A second vessel, the Cuba, with a surveyors ' team headed by Captain William Mein Smith, R. A., sailed in August, followed a month later by the first of nine immigrant ships, even before word had reached London of the success of the Tory and Cuba.

Swayed by the opinion of its Surveyor-General, Captain William Mein Smith of the Royal Artillery, the Company established the initial settlement, called " Britannia ",

Frederick William is convinced by Gneisenau to do so, and sits down to write the proclamation An Mein Volk (" To my People ") announcing the War of Liberation.

When this enterprise failed to meet with its expected success, Revans returned to New Zealand, where he and William Mein Smith had established a large station at Huangaroa, near modern Masterton, in Wairarapa.

* William Mein Smith, ( 1799-1869 ), a key actor in the early settlement of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington

The original survey party that arrived in 1840 on the Cuba comprised Captain William Mein Smith ( Surveyor General ) and Messrs. R. D. Hanson, W. Carrington, R. Park, R. Stokes, and K. Bethune, all well known personalities in the early history of Wellington.

George made his stage debut in 1950, performing a role in William Saroyan's Mein Herz ist im Hochland.

William Mein Smith ( 1798 – 3 January 1869 ) was a key actor in the early settlement of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* 1930 – William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden ( d. 2012 )

William Bennett ( Flute ), Lenore Smith ( Flute ), Bernard Soustrot ( Trumpet ), Hans Elhorst ( Oboe ).

G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte )

The architect was William Smith of Aberdeen, although his designs were amended by Prince Albert.

The house was quickly found to be too small, and John and William Smith were commissioned in 1848 to design new offices, cottages and other ancillary buildings.

The programme of improvement culminated during early 1852 with the decision to commission a new, larger house, from William Smith.

The son of John Smith, designer of the earlier castle, William Smith was City Architect of Aberdeen from 1852.

On learning of the commission, William Burn sought an interview with the Prince, apparently to complain that Smith had plagiarised his work in the past.

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.

* Smith, William V. ( 2001 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

* Muir, William, Annals of the Early Caliphate: From Original Sources, Smith, Elder & co., London, 1883

Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, Cyril.

The building of this line was promoted by Andrew Smith Hallidie with design work by William Eppelsheimer, and it was first tested in 1873.

* 1873 – William Tite, English architect ( b. 1798 )

Similarly in England William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced a collection of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, including Coleridge ’ s ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’.

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

The House of Representatives did impeach a senator once: Senator William Blount, in 1798.

On November 20, 1798, the French frigates L ’ Insurgente and Volontaire overtook Retaliation while her consorts were away and forced commanding officer Lieutenant William Bainbridge to surrender the out-gunned schooner.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

* 1798: Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

* June 1 – William Abbot, English actor ( b. 1798 )

* November 5 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler ( d. 1798 )

According to William Wordsworth, the poem was inspired while Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset in the spring of 1798.

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 ).

In his third discourse, published in 1798, Sir William Jones mentions a conversation with a Hindu priest who told him that the script was called Zend, and the language Avesta.

* William Wordsworth, in the " Prospectus " ( written between 1798 and 1800 ) to The Excursion ( published 1814 ), composed the following lines:

It was named for William R. Davie, Governor of North Carolina from 1798 to 1799.

On a Sunday afternoon in May, 1798 William Pitt, the then Prime Minister, who lived in Bowling-Green House on the heath, fought a bloodless battle with William Tierney, MP.

The Tufnell Park estate passed to his brother George Foster Tufnell, MP for Beverley ( d 1798 ), then to George's son William Tufnell ( d 1809 ), MP for Colchester, who married in 1804 into a fortune owned by Mary Carleton ( daughter of Thomas Carleton of South Carleton d. 1829 ).

* William Smith ( South Carolina representative ) ( 1751 – 1837 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from South Carolina ( 1797 – 1798 )

* William Loughton Smith ( 1758 – 1812 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from South Carolina ( 1789 – 1798 )

On 14 October 1797 William Orr was hanged in the town following what was widely regarded as a showtrial held in Carrickfergus Courthouse ( now the Town Hall ) and in 1798 United Irish founder Henry Joy McCracken was captured on the outskirts of the town while trying to escape to America.

The granite islands were named Kent's Group by Matthew Flinders, " in honour of my friend captain William Kent, then commander of the Supply " when Flinders passed them on 8 February 1798 in the Francis ( on her way to salvage the Sydney Cove ).

However he had lost all control of his followers and in one incident, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Lord Kilwarden, reviled as chief prosecutor of William Orr in 1797, but also the judge who granted habeas corpus to Wolfe Tone in 1798, was dragged from his carriage and hacked to death.

* William Andrus Alcott ( 1798 – 1859 ), born in Wolcott, teacher and noted author of over 100 books