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# William Bliss Sanders

William Bliss Sanders (9 February 1841 – 28 March 1896) was an architect based in Nottingham.

## History

He was born on 9 February 1841, the son of William Wilkins Sanders and Martha Bliss. He established himself as an architect in the early 1870s with offices on Wheeler Gate in Nottingham. On 17 September 1874, he married Florence Bellinger Skottowe Morris, daughter of Beverley Robinson Morris of York at St Matthew's Church, Talbot Street, Nottingham.
In 1879 he was appointed architect to The Imperial Hydropathic Institution Limited, which had taken over the Binns’ Hotel, Harrogate to improve and develop the Hydropathic facilities available.
In 1883 he published a book with the title Half-timbered houses and carved oak furniture of the 16th and 17th centuries. It has an introduction by John Ruskin.
In 1884 he was appointed a surveyor to the Diocese of Southwell.
He died at 2 Cathcart Road, London on 28 March 1896 and was buried in Burnham Cemetery on 1 April 1896 leaving an estate valued at £1,534 11s 6d.

## Works

* School, Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire 1871 (now the village hall)
* Cemetery Chapel, New Annesley 1872
* Pleasley School, Mansfield 1875
* General Hospital, London Road, Newark 1879–81
* Shire Hall, High Pavement, Nottingham 1875–76 enlargement of the Crown Court with new facade.
* Lowdham School 1881
* Northgate Brewery, Newark 1882 Brewhouse for Richard Warwick and Sons
* Northgate Brewery, Newark 1890 Offices for Warwicks and Richardsons Ltd.
* The Colony, Burnham, Somerset 1892 alterations and additions

## Publications

* Bliss Sanders, William (1883). Half-timbered houses and carved oak furniture of the 16th and 17th centuries. London: Bernard Quarich.
# William Colclough

William Colclough (died c. 1414), of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and Calverhall, Shropshire, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Newcastle-under-Lyme in November 1384, 1385, 1386, January 1390, 1395 and January 1397.
# William Crowe (Dean of Clonfert)

William Crowe (born 1693) was a Church of Ireland priest in Ireland.
Crowe was born in County Limerick and educated at Trinity College Dublin. The sacrist of Clonfert Cathedral, he was Archdeacon of Clonfert from April 1745 to August 1745; and Dean of Clonfert from then until his resignation in 1766.
# William Brann

William Brann may refer to:
* William Brann (cricketer) (1899–1953), South African cricketer
* William Cowper Brann (1855–1898), American journalist
* William L. Brann (c. 1877–1951), American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner
# William Douglas, 2nd Lord Mordington

William Douglas, 2nd Lord Mordington (27 September 1626 – after 1671) was the eldest son and heir of Sir James Douglas, 1st Lord Mordington (died 1656) by his spouse Anne, daughter of Lawrence Oliphant, 5th Lord Oliphant.
In the first parliament of King Charles II in Edinburgh in January 1661, a protest was lodged by Lord Mordington and the Earl of Hartfell on behalf of the young Earl of Angus (who became the 2nd Marquess of Douglas), that his absence (due to being under-age) should not prejudice his hereditary claim to the first vote in Parliament, to leading the van in battle, and to carrying the Crown at the riding of Parliament. Two Dukes, Hamilton and Lennox, challenged this claim, but it was confirmed by an Order of the Privy Council in 1669.
This Lord Mordington was responsible for the rebuild of the wall and stone entrance to the burial vault containing Black Agnes.
The 2nd Lord Mordington appears to have been in debt, doubtless due to the prevailing wartime scenario in Scotland, and the disruption to agriculture, and there are a great many papers in the National Archives of Scotland in this respect. An example (GD206/1/47) is a Great Seal charter of confirmation of a bond, dated 23 September 1667, by William, Lord Mordingtoun, to William Dowglas, advocate, for £2000 Scots and an annual rent of £120 Scots from the lands and barony of Chirnside and teinds thereof in the parish of Chirnsyde and sheriffdom of Berwick.
Confirmation in the register is dated 7 July 1671, by which time Lord Mordington is thought to have died.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Sempill, 5th Lord Sempill, and had the following issue:
* James Douglas, 3rd Lord Mordington (b.1651), his son and heir.
* William (b.1653).
* Lewis (d. 7 July 1682, Westminster, London, England).
* Francis (b.1655).
* Anne, married c1690 Patrick Porterfield in Comiston.
# William F. Aldinger III

William F. Aldinger III (born June 25, 1947) is an American businessman.
Aldinger served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Capmark (now Ally Financial) from June 2006 to December 2008. He has served as Consultant of Capmark since December 2008.

