Both schools are named for Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson.

* William Sharp, The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn ( London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1892 )

** William T. Sampson, American admiral ( b. 1840 )

* William Sampson

* William R. Sampson ( ed.

He recruited teachers Stephen B. Luce, future admirals Winfield Scott Schley, George Dewey, and William T. Sampson.

Sampson County is the birthplace of William R. King, a politician and diplomat who was elected both to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

* " Speech of Theobold Wolf Tone to the Court-Martial " and Rewinn. com, " Matilda Tone ", from the Memoirs of William Sampson

Among these scholars was William Whittingham, who supervised the translation now known as the Geneva Bible, in collaboration with Myles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and William Cole ; several of this group later became prominent figures in the Vestments controversy.

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In 1537 the land Lincoln's Inn sat on was sold by Richard Sampson, the then-Bishop, to a Bencher named William Suliard, and his son sold the land to Lincoln's Inn in 1580.

Spain later surrendered to the United States after Admiral William T. Sampson destroyed the Spanish Atlantic fleet just outside Santiago's harbor on July 3, 1898.

He then travelled to England to arrange the English publication of his book by Sampson Low, speaking at the Oxford ( and Cambridge ) Union after which his thesis " Resolved, that the works of William Shakespeare were composed by Francis Bacon " was put to an unsuccessful vote.

** May 12 – Admiral William T. Sampson bombards San Juan, Puerto Rico ( I )

The primary elements of the U. S. force in Cuban waters were divided between two men: Rear Admiral William T. Sampson of the North Atlantic Squadron and Commodore Winfield Scott Schley and the " Flying Squadron ".

At about 08: 45, just as his ships had slipped their moorings, Admiral Sampson and two ships of his command, his flagship, the armored cruiser, and the torpedo boat had left their positions for a trip to Siboney and a meeting with Major General William Shafter of the U. S. Army.

* William T. Sampson ( 1840 – 1902 ), Admiral in the Spanish American War

Lawrence's first president, William Harkness Sampson, founded the school with Henry R. Colman, using $ 10, 000 provided by philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, and matched by the Methodist church.

* 1849-1853 William Harkness Sampson, principal

* 1622: Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, written in conjunction with William Sampson ;

On 18 May 1898, Schley's Flying Squadron was sent by Acting Rear Admiral William T. Sampson to Cienfuegos to pursue the Spanish Squadron under the command of Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete.

** William Sampson

* Declarations and Tests of United Irishmen, from Memoirs of William Sampson ( attorney ), 1817

This was awkward for Parsons, but Cluverius understood, being himself the son-in-law of an admiral, in his case, Admiral William T. Sampson.

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

His brother William was already establishing himself as a playwright and sometimes worked in collaboration with Cecil.

During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould ( profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell ) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O ' Neill.

The playwright William Shakespeare had already used the family history of Northumberland's family in his Henry IV series of plays, and the events of the Gunpowder Plot seem to have featured alongside the earlier Gowrie conspiracy in Macbeth, written some time between 1603 and 1607.

Other writers that emerged in this period, and are often treated as part of the movement, include the poets Edwin Muir and William Soutar, the novelists Neil Gunn, George Blake, Nan Shepherd, A J Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the playwright James Bridie.

* 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright and satirist ( b. 1803 )

* 1670 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

* 1913 – William Inge, American playwright ( d. 1973 )

Joseph Sobran, in Alias Shakespeare, argued that in 1607 William Barksted, a minor poet and playwright, implies in his poem " Mirrha the Mother of Adonis " that Shakespeare was already deceased.

Even thirty years after his death " Sultan Solyman " was quoted by the English playwright William Shakespeare as a military prodigy in The Merchant of Venice ( Act 2, Scene 1 ).

* 1911 – William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1993 )

William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939 ) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

* June 10 – William Inge, American playwright ( b. 1913 )

* November 29 – Marriage of future English playwright William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway.

* July 24 – William Gillette, American actor, playwright and stage-manager ( d. 1937 )

* January 1 – William Wycherley, English playwright ( b. c. 1640 )

* January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

* February 28 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright ( d. 1668 )

** ( O. S., Tuesday ) – William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet ( b. 1564 )

* William Shakespeare, English playwright

* January 19 – William Congreve, English playwright ( b. 1670 )

At the end of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, William Shakespeare is competing against George Bernard Shaw for the title of best playwright, deciding which of them is to be brought back from the dead in order to improve the world.

He introduced the young Pope to the ageing playwright William Wycherley and to William Walsh, a minor poet, who helped Pope revise his first major work, The Pastorals.