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# Willet Green Miller

Willet Green Miller FRSC was a Canadian geologist and professor of Geology and Petrography (1893)

## Career

Birth in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada in 1866.
Educated at Port Rowan High School.
Graduated from the University of Toronto in 1890 in Natural Science. Post-graduate work at Harvard, Chicago, and Heidelberg Universities in mapping for the Geological Survey.
Professor of Geology and Petrography of the Queen's University at Kingston in 1893.
Miller became the first provincial geologist for the province of Ontario in 1902.

## Achievements

He was the first to recognize the importance of the discoveries in Cobalt, at a time when no precious metals were being mined in northern Ontario.

## Honors

Gold medal from the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of London in 1915.

## Memory

Willet G. Miller Medal has been established in his honor in 1941.
Miller Hall is named after Willet Green Miller in Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.
# William Day (divine)

William Day (c.1605–1684) was an English cleric and biblical commentator.

## Life

The brother of Matthew Day, D.D., he was a native of Windsor, Berkshire, and received his education at Eton College. He was elected in 1624 to King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow (B.A. 1628-9, M.A. 1632). In 1635 he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford, and in 1637 he was presented by Eton College to the vicarage of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire.
He complied with all the changes of government from 1637 to the Restoration, keeping his vicarage. He was also made divinity reader in his majesty's chapel of St. George in Windsor Castle.

## Works

Day published:
* An Exposition of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, London 1654.
* A Paraphrase and Commentary upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, London 1666.
# William A. Radford

William A. Radford (1865–1943) was an American architect and publisher of numerous architectural and construction books via his Radford Architectural Company in Chicago, Illinois.

## Biography
### Early life

Radford was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1865, where he attended school and then joined the Radford Brothers Sash and Door Company, eventually in 1890 becoming the company secretary and treasurer. He married and had two sons with Helen M. Manuel, and by 1899 was living in Riverside, Illinois. He was a Mason and a Shriner.

### Radford Architectural Company

It was the Radford Architectural Company for which he is remembered, whose output over the years comprised more than 40 books on various types of construction and more than 1000 plans and specifications for buildings ranging from homes to small commercial buildings. Radford founded this company in 1902, and his publications were collaborations with prominent authors in the field at the time including Frank E. Kidder, Alfred G. King, and Ira O. Baker. He was also the founder of various magazines: Beautiful Homes, Farm Mechanics, American Carpenter and Builder, and Cement Homes.
Although, in the opinion of his biographer Neal Vogel, some of his designs were "lackluster versions" of Queen Anne or American Foursquare designs, some of his designs reflect the Prairie School aesthetic and his publications helped to spread it across the United States in the early 20th century. Radford embraced what were then modern innovations, with books on construction types that were just coming into use such as his 1700-page-long 1910 Radford Cyclopedia of Cement Construction which dealt in the use of concrete and whose articles were written by a team of experts on the subject.

### Retirement

Radford retired to a ranch in Cupertino, California, at the onset of the Great Depression and died there in 1943.
# William E. West Sr.

William E. West Sr. (1922–2014) was an American painter. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922, West moved to Buffalo, New York in 1927. His art career spanned for about 70 years.

## Life and Family

In his early life West was encouraged by his mother to pursue his artistic interests. He was the youngest of seven siblings, born in 1922. A year after his birth he was adopted by his Aunt and later they moved to Buffalo in 1926. He spent the majority of his life living in the East Side of Buffalo.
When he returned from World War II in 1946, he attended art school and worked under many well-known artists including Charles E. Burtchfield and Robert Blair. The schools he attended during his studies were the Albright Art School and after that the Art Institute of Buffalo. He had two other jobs as a community organizer and a postal worker as well as his budding art career. West also had four children and a wife named Geraldine Summers.

## Artwork

The subject matter of his art ranged from many different things including buildings under construction and demolished buildings, to a series inspired by the women in his life who were dressmakers. The most notable of his art were his landscapes that serve as tributes to the architectural past of the city of Buffalo. West never considered himself to be a professional artist, he simply did it because he loved to paint. In an interview he said,"...art continued to be something I pursued without an ambition to be a commercial artist or wanting to make money off of it. I just wanted to paint."

