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# William Inskip

William John Inskip (1852 – May 1899) was an English trade unionist.
Inskip grew up in Leicester, where he worked as a laster in the bootmaking trade. He became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), of which he was elected treasurer in 1880, then general secretary in 1886.
In 1891, Inskip was elected to Leicester Town Council as a Liberal-Labour representative, and he was also appointed as a magistrate. However, he became increasingly politically isolated, as other leading figures in the union shifted to supporting independent labour representation.
Inskip and Charles Freak, also a leader of NUBSO, were part of an antisemitic campaign against Jewish shoe makers. As the mechanisation of the industry continued apace, The pair of them blamed Jewish shoemakers for the economic consequences. From 1892 they started to campaign for immigration restrictions which they took to the 1895 Cardiff Trade Union Congress. However Joseph Finn, Woolf Wess and Lewis Lyons organised amongst jewish trade unionists to protest against Inskip and Freak. Joseph Finn published A Voice from the Aliens criticising them from an internationalist perspective.
Inskip was also active in the Trades Union Congress (TUC), serving on its Parliamentary Committee, and also as its treasurer. In 1898, he travelled to the United States as part of a TUC delegation, but on his return, he contracted tuberculosis, and he died in 1899, aged 47.
# William Ireland

William Ireland may refer to:
* William Ireland (Jesuit) (1636–1679), English Jesuit executed during the reign of King Charles II
* William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays
* William Wotherspoon Ireland (1832–1909), Scottish physician and author
* William M. Ireland (died 1891), co-founder of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
* William Henry Ireland (politician) (1884–?), Ontario merchant and political figure
* William Ireland (tennis), Irish tennis player
* Bill Ireland, founder of the UNLV football program and later athletic director of UNLV
# William C. Ruger

William Crawford Ruger (January 30, 1824 Bridgewater, Oneida County, New York – January 14, 1892 Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1883 until his death.

## Life

He was the son of Sophia (Brown) Ruger and John Ruger (d. 1855), an attorney who practiced at Bridgewater, but removed to Syracuse, N.Y., in 1847. William C. Ruger was educated at Bridgewater Academy, then studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and commenced practice in Bridgewater.
In 1853, he removed to Syracuse, N.Y., formed a partnership with his father. On May 2, 1860, he married Harriet Prosser (1836–1909), a daughter of State Senator Erastus S. Prosser, and their son was Crawford Prosser Ruger (1862–1907).
William C. Ruger was a delegate to the 1872 Democratic National Convention. In November 1882, he was elected on the Democratic ticket Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, and died in office in 1892. He was buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York).
State Senator William Ruger (d. 1843) was his uncle.

## Sources

* Political Graveyard
* Listing of Court of Appeals judges, with portrait
* Obit in NYT on January 15, 1892
Legal offices :
| Preceded byCharles Andrews | Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1883–1892 | Succeeded byRobert Earl |
# William E. Jones (politician)

William Early Jones (1808 or 1810 – April 18, 1871) was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas from 1843 to 1845.
# William Cannon (cricketer)

William Cannon (11 September 1871 – 29 April 1933) was an Australian cricketer. He played seven first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1912 and 1914.
# William James Aylward

William James Aylward (September 5, 1875 – February 26, 1956) was a war artist for the United States Army during World War I.

