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William E Simon Foundation

|300px|thumb|right|William E Simon Foundation masthead, Source: [http://www.wesimonfoundation.org/ William E Simon Foundation] 
==Grants to Counterjihad Organisations==
The William E Simon Foundation was a contributor to the David Horowitz Freedom Center according to IRS filings from 2013. 
The foundation donated USD $6000 in total to the organisation. William E Simon Foundation donations, Conservative Transparency, accessed 21 October 2015 
It also contributed USD $150,000 to the Donors Trust in 2012, which also has various counterjihad affiliations. Form 990 2013, Foundation Center, accessed 19 January 2016 
===2014 grantees===
*Donors Trust - $150,000 
*Philanthropy Roundtable - $35,000 (2 donations) 
===2013===
*Donors Trust - $150,000 
*Philanthropy Roundtable - $420,000 (3 donations)
===2012===
*Philanthropy Roundtable - $430,000 (3 donations) 
*Heritage Foundation - $75,000 
*Hudson Institute - $15,000
*Heritage Foundation: $75,000
*Hudson Institute: $15,000
*Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $105,000
*Donors Trust: $150,000 William E. Simon Foundation : 2012 top beneficiaries, Conservative Transparency, accessed 17 October 2016. 
===2007===
*Hudson Institute - $25,000 
*Philanthropy Roundtable - $390,000 
*Donors Trust: $100,000
*Middle East Forum: $5,000 
==People==
J Peter Simon - Director/co-chairman | William Simon Jnr - Director/co-chairman/assistant secretary | Mary Simon-Streep - Director | Carol Simon-Porges - Vice-president/treasurer/director | Aimee Simon-Bloom - Vice-president/secretary/director | Johanna Simon - Director | Daniel Mosely - Director | James Piereson - President/director | William Wachenfeld - Director | Michael Oliveri - Assistant treasurer Form 990 2014, Foundation Center, accessed 22 January 2016
==Notes==
 
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William Ehrman

Sir William Ehrman was Director International Security (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 2000-2002, and Director General, Defence and Intelligence (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 2002-2004.First witnesses named for public hearings, Iraq Inquiry, 16 November 2009.
==External Resources==
*Iraq Inquiry, Oral Evidence, 25 November 2009. 
==Notes==
Ehrman, WilliamCategory:Iraq Inquiry witnesses
William F. Buckley, Jr.

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) was a leading US conservative intellectual. He founded the National Review in 1955.Douglas Martin, William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82, New York Times, 27 February 2008.
In the early 1950s, Buckley spent a year working for the the Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City, where his immediate superior was E. Howard Hunt.
==Notes==
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William Garel-Jones

William Garel-Jones (Lord Garel-Jones) is a life peer and Conservative member in the House of Lords, joining on the 22 October 1997. 
==Affiliations==
*Honorary Associate National Secular Society National Secular Society Our Honorary Associates. Accessed 20 September 2015.
===Parliament===
*Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), 1990-93
*Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer, 1989-90
*Comptroller (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons), 1988-89
*Vice Chamberlain (HM Household) (Whip, House of Commons), 1986-88
*Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip), 1983-86
*Assistant Whip (HM Treasury), 1982-83 Lord Garel-Jones Parliament.UK, accessed 19 December 2014 
===Interests===
*Managing Director, UBS (banking)
*Member of Advisory Board, Vodafone (Spain)
*Chairman, UBS Latin America (banking)
*Member, International Advisory Board, Everis (Spain) (consulting, IT & outsourcing professional services)
==Notes==
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William Grant (businessman)

William Grant (1839-1923) was a Scottish distiller and entrepreneur who founded William Grant & Sons, the manufacturer of Glenfiddich, one of the first single-malt whiskies, and a leading brand today.
Grant was descended from Clan Grant, which arrived in Speyside after being rewarded with land for "services to the king".William Grant & Sons Ltd The Grant's Story - Early Years accessed 14 November 2008 In 1745, three brothers fought in the Jacobite rebellion against Hanover. Alexander Grant survived the Battle of Culloden but had to flee to Banffshire where he was hidden by a clan chief.
On 19 December 1839, Alexander Grant's great-grandson, William Grant, was born in Dufftown, Scotland. When he was seven he began herding the family cattle in the hills. He then worked as an apprentice shoemaker and a limeworks employee. He did, however, receive a good education. Consequently, in 1866 he became a bookkeeper at the local Mortlach Distillery. He gained an appreciation for the production of whisky and became manager of the distillery, where he worked for 20 years. His wife, Elizabeth, had nine children.
William Grant died in 1923. In the 2008 Sunday Times Rich List, his family were ranked 86th richest in the UK, and 3rd richest in Scotland.Sunday Time Rich List 2007 The Grant and Gordon Family, accessed 14 November 2008
==See also==
*The Grant and Gordon family
==References==
Grant, WilliamGrant, WilliamGrant, William
William Grant and Sons

William Grant & Sons Ltd. is an independent, family-owned Scottish company which distils Scotch whisky and other selected categories of spirits. It was founded in 1886 by William Grant, and is now run by the descendants of the founder. It is the largest of the handful of Scotch whisky distillers remaining in family ownership. "William Grant & Sons" is often abbreviated to "W. Grant & Sons" or just "Grant's", after their leading blended whisky of the same name.
The company is the 3rd largest producer of Scotch whisky (10.4% market share) after Diageo (34.4%), and Pernod Ricard. The company's central headquarters are in Strathclyde Business Park, North Lanarkshire. Sales and marketing headquarters are in Richmond, London. The company is a member of the Scotch Whisky Association.
2006 saw turnover in excess of £350m and a pre-tax profit of just over £75m. Based on the multiple when Glenmorangie was bought by Moët Hennessy two years ago, William Grant could be valued at £1.5bn, which would put it firmly in the FTSE-250. Computing.co.uk website, 29 March 2007 
==Family control==
:Handing the reins of the family business to an outsider proved a costly move for William Grant & Sons, which makes Glenfiddich, the world's best-selling single-malt whisky. Former chief executive Patrick Thomas, a Frenchman who joined in 2000, was paid Pounds 2.8 million in compensation for loss of office, according to the company's latest report and accounts. Thomas was the first outsider to head the family-owned company, established by William Grant in 1886. But even after paying him off, the company, based in Dufftown, Banffshire, managed to show a healthy return.
:Profits last year were Pounds 69 million, up from Pounds 61 million the year before, on turnover that rose Pounds 6 million to Pounds 329 million. The dividend remained the same at Pounds 3.5 million and the group's cumulative profit-and-loss account now shows a positive balance of Pounds 375 million. Charles Gordon, the 77-year-old patriarch, returned from his home in Portugal last year to take charge of the company after Thomas left.Mail on Sunday (London)November 21, 2004 Whisky dynasty's Pounds 2.8mfor outsider BYLINE: MARTIN TOMKINSON SECTION: C1; Pg. 10
==Notes==
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William H. Donner Foundation

250px|thumb|right|The William H. Donner Foundation Inc. Source: [http://www.donner.org/ Donner.org] 
==Grantees==
===2015===
*American Foreign Policy Council: $126,000
*CATO Institute: $20,000
*Center for Immigration Studies: $25,000
*Center for Security Policy: $25,000
*Heritage Foundation: $25,000
*Hudson Institute: $140,000
*Media Research Institute: $40,000 William H. Donner Foundation 2015 990 form 
===2014===
*CATO Institute - $20,000
*Center for Immigration Studies - $26,252
*Center for Security Policy - $25,000 
*Hudson Institute - $25,000 
*Media Research Institute - $25,000 Form 990 2014, Foundation Center, accessed 19 January 2016 
===2013===
*Donors Trust - USD $100,000 
*Center for Security Policy - USD $25,000
*CATO Institute - USD $20,000
*Center for Immigration Studies - $25,000 
*Hudson Institute - USD $50,000 (2 donations)
*Media Research Center - USD $25,000 Form 990 2012, Foundation Center, accessed 19 January 2016
===2010===
*American Enterprise Institute: $50,000
*American Foreign Policy Council: $25,000
*CATO Institute: $20,000
*Center for Security Policy: $64,750
*Center for Immigration Studies: $25,000
*Competitive Enterprise Institute: $46,208
*Heritage Foundation: $80,000
*Hudson Institute: $50,000
*Manhattan Institute: $35,500
*Media Research Center: $10,000 William H. Donner Foundation, 990 Form, 2010 
==People==
*Timothy Donner - President 
*Curtin Winsow - Trustee
*Joseph Donner Jr - Trustee
*Deborah Donner - Trustee
*Alexander Donner - Trustee
*Brittany Roy - Trustee
*Stephanie Hanson-Batanov - Trustee
*Cristina Winsor - Trustee
*Michael Hunter Spencer - Trustee
*Robert Spencer - Trustee
*William Spencer III - Treasurer
*Rebecca Winsor - Secretary
*David Donner - Trustee
*Anita Winsor Edwards - Trustee
*Monica Winsor - Trustee
*Sharon Lainhart - Trustee
*Joseph Donner III - Trustee
*Dillon Roy - Trustee 
==Funds==
*Middle East Forum
*Hudson Institute
==Notes==
Category:FoundationsCategory:Counterjihad Funders
William H. Taft

