But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

Unlike the tribute the network aired after William Hanna's passing, Jones ' tribute didn't show his birth or death years.

* Thomas William Jones, Baron Maelor

In 1900, Jones studied briefly at William Tilly's Marburg Language Institute in Germany where he was first introduced to phonetics.

William Wright had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones ( 1838 / 39 – 1923 ), a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County.

The Wright family struggled financially in Weymouth and returned to Spring Green, Wisconsin, where the supportive Lloyd Jones clan could help William find employment.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

The hypothesis reappeared in 1786 when Sir William Jones first lectured on the striking similarities between three of the oldest languages known in his time: Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, to which he tentatively added Gothic, Celtic, and Persian, though his classification contained some inaccuracies and omissions.

* 1749 – William Jones, Welsh mathematician ( b. 1675 )

Welsh Jacobins include William Jones, a radical patriot who was a keen disciple of Voltaire.

The term " Japhetic " was also applied by William Jones and other early linguists to what became known as the Indo-European language group.

His first Algonquian research, beginning around 1919, involved study of text collections in the Fox language that had been published by William Jones and Truman Michelson.

Bloomfield's initial research on Ojibwe was through study of texts collected by William Jones, in addition to nineteenth century grammars and dictionaries.

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While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.

Other members of DIP were William Scarboro, Jim Dose, Mark Dochtermann, Steve Hornback, Chuck Jones, and Susan Singer.

A steel engraving of Sir William Jones, after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.

William Jones was born in London at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster ; his father ( also named William Jones ) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for devising the use of the symbol pi.

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* 1818 – William M. Evarts, American lawyer and statesman ( d. 1901 )

Severn also painted such works as Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, Shepherds in the Campagna, Shelley Composing Prometheus Unbound, Isabella and the Pot of Basil, Portia with the Casket, Ariel, Rienzi, The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon, a large altarpiece for the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, and many portraits of statesman and aristocrats, including Baron Bunsen and William Gladstone.

* 1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1805 )

* 1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1737 )

* 1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman ( d. 1662 )

* 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician and statesman, 5th State President of the Orange Free State ( b. 1844 )

* 1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman ( b. 1638 )

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* 1521 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman ( d. 1598 )

More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I ( any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out ).

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC ( 15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778 ), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years ' War ( known as the French and Indian War in the United States ).

William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS ( 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898 ) was a British Liberal statesman.

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* November 28 – William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman ( b. 1789 )

* William Marshal, knight and statesman.

* William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, knight and statesman

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