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(Encyclopedia) William Rufus: see William II, king of England. ...

(Encyclopedia) Thomson, William: see Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Murray, William: see Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Parsons, William: see Rosse, William Parsons, 3d earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Marshal, William: see Pembroke, William Marshal, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bentinck, William: see Portland, William Bentinck, 1st earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Seymour, William: see Hertford, William Seymour, 1st marquess and 2d earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Chambers, William, 1800–1883, and Robert Chambers, 1802–71, Scottish authors and publishers. Their firm of W. and R. Chambers is best known for Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which William started ...

(Encyclopedia) Hogarth, William, 1697–1764, English painter, satirist, engraver, and art theorist, b. London. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a silver-plate engraver. He soon made engravings on copper for b...

(Encyclopedia) Harney, William Selby, 1800–1889, American general, b. Haysboro, near Nashville, Tenn. He entered the army in 1818 and gained a colonel's rank in the Florida campaigns against Native Americans. Rank...