In 1902 William Crossing wrote that he had been told by an old moorman that some of the granite blocks from the tomb's pedestal had also been used to make a clapper bridge across a stream flowing into the River Swincombe near the farm.

Malherb is introduced as the younger son of a noble family and he builds the Fox Tor house to be the impressive gentleman's residence suggested by William Crossing rather than the humble cottage which it actually is.

William Crossing in his Guide to Dartmoor states that a well known Dartmoor guide ( James Perrott ) placed a bottle for visiting cards at Cranmere Pool on the northern moor in 1854.

The Dartmoor Worker is a collection, first assembled in 1966, of newspaper articles originally written for The Western Morning News by the principal authority on Dartmoor and its history, William Crossing, in the early 1900s.

The town was originally called Jenkins-McCommons Crossing, after Jesse Jenksins and William Taylor McCommons.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

* William Crossing – The Dartmoor Worker ( anthology )

On 28 March 2003, Judicial Watch filed a complaint to the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Defense Department Inspector General, the Office of the Homeland Security Inspector General, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the matter of Former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard N. Perle, Former President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Global Crossing.

In 1890, William Crossing noted a pixie's preference for bits of finery: " Indeed, a sort of weakness for finery exists among them, and a piece of ribbon appears to be ... highly prized by them.

Crossing to England towards the end of 1582, he attended the lectures of John Rainolds ( 1549 – 1607 ) at Oxford, and those of William Whitaker at Cambridge.

* William Crossing ( 1847 – 1928 ), antiquary of Dartmoor ( Old Mannameadian )

Memorial plaque to William Crossing

In memory of Dartmoor author William Crossing a plaque and letterbox were placed at Duck's Pool by some members of a walking club known as Dobson's Moormen and other people in 1938.

In 1909, William Crossing, in his Guide to Dartmoor repeated Amery's report, though he named the suicide as " Kitty Jay, as she used to be spoken of ", and amended the location of the incident to " Canna, a farm not far from the foot of East Down ".

Between these two sources lies Duck's Pool, where there is a plaque and letterbox in memory of the Dartmoor author William Crossing.

The topographer William Crossing was for part of his life resident at Mary Tavy.

Commissioned by the Hallé Orchestra as part of their Mahler centenary celebrations, his " Crossing the Alps " for Chorus and Organ, on a text by William Wordsworth ( The Prelude, Book VI ), was first performed by the Hallé Choir, conducted by Markus Stenz, at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, in January 2010.

* History of Coutts Crossing including references to William Forster

* John Frederick William Herschel, A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, London: Barclay, 1847 ( on-line )

A slave narrative by William Wells Brown published in 1847 spoke of the disparity in conditions between the house servant and the field hand:

William Maccall, another Unitarian preacher, and probably an acquaintance of Smith, came somewhat later, although influenced by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and German Romanticism, to the same positive conclusions, in his 1847 work " Elements of Individualism ".

* 1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1907 )

* 1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States ( b. 1847 )

In 1847, she went to work as a housekeeper for George Benson, the brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garrison.

* December 24 – Barbara Ann Spooner Wilberforce, Wife of English Abolitionist William Wilberforce ( d. 1847 )

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.

* William Dealtry ( 1775 – 1847 ), Rector of Clapham, mathematician

* 1847 – William Mason Patents his " Mason self-acting " Mule.

The names of all seven satellites of Saturn then known come from John Herschel ( son of William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus, and two other Cronian moons, Mimas and Enceladus ) in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope, wherein he suggested the names of the Titans, sisters and brothers of Cronos ( Saturn, in Roman mythology ), be used.

Self-regulating arc lamp proposed by William Edwards Staite and William Petrie ( electrical engineer ) | William Petrie in 1847

In 1847, William Clayton, a Mormon pioneer, invented the Roadometer, which he attached to a wagon used by American settlers heading west.

With Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird ( 1847 – 1923, later 11th Baron Kinnaird ) and Thomas Henry William Pelham ( 1847 – 1916 ), he rented rooms in York Place ( formerly Of Alley ), off The Strand in central London, for a boys ' school, initially a day school, which subsequently began to open in the evenings.

Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

King Neptune is shown symbolically passing his trident to Britannia in the 1847 fresco " Neptune Resigning to Britannia the Empire of the Sea " by William Dyce, a painting Victoria commissioned for her Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

* William Denison ( 1804 – 1871 ), Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, 1847 – 1855, and Governor of New South Wales, 1855 – 1861

In 1847, after being a member of the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ), William " Little Billy " Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ) of Southampton County began teaching at Rappahannock Academy in Caroline County.

* The Queen Adelaide Almshouses, also known as the King William Naval Asylum, St. John ’ s Road, founded 1847 and built in 1848 to designs by Philip Hardwick at the request and expense of Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the widow of King William IV, to provide shelter for twelve widows or orphan daughters of naval officers.

William Putnam built the first courthouse, which was occupied in October 1847.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )

* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )