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8 unusual facts about William Henry


Ninnidh

In William Henry's Upper Lough Erne in 1739 the well was described as a chief curiosity, "being a plentiful foundation of pure water, having a clearance and coolness scarce to be met with. It was at that time a popular spot for boatspeople to retire to for their entertainments for which and around it are arranged benches of sod and over it a shade of aquatic trees".

The Fabulous Suzanne

The young and beautiful Suzanne O'Neill (Barbara Britton) works as a waitress in her fiance William 'Bill' Harris's (William Henry) diner.

William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken

After his mother's death, his brother Charles acted as regent until William Henry came of age in 1741.

Charles received Nassau-Usingen on the right bank of the Rhine; William Henry received Nassau-Saarbrücken on the left bank.

William Henry was the fifth son of William Henry of Nassau-Usingen Born and Princess Charlotte Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg.

William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (6 March 1718 in Usingen – 24 July 1768 in Saarbrücken), was Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken from 1741 until his death.

William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

William Henry was the son of Prince Walrad of Nassau-Usingen and his wife, Catherine Françoise, comtesse de Croÿ-Roeulx

Prince William Henry of Nassau-Usingen (born: 2 May 1684 in 's-Hertogenbosch; died: 14 February 1718 in Usingen) was from 1702 to 1718 Prince of Nassau-Usingen.


Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

Charles was the son of William Henry of Nassau-Usingen and Countess Charlotte Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Son of the prominent railroad tycoon William Henry and Virginia Reed Osborn, Henry Fairfield Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1857.

Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

After his death in 1702, he was succeeded as Prince of Nassau-Usingen by his son William Henry.


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Alexander John Ellis

His other brother William Henry Sharpe served with the Lancashire Fusiliers after moving north with his family to Cumberland, due to military work.

Bill Landis

William Henry Landis (born October 8, 1942 in Hanford, California) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1963 through 1969 for the Kansas City Athletics (1963) and Boston Red Sox (1967–1969).

Bolton upon Dearne

In the early 18th century Barnsley attorney William Henry Marsden Esquire of nearby Burntwood Hall bought the Lord of the Manor of Bolton on Dearne with Goldthorpe for £10,000 together with over 1,000 acres (4 km²) of land.

Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern

# Anna Elisabeth (b. Dessau, 5 April 1598 – d. Tecklenburg, 20 April 1660), married on 2 January 1617 to William Henry, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

David Bedell-Sivright

Bedell-Sivright was born in Edinburgh in 1880 to William Henry Revell Bedell-Sivright of North Queensferry.

E H D Sewell

His grandfather was Sir William Henry Sewell (c1786–1862),who was aide-de-camp to William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, during the Peninsular War, and joined the Duke of Wellington’s army in Portugal in 1808.

Edward Chandos Leigh

Leigh started playing cricket as a boy at Stoneleigh Abbey after his father Lord Leigh, Lord Byron's schoolmate at Harrow, established a cricket ground at his country estate at Stoneleigh Abbey in 1839 for his eldest son William Henry Leigh who was attending Harrow.

Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough

Channing born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, the youngest child and only son of American parents, Reverend William Henry Channing (1810–1884) and Julia Maria Allen (died 1889).

Frederic William Henry Myers

Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843, in Keswick, Cumberland – 17 January 1901, in Rome) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.

Frederick Seward

Frederick W. Seward (1830–1915), American Assistant Secretary of State, son of William Henry Seward, Sr. and Frances Adeline Seward and elder brother of General William Henry Seward, Jr.

George Basevi

Other work included the stables at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire, Bywell Bridge in Northumberland, the Entrance Hall and Dining Room at Painswick House for his brother-in-law William Henry Hyett, and the remodelling of Gatcombe Park for the economist David Ricardo.

Glenn Terrell

In the late 1880s, Glenn Terrell's grandparents, Rev. William Henry Terrell and Lizzie Crawford Terrell, moved from Daleville, Mississippi, to Bushnell, Florida, Sumter County, Florida, north of Tampa.

Grueby Faience Company

The company was founded in Revere, Massachusetts, by William Henry Grueby (Boston 1867—New York 1925), who had been inspired by the matte glazes on French pottery and the refined simplicity of Japanese ceramics he had seen at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago the previous year, and the architect-designer William Graves.

Harrison family of Virginia

John Cleves Symmes (1742–1814), Father-in-law of William Henry Harrison, Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court 1777–1787, Delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey 1785–1786, Justice of the Northwest Territory Supreme Court 1788–1802.

Harry Pilkington

William Henry ('Harry') Pilkington, Baron Pilkington (1905–1983) was a glass manufacturer and former President of the Federation of British Industries but who is remembered politically as chairman of the controversial Pilkingon Committee that produced the Pilkington Report of 1962.