## Biography

Aylward was born September 5, 1875, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and developed an early interest in things nautical because his father built and owned Great Lakes ships. Much of the work from his early career reflects that influence. He studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Art Students' League in New York City, and with several artists in Europe. Like some of the other future official World War I combat artists, he studied with the famous illustrator and teacher, Howard Pyle.
Aylward began his professional career by writing and illustrating 18th century marine history for magazines such as Harper's and Scribner's. His artwork also appeared in illustrated editions of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Jack London's The Sea-Wolf. He combined his interest in the sea and his abilities as an illustrator to produce advertisements featuring nautical themes. In addition to his proficiency as an illustrator, Aylward was an award-winning artist and received a number of prestigious prizes such as the Salmagundi Club's Shaw Purchase Prize and the Philadelphia Color Club's Beck Prize for his work before the war.
During the war Aylward concentrated his efforts on recording the activities of the ports and transportation systems developed to support industrial warfare. Some of his best wartime work was done at the port of Marseilles after the armistice when he had the time to paint in some detail. Following the war, he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1924 and the National Academy of Design in 1925.
He died February 26, 1956, and is buried in Bath National Cemetery, Bath, New York.
* Portrait of Captain William J. Aylward, 1917
* World War I Doughboys and US Army trucks on the move.
* World War I doughboy looking at the grave of a fallen comrade.
# William Duckworth

William Duckworth may refer to:
* Will Duckworth (1954), deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
* William Duckworth (football manager) (fl. 1934–1946), Scottish professional football coach active in France
* William Duckworth (composer) (1943–2012), American composer
* William Duckworth (Canadian politician) (1884–1951), Ontario merchant and political figure
* William Duckworth (British politician) (1879–1952), British Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side, 1935–1945
* William Henry Duckworth (1894–1969), justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
# William Dudgeon

William Dudgeon may refer to:
* William Dudgeon (poet) (c. 1753–1813), Scottish poet
* William Dudgeon (philosopher) (1705/6–1743), Scottish philosophical writer
* William Dudgeon, co-founder of J & W Dudgeon
# William Duddell

William Du Bois Duddell (1 July 1872, in Kensington, London – 4 November 1917, in Wandsworth, London) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. His inventions include the moving coil oscillograph, as well as the thermo-ammeter and thermo-galvanometer.

## Life and career

Duddell was born William Du Bois to Frances Kate Du Bois, who married George Duddell in 1881. At the age of four he constructed an automaton by combining a toy mouse with clockwork. His younger sister Gladys Duddell was a tennis player.
Duddell was privately educated in England and France and rose quickly through the prestigious City & Guilds Schools via scholarships.
He died at the age of 45.

## Duddell's "singing arc"

Prior to the invention of the incandescent light bulb, arc lamps were used to light the streets. They created light using an electrical arc between two carbon electrodes. These lamps often produced audible humming, hissing, or even howling sounds. In 1899 Duddell, a student of William Ayrton at London Central Technical College, was asked by Ayrton to look into this problem. The sounds were created by instabilities in the current caused by the arc's negative resistance. Duddell connected a tuned circuit consisting of an inductor and capacitor across an arc. The negative resistance of the arc excited audio frequency oscillations in the tuned circuit at its resonant frequency, which could be heard as a musical tone coming from the arc. Duddell used his oscillograph to determine the precise conditions required to produce oscillations. To demonstrate his invention before the London Institution of Electrical Engineers, he wired a keyboard to produce different tones from the arc, and used it to play a tune, God Save the Queen making it one of the first examples of electronic music. This device, which became known as the "singing arc", was one of the first electronic oscillators and Plasma speakers. Although he was not the first to discover, as Hermann Theodor Simon published the phenomenon in 1898.
Duddell's circuit was limited to audio frequencies. However, Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency of Duddell's oscillator to the radio range, and in 1902 patented the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first transmitter which could generate continuous waves. Poulsen arc wireless transmitters were used worldwide until the 1920s.