## Background
### Education

Aldinger was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Baruch College in 1969 and Brooklyn Law School, where he received his J.D. degree, in 1975. He was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from Baruch in 2005. He is a Member of the New York Bar.

### Career

Aldinger served at U.S. Trust Company, New York from 1969 to 1975, and Citibank, New York from 1975 to 1986. In 1986, he joined Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, as executive vice president of its private banking group, and in 1992, he was named vice chairman.
Aldinger served with HSBC for 11 years until April 2005. He joined HSBC Finance Corporation (formerly Household International, Inc.) in September 1994, and served as its President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer from May 1996 to April 2005. Aldinger served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of HSBC North America Holdings Inc. from January 2004 to April 2005. He served as a Member of Management Board at HSBC Holdings plc until April 2005. He served as Chairman HSBC North America Holdings Inc. from January 2004 to April 2005. He served as Chairman of the Board of HSBC USA Inc. since January 2004 and HSBC Bank USA NA from January 2004 to April 2005. He served as the Chairman of HSBC Bank Canada.
Aldinger served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Capmark (now Ally Financial) from June 2006 to December 2008. He has served as Consultant of Capmark since December 2008.

### Directorships

Aldinger serves as a Member of the Boards of Trustees of Northwestern University and Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. He serves as a Director of the combined Board of Children's Memorial Medical Center/Children's Memorial Hospital and the Children's Memorial Foundation, and as a Member of the Board of Directors of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. He served as a Director of Illinois Tool Works Inc. from 1998 to May 2010, of Capmark Financial Group Inc. from June 2006 to December 2008, and of HSBC Bank Canada. He served as an Executive Director of HSBC Holdings PLC from April 2003 to April 2005. He served as a Director of HSBC Financial Corporation Limited until April 2005, and as a Director of HSBC USA Inc. and HSBC Bank USA NA from October 2003 to April 2005, of AT&T Corp. from July 2003 to November 2005, of HSBC Finance Corp. from September 1994 to April 2005, of HSBC North America Holdings Inc. until April 2005, and of the Board of Directors of Stone Container Corp.
He has been Chairman of Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago since May 1996. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Capmark (now Ally Financial) from March 2008 to December 2008.

### Honors

He was inducted into Junior Achievement's Chicago Business Hall of Fame in 2002; was awarded Baruch University's Distinguished Alumnus Award and the United Negro College Fund's Harold H. Hines award in 2004.
# William Gardner (sailor)

William Gardner (born c. 1832, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.

## Background

Born in about 1832 in Ireland, Gardner immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the U.S. Navy. He served during the Civil War as a seaman on the USS Galena. At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he "behaved with conspicuous coolness" despite heavy fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864. He later obtained the rank of ship's cook.
Gardner's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
   As seaman on board the U.S.S. Galena in the engagement at Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Serving gallantly during this fierce battle which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram Tennessee and the damaging of Fort Morgan. Gardner behaved with conspicuous coolness under the fire of the enemy.
# William Gardner (surgeon)

William Gardner (c.1846 – 7 April 1897) was a surgeon in the British colonies of South Australia and Victoria.

## Early life and education

William Forrest Gardner was born in Birkenhead, England, in c.1846, the eldest son of (Independent Presbyterian) Rev. John Gardner and his wife Catherine Gardner, née Forrest.
The Rev. Dr. Gardner, wife, servant and three children arrived in South Australia aboard Condor in March 1850 after accepting a call to take over the newly erected Chalmers Church (now Scots Church) on North Terrace, Adelaide, and served that congregation with distinction until 1868, when he accepted a call to Launceston Tasmania (which appointment got off to a bad start, then deteriorated and ended in bitter hostility). Gardner was educated at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, and entered the English and Scottish Bank, where he worked for several years, before leaving to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, where he had a brilliant scholastic career, then proceeded to Glasgow University, where he studied hydatids for his thesis, which won for him a gold medal as well as his MD.

