full voice, which enabled him to participate in the recent revival of the tenore contraltino repertoire. he is nicknamed "the King of the high F". He is also admired as a fine musician and elegant vocalist.
He won the Enrico Caruso Singing Competition in 1980, which led him to Teatro alla Scala.
He has sung a wide repertoire ranging from Claudio Monteverdi or Antonio Vivaldi (Orlando furioso) to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Così fan tutte), Vincenzo Bellini (I Puritani and La Sonnambula), Gaetano Donizetti (La fille du régiment) and Giovanni Pacini (L’ultimo giorno di Pompei).
A highly respected Rossini specialist, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1988 as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He has performed Rossini's comic operas La scala di seta, L'occasione fa il ladro, L'italiana in Algeri, La gazza ladra, La Cenerentola, La pietra del paragone, Il viaggio a Reims, Le comte Ory as well as his opere serie Otello, Zelmira, Armida, Ricciardo e Zoraide, Maometto II, Semiramide, etc.
He now mainly dedicates himself to teaching singing and giving master classes in Italy, Germany and Japan, but he has latterly founded an ensemble for recording Monteverdi operas, which has released recordings of L'incoronazione di Poppea and L'Orfeo.
# William McKee (health administrator)

William McKee, CBE (1952–2018) was a former and founding chief executive of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. In 2007 he led the merger of six Trusts to form the Belfast Trust one of the largest in the UK employing 20,000 people with an annual budget of £1 billion. He was a consultant in health and social care strategy and policy and continues to undertake consultancy assignments in the UK and Ireland.
He was born in Belfast, the son of the Margaret and James McKee of Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. He received a BSc from Queen's University Belfast and an MBA from the University of Ulster. In 2006, McKee was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for service to the NHS in Northern Ireland. He was survived by his wife Ursula and two children, Catherine and William.
William McKee was previously chief executive of the Royal Hospitals comprising the Royal Victoria, Royal Maternity, and Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children from 1993 to 2006
# William James Conolly

William James Conolly (died 2 January 1754) was an Irish landowner and Whig politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1727 to 1754 and in the British House of Commons from 1734 to 1754.

## Early life

Conolly was a nephew of William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons from 1715 to 1729, and was the son of Patrick Conolly, originally of County Donegal, younger brother of William. William and Patrick had fled to England from Ireland in 1688, but while William had returned, Patrick remained and married Frances Hewett, one of the children of Neale Hewett and Mary Halford of Dunton Bassett, Leicestershire. There were two children, William and his sister, and they grew up at Dunton Bassett until 1713 when their father died, having recently buried their mother.

## Career

William became cursitor in the Court of Chancery (Ireland) in 1721. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Ballyshannon at a by-election in 1727, after his uncle who had been elected in the 1727 Irish general election earlier in the year decided to continue sitting for County Londonderry instead. In 1729, he succeeded to Castletown, the estate of his uncle, who was said to be the richest man in Ireland. He was appointed to the Irish Privy Council on 3 February 1730.
At the 1734 British general election Conolly was returned as Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh in the interest of his father-in-law Lord Strafford. Although Strafford was a Tory, Conolly considered himself "an incorrigible Whig". He voted consistently with the Government and was returned for Aldeburgh in 1741. He was classed as Old Whig in 1746. At the 1747 British general election he changed seats and was returned as MP for Petersfield instead.

## Marriage and issue

On 28 April 1733, he married Lady Anne Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford and his wife Anne Johnson; and in that year he purchased Stretton Hall, Staffordshire as his seat in England, his uncle's great mansion of Castletown in Kildare still being in the hands of his widowed aunt. The couple had a London home in Grosvenor Square.
He had a son and seven daughters.
* Thomas Conolly, who married Lady Louisa Lennox
* Frances, who married William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
* Katherine, who married Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross;
* Anne, who married George Byng and was the mother of John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford
* Jane, who married the notoriously eccentric landowner and duellist George Robert FitzGerald ("Fighting FitzGerald") in 1770 and had issue. He was hanged for conspiracy to murder in 1786;
* Lucy, unmarried;
* Harriet, who married John Staples and was grandmother of Edward Michael Conolly
* Caroline, who married John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire.
Conolly died on 2 January 1754 leaving an estate of £15,000 per annum. The widowed Lady Conolly moved to Boyle Street, Mayfair, London.
# William Price (Australian politician)

Richard William Price (16 April 1869 – 22 June 1937) was an Australian journalist, politician, and army officer. He was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1909 to 1917, representing the seat of Albany.

