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31 unusual facts about William "Parson" Brownlow


Bill Dawson

William "Red" Dawson (born 1942), former American football player and assistant coach for Marshall University

Garnet Sixsmith

Just before the game began, Portage Lakes' William "Lady" Taylor told Garnet; "I'm going to break your break tonight".

Gov. Stanford

The locomotive was disassembled and stored during World War II but was returned to display at the university after reassembly by retired Southern Pacific engineer Billy Jones.

James Maury

He was a figure in the notable lawsuit that became known as "The Parson's Cause" in 1763, in which the young attorney Patrick Henry argued that the colony had the right to establish its own method of payment to clergy (which had been vetoed by the Crown).

This suit, known in American history as the Parson's Cause, was an important legal and political dispute in the Colony of Virginia as it involved the question of taxation, and whether it was controlled by the colony or the Crown.

Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased

Covering material he worked on with luminaries such as Holland-Dozier-Holland, Smokey Robinson and William "Mickey" Stevenson, the disc showcases Gaye's growth as a vocalist.

Malcolm R. Patterson

The Republican Party, which was embroiled in a power struggle between Walter P. Brownlow and Newell Sanders, initially nominated two candidates, T. Asbury Wright (Brownlow's candidate) and George Tillman (Sanders's candidate), but Wright eventually withdrew.

Manor St. George

George's Manor was a large tract of land purchased by William "Tangier" Smith in the 17th century on Long Island, in central Suffolk County, New York.

The patent for Manor St. George was granted to Col. William "Tangier" Smith in 1693 in recognition of Col. Smith's being mayor of Tangier in Africa.

Martha Burk

Burke is widely known for a disagreement beginning in 2002 with William "Hootie" Johnson, then chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, over admission of female members to Augusta National.

Mountain Home National Cemetery

The cemetery features over 12,000 graves highlighted by a monument to Congressman Walter Preston Brownlow, who petitioned the government and worked tirelessly to have the veteran's center created.

Mr. Brownlow

Later, after Oliver is captured by Nancy and Bill Sikes, it is revealed that much later, close to midnight, the two men are still waiting in the dark.

In the film version of Oliver!, Brownlow is made into Oliver's great-uncle, and the boy is saved, not at London Bridge, but from the rooftops of London, where Bill Sikes, who has murdered Nancy and taken Oliver as a hostage, has forced him to crawl out on a wooden hoist in order to loop a rope that Sikes intends to use in his escape.

Parson-naturalist

The tradition of clerical naturalists may be traced back to some monastic writings of the Middle Ages, although some argue that their writings about animals and plants cannot be correctly classified as natural history.

Parson's Cause

Patrick Henry, then relatively unknown, rose to prominence by defending Hanover County against Maury's claims.

Parson's freehold

Conflict over tithes in particular led to the fixing of tithes under the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836, and their abolition in 1935.

Parson's Pond

The Arches Provincial Park with an interessting geological formation of limestone formed by glacial action, wind and water erosion is 10 km north of the town.

Peruna

The first football teams at SMU were unofficially known as the "Parsons" because of the large number of theology students on the team, but after SMU won a state championship in women's basketball, it was determined that the university's teams needed an official mascot.

Ridge, New York

In 1693, William "Tangier" Smith, who owned a homestead in Setauket, was allowed to purchase a large tract of land on the South Shore of Long Island in recognition of his being mayor of Tangier in Africa.

Samuel Cole Williams

Williams joined politician Walter P. Brownlow in forming Watauga Light and Power Company and the Johnson City Transit Company (Johnson City Streetcar Company).

Sean Graham

Then he ran for William & Mary, after which he ran as a full-time professional for Nike's Farm Team and subsequently for Oregon Track Club.

Smitty Smith

William "Smitty" Smith (August 30, 1944–November 28, 1997), a keyboardist and session musician

The Apostles

The Apostles were formed in the Islington area of London in 1979 by William 'Bill' Corbett (vocals), Julian Portinari (bass), Dan McIntyre (drums) and Pete Byng-Hall (guitar).

Virginia State Route 132

The state highway heads north as two-lane Henry Street, which crosses Paper Mill Creek and passes through a forested area before reaching the southern edge of downtown Williamsburg, where the highway passes the William & Mary School of Law and the National Center for State Courts.

Walter Newman Haldeman

He attended Maysville Academy with future prominent Americans’ Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Wadsworth, Thomas H. Nelson, and William "Bull" Nelson under the tutelage of Professor William A. Richardson.

Walter P. Brownlow

In December 1881, he was appointed Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives for the 47th Congress (1881–1883), a position which controlled entry to the House floor.

Wedding for Disaster

His Holiness the Parson, the head of the Presbylutheran denomination, tells Reverend Lovejoy that due to a lapsed ministerial certification various ceremonies he performed are invalid.

William 'Gentleman' Smith

However, he won popularity as Richard III, Hotspur, and Hastings, and was also admired in the roles of Kitely, Archer, and Oakly.

William Corbett

William 'Bill' Corbett, Disk Jockey, English Photographer, Shakesperian, Historian

William Dunlop

William "Tiger" Dunlop (1792–1848), Member of Parliament for United Province of Canada and Warden of the Forests, Canada Company.

WKLR

The station was, for many years, the flagship station for The College of William & Mary Tribe football and men's basketball.


1956–57 Northern Rugby Football League season

Pat Quinn, Del Hodgkinson, Keith McLellan (c), Lewis Jones, George Broughton, Jr, John Lendill, Jeffrey "Jeff" Stevenson, Joe Anderson, Bernard Prior, William "Bill" Hopper, Bernard Poole, Don Robinson, Harry Street.