==Background==
William H. Taft IV serves as a Trustees Board member with Freedom HouseFreedom House Board of Trustees:William H Taft Accessed 15th May 2009, a conservative research, publishing, networking, and selective human rights organization.
==Biographical Information==
Taft is described in his biography as being the Warren Christopher Visiting Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy at Stanford Law School and a retired partner in the Washington office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
Taft formerly served as attorney adviser to the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, was the principal assistant to Caspar Weinberger then director of the Office of Management and Budget under Nixon, executive assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and was appointed by President Ford to serve as the department’s general counsel. His biography goes on to descibe that President Reagan appointed Taft as general counsel of the Department of Defense and he was later appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense. Taft has also served as acting Secretary of Defense after George H. W. Bush became president and served as U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO during the years after the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War ended. George W. Bush appointed Taft to serve as chief legal advisor to the State Department under Colin Powell.Freedom House Board of Trustees:William H Taft Accessed 15th May 2009 
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William H Gates

Bill H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software. Microsoft had revenues of US$44.28 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2006, and employs more than 71,000 people in 103 countries and regions.
On June 15, 2006, Microsoft announced that effective July 2008 Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. After July 2008 Gates will continue to serve as Microsoft’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects. 
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard University to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. 
Microsoft has invested $6.2 billion on research and development in the 2005 fiscal year. 
== Notes ==
#Microsoft (2007) Board of DirectorsMicrosoft Website (accessed 30/01/07)
William Hobhouse

William Hobhouse is the chairman and CEO of Heals, a London-based furniture and lighting company. Katie Law, 'Heals chairman Will Hobhouse my design London', 7 November 2013, Homes and Property, accessed 20 May 2016 
He is also co-founder of the Liberal Democrats campaign for manufacturing, and sits on the board of Liberal Reform.William Hobhouse Twitter page, Twitter, accessed 25 May 2016 
==Donations==
Recorded by the Electoral Commission:
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to 
 
03/06/2009 
Mr William A Hobhouse
£5,000.00
Conservative and Unionist Party 
 
 
16/06/2009 
Mr William A Hobhouse
£50,000.00 
Conservative and Unionist Party 
 
06/08/2009
Mr William A Hobhouse
£8,000.00
Conservative and Unionist Party
06/11/2014
Mr William Hobhouse
£4,000.00
Liberal Democrats
29/03/2016
William Hobhouse
£20,000.00
Vote Leave
 
Electoral Commission, William Hobhouse Donation Search, accessed 17 June 2016
==Notes==
 Hobhouse, William Hobhouse, WilliamCategory:Brexit ‘leave’ donor
William Howie

William Howie (Lord Howie of Troon) was made a life peer in the House of Lords in May 1978. Lord Howie of Troon www.parliament.uk, accessed 8 December 2014 
Howie is a retired Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament.
==History==
Howie was elected to the House of Commons at a 1963 by-election in the Luton constituency. He was re-elected at the 1964 general election with a majority of only 723 votes.
 