## Early life

Price was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, to Jane (née Croatt) and Henry George Price. He emigrated to Australia in 1885, initially living in Brisbane and then finding work in outback Queensland. By 1889, Price was working as an organiser for the General Labourers Union of West Queensland. He moved to Forbes, New South Wales, a few years later, and filled a similar role for the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia. Price came to Western Australia in 1896, during the gold rush, and subsequently founded branches of the Australian Workers' Union at Leonora and Mount Morgans.

## Journalism and politics

Price was working as a journalist by 1903, and the following year began working for the Kalgoorlie Sun. He moved to Perth in 1905, and began writing for Truth, a local newspaper. Price entered parliament at the 1909 Albany by-election, caused by the resignation of Edward Barnett. He had initially been preselected as the Labor candidate for the Division of Swan at the 1910 federal election, but withdrew in order to run at the by-election. Price was re-elected at the 1911 and 1914 state elections, but did not recontest his seat in 1917 due to being on active duty overseas.

## Military career and later life

In July 1915, while still a member of parliament, Price enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He was initially posted to the 28th Battalion, but later transferred to the 47th Battalion. Price was gassed at the Battle of Pozières in 1916, and invalided to England. He spent the rest of the war as a training officer and camp commandant, and was then involved in demobilisation, not being formally discharged until September 1920. Price began working as a journalist after leaving the military, initially working out of London for the Empire Parliamentary Association and later living in Aberavon, Wales. He returned to Western Australia in 1930, and died in Perth in 1937, aged 68.
# William Price (High Sheriff)

William Price (1690 – 4 July 1774) was a Welsh High Sheriff and antiquarian.
Price was a member of the Price family from Rhiwlas, in the parish of Llanfor, near Bala, Wales. He was the grandson of William Price, a Member of Parliament and Royalist colonel during the English Civil War. Price was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating there in 1707. He left Oxford University without taking a degree.
He served as High Sheriff of Merionethshire from 1730 to 1731, and High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire (a county where he owned extensive property) from 1731 to 1732. He was an antiquarian: letters from him about antiquarian remains and the Bala eisteddfod of 1747 are held by the British Museum. Five bards composed englynion in his honour at an eisteddfod in Bala in 1738.
He was probably the William Price of "Rhulace" who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1752 and who resigned in 1771.
He died on 4 July 1774. He had married twice: firstly Mary, daughter of Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bulkeley, Viscount Bulkeley of Baron Hill. He was succeeded by his son, the MP Richard Thelwall Price (1720–1775).
# William Trevelyan Harry

William Trevelyan Harry FRSE FGS (1911–1964) was a British geologist and academic author. He specialised in the geology of Greenland and north-east Canada.

## Life

He was born in Yorkshire in northern England around 1911.
In the Second World War he did military service in Burma, interrupting his university career at Leeds University, where he eventually graduated BSc in 1947. He thereafter immediately began a career as a lecturer in Geology at University College, Dundee. In 1955 he transferred to St Andrews University as a Senior Lecturer.
In 1961 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles Findlay Davidson, James Ernest Richey, James Phemister, William Quarrier Kennedy and Harald Irving Drever.
He died on 20 June 1964.

## Publications

* Mineral Layering in some Granite Intrusions, SW Greenland (1960)
* Gneisses of the Kipawa District, Western Quebec (1961)
* The Nunarssuit Intrusive Complex, South Greenland (1963)
* The Pre-Cambrian Basement of AlGangorssuaq, South Greenland (1964)
* Anorthosite Xenoliths and Plagioclase Megacrysts of South Greenland (1968)

## Family

He married Dorothy May Stowe and had one son, William R Harry.
# William Redding House

William Redding House is a historic house in Mimbres, New Mexico. It was built with adobe in 1893 for William Redding, a farmer. The house is "one of four unaltered historic buildings" in Mimbres. It was designed in the Vernacular New Mexico architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 16, 1988.
It is believed to have been built between 1893 (when farmer and rancher William Redding first paid taxes on the property) and 1902 (when reports about a great flood noted about the Redding ranch). It is significant as a "very good example of the single file plan of the New Mexico Vernacular type".
The house includes an unstuccoed adobe room on its north side used as a garage, believed to be part of the original house. The listing includes the house and a turn-of-the-19th-century era ornamental wire, pipe and cast-iron fence in front.
It was listed on the National Register as part of a 1988 study of historic resources in the Mimbres Valley of Grant County.
# William Reddaway

