William Frances Schey, MP for Redfern and Darlington, helped this tradition of experimental farming continue in the form of the Government Agricultural Training Farm.

Christ Church is unique in that it has both a Cathedral Choir ( Director Stephen Darlington ) and a College Choir ( Director William Waine ).

* William Stevens ( Mr Stevens senior ) – the 72-year-old father of butler Stevens ( the narrator ), serving as under-butler ; Stevens senior suffers a severe stroke during a conference at Darlington Hall.

William Emerson ( 14 May 1701 – 20 May 1782 ), English mathematician, was born at Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school.

William Howe was born in England, the third and youngest son of Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe and Charlotte, the daughter of Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Leinster and Darlington, an acknowledged illegitimate daughter of King George I.

William Darlington ( DR )

William Darlington ( DR )

* Edes, Richard S. and Darlington, William M .: Journal and Letters of Col. John May, Robert Clarke and Co, Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1873 ), pp. 70 – 1.

In 1813, William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth designed a locomotive ( Puffing Billy ) for use on the tramway between Stockton and Darlington.

Between teaching jobs, William McGuffey received a classical education at the Old Stone Academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania.

' Derwent ', built in 1845 by William and Alfred Kitching for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is preserved at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum.

* William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington, 5th Baron Barnard ( 1766 – 1842 ) ( created Duke of Cleveland in 1833 )

The dukedom of Cleveland was created again in 1833 for William Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington, along with the title Baron Raby.

William Bateson was the first director from 1910 to 1926 ; Sir A. Daniel Hall was director, from 1926 to 1939 ; C. D. Darlington was director from 1939 to 1953 ; K. S. Dodds was director from 1953 to 1967 ; Roy Markham was director from 1967 to 1980 ; Harold Woolhouse was director from 1980 to 1988 ; Richard B. Flavell was director from 1988 to 1999.

File: Joseph Mallord William Turner-Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington-Walters 3741. jpg | Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington ( 1817 ) by Joseph Mallord William Turner.

In 1828 William Stenson observed the success of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and, with John Ellis, and his son Robert, travelled to see George Stephenson where he was building the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

In 1853 it was described by John Torrey, who named the genus Darlingtonia after the Philadelphian botanist William Darlington ( 1782 – 1863 ).

As the 19th-century historian William M. Darlington noted, for thirty years, Croghan was the Ohio Country's key figure.

* William Peachey, who followed Burleigh for an equally brief period of office, was based in Darlington and his work had more impact in the town.

* Darlington, William M. ( 1893 ), Christopher Gist's Journals, with Historical, Geographical and Ethnological Notes and Biographies of his Contemporaries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: J. H.

* William Darlington, ed., Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall.

On May 1, 1878, William Darlington, landowner and namesake of the nearby village of Darlington, responded to Mellon's request to use his land:

* 1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician ( b. 1710 )

William Cowper's poem, Boadicea, an ode ( 1782 ) popularised an alternate version of the name.

William Cowper wrote a popular poem, " Boadicea, an ode ," in 1782.

* October 22 – William Miller, American Baptist preacher ( b. 1782 )

** William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor ( d. 1782 )

* May 16 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician ( d. 1782 )

* May 14 – William Emerson, English mathematician ( d. 1782 )

He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where ( after meeting architects Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers ) he was involved in building additions to Somerset House there.

A fact important to the later development of the steam locomotive by others was that, in 1797 and 1798, Richard Trevithick came to live in Redruth next door to the house where William Murdoch lived ( 1782 to 1798 ).

The County is named for Col. William Crawford, a Revolutionary War soldier killed in 1782 while fighting Native Americans in Ohio.

The county is named for William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ), the judge of the KY Court of Appeals and Governor of Kentucky ( 1844 – 48 ).

* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.

Others say it was named for Col. William Crawford, who fought in the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War, and who was burned and scalped by Indians in 1782 in what is now Wyandot County, Ohio.

The county was named for William Jones Lowndes ( 1782 – 1822 ), a prominent South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor Rawlins Lowndes, had been a Revolutionary War leader.

* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.

All of them were published in 1782 under the title Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq ..

Here is an example from William Cowper's " Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk " ( 1782 ), composed in anapaestic trimeter:

The obverse scene is derived from Randolph Caldecott's front cover illustration for The Diverting History of John Gilpin ( based on a 1782 poem by William Cowper ), in which Gilpin is astride a runaway horse.

William Cowper addressed the artificiality of the fast paced city life in his poems Retirement ( 1782 ) and The Winter Nosegay ( 1782 ).

However, at William ’ s insistence, Caroline began to make observations on her own in 1782.

In 1782, William accepted the office of King's Astronomer to George III and moved to Datchet and subsequently to Observatory House near Slough ( then in Buckinghamshire, now in Berkshire ).

A Roman Monument at Igel in the Dutchy of Luxemburgh, coloured engraving published by John Boydell, London ( 1783 ) from a painting by Edward Rooker ( 1712 ?- 1774 ) after William Pars ( 1742 – 1782 )