He held his seat at the 1966 election with an increased majority of 2,464, but at the 1970 general election he lost his seat to the Conservative Charles Simeons.
==Affiliations==
*Built Environment All-Party Parliamentary Group - Treasurer
==Notes==
Howie, William Howie, William
William J. Hood

William J. Hood was a CIA officer appointed to the Counterintelligence Staff shortly before the end of James Angleton's tenure as counterintelligence chief.Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior - James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter, Simon and Schuster, 1991, p.297.
==Conferences==
*Colloquium on Clandestine Collection
==Notes==
Hood, William J.Hood, William J.
William Joynson-Hicks

==Resources==
* Spartacus Educational William Joynson-Hicks
==Family==
*Richard Cecil Joynson-Hicks, 2nd Viscount Brentford (1896–1958), Son
*Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford (1902–1983), Son
*Crispin Joynson-Hicks, 4th Viscount Brentford (b. 1933), Grandson
*Gillian Joynson-Hicks, Granddaughter in law
==Notes==
William Kendall

William Kendall in partnership with Nick Beart, a financial director, have played a large part in Green & Black's development. Kendall has become a public supporter of the Conservative Party and he signed a Financial Times letter in support of it. 
The Financial Times letter, according to the Guardian columnist Catherine Bennett "features the usual suspects - the JCB magnate, Tesco's Sir Laurie Magnus, Sir Christopher Gent and, more interestingly, William Kendall, CEO of Green & Black, whose fair-trade organic cocoa is a staple in so many Islington trolleys. Does this tell us something interesting about the Conservative party? Absolutely not. But it does tell you quite a lot about fair-trade organic cocoa." Catherine Bennett We don't care who's in your fan club, Tony The Guardian, Thursday April 28 2005
This association with the Conservative Party is very interesting the fact that the party is associated with the lessening of state control as well as the opening up of markets. Rather than fairtrade, the Conservatives would be more likely to support free trade. This is a totally different method of trade and one which could cripple the small scale farmer which Green & Black's supposedly supports. The fact that Green & Black directors are asociate with politics leads many to wonder about their actual intentions within the company. "Whatever the logo on the product, international trade will never be fair, and there's no western government that wants it to become fair." Counting beans Ten years ago, Green & Black's Maya Gold chocolate launched Fairtrade in Britain. Today, the organisation's annual sales top £63m, but just how fair is it? William Sutcliffe heads to Belize to assess the impact of that one chocolate bar on the lives of the cocoa farmers working there, The Guardian Saturday August 7, 2004
==External Links==
==Affiliations==
*Green and Black's
*Open Europe
==Notes==
William Kessler

William Kessler - (6 April 1927 - 30 July 2019).https://www.kesslergroup.london/historyEdward Kessler 'William Kessler: Progressive Jewish leader, philanthropist and businessman', Jewish Chronicle, 6 December 2019.
According to an obituary by Edward Kessler:
:AT THE age of 15, William Kessler was told by his father to leave his local grammar school and start working for the family firm, Kesslers. He remained there for over 75 years. A successful businessmen, a generous philanthropist and prominent member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, Kessler... began as chairman of the youth club and rose to become LJS president... His dedication to Pregressive Jewish life led to his eventual chairmanship of Leo Baeck College.
==Family==
*Leopold Kessler - Father
Married Jo Reubner in 1952. The couple had four sons, George, Charles, James, and Edward
==Notes==
William L. Clayton

William L. Clayton was appointed in 1940 as assistant to Nelson Rockefeller at what eventually became the office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which worked closely with British Security Coordination.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, pp.16-18. He was also close to the group around Francis Pickens Miller which eventually became the Fight for Freedom Committee.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.27.
==Affiliations==
*Century Group
*Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
*Committee on the Present Danger (1950 version)
==External Resources==
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==Notes==
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William Lewis

William Lewis (born 04/09/1926) is a conservative activist and journalist who has worked for the tobacco industry lobby group FOREST.
==Appointments==
Date below is from Companies HouseLast accessed 20 April 2011
*DIRECTOR Appointed: PRE 31/12/1991
*Occupation: JOURNALIST
*Company Number: 01140724
*Company Name: FAR & WIDE PUBLISHERS LIMITED
*Active
 
*DIRECTOR Appointed: 15/02/1993
*Occupation: ECONOMIST
*Company Number: 02444194
*Company Name: THE FREEDOM ORGANISATION FOR THE RIGHT TO ENJOY SMOKING TOBACCO LIMITED
*Active
 
