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(Encyclopedia) Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874–1965, British statesman, soldier, and author; son of Lord Randolph Churchill.
Churchill was undoubtedly one of the greatest public figures of the 20t...
(Encyclopedia) Seward, William Henry, 1801–72, American statesman, b. Florida, Orange co., N.Y.
In 1861, Seward became Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, and many expected him to be the real power in th...
(Encyclopedia) Nuffield, William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount nŭfˈēld [key], 1877–1963, English automobile manufacturer and philanthropist. Beginning his career as the proprietor of a bicycle shop, he later bec...
(Encyclopedia) British North Borneo: see Sabah, Malaysia.
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(Encyclopedia) Colonial Conference, British: see Imperial Conference.
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(Encyclopedia) O'Brien, William, 1852–1928, Irish journalist and political leader. He became (1881) editor of a newspaper, United Ireland, which championed the Irish agrarian cause (see Irish Land Question). Impri...
(Encyclopedia) Brown, William Wells, 1814–84, African-American abolitionist, writer, and doctor, b. near Lexington, Ky. Born into slavery, the child of a black slave mother and a white slaveholding father, Brown f...
(Encyclopedia) Granger, Clive William John, 1934–2009, British economist, b. Swansea, Wales, Ph.D. Univ. of Nottingham, 1959. A specialist in econometrics, the use of statistics to study the economy, Granger taugh...
(Encyclopedia) British Virgin Islands: see under Virgin Islands.
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(Encyclopedia) British East India Company: see East India Company, British.
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