## Death

West died in 2014 of congestive heart failure. Many buildings and an art gallery have his work in their permanent collection, one of these places being the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
# William Henry Whitbread

William Henry Whitbread (4 February 1795 – 21 June 1867) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1835.
Whitbread was the son of brewer Samuel Whitbread and his wife Lady Elizabeth Grey, the eldest daughter of Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was awarded a M.A. in 1816 and became a partner with his brother Samuel Charles Whitbread in the brewing firm.
In 1818 Whitbread was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford and held the seat until 1835. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Bedfordshire and became High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1837.
Whitbread lived at Southill Park, Bedfordshire and died at the age of 72.
Whitbread married, Harriet Sneyd, daughter. of the Rev. Wettenhall Sneyd, of the Isle of Wight on 5 November 1845. They had no family.
# William Clarke Wescoe

W. Clarke Wescoe (1920-2004) was an American medical educator, physician, pharmacologist and academic administrator. He was selected as the dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine at the age of 32 and served in that capacity from 1952 to 1960. He was the 10th chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1960 to 1969, leading the University during a time of both campus growth with the near doubling in enrollment and unrest during the 1960s. More than $40 million in new construction was completed, including most of the Daisy Hill residence halls.

## Background

W. Clarke Wescoe was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on May 3, 1920 to Charles H. and Hattie G. Wescoe. He received his B.S. from Muhlenberg College in 1941 and his medical degree from the Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in 1944.

## Career

Wescoe was an intern and resident at New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center. Prior to his in academic career, he was assigned to the War Department’s Army Specialized Training Program by the United States government and served the United States Army as a medical officer in the US Army’s Fitzsimons General Hospital in Aurora, Colorado in 1946, where he remained three months and was put in charge of the tuberculosis ward, which at the time was filled primarily by those American soldiers who’d survived the Bataan Death March and wartime Japanese internment in the Philippines. He was reassigned to the Army Chemical Center at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. His responsibilities at Edgewood Arsenal centered on biomedical research and the development of pharmacological treatments to various chemical and nerve agents. He was discharged from military in 1948.

## Employment history
### Cornell University

* 1949–1951 Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Cornell University Medical College. In 1949 he received the prestigious Markle Scholarship

### University of Kansas

* 1951–1952 Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Medicine at the University of Kansas
* 1952–1960 Dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine
* 1960–1969 Chancellor of the University of Kansas

### Sterling Drug, Inc

* 1969–1985 first as Vice President for Medical Affairs and Research, later rising to the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

### Boards and committees

* 1985–2004 Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange as well as several academic, corporate, and foundation boards, and as a trustee of Columbia University and Cornell Medical School
# William Clarkson

Vice Admiral Sir William Clarkson, KBE, CMG (26 March 1859 – 21 January 1934) is regarded as the co-founder of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), in which he served as a senior commander.

## Early life

Born in Whitby, North Yorkshire, to James, a draper, and his wife Mary (née Dixon). Clarkson was privately educated in the town. Later he was articled into shipbuilding in Newcastle upon Tyne for R. & W. Hawthorn. In his time at the company he became a marine engineer.

## South Australian Naval Service

Clarkson joined the South Australian Naval Service as an Engineer Lieutenant in May 1884, travelling to Australian in HMAS Protector. It was in this time that he served under Captain William Creswell (Later Vice Admiral and Commander of Commonwealth Naval Forces) who shared his interest of creating a united Australian Navy.
He was Chief engineer aboard Protector in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900–01, which carried despatches in the conflict.

## Commonwealth Naval Forces

Following the Boxer Rebellion, Clarkson transferred to the Commonwealth Naval Forces upon the Federation of Australia.
In October 1905 Clarkson was promoted to Engineer Commander.
On 27 March 1907 he was selected to visit Japan, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in order to study Naval dockyards, ship construction and training methods. In this period he oversaw the building of destroyers for the CNF, which would become the first ships of the newly founded Royal Australian Navy.

## Royal Australian Navy

Upon the founding of the RAN in 1911, Clarkson became the third member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board, joining Creswell and Captain Gordon Smith. Subsequently, the decision was made to build a naval base at Western Port and Clarkson was a driving force in its creation. Work on Flinders Naval Base started in 1913 and was opened in 1920, for the purpose of training. In 1913 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
He was promoted to Rear Admiral on 1 April 1916. At the outbreak of World War I he became the Director of Transports and Controller of Shipping. By 1918 he was regarded as "without peer in Australian maritime affairs". Upon the formation of the Inter-State Central Committee he became Chairman and Controller of coastal shipping. For his duties in this capacity, in 1919 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The citation reads
   Rear-Admiral William Clarkson, CMG, RAN, for services in connection with the control and reorganisation of coastal shipping.
He was promoted to vice admiral on 1 November 1922 and transferred to the retired list.

## Commonwealth Shipping Board

In 1923, he was appointed Director of the Commonwealth Shipping Board.

## Death

He died of heart disease at the family home in Darling Point, Sydney, Australia on 21 Jan 1934. He was cremated at the Rookwood Crematorium and a funeral with full military honours was held. His ashes were then transported back to his hometown, where they were interred in the family memorial at the Church of Saint Mary, Whitby.
# William Crain

William Crain may refer to:
* William H. Crain (1848–1896), U.S. Representative from Texas
* William Crain (filmmaker) (born 1949), American film and television director
* William C. Crain (1798–1865), American physician and politician
# William Cramer

William Cramer may refer to:
* William Cramer (pathologist) (1878–1945), German-born pathologist
* William C. Cramer (1922–2003), U.S. Representative from Florida
# William IV, Count of Nevers

William IV, (French: Guillaume IV, c. 1130 – Acre, 24 October 1168) was count of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre from 1161 until his death.

## Family

William was a son of William III, Count of Nevers and Ida of Sponheim, and the older brother of his successor Guy, Count of Nevers. In 1164, William married Eleanor of Vermandois. Their marriage was childless.

## Crusades

William was knighted in 1159, only two years prior to the death of his father. He and his brothers, Guy and Reynold, are considered to have been quite young at the time of William III's death; Guy was still mentioned as underage in 1164. William IV resided in the chateaux of Nevers and of Clamecy (present day department of the Nièvre, Burgundy, France). The next nearest town to the east of Clamecy is Vezelay, which, in the early medieval period, was the marshalling point for the start of several crusades to the Holy Land.
Vézelay Abbey was often in conflict with the counts of Nevers. William IV had his provost Léthard force the monks to take flight and abandon the abbey. In 1166, Louis VII of France arranged a reconciliation between William IV and Guillaume de Mello, abbot of Vézelay. On 6 January 1167 (Epiphany), Louis VII attended the celebration over the reconciliation. In atonement for his supposed crimes against the church, William set out for the Crusader states. In 1168, William of Tyre records the arrival of the Count of Nevers in Jerusalem. In the meantime, Amalric I was preparing for the invasion of Egypt. However, William died shortly afterwards, and he was buried in Bethlehem. Later on, most of his knights participated in Amalric's campaign, and were probably responsible for the massacre of the population of Bilbeis.

## Bishopric of Bethlehem

Before his death in 1168, he promised the bishop of Bethlehem that if Bethlehem should ever fall into Muslim hands, he would welcome him or his successors in Clamecy. After the capture of Bethlehem by Saladin in 1187, the bequest of the now deceased count was honoured and the bishop of Bethlehem duly took up residence in the Hospital of Panthenor, Clamecy, which remained the continuous in partibus infidelium seat of the Bishopric of Bethlehem for almost 600 years until the French Revolution in 1789.
# William Lewin

William Lewin (1747–1795) was an English naturalist and illustrator.
Lewin grew up in Stepney, the son of a rate mariner. In 1776 he was earning a living as a pattern drawer, and by 1783 was describing himself as a painter. He specialised in natural history subjects.
In 1789 he began to issue his The Birds of Great Britain, with Their Eggs, Accurately Figured, which he had been working on for the previous twenty years. It included 323 watercolour sketches of each of the 271 of birds and 52 plates of eggs, all which he hand-painted himself for the 60 copy first edition, a total of 19,380 individual paintings. Assisted by his three sons, he immediately began work on a second edition which was issued in parts from 1793 to 1801. The Second Edition, of 150 copies, was produced using copper plates onto which Lewin directly scribed the images which were not copies of the First Edition work, but entirely new and very much more detailed. Lewin died suddenly in 1795 having completed only the first 103 copper-plates himself. His sons (Thomas, Thomas William and John William) completed the remaining plates (104-336) after Lewin's death.
In 1791 his friend John Latham sponsored Lewin's membership of the Linnean Society.
Lewin also produced a volume on butterflies, "The papilios of Great Britain, systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature, with the natural history of each species, from a close application to the subject, and observations made in different countries of this kingdom; as well as from breeding numbers from the egg, or caterpillar, during the last thirty years", in 1795.
Lewin was buried at Edmonton on 10 December 1795.
The First Edition of Birds of Great Britain and their Eggs almost immediately suffered from being broken-up for the individual watercolors, most of which have, as a consequence, been lost or destroyed. The Second Edition has also suffered in this way and complete copies are now also extremely rare with less than 30 known complete examples remaining.
# William Lewis (Australian politician)

William Lewis JP (23 April 1818 – 12 April 1895) was a businessman and politician in South Australia.