## Honours

Duddell was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907. The British Institute of Physics named its Duddell Medal and Prize in his honour. In 1907–08 he served as president of the British Institute of Radiology. In 1912 he became the youngest president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and served two terms.
In 1906 and 1911 he was invited to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on Signalling to a Distance and Modern Electricity respectively.
# William Mackey

William Mackey may refer to:
* William Mackey (Fenian) (1841–1884), member of the Fenian Brotherhood and the Clan na Gael
* William Mackey (Jesuit) (1915–1995), Canadian Jesuit educationist and founder of the modern educational system of Bhutan
* William F. Mackey (1858–1912), American lawyer and politician from New York
* William Davis Mackey (1913–?), American lawyer and politician from Indiana
* Bill Mackey (1927–1951), American racecar driver
# William Mackersy

William Wallace Mackersy (6 May 1875 – 27 February 1959) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Otago during the 1906–07 and 1907–08 seasons.
Mackersy was born at Alexandra in Central Otago in 1875. Professionally he was the general manager of the Milburn Lime and Cement company, retiring in 1944 after working for the company for 53 years. He made his first-class debut for Otago against the touring England team at Carisbrook in February 1907. Opening the bowling, Mackersy did not take a wicket during the match. The following season he played in all three of Otago's first-class fixtures, taking 10 wickets, seven of which were taken during his final representative match against Auckland in January 1908.
Mackersy was married with four children. He lived at Dunedin and died there in 1959. He was aged 83.
# William Parker (glassmaker)

William Parker (probably born in the 18th century–1817) was a British glassmaker and inventor.
Based in London, William Parker gained renown for his glass cutting and manufacturing. The foremost chandelier manufacturer of the late 18th century, he provided aristocratic, noble, and royal houses with fine glass chandeliers. The glass chandeliers in the Bath Assembly Rooms are some of his most notable works and are marked "Parker, Fleet Street, London.
Parker also specialized in manufacturing glass for scientific instruments: William Parker and Son, of Fleet Street, London, supplied British chemist Joseph Priestley with lenses and bell jars for many of his experiments, and continued to do so after Priestley’s move to America.
In 1784, William Parker sent the American Philosophical Society a large burning lens device which could focus the sun's rays, thereby melting or fusing various substances. One year later, he was elected as a member to the society.
# William Reed (musician)

William Reed (9 September 1859 – 2 November 1945) was a Canadian organist, choir conductor, and composer. He held numerous organ and choirmaster posts in churches throughout Canada from 1884 until 1913. His career in this area was cut short as his deafness worsened. He spent the remainder of his career composing and contributing articles to music periodicals like The Etude. His compositional output mainly consists of sacred works, including many anthems and works for solo organ. His more well known works include the Christmas cantata The Message of the Angels (1910), the cantata The Burden of the Cross (1912), the Easter cantata The Resurrection and the Life (1911), and the Grand Choeur in D for organ (1901). His pupil Henri Gagnon considered the latter work "one of the very best Canadian compositions".

## Life and career

Born in Montreal, Reed studied the organ in his youth with Romain-Octave Pelletier I and Dominique Ducharme. At the age of 19 he was awarded a scholarship to attend Keble College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, in England. He served as the college's organist during the late 1870s and early 1880s, having beat out more than 30 applicants for the post.
After returning to Canada, Reed served as the organist/choirmaster at St Peter's Anglican Church in Sherbrooke, Quebec, from 1884 until 1888. He then returned to his native city to assume similar posts at American Presbyterian Church and St John the Baptist Church in 1888/1889. In 1899/1900, he was organist at St. Andrew's Church in Toronto, and in 1901 he was guest organist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. From 1900 until 1913 he served as the organist/choirmaster at Chalmers-Wesley United Church and St. Andrew's Church in Quebec City. He died in Quebec City in 1945.
# William Rees-Davies (Conservative politician)

William Rupert Rees-Davies QC (19 November 1916 – 12 January 1992) was a British Conservative politician and barrister.

## Early life

Rees-Davies was the son of Sir William Rees-Davies, Chief Justice of Hong Kong. He was born in Hong Kong while his father was serving as Chief Justice. His grandfather was William Davies, Liberal MP for Pembrokeshire
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a cricket blue. He also played for the Kent Second XI. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler.

## Non-political career

He was a barrister, called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1939. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1973. He was commissioned in the Welsh Guards in 1939 and served until 1943 when he lost his right arm on service during World War II. Because he had lost his arm, he was some time referred to as the "one armed bandit".