*DIRECTOR Appointed: 25/02/1993
*Dissolved: 26/09/1995
*Occupation: RETIRED
*Company Number: 02795268
*Company Name: MAASTRICHT REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN
*Dissolved
 
*DIRECTOR Appointed: 23/11/1993
*Resigned: 30/09/1994
*Dissolved: 18/06/1996
*Occupation: AUTHOR
*Company Number: 02874230
*Company Name: LIFESPAN ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS FORUM LIMITED
*Dissolved
==Notes==
William Luti

William J. Luti, was the deputy undersecretary of defense and a staunch supporter of the invasion of Iraq. Luti worked for the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a secretive Pentagon outfit whose players included Douglas Feith and Abram Shulsky, which was held responsible by the Pentagon Inspector General for the defective intelligence on Iraq. 
The Washington Post followed up on the Luti story in late October, running a full-page profile of the deputy undersecretary. According to the Post, one of Luti's early heroes was Albert Wohlstetter, the Strangelovian nuclear war strategist who influenced a number of key neocon figures. Reported the Post, "In the early 1990s, while deputy director of the chief of naval operations' executive panel, a civilian advisory group, Luti became interested in the views of one member, strategy guru Albert Wohlstetter. A mentor to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Defense Policy Board member Richard N. Perle and several other prominent conservative defense thinkers, Wohlstetter became Luti's entree into their world. From there, while still in the Navy, Luti became a congressional fellow in the office of then-Speaker Gingrich. His time there, in part spent working on legislation related to arming and training Bosnian Muslims, again brought him into contact with interventionist conservatives."
==Affiliations==
*Vice President's Office - Special Adviser for National Security Affairs 
*Office of Special Plans
*Center for Security Policy
==Related Articles==
*Seymour Hersh, "Selective Intelligence," The New Yorker, May 5, 2003
*Thomas Ricks, "Iraq War Planner Downplays Role," Washington Post, October 22, 2003
William McClean

William McClean was a witness in the murder trial of Wicklow publican Catherine Nevin. He has been accused of being a state informer and a suspect in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
::Nevin's lawyers contend that the documents, including Garda security files on witnesses Gerry Heapes, John Jones and William McClean, are relevant and would assist her in undermining their credibility and might also be relevant to the credibility of another State witness, Patrick Russell.
::The material, the defence alleges, includes security files indicating that Mr McClean was a suspect in the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974. Nevin claims that Mr McClean had during the trial denied that he had any paramilitary connections but that a Garda Special Branch file going back to 1974 would have an effect on his credibility in that regard.Nevin appeal over conviction adjourned, Irish Times, 21 February 2008.
Reference was made during Mrs Nevin's appeal to the Barron Report into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which states:
::General enquiries in Dublin brought to light a man who had stayed at the Four Courts Hotel from 10 to 16 May 1974. During that time he apparently made a number of phone calls and sent telegrams to Belfast and London. Suspicion focused on this man because of his known friendship with Joseph Stewart Young, an active member of the Mid-Ulster UVF, and the fact that he left the night before the 17 May without paying his bill. However, Garda enquiries failed to trace him, and attempts to follow up the various communications he had made led nowhere. In February 2000, the same man turned up as a witness in a murder trial in the State. He was traced and interviewed informally by Gardaí. Information received from that interview was conveyed to the Inquiry in a letter dated 30 September 2003. Garda inquiries are continuing.Interim Report on the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 1974 (December 2003), Appendix E: The Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, p73.
==References==
McClean, William
William McCrea

Dr. William McCrea was a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Member of Parliament (MP) for South Antrim, and is a former DUP MLA for South Antrim and also represented Mid Ulster. McCrea entered Parliament on 9 June 1983 – General election. He entered the Assembly on 25 June 1998 – General election and resigned from the Assembly on 1 July 2010.TheyWorkForYou website, accessed 4 August 2010
McCrea lost his seat in Antrim in the 2015 general election to the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)'s Danny Kinahan by 949 votes. BBC News South Antrim, accessed 21 May 2015.
==All Party Parliamentary Groups==
As at July 2010 McCrea sat on the following All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs):APPG Register, ParliamentUK website, accessed 4 August 2010
*All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals and BereavementAll-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals and Bereavement, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 30 July 2010), accessed 4 August 2010
==Notes==
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