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10 unusual facts about William and Mary


Caroline de Westenholz

Later, she co-organized a number of exhibitions about Dutch art in England, one of which took place during the William and Mary celebration year.

George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville

George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville (1636 – 20 May 1707) was a Scots aristocrat and statesman during the reigns of William and Mary.

Jan Drapentier

Drapentier was the son of D. Drapentier or Drappentier, a native of Dordrecht, who engraved some medals commemorative of the great events connected with the reign of William and Mary, and also a print with the arms of the governors of Dordrecht, published by Mathias Balen in his Beschryving van Dordrecht (1677).

Lancelot Errington

After the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89 resulted in the Roman Catholic Stuart king, James II of England and VII of Scotland, fleeing to exile in France, James' daughter and her husband, William and Mary, ascended the British throne as joint sovereigns, and were succeeded by the Protestant House of Hanover.

Sir James Montgomery, 4th Baronet

The resolution being carried, Montgomery was named one of three commissioners that for the shires to offer the Scottish crown to William and Mary.

Speaker's State Coach

:The back panel depicts William and Mary together with Britannia, and a ship in the background.

Thirteenth stroke of the clock

An obituary notice of a John Hatfield that appeared in the Public Advertiser a few days after his death states that a soldier in the time of William and Mary was tried by a court-martial on a charge of having fallen asleep when on duty upon the terrace at Windsor.

VCU Massey Cancer Center

1925 – The Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health became the Richmond division of the College of William and Mary.

William Murray, 2nd Lord Nairne

He took his seat in the Parliament of Scotland on 22 October 1690, but he never took the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, who in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 had unseated the last Stuart king, James II.

William Sherlock

After the "Glorious Revolution" he was suspended for refusing the oaths to William and Mary, but before losing his position he yielded, justifying his change of attitude.


Alastair King

In addition to his concert works, King has composed music for various films, including Shrek, Chicken Run, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and television programmes, including the FIFA World Cup 2002, The Last Detective, Second Nature and William and Mary.

Winslow Crocker House

Thacher's collection of furniture, accented by colorful hooked rugs, ceramics, and pewter, presents a thorough survey of early American styles, from Jacobean, William and Mary, and Queen Anne to Chippendale.