## Political career

Rees-Davies contested Nottingham South in 1950 and 1951. He was Member of Parliament for the Isle of Thanet from a 1953 by-election to 1974, then for Thanet West from 1974 to 1983 when his seat was abolished in boundary changes. He lost the selection for North Thanet to Roger Gale, and his attempts to reverse his deselection failed. He died in 1992, aged 75.
# William Moore Davis

William Moore Davis (May 22, 1829 – March 26, 1920) was an American painter best known for his landscapes. A native of Long Island, he spent most of his life near Port Jefferson and has been praised as the greatest painter of that village. A contemporary of the Hudson River School, he was greatly influenced by fellow local painter William Sidney Mount.

## Biography

William Moore Davis was born in Setauket, Long Island, New York, on May 22, 1829. As a boy, Davis worked in the shipbuilding industry of Port Jefferson before turning to painting full-time. Aside from a handful of years living in New York City, Moore spent his entire life in the Northwestern Brookhaven area of Long Island. He was strongly influenced by his friend and fellow painter William Sidney Mount, also of Setauket origins. Moore died on March 26, 1920, and was buried in the Sea View Cemetery in Mount Sinai, NY.
Davis had few exhibitions during his life but was rediscovered for a 1973 display in Port Jefferson and a 2002 exhibition at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook

## Gallery

* Port Jefferson Harbor
* The Lady Behind the Door
* Lecture Night at the Baptist Church, Port Jefferson, 1912
* Tidal Inlet On Long Island Sound
* Wreck at Poquot Beach
* A Close Shave
* Cider Making On Long Island
# William Moore Kelly

William Moore Kelly (1827 – December 10, 1888) was a businessman and politician in New Brunswick. He represented Northumberland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1867 to 1878.
He was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, the son of J.M. Kelly, an Irish immigrant. Kelly operated a stage coach between Moncton and Chatham. He married Eliza Ann Long and later married Margaret Fraser after his first wife's death. He was first elected to the legislature in an 1867 by-election held after John Mercer Johnson was elected to the Canadian House of Commons. From 1869 to 1878, he served as commissioner of public works in the province's Executive Council. He was heavily criticized later in his political career for accepting compensation in return for directing railway contracts to specific contractors. From 1878 to 1882, Kelly served as a member of the Legislative Council of New Brunswick. In 1882, he resigned due to poor health and moved to Toronto, Ontario. He died in Montreal, Quebec at the age of 61 while visiting a son there.
# William H. Davenport House

The William H. Davenport House, also known as the Davenport-Curtis House, is a single-family home located at 300 East Michigan Avenue in Saline, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

## History

William H. Davenport was born in New York state in 1826, and arrived in Michigan with his family the next year. Davenport moved to Saline at the age of twelve after his father's death, and began working as a mercantile clerk. In 1851 he married Zilpha Parsons, and that same year partnered with H. J. Miller to open a general store. In 1853 he bought out Miller's interest and, over the following years, Davenport became Saline's most prominent merchant.
In 1875, Davenport hired Detroit architect William Scott to design this house. The Davenports selected many of the furnishings for the house from manufacturer displays at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. In 1883, Davenport abandoned his general store, and in 1885 he opened a bank, which became publicly owned in 1902. Davenport lived in this house until his death in 1909. The house remained in the Davenport family until 1930, when family friend Carl Alward Curtiss inherited the house and its antique furnishings.

