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.

* February 22 – Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.

* February 22 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas ( murdered )

Brooke's brother, 2nd Lt. William Alfred Cotterill Brooke, was a member of the 8th Battalion London Regiment ( Post Office Rifles ) and was killed in action near Le Rutoire Farm on 14 June 1915 aged 24.

* In 1452, King James II of Scotland murdered William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, with his own hands and threw him out the window at Stirling Castle.

Lyttelton was born at Eton College, Buckinghamshire, where his father, George William Lyttelton ( second son of the 8th Viscount Cobham ), was a house master.

* Sir William de Boreel, 1st Baronet, of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands ( 1645 )-the 8th Baronet also became Jonkheer in the Dutch nobility, extant

Her great-uncle was Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, who was leader of the Liberal Party in the 1870s, and a close colleague of William Ewart Gladstone, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Salisbury.

His eldest surviving son, Philip ( 1621 – 1669 ), became 5th Earl of Pembroke, and 2nd Earl of Montgomery ; he was twice married, and was succeeded in turn by three of his sons, of whom Thomas, the 8th Earl ( c. 1656 – 1733 ), was a person of note during the reigns of William III and Anne.

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* Evangelist William Branham lived in Jeffersonville for much of his life, and the Branham Tabernacle still stands on the Corner of 8th and Penn Streets.

The pall-bearers were several of his clients: Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ; George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry ; James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale ; David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield ; Lord Frederick Campbell and Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet.

Again, in 1448, the town was burnt by a Scottish Army led by William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, and George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus.

The estate was inherited by nine-year-old William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian in 1840.

* William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas ( 1425 – 1452 )

* William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry ( died 1640 ), son of the 8th Baron Drumlanrig

* William Douglas, 9th Earl of Morton ( died 1681 ), son of the 8th Earl of Morton

* William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton and 8th Earl of Selkirk ( 1845 – 1895 )

Including James II stabbing William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas to death ( 1452 ) and James ' own death due to a bursting cannon at the siege of Roxburgh ( 1460 ).

The initial recordings included live concert performances of William Bolcom's 8th Symphony and Lyric Concerto, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Ravel's complete Daphnis et Chloé, which won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.

Lieutenant General Sir John Monash later described the recapture of the town of Villers-Bretonneux on 25 April 1918 after the Germans had overrun the 8th British Division under General William Heneker as the turning-point of the war.

Monash was regarded with great respect by the British-a British captain on the staff of William Heneker's 8th Division described Monash as " a great bullock of a man ... though his manners were pleasant and his behaviour far from rough, I have seen few men who gave me such a sensation of force ... a fit leader for the wild men he commanded ".

* Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet-First Commissioner of Works

Prince William ’ s 8th Brigade ( 1 / 5th, 2 / 5th and 2 / 35th Foot ).

The 8th Earl's eldest son William Richard George became the 9th Earl.

* Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch KT GCVO TD PC, brother of Lord William Scott, who was another member.