William Fiddian Reddaway (Middleton, Lancashire 2 August 1872 – 31 January 1949) was an academic and author in the very late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Reddaway was educated at The Leys School and King's College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of King's from 1897; and a Tutor at Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge from 1898 to 1907. He was also University Lecturer in History and Director of Scandinavian Studies; and Censor of Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge from 1907 to 1924.
He was extremely helpful in the admission of Subhas Chandra Bose in Cambridge, and his efforts prevented the loss of a term for Bose due to the delay in his admission. Subhas Bose also consulted him before he resigned from the Indian Civil Service. Reddaway heartily approved of his ideas, although surprised. Agreeing with Bose, he said that he preferred a journalistic career to a monotonous one like the Civil Service.

## Selected publications

* The Monroe Doctrine. The University Press, Cambridge 1898, (online).
* The Monroe Doctrine. The University Press, Cambridge 1898, (online).
* Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York NY etc. 1904, (online).
* Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York NY etc. 1904, (online).
* Introduction to the study of Russian history (= Helps for students of history. No. 25, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London etc. 1920, (online).
* Marshal Pilsudski. Routledge, London 1939.
* Modern European history. A general sketch (1492–1924). Arnold, London 1924.
* as editor: Documents of Catherine the Great. The Correspondence with Voltaire, and the Instruction of 1767 in the English text of 1768. University Press, Cambridge etc. 1931.
* A History of Europe from 1715 to 1814 (= Methuen’s History of medieval and modern Europe. 7, ZDB-ID 1404770-6). Methuen, London 1936.
* Problems of the Baltic (= Current Problems. 2, ZDB-ID 421590-4). University Press, Cambridge etc. 1940.
* A History of Europe from 1610 to 1715 (= Methuen's History of medieval and modern Europe. 6). Methuen, London 1948.
# William Worsley (priest)

William Worsley (1435?−1499), was a dean of St. Paul's cathedral.
He is assumed to have been educated at Cambridge, as he is not mentioned in Wood; he is described as ‘sanctæ theologiæ’ ‘professor,’ but in his epitaph states ‘doctor of laws.’ On 29 April 1449 he was advanced to the prebend of Tachbrook in Lichfield Cathedral, on 30 March 1453 to Norwell Overall in Southwell, and in 1457 to South Cave in York Cathedral. These preferments were apparently conferred on him during his minority by his uncles, for it was not till 20 Sept. 1460 that he was ordained priest. On 19 May 1467 he was moved to the rectory of Eakring, Nottinghamshire. On 28 Sept. 1476 he became archdeacon of Nottingham, and on 22 Jan. 1478−9 he was elected dean of St. Paul's in succession to Thomas Winterbourne; he retained with it the archdeaconry of Nottingham and the prebend of Willesden in St. Paul's, and from 1493 to 1496 was also archdeaconry of Taunton.
Worsley held the deanery throughout the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, but in 1494 he became involved with the revolutionary movement by Perkin Warbeck. He was arrested in November, confessed before a commission of Oyer and terminer, and was found guilty of high treason on the 14th (Rot. Parl. vi. 489b). The lay conspirators were put to death, but Worsley was saved by his order, and on 6 June 1495 he was pardoned (Gairdner, Letters and Papers, ii. 375). In the following October, Parliament passed an act, the Dean of St Paul's (Restitution) Act 1495 (11 Hen. 7. c. 52) restoring him in blood (Statutes of the Realm, ii. 619). He had retained his ecclesiastical preferments, and died in possession of them on 14 August 1499, being buried in St. Paul's Cathedral; his epitaph and a very pessimistic copy of Latin verses are printed by Weever (Funerall Monuments, p. 368; Gough, Sepulchral Mon. ii. 337). Fabyan describes Worsley as ‘a famous doctour and precher’ (Chronicle, p. 685). His will, dated 12 Feb. 1498−9, was proved at Lambeth on 8 Nov. 1499, and at York on 27 March 1500, and is printed in ‘Testamenta Eboracensia,’ iv. 155−6; by it he left money for an obit in St. Paul's.

## Personal

Born probably about 1435, is believed to have been the son of Sir Robert Worsley of Booths in Eccles, Lancashire, and his wife Maude, daughter of Sir John Gerard of Bryn, Lancashire. His brother Robert married Margaret, niece of William Booth and Lawrence Booth, both of them Archbishops of York, to whose influence William owed most of his preferments.
# William Thornton (Queensland politician)

William Thornton (15 June 1817 – 27 June 1884) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council.