## Career

Gardner returned to Adelaide, where in 1875 he was appointed Junior House Surgeon under Dr. J. Davies Thomas at the Adelaide Hospital, then succeeded him as Senior House Surgeon. When he resigned to enter private practice, he was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, and gained a reputation for his skill as a surgeon, perhaps second only to Mr. Fitzgerald of Melbourne. His assistant for many years was Dr. Anstey Giles.
Both Giles and Gardner were associated with the Private Hospital, Wakefield Street, the first training hospital for nurses in the state.
He received a call from Melbourne to perform a very difficult operation — removal of a cancerous larynx — which had ended in the death of Emperor Frederick of Germany, but in this case, a Mr. Heymanson, successfully.
In 1892 Gardner accepted an appointment in Melbourne.

### Professional appointments

Gardner was President of the South Australian Branch of the British Medical Association from 1883 to 1884, Honorary Surgeon at Adelaide Hospital, and Member of the Board of Management of the Adelaide Hospital for many years.
He was elected President of the Intercolonial Medical Congress in Sydney, 1893.

## Later life and death

In 1896 he left for England and the Continent, partly for his health and partly for continuation of his studies, and was returning to Melbourne, when he succumbed to a paralytic stroke in Naples, Italy, and died shortly afterwards, on 7 April 1897.

## Family

Gardner married Louisa Moore (26 Feb 1859 – 10 May 1940) on 30 March 1880. She was the elder daughter of Robert Waters Moore, M.R.C.S. (1819 – 6 December 1884), former Colonial Surgeon. They had no children.
# William H. Phelps Jr.

William Henry Phelps Jr. (December 25, 1902 – August 13, 1988) was a Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.

## Early life

He was born in San Antonio de Maturín, a town located in Monagas, Venezuela. Along with his father, William Henry Phelps, he founded the first commercial radio station in Venezuela, 1 Broadcasting Caracas.

## Career

After finishing his studies at Lawrenceville School and getting a BSc in 1926 from Princeton University, he published over 78 books on the birds of Venezuela with his wife Katherine Deery Phelps, in which they described their discovery of more than 200 new species. Together they organized about 100 expeditions that helped collect over 1,000 species of birds. A direct result of his research was the creation of the Venezuelan Museum of Ornithology with one of the most important libraries and collections in South America. In recognition of his research the University of Exeter created a fellowship in his honor to fund Venezuelan graduate students interested in zoology. In 1953 he founded one of the most important Venezuelan television stations, Radio Caracas Televisión, and served as its president for 34 years. He died in the city of Caracas.

## Works

* Las aves de Perijá Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1944
* Resumen de las colecciones ornitológicas en Venezuela Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1945
* Contribución del Dr. Frank M. Chapman à la ornitología venezolana Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1946
* Descripción de cuatro aves nuevas de los cerros Paraque y Ptri-Tepui y notas sobre Bubulcus ibis, Myioborus cardonal y Platycichla leuocops Caracas: Casa de Especialidades, 1946
* Descripción de seis aves nuevas de Venezuela y notas sobre veinticuatro adiciones à la avifauna del Brasil Caracas: Tipografía La Nación, 1948
* Notas sobre aves venezolanas Caracas: Tipografía El Compás, 1948
* Las aves de Bonaire Caracas: Tipografía La Nación, 1951
* Las aves de las islas Los Roques y Las Aves y descripción de un nuevo canario de mangle Caracas: Tipografía La Nación, 1951
* El posible hundimiento parcial de isla de Aves Caracas: Litografía del Comercio, 1953
* Las aves de la isla de Patos, con algunos documentos sobre la historia y la geología de la isla Caracas: Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales, 1958
* La aves de la isla La Orchila Caracas: Editorial Sucre, 1959
* Cuarenta y nueve aves nuevas para la avifauna del cerro Uei-Tepui (Cerro del Sol) Caracas: Editorial Sucre, 1962
* Lista de las aves de Venezuela con su distribución 2nd ed. Caracas: Editorial Sucre, 1963
* (with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee) A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela Princeton University Press : 1978. ISBN 0-691-08205-7
* (with Ramón Aveledo Ostos) Dos nuevas subespecies de aves (Troglodytidae, Fringillidae) del cerro Marahuaca, territorio Amazonas Caracas Editorial Sucre, 1984
* (with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee) Una guía de las aves de Venezuela 2nd ed. Caracas: Ex Libris, 1993.
# William England (priest)

