William Robinson (Wisconsin politician)
William Robinson (February 27, 1825 – September 15, 1895) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
William Robinson (priest)
The Venerable William Robinson DD( d. 1642) was Archdeacon of Nottingham.
Valerie Boothby
Valerie Boothby( born Wally Drucker; 18 October 1904 – 14 April 1982) was a German actress and painter.
William Robinson (murder victim)
William Robinson was murdered in March 1868.
John de Bothby
John de Bothby, or Boothby( born c.1320- died after 1382) was an English- born cleric and judge who became Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
William Boothby
William Robinson Boothby (26 September 1829 – 12 July 1903) was Electoral Commissioner for South Australia, in charge of every parliamentary election from 1856 to 1903.
Boothby was the eldest son of South Australian Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Boothby.
William was born at Nottingham, England, and emigrated to Australia with his parents during 1853
In 1854, he was appointed as Deputy-Sheriff and its electoral officer for the colony, and he was promoted to Sheriff during 1856
He prepared the clauses of the South Australian Act of 1856 that instituted voting by ballot and those of the Act of 1858 that provided for the placing of a cross against the name of the favoured candidate.
He based his reform on ballots pre-printed with the candidates' names.
In a manner similar to that still used widely today, the voter marked the form in secret and placed it in a sealed box.
The ballots were collected and counted so that no one could be identified from their voting paper.
On 2 April 1856, South Australia enacted a law introducing the secret ballot, which had been adopted two weeks earlier in Victoria.
This was a significant change from the British practice, where elections were conducted "on the voices".
Voters assembled at local election centres where they called out the name of their chosen candidate, and the choice was then entered on a register.
That public process made the voter vulnerable to both bribery and intimidation, which caused wide concern.
Boothby's system was adopted for use in federal government elections in Australia.
In the second half of the 19th century, the use of the secret ballot spread to the US and to Europe; in 1892, Grover Cleveland became the first US president elected by Boothby’s system, universally referred to as 'the Australian ballot' for nearly a century.
In 1893, he was created CMG.
Boothby was the State Returning Officer for the first Australian House of Representatives election in 1901.
The Federal seat of Boothby, established in 1903 in Adelaide, was named in his honour.
In his later years, he became Comptroller of Prison Labour and a senator of the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
He died in Adelaide.
William P. Robinson III
William P. Robinson III is a Rhode Island Supreme Court justice.
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Benjamin Boothby
Benjamin Boothby (5 February 1803 – 21 June 1868) was a South Australian colonial judge, who was removed from office for misbehaviour, one of four Australian supreme court judges removed in the 19th century.
Boothby was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire.
He assisted Sir Thomas Wilde in his electoral campaigns and read in his chambers.
He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1825.
In 1853, Boothby was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
This was the last appointment of a South Australian judge by the Colonial Office.
Boothby, in a series of judgments, adopted a pedantic approach to Imperial Law, holding a number of South Australian statutes invalid, including the Real Property Act 1857, which introduced the Torrens system of land registration in South Australia.
Boothby also asserted that the Parliament of South Australia had not been validly constituted since the enactment of the Constitution Act 1855-56.
In 1865, partly in response to the approach taken by Boothby, the Imperial Parliament passed the Colonial Laws Validity Act, confirming the authority of the colonial Parliament to pass legislation different from that passed by the Imperial Parliament.
However, Boothby continued to create difficulties, refusing to acknowledge the authority of the Attorney-General and challenging the legality of the appointments of the other two Judges of the Supreme Court on the basis that only British-trained barristers could be appointed.
Proceedings were commenced to remove Boothby from office on the ground of misbehaviour.
The charges were found proved and the Judge was "amoved" on 29 July 1867.
Boothby took formal steps to appeal this decision to the Privy Council, but died before the appeal was heard.

Question: What is the place of birth of William Boothby's father?
Answer: Doncaster