His parents, Archibald and Margaret Houston, were farmers who had emigrated to the then British colony from Ireland.
Houston | William Shakespeare | William Laud | Whitney Houston | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | William Hogarth | University of Houston | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | Houston Astros | William Wilberforce | William James | William Makepeace Thackeray | Fort William | William Hanna |
The Jews eventually withdrew on religious grounds and Rule was involved when the Lieutenant Governor William Houston set up the first official free school on Flat Bastion Road in 1832 and he sent his own children there.
He appeared as Constable 'Clarky' Clarke in the 2009 film 'Sherlock Holmes' alongside Robert Downey, Jr and Jude Law,directed by Guy Ritchie (credited as William Houston)