William England (26 August 1767 in Blandford Forum – 15 November 1834 in West Stafford) was a Church of England clergyman, Archdeacon of Dorset from 1815 to 1835.
Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he was Rector of Great Yeldham, Essex from 1782 to 1804. He was Rector of Winterborne Came, Dorset from 1804 to 1820, with St Germaine and Ower Moigne from 1808 to 1820. From 1820 until his death in 1835 he was Rector of Ower Moigne and West Stafford with Frome Billet. He was at St Andrew, West Stafford for over fifty years.
# William Gerard Power

William Gerard Power (April 19, 1882 – July 8, 1940) was a Canadian politician.
Born in the parish of Sillery, Quebec, the son of William Power and Susan Winifred Rockett, Power was educated at the Commercial Academy of Quebec and the College Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal . A lumber merchant, he joined W & J Sharples in 1897, becoming its president in 1921, until 1929. A partner in the River Ouelle Pulp & Lumber Company. Named to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1923 for the division of Stadacona as a Liberal. He resigned on July 25, 1934, to become a member of the Quebec Liquor Commission.
His brother, Charles Gavan Power, was an MP and senator; another brother, Joe Power, was a professional ice hockey player and member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec; yet another brother, James Power, was a professional ice hockey player. His great-nephew Lawrence Cannon was a Conservative MP and cabinet minister. His son Col. Douglas Haig Power was a member of the Canadian Forces and led the evacuation of Canadian UNEF forces from Gaza in 1967.
# William Joseph Still

William Joseph Still was an English engineer. He was born at Reigate on 17 August 1870. In 1884, he went to Canada to work for a firm of electric vehicle manufacturers. In 1894, he returned to England, where he invented a double-acting diesel-steam engine in which waste heat from the cylinder jacket and the exhaust was used to produce steam to assist the diesel engine. This is covered by U.S. patent 1230617 of 1917. Still also invented the Still heat-transmitting tube which was used in refrigeration plant.

## The Still engine

The Still engine was used experimentally for stationary, marine and locomotive applications. The best-known application was the Kitson-Still locomotive of 1926 which was tried out on the London and North Eastern Railway
The Still engine gave an increase in thermal efficiency over an ordinary diesel engine but was not a long-term success because of the added complexity of the steam system.

## Patents

Still obtained a large number of British, Canadian and U.S. patents. Some examples follow:
* GB191317862, Improvements in means for injecting fuel into the cylinders of internal-combustion engines
* CA49886, Rectifier for electrical currents
* US547043, Rectifier for electrical currents
* US1171899, Manufacture of gilled tubular apparatus
In February 1920 Still (with his engineering collaborator Francis Acland) sold his steam-diesel engine patents to the Still Engine Company Limited, a company floated on the London Stock Exchange to exploit his invention, for £10,000 (equivalent to £560,000 in 2023). The prospectus claimed that shipbuilders Dennys of Glasgow, Armstrong Whitworth of Newcastle, ACL of Nantes and Scotts of Greenock (with others under negotiation, including Nobel frères of Sweden) had taken licences to produce marine versions of Still's engine; of these only Scotts is known to have placed it into production.
# William Goldberg (diamond dealer)