7096 Napier

7096 Napier is a Mars-crossing asteroid named after William (Bill) M. Napier, the Scottish astronomer.

Angelica Schuyler Church

This is an allusion to a sexually charged scene in Laurence Sterne's popular novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy in which "Parson Yorick" has to negotiate sleeping arrangements when obliged to share a room with an attractive Italian woman and her maid.

Bighorn Basin

Around the turn of the 20th century the Bighorn Basin was settled by ranchers such as William "Buffalo Bill" Cody who founded the town of Cody and owned a great deal of land surrounding the Shoshone River.

Blencow

The mansion of Ennim just south of the village was the home for many years of the Conservative politician and cabinet minister William (Willie) later Viscount Whitelaw.

Buffalo Bill Dam

It is named after the famous Wild West figure William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who founded the nearby town of Cody and owned much of the land now covered by the reservoir formed by its construction.

Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough

he secretly married Anastasia Robinson (ca. 1695–1755), a famous dramatic singer (from 1714) of great beauty and sweetness of disposition, daughter of Thomas Robinson (died 1722), a portrait painter; but she was at first unrecognized as his wife, and lived apart from him (regarded merely as his mistress) with her two sisters at Parson's Green.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born at 70 Parson Street, Townhead, Glasgow, on 7 June 1868, the fourth of 11 children and second son of William Mackintosh, the superintendent and chief clerk of the City of Glasgow Police, and his wife, Margaret Rennie.

Chris Parson

Parson had voiced the title role (as well as many others) on Comedy Central's animated series Lil' Bush, and has lent his voice to episodes of Fox's popular shows Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, and Disney's Handy Manny.

It was after being laid-off from Sony that Parson decided to pursue a career in voiceover, one he entered after responding to a classified ad on the popular website Craigslist.

Heinz Josef Algermissen

After serving as chaplain in Bielefeld and Mescheden, during which time he also counseled at the high school in Paderborn, he became parson in 1980 in Bielefeld-Schildesche, and dean in 1984.

Horne, Surrey

Mr. Stileman, who was instituted parson in 1728, bought a house near the church, but this was afterwards bought by the parish for a workhouse, and so continued to be used until the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834.

Joanna Trollope

Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Jonathan Cooper

Against William & Mary, he played all 71 snaps and graded out at a season-best 92 percent with seven knock-downs.

Klemens Janicki

Not wanting to work for count Kmita, he devoted himself to work as a parson in Gołaczewy near Olkusz.

Leonard Smithers

His naked body was found in a house in Parson's Green on his 46th birthday, surrounded by empty bottles of Dr J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne.

Let's You and Him Fight

Let's You and Him Fight is a Popeye theatrical cartoon short released in 1934, starring William "Billy" Costello as Popeye, Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl, and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy.

Luke Pasqualino

Pasqualino portrayed the younger self of William "Husker" Adama in the prequel, which was first distributed as a ten-episode online series on Machinima.com starting November 9, 2012, and then aired in early 2013 as a televised film on Syfy.

Mark 14 torpedo

Only in May 1943, after the most famous skipper in the Sub Force, Dudley W. "Mush" Morton, turned in a dry patrol, did Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, Commander Submarine Force Pacific (COMSUBPAC), accept the Mark VI should be deactivated, but waited to see if Bureau of Ordnance commander Admiral William "Spike" Blandy might yet find a fix for the problem.

McKnight Boulevard

It is named for William Lidstone McKnight (1918-1941), a World War II flying ace with the Royal Air Force who had spent much of his childhood in Calgary before disappearing shortly after the Battle of Britain in combat.

Nancy Tasman Brower

After playing on the U.S. women's national lacrosse team, Karin Brower Corbett coached at Rutgers University, Villanova University, William & Mary College, and Drew University.

Richard Levett

The sons of a country parson in Rutland, the two Levett brothers imported goods into England, which they then sold to chapmen at fairs across the country, including those at Lenton, Gainsborough, Boston, Beverley and elsewhere.

Richard Risby

12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Observant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (St.John's College, Cambridge), parson of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex and Richard Master M.A. (King's College, Oxon)rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some oversight Master's name is included and Risby's omitted in the catalogue of praetermissi.

Sanders Corps of Cadets Center

Among the exhibits are those honoring Texas A&M traditions such as the 12th Man, Silver Taps and Muster, as well as some of the Corps of Cadets' most cherished traditions: Aggie Band, Final Review, Fish Drill Team, Parson's Mounted Cavalry and Ross Volunteers.

Seasin's Greetinks!

Seasin's Greetinks! is a Popeye theatrical cartoon short, starring William "Billy" Costello as Popeye and Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy.

Shelsleys

Charles Nott, the Parson of Shelsley was a leader of the Clubmen who drew up the Woodbury Declaration, which listed the greviences that local people had at the behaviour of Royalist forces in the area.

Sov gott Rose-Marie

Pärson Sound's drone-based experimental rock sound, inspired by The Velvet Underground, Terry Riley and the Rolling Stones, was filtered through a more folky, nationalist inspired sound, in hopes to "create a more temporary kind of rhythmic music that could play the same role as traditional folk music."

The Country Parson

A Priest to the Temple, or the Country Parson (1652), often abbreviated The Country Parson, a collection of poetry by George Herbert, a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.

Thomaso

In October 1664, Killigrew's King's Company gave an unprecedented all-female-cast production of his Parson's Wedding.

Timothy Pont

The task of revision was completed by Gordon's son, James Gordon, parson of Rothiemay, and they were published in Joan Blaeu's Atlas Novus, vol.

William Tuckwell

His daughter was Gertrude Tuckwell, to whom his Reminiscences of a radical parson was dedicated.