Henry Timrod

In 1856 he accepted a post as a teacher at the plantation of Col. William Henry Cannon in the area that would later become Florence, South Carolina.

Jon Brooks

13 songs inspired by the lives of Canadians, Sen. Romeo Dallaire, Padre William Henry Davis, John McRae, Sgt. Tommy Prince, and James Loney to name a few.

Kate Ferguson

She was born Catherine Sarah Lee, to the southern poet Eleanor Percy Lee and William Henry Lee, cousin of General Robert E. Lee.

Lord William Paget

They had several children, including William Henry Paget, a Major-General in the Indian Army.

Mary Gaunt

Mary was the eldest daughter of William Henry Gaunt, a Victorian county court judge, and was born in Chiltern, Victoria.

Regina Cyclone

English actor William Henry Pratt, better known by his stage name "Boris Karloff," was in Regina at the time of the tornado as a member of the Jeanne Russell Players, a struggling company of actors and singers.

Saint Matthew's Episcopal Day School

Two acres of land were donated by Agnes Poett Howard, widow of William Davis Merry Howard, and their son, William Henry Howard.

Sedbury

The estates were bought by the businessman and politician Samuel Marling in 1875, and his son Sir William Henry Marling made major alterations to the house around 1898.

Shotgate

The Hurricane fighter recalls the incident on 31 May 1940, when RAF Pilot Officer William Henry Hodgson, a New Zealander, engaged hostile bombers and fighters over the River Thames in his Hawker Hurricane, but it was hit and caught fire.

Stoneleigh Cricket Club

The club was formed in 1839 by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh and the ground was established in front of the West Wing of Stoneleigh Abbey for the benefit of his sons William Henry Leigh and Edward Chandos Leigh so that they might continue to play cricket in the summer on returning home from Harrow School.

Tim D. White

White has mentored a number of prominent paleoanthropologists, such as Berhane Asfaw, William Henry Gilbert, David DeGusta, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, and Gen Suwa.

United States presidential election, 1840

The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election, who had been campaigning for the Whig nomination ever since; General Winfield Scott, a hero of the War of 1812 who had been active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838; and Henry Clay, the Whigs' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.

W. H. Denny

Denny was born William Henry Leigh Dugmore at Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England.

William Gore-Langton

William Henry Gore-Langton (1802-1875), known as Henry Gore-Langton, MP, son of William Gore-Langton (1760–1847)

William H. Hughes

William Henry Hughes (September 30, 1864 in Chapmanville, Venango County, Pennsylvania – November 11, 1903 in Granville, Washington County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

William H. Murray

William Henry Davis Murray was born in the town of Toadsuck, Texas (renamed "Collinsville" in the 1880s), on November 21, 1869.

William Henry Andrews

William Henry "Bull" Andrews (January 14, 1846 – January 16, 1919) was an American politician who served as a Republican representative in the Pennsylvania General Assembly and as a delegate from the New Mexico Territory.

William Henry Atkinson

William Henry Isaac Atkinson was born on 22 April 1923, and raised at Minnedosa in Manitoba, later moving to Winnipeg.

William Henry Bay

After Alaska was purchased by the US Government in 1867, the first effort to identify the timber trade route from Lynn Canal to Haines via William Henry Bay was made in 1869 by Navy Commander Richard Worsam Meade.

William Henry Brisbane

Reverend Dr. William Henry Brisbane (October 12, 1806 Beaufort County, South Carolina - April 5, 1878 Arena, Wisconsin) was a Baptist minister of the southern United States who, having convinced himself of the immorality of slavery, freed and settled a group of slaves he had inherited, and became an active abolitionist.

William Henry Clark

Sir William Henry Clark, GCMG, KCSI (January 4, 1876 – November 22, 1952) was a British civil servant and diplomat.

William Henry Coffin

William Henry Coffin (1812–1898), a.k.a. "Haskell Coffin" and "William Haskell Coffin," was an American painter whose work was frequently used commercially.

William Henry Groom

William Henry Groom (9 March 1833 – 8 August 1901) was a publican, newspaper proprietor, and member of the Parliament of Queensland and the Parliament of Australia.

William Henry James Blakemore

William Henry James Blakemore * in 1871 in the West Midlands Birmingham, England is an English engraver, and medallist at the Royal Mint London.

William Henry Taylor

William Henry Taylor (30 March 1906 – January 1965) was a Canadian-born US Treasury economist accused by Elizabeth Bentley of having been a Soviet spy.

William Hope

Bob Hope (William Henry Hope), British-born American comedian and actor

William Tanner

Dooee Tanner, William Henry Tanner, Australian rugby union player

William Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901–81), 59th Governor of Rhode Island, grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt

William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland

He was baptised at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace (with the names William Harry which he later changed to William Henry).