William Fairfield Warren, in his book, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole presented his belief that humanity had originated on a continent in the Arctic, called Hyperborea, this view influenced some of the early hollow earth theorists.

In 1948 two widely read books were published that would inspire a " neo-Malthusian " debate on population and the environment: Fairfield Osborn ’ s Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt ’ s Road to Survival.

2, 600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, raided the 3, 500-person town in July 1779, but did not torch it as they had with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, leaving many of the town's colonial features preserved.

The name of Fairfield was first proposed for this county, but was changed on the passage of the bill to Butler, in honor of Captain William Butler.

The office of Maine state land agent led the armed civil posse with Deputy Land Agent William Parrott at Fort Fairfield and Captain Stover Rines at Camp Jarvis on the Fish River ( later Fort Kent, Maine ).

The ships were built by the following companies: Robert Napier & Company, Randolph Elder & Company, Dobbie Hedderwick & Co., Dobie & Company, Mackie & Thomson, Smith & Rodgers, London & Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., William Beardmore & Company, John Elder & Company, Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng.

Son of the prominent railroad tycoon William Henry and Virginia Reed Osborn, Henry Fairfield Osborn was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1857.

Artists in the permanent collection include Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Bruce Nauman, William Wegman, Nancy Graves, Dale Chihuly, Arthur Dove, Louise Bourgeois, Andrew Wyeth, Fairfield Porter, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Frank Stella, Lesley Dill, Romare Bearden, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Garry Winogrand, Kojo Griffin, Jim Hodges, Wayne Thiebaud, Hung Liu, Marcus Antonius Jansen, and Stephen Scott Young.

In 1843 the engineer William Bridges Adams founded the Fairfield Locomotive Works in Bow, where he specialized in light engines, steam railcars ( or railmotors ) and inspection trolleys, including the Fairfield steam carriage for the Bristol and Exeter Railway and the Enfield for the Eastern Counties Railway.

However, there are a few examples of later tank engines, thus William Bridges Adams of the Fairfield Locomotive Works () in Bow supplied a 2-2-0 well tank to the Roman Railway in 1850.

The earliest recorded visit to the Fairfield District by Europeans is described in William Bradley's Journal where he noted an expedition from Rose Hill to Prospect Creek to determine whether Prospect Creek led to Botany Bay.

Whiting was the son of Massachusetts politician and businessman William Whiting and Anna Marin Fairfield Whiting.

When Whiting's father, who organized the Whiting Paper Company, became president of that business, William Fairfield Whiting became treasure.

The couple had four childrend: William Whiting, Edward Chapin Whiting, Fairfield Whiting and Ruth Whiting Fowler.