William Goldberg (March 19, 1925 – October 20, 2003) was an American diamond dealer and the founder of the William Goldberg Diamond Corporation.
Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He started cutting diamonds in 1948, but he found that his aptitude lay with buying and selling diamonds rather than cutting them. In 1952, he founded Goldberg & Weiss with diamond cutter Irving Weiss. In 1973, he formed the William Goldberg Diamond Corporation, located on 48th Street in New York City's Diamond District. In 1978, he became president of the New York Diamond Dealers Club and served three terms. He traded well known diamonds including the Queen of Holland diamond, the Premier Rose diamond, the Red Shield diamond, and the Pumpkin diamond.
He died of pancreatic cancer, aged 77. Following his death, members of Goldberg's family created the William Goldberg Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Gemological Institute of America.
# William McLaren House

William McLaren House may refer to:
* William McLaren House (Lewiston, Idaho), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Nez Perce County, Idaho
* William McLaren House (Stevensville, Montana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ravalli County, Montana
# William Lake (Québec)

The William Lake (in French: Lac William) is a lake located in the municipality of Saint-Ferdinand, in L'Érable Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Centre-du-Québec, in Quebec, in Canada. It is crossed by the Bécancour River, which flows up to the South shore of St. Lawrence River.

## Toponymy

The lake had been named Saint-Ferdinand by the French Canadians established on the southwest shore of the lake around 1850, but the current name comes from the Scots, living in the north. This name commemorates William Pitt, a popular statesman of England.

## Geography

Its area is approximately 4.899 kilometres (3.04 mi), its altitude is 193 metres (633 ft) and its maximum depth is 30 metres (98 ft).
# William Gordon (Chelsea MP)

William Gordon (1818 – 9 June 1894) was a British solicitor and Conservative Party politician.
The youngest son of Alexander Gordon, a solicitor of Old Broad Street and Wandsworth Common and his wife Harriet née Elwyn, he was admitted as a solicitor in 1840.
At the 1874 general election Gordon was elected as one of two members of parliament for Chelsea. He served a single term and did not contest the next election in 1880.
# William McKeighan

William McKeighan may refer to:
* William A. McKeighan (1842–1895), Nebraska Populist politician
* William H. McKeighan (1886–1957), Michigan politician
# William McKechnie

William McKechnie may refer to:
* William Sharp McKechnie, Scottish scholar and historian
* William Neil McKechnie, Royal Air Force officer
* Bill McKechnie, American baseball player, manager and coach
* Liam McKechnie (William Martin McKechnie), Irish judge
# William Wilson (Coventry MP)

William Wilson DL (28 June 1913 – 18 August 2010), was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in Coventry from 1964 to 1983. He was the chairman of the British-Soviet Friendship Society from 1977 to 1983.
Wilson was educated at Coventry Technical College and Birmingham University. He served in the British Army during World War II in North Africa, Italy and Greece, rising to the rank of sergeant. After the war he qualified as a solicitor and made several unsuccessful attempts to win the Warwick and Leamington constituency in 1951, 1955, 1957 and 1959, before being successful in 1964 in Coventry South, which he represented (later as Coventry South East) until retiring from Parliament in 1983. He also was a Warwickshire County Councillor from 1958, being leader of the Labour Group in the 1960s and from 1972 to 1993.
Wilson was responsible for piloting the Divorce Reform Act 1969 through Parliament which changed the basis for divorce procedures from the old concept of matrimonial offences to that of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage.
# Willseyville, New York

Willseyville is a hamlet in Tioga County, New York, United States. The community is located along New York State Route 96B, 4.4 miles (7.1 km) north-northwest of Candor. Willseyville has a post office with ZIP code 13864, which opened on December 8, 1827.
# Willy Padrutt

Willy Padrutt (26 July 1928 – 31 October 2022) was a Swiss jurist. He served as Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation from 1990 to 1993.
Padrutt died in Chur on 31 October 2022, at the age of 94.
# Willy Pedersen (politician)

Willy Andreas Pedersen (born 1 November 1981) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Finnmark during the term 2009–2013. In total he met during 195 days of parliamentary session. At the end of his term, he held the status of regular representative while Helga Pedersen was a member of Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet. He has been deputy mayor of Vadsø Municipality.
# William of Merton

William of Merton was the Dean of Wells during 1237.