## Early life

Thornton was born in Grenville, County Cavan, Ireland in 1817 to Perrott Mee Thornton and his wife Ellen (née Cochrane). After doing his schooling in Dungannon he attended Trinity College, Dublin but left after a short time. Having a boyish passion for the sea, he found work as a Mercantile Marine with the East India Company, which disappointed his father, who had wanted him to become a solicitor.
While working for the company he made a trip to Sydney and back on board a merchantman before the company's charter expired. Thornton returned to Ireland for a short time before once again setting out for Sydney. After working as a public servant for the New South Wales Government, he joined his cousin who was taking stock to South Australia with the journey taking four months. After returning to New South Wales, Thornton became a squatter in the Wellington area.
In 1853 he returned to Ireland only to be back in Australia two years later. Back in Australia, Thornton resumed work as a public servant and was transferred to Moreton Bay as a Collector of Customs for the New South Wales Government. Upon Queensland's separation in 1859, he was Collector of Customs for the Queensland Government and worked in this role till 1882.

## Politics

Thornton was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council on the 26 September 1866. He served for thirteen years before being forced to resign on the 8 September 1879 due to still being a public servant.
Thornton resigned as Collector of Customs in 1882 and was once again appointed to the Council. He served until his death on the 27 June 1884.

## Personal life

In 1842, Thornton married Ellen Buttenshaw at Molong, New South Wales. Thornton died at Kangaroo Point in 1884 and was buried in South Brisbane Cemetery.
# William Turnbull (physician)

William Turnbull (1729? – 2 May 1796) was a Scottish physician.

## Biography

Turnbull was born at Hawick about 1729. He belonged to the family of Turnbull of Bedrule in Roxburghshire. He was educated at the Hawick town school and at the university of Edinburgh, and, afterwards studied at Glasgow. About 1757 he settled at Wooler in Northumberland, and while there was chosen physician of the Bamborough infirmary. By the advice of Sir John Pringle he went to London in 1777, and shortly after was appointed physician to the eastern dispensary. He died in London on 2 May 1796. He was the author of several medical treatises of little importance. A collective edition of his ‘Works,’ with a memoir by his son, William Turnbull, was published in 1805, 12mo. Turnbull contributed the ‘medicinal, chemical, and anatomical’ articles to the ‘New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences’ (London, 1778, fol.).
# William Ziegler Jr.

William J. Ziegler Jr. (July 21, 1891 – March 3, 1958) was an American business executive, philanthropist, polo player, yachtsman, and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
Born William Conrad Brandt in Muscatine, Iowa to the half-brother of William Ziegler who adopted the boy at age 5 and renamed him William Ziegler Jr. While studying at Wadham College, Oxford as a 1910 Rhodes Scholar, he was a non-starting participant at the hammer throw and shot put events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
He graduated from Columbia University and then Harvard University. Inheriting over half of his father's $30 million estate when his father died, he was then president of Royal Baking Powder Company until it merged into Standard Brands in 1929. He was also chairman on many boards: American Maize-Products, Huttig Manufacturing (sash and door company of Muscatine, Iowa), Southworth Management, Realty Administration Corp. He was also president of the Great Island Holding Company and Park Avenue Operating Company (which was an acquisition vehicle for the 55th Street mansion property).
After his mother, Matilda, died, he took over her Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind publishing, American Foundation for the Blind, and other charities.
He was listed as living at his home on Great Island, Noroton, Connecticut in 1917, when he was treated for appendicitis.
He married his first wife, Gladys in 1912, then lived in the William Ziegler House, a New York City mansion at 2 East 63rd Street they had designed by Frederick Sterner in 1919. It still exists.
He and his second wife, Helen Martin Murphy (married 1927), lived in the William and Helen Ziegler House on 55th Street, which he had designed by William Lawrence Bottomley and was built in 1926–1927. It still exists.

## Thoroughbred racing

A successful owner and breeder, among William Ziegler Jr. successful horses, he owned El Chico, the 1938 American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse, and Esposa who was the American Champion Older Female Horse of both 1937 and 1938. Another of his runners, Bounding Home, won the 1944 Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series.
Ziegler Jr. purchased the Burrland Farm facility in Middleburg, Virginia in 1926 for $70,000. He then had Bottomley design and build a mansion on it by 1927. He attempted to sell Burrland in 1938, but it didn't sell until Eleonora Sears purchased it in 1955.
On his death in 1958 at the 55th Street mansion, Helen Keller wrote a tribute about him in the New York Times. Keller called his death an "irreparable loss" to the American Foundation for the Blind.