* William M. Bass

* Miners: " Captain " John Hance, William W. Bass, Louis Boucher " The Hermit ", Seth Tanner, Charles Spencer, D. W. " James " Mooney

William M. Bass undertook the procedure and confirmed Smiley's original report.

*** William Marvin Bass Elementary School

A one and a half mile ( 2. 4 km ) racecourse was constructed by Sir William Bass and Viscount Lascelles, and opened in 1929 by the Earl of Harewood and his wife the Princess Royal.

* William F. Hooley — Bass

In October 1795 Bass and Flinders, accompanied by William Martin sailed the Tom Thumb out of Port Jackson to Botany Bay and explored the Georges River further upstream than had been done previously by the colonists.

One story, attributed to William Campbell of the brig Harrington has it that Bass was captured by the Spanish in Chile and sent to the silver mines.

More modern collections include the William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

* William M. Bass ( University of Tennessee, Emeritus )

He is the eldest son of Captain Peter Robin Hood Hastings Bass ( 1920 – 1964 ) ( who assumed the additional surname of Bass, which was that of his uncle by marriage, Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet, by deed poll in 1954 ), son of Aubrey Craven Theophilus Robin Hood Hastings ( 1878 – 1929 ), younger son of the fourteenth Earl.

The Bass family descended from William Bass, who founded the brewery business of Bass & Co in Burton upon Trent in 1777.

* Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, 2nd Baronet ( 1879 – 1952 )

In 1796, George Bass, Matthew Flinders and the boy servant William Martin began an expedition to explore parts of the colony on a small boat called the Tom Thumb.

During 1974 Bass worked for Maine Republican U. S. Congressman William Cohen.

It was first started in late 1981 by anthropologist Dr. William M. Bass as a facility for study of the decomposition of human remains.

* Death's Acre by Dr. William Bass and Jon Jefferson

At the forefront of this gang were Pte ' Excused Boots ' ( aka ' Bootsie ') Bisley played by comedian Alfie Bass, Cpl Springer ( Michael Medwin ), Pte ' Cupcake ' Cook ( Norman Rossington ), Pte ' Popeye ' Popplewell ( Bernard Bresslaw ) and future Doctor Who actor William Hartnell as bellowing Sgt Major Bullimore.

* William Martin ( 1796 – unknown ), accompanied George Bass and Matthew Flinders in the Tom Thumb

* January 11 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist ( b. 1717 )

* February 1 – William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman ( b. 1717 )

*** HRH Prince George William ( 1717 – 1718 )

George I of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( Hanover ) joined the coalition in 1714 for Hanover and in 1717 for Britain, and Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia joined it in 1715.

* William Lancaster ( died 1717 )-scholar ; was married to a daughter of a Mr Wilmer from Sywell.

File: Rome William Kent Sint-Juliaan. jpg | Painted Ceiling Chiesa di San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi Rome, The Apotheosis of St Julian 1717

* William Hamilton ( surgeon ) ( died 1717 ), surgeon in the British East India Company

Baker, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William ; he resigned Long Newton on 1 August 1690, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till 20 January 1716 / 1717, when he and twenty-one others were deprived of their fellowships.

William Williams Pantycelyn ( 1717 – 11 January 1791 ), also known as Williams Pantycelyn and Pantycelyn, is generally acknowledged as Wales ' most famous hymn writer.

*' Williams, William ( 1717 – 1791 )'.

* William Williams Pantycelyn ( 1717 – 1791 ), religious leader & musician

William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington PC ( 5 January 1717 – 1 February 1793 ) was a British politician best known for his two periods as Secretary at War during Britain's involvement in the Seven Years War and American War of Independence.

* William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington ( 1717 – 93 )

He wrote his Reflexions upon Exile, and in 1717, his letter to Sir William Wyndham in explanation of his position, generally considered one of his finest compositions, but not published till 1753 after his death.

* Prince George William of Great Britain ( 1717 – 1718 ), son of George II

King Frederick William I inaugurated the Prussian compulsory system in 1717.

William Molineux ( c. 1717 – October 22, 1774 ) was a hardware merchant in colonial Boston best known for his role in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and earlier political protests.

William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, KG, PC ( 17 September 1717 O. S.

William Henry Nassau van Zuylestein was born in 1717, the elder son of Frederick Nassau van Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of Rochford, and his wife Elizabeth (‘ Bessy ’) Savage, daughter of the 4th Earl Rivers.

* 1717 – birth of William Henry Nassau van Zuylestein at St Osyth

* Geoffrey W. Rice, ‘ Nassau van Zuylestein, William Henry, fourth earl of Rochford ( 1717 – 81 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, eds.

* Sir William Thomson ( Solicitor General ), Solicitor General for England and Wales, 1717 – 1720

* Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet ( 1656 – 1717 )

* William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock ( died 1717 ), Scottish nobleman