After Drake's death, the widow Elizabeth eventually married Sir William Courtenay of Powderham.

Wycliffe was summoned before William Courtenay, Bishop of London, on 19 February 1377, " to explain the wonderful things which had streamed forth from his mouth ".

Wycliffe's old enemy William Courtenay, now Archbishop of Canterbury, called in 1382 an ecclesiastical assembly of notables at London.

* July 31 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury

* Thomas Arundel succeeds William Courtenay as Archbishop of Canterbury.

" As mentioned above, William was opposed to Baldwin's mother Agnes of Courtenay, Patriarch Heraclius, and their supporters ; his interpretation of events during Baldwin's reign was previously taken as fact almost without question.

* Catherine of York ( 14 August 1479 – 15 November 1527 ); married William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon.

William Courtenay ( c. 1342 – 31 July 1396 ), English prelate, was Archbishop of Canterbury, having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.

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However, Beckford was bisexual and chose self-exile from British society when his letters to William Courtenay, later 9th Earl of Devon, were intercepted by the boy's uncle, who advertised the affair in the newspapers .. Courtenay was just ten years old on first meeting Beckford.

* 1513-1535 Sir William Courtenay ( d. 1535 ) of Powderham, Devon.

Parliament then imposed a new set of councillors on the King: Edmund Mortimer, the earl of March ; William Courtenay, bishop of London ; and William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester.

He first met William Courtenay ( Viscount Courtenay's 11-year-old son ), in 1778.

In 1784 Beckford was accused by Courtenay's uncle, Alexander Wedderburn Loughborough, 1st Lord ( later Earl of Rosslyn ) of having had a homosexual affair with William Courtenay.

Carradine tested, along with Conrad Veidt, William Courtenay, Paul Muni, and Ian Keith, for the title role in Dracula, but all contenders lost out to Bela Lugosi.

His first wife died childless in 1781, and the following year he married Charlotte, youngest daughter of William, Viscount Courtenay ; but her only son died in childhood.

Harcourt was born in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, the only surviving son of politician Sir William Vernon Harcourt and his first wife Maria Theresa Lister.

Three of the eight sons of the tenth Earl had descendants ( another, William Courtenay, was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor ).

William Courtenay, his only son, married Catherine of York, a younger daughter of Edward IV, around 1495.

In 1831, the senior living Courtenay of this line was William Courtenay, the third Viscount, an aged rake, living in Paris, having fled a bill of indictment.

* William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp 1924 – 1931

Mountbatten was married on 18 July 1922 to Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

It was purchased by the Museum from William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland in 1945 with the aid of a bequest from James Rose Vallentin.

The latter commenced the building of Scalloway Castle, but after his imprisonment in 1609 the Crown annexed Orkney and Shetland again until 1643 when Charles I granted them to William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton.

The plinth of the cross has the inscription: ' In Memory of William Barnes, Died Oct 7th 1886.

* October 27 – William Morris Hughes becomes the 7th Prime Minister of Australia.

* date unknown – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England ( d. 1414 )

* September 1 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England ( b. 1369 )

Elizabeth de Badlesmere married secondly to William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton ; their son was Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford.

* Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet ( born 1925 ), Chief Scout of the United Kingdom, 1972 – 1982

* William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle ( 1832 – 1894 )

Formerly William Lansing Taylor, James changed his name upon his enlistment in 1862 as a hospital steward in the 7th Kansas Cavalry.

Forsyth was established in 1876 as the first settlement on the Yellowstone River, and in 1882 residents named the town after General James William Forsyth who commanded Fort Maginnis, Montana during the Indian Wars and the 7th Cavalry at the Wounded Knee Massacre.

The Department is named to commemorate British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish for contributions to science and his relative William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, who served as Chancellor of the University and donated money for the construction of the laboratory.

" In recognition of his skill and valour William awarded him the lucrative colonelcy of the 7th Foot ( later the Royal Fusiliers ).

* William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton ( 1582 – 1648 )

Nordic repertoire became a staple of the orchestra, whilst other achievements included recordings of Shostakovich symphonies ( the 5th, 6th, 7th ' Leningrad ', 10th and 11th ' The Year 1905 ') and Piano Concertos ( with Cristina Ortiz ) and the William Walton Violin Concerto ( with Ida Haendel ) and Cello Concerto ( with Paul Tortelier ).

* William Morris ' Billy ' Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia – born at 7 Moreton Place

* Historical Manuscripts Commission, 7th Report, Manuscripts of William More Molyneaux at Loseley Park, ( 1879 ), 596-681.

Colonel William Pitt Kellogg, future governor of Louisiana, commanding the 7th Illinois cavalry, was the first to encounter the rebel sabotage of recently burned bridges and other obstructions.

As a result of his lengthy dispute with Thurstan, William travelled to Rome more frequently than any bishop before him except for Wilfrid in the 7th century.

Marshal William Beresford reacted promptly to this developing threat and immediately sent William Spry's Portuguese brigade of the 5th Division to engage the French infantry, while Wellington moved the 1st and 7th Divisions to assist.

Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division.

* George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington ( 1824 – 86 )