## History

Lewis was born in Tredegar, Wales, the only surviving son of Rev. Lewis, and at age 14 was forced by the death of his father to abandon studies for the ministry and find employment as a lawyer's clerk, as a stationer in London, then as a bailiff for his cousin Sep. Lewis in Wales. In 1853 he emigrated to South Australia on the Iris, and soon found work with Hart & Co., then ran a store at Sydenham Road, Norwood. He moved to Kapunda in 1857 to manage Carrington Smedley's drapery store at the corner of Main and Hill Streets, which he subsequently purchased. He later sold the business to Andrew Thomson and retired to Allendale (now Allendale North), a few miles to the north.
Lewis was a longtime supporter, and treasurer, of the Kapunda and Light Agricultural Society, as well as chairman of the Kapunda School Board of Advice. He also acted as local registrar of births, deaths and marriages. He was an agent for the Australian Mutual Provident Life Assurance Society and the South Australian Fire Insurance Company. He was auditor for the Kapunda Corporation for six years. All these activities he had to relinquish with declining health, a year before he died.
Lewis was a foundation member of the Kapunda Congregational Church and superintendent of the Sunday school for many years, and president of the local branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

## Politics

Lewis was appointed to the inaugural Kapunda Council in 1865, retiring late the following year. He was member for Light in the South Australian House of Assembly from May 1868 to April 1870 (succeeding Smedley by around ten years), with Captain John Hart as his colleague. In 1888 he was a candidate for the North Eastern district in the Legislative Council, but was soundly defeated by Henry Ayers.
He died at his home in Allendale.

## Family

He married Elizabeth Hughes ( – 27 October 1881) around April 1839. Their children included:
* Kate Hannah Lewis (c. 1844 – 9 November 1872) married George Church on 1 July 1864, lived in Port Adelaide
* Elizabeth Angharad Lewis (c. 1841 – 6 June 1914) married John Murch Stacy (c. 1831 – 18 January 1906) on 18 April 1862, lived in Adelaide
* Lydia Ceinwen Lewis (1843 – 20 September 1911) married Dr Ernst Heinrich Geyer (c. 1825 – 8 June 1876) on 26 June 1867, lived in Moonta
* Mary Lewis (1847 – ) married August C. Geyer ( – ) on 23 August 1877, lived in Wilcannia
* Agnes Rachel Lewis (1849 – 12 July 1934) married John Church (c. 1845 – 26 September 1934) on 19 September 1872, lived in Fremantle
* Helen Lewis (c. 1851 – )
* W. Walter Lewis (c. 1854 – 19 October 1937) married Euphemia "Phim" Hillam (c. 1862 – 23 June 1948) on 28 January 1891, lived at Baroota (40 km north of Port Pirie)
* Florence Eos Lewis (c. 1861 – 4 July 1919) married Rev. Alfred George Fry (c. 1847 – 24 September 1926) on 12 November 1889, lived at Kapunda
# William Munro

William Munro may refer to:
* William Munro (botanist) (1818–1880), English army officer, plant collector and botanist
* William A. Munro (born 1992), Australian rugby player
* William B. Munro (1875–1957), Canadian historian and political scientist
* William Munro, 12th Baron of Foulis (died 1505), Scottish clan chief
# William Munro (cricketer)

William Munro (1862 – 18 February 1896) was an English-born Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Queensland in 1893.
Munro played his first notable cricket match in 1884 when he was selected to represent Queensland against New South Wales in an Intercolonial match and the match report described him as a junior who could bat and bowl 'breaks'. He went on to play for the Stanley Cricket Club in Brisbane senior cricket for several years and Queensland in other Intercolonial matches remaining a prominent figure in Queensland cricket until shortly before his passing. In April 1893 he was selected to represent Queensland in the state's inaugural first-class game against New South Wales in Brisbane.
In his professional life, Munro worked for the Surveyor-General's Department from 1879 and became the officer in charge of its compiling branch. In his personal life, he became conductor at St. Mary's Church. He died after a period of illness in early 1896 at the age of just thirty-four.
# William Lovejoy

William Thomas Lovejoy (1849 – 24 August 1913) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

## Early life

Lovejoy was born in Middlesex, England, the son of Thomas Lovejoy and his wife Haligton (née Wildlesea). He arrived in Queensland in 1872 and commenced work as a station hand at Eton Vale. Lovejoy took up a Selection at Meringandan and built the first Hotel there which sold in 1890.

## Politics

Winning the seat of Aubigny in 1893, Lovejoy served just 15 months before having to resign in 1894 due to his insolvency.
Though he served as one of the Labour Farmers' representatives, he disavowed the extremists, promising to support the government "in all good measures for the benefit of farmers".
His opponent in the election was William Thorn, a representative in support of Opposition policy.

## Later life

Lovejoy became host of the Travellers Home Hotel in Toowoomba and then built The Pioneers Arms, the first hotel in Goombungee. His last home was Spring Grove in the Bell area of the Darling downs. Lovejoy died in 1913 and was buried in Dalby Monumental Cemetery.
# William Love

William Love may refer to:
* William Love (Australian politician) (1810–1885), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
* William Love (London MP) (c. 1620–1689), Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of London
* William Carter Love (1784–1835), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
* William Edward Love (1806–1867), English impressionist
* William F. Love (1850–1898), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
* William H. Love (born 1957), Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York
* William L. Love (born 1872), New York politician
* William D. Love (1859–1933) United States Tax Court judge
* Willie Love (1906–1953), pianist