## Description

The Davenport House is a Second Empire mansion, located by itself on a city block at the entrance to Saline, surrounded by mature trees. The house is a two-and-a-half-story frame structure with a slate-covered mansard roof and corner tower. It sits on a cut stone foundation, and the exterior contains ornate bracketry, corbels, lintels, and dormers. Two original carriage barns with slate mansard roofs stand behind the house.
On the interior, the woodwork is made from the finest hardwoods - walnut, butternut, and maple - throughout the house. The house still contains antiques purchased at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition of 1876. The full-length windows are topped with carved interior cornices and the ceilings are decorated with sculptured plaster.
# William Larimer Mellon

William Larimer Mellon may refer to:
* William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868–1949), American businessman and founder of Gulf Oil
* William Larimer Mellon Jr. (1910–1989), American philanthropist and physician
# William Williams (veterinary surgeon)

William Williams FRSE PRCVS (1832–1900) was a Welsh veterinary surgeon who served as principal of the Dick Veterinary College in Edinburgh (1867–73) and as president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (1879). He was the founder and principal of the rival New Veterinary College (1873–1904), originally housed in Gayfield House, Edinburgh.
He wrote several standard works on veterinary science.

## Life

Williams was born in Bontnewydd near St Asaph, north Wales, in 1832. As with many early vets, he appears to have had a background in farriery.
He enrolled in the new Dick Veterinary College in Edinburgh under William Dick in 1855. He qualified MRCVS in 1857, and set up a veterinary practice in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. In 1867 he returned to his alma mater in Edinburgh to become third principal of the Dick Veterinary College, replacing the brief principalship of Colonel James H. B. Hallen FRSE who was urgently called to India to address an outbreak of cattle plague.
Walter George Burnett Dickinson FRSE was amongst his many students.
In 1868 Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Sir William Turner.
In January 1869 he and fellow veterinary professor Allen Dalzell were sued in the Scottish Court of session by a former colleague, John Adam McBride, leading to a great deal of ill-will in the college. A lot of the ill-will focussed upon Mary Dick, William Dick's sister, who held a high degree of control over the college after her brother's death.
In 1873 Williams founded the New Veterinary College in Edinburgh, in direct competition to William Dick's College. The new college was housed in Gayfield House on East London Street. His staff included Dr Stevenson Macadam. In 1883, due to growing success, the college commissioned William Hamilton Beattie to design a purpose-built building on the east side of Elm Row, at the head of Leith Walk where it remained until closure in 1904. The building, later also serving as a BBC Scotland studio, is now converted into student housing.
Williams died on 12 November 1900, at 1 Crawford Place, Edinburgh. He was interred at Warriston Cemetery. His white marble stone is flat to the ground and disappearing from view. It lies on the upper section of the vaults to the west side.

## Family

Williams married Caroline Owen. Her death in 1867 affected Williams greatly. Their son William Owen Williams FRSE (1860–1911) was also a veterinarian and worked with his father at the Elm Row college. Following his father's death the college lost momentum and in 1904 William Owen Williams moved to Liverpool to set up a new veterinary college, being officially Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at Liverpool University.

## Artistic recognition

Williams was one of twenty "shadow portraits" created in 2005 of the various Dick Vet Principals. The portraits were moved from Summerhall to Easter Bush when the old college closed.
# William Y. Anderson

William Yngve Anderson (June 28, 1921 – May 9, 2011) was a Swedish-born American fighter ace of World War II, credited with seven official victories in Europe while flying P-51 Mustang fighters with the United States Army Air Forces.

## Biography

Anderson was born in Kramfors, Sweden, on June 28, 1921. In 1922, Anderson's family emigrated from Sweden to Chicago. Anderson joined the United States Army Air Forces in September 1941. After completion of training in 1943, he was stationed at RAF Boxted, near London, on "Diver" patrols, defending London from V-1 flying bombs.
Anderson shot down a V-1 on June 17, 1944, and it is possible but not confirmed that he shot down more V-1s. His official tally of 7, however, does not include V-1s, as shooting down pilotless aircraft did not officially count towards his victory tally.
Official victories:
* 13 April 1944 one Focke-Wulf Fw 190
* 28 May 1944 one Messerschmitt Bf 109
* 21 June 1944 two Messerschmitt Me 410s
* 1 August 1944 one Bf 109
* 7 August 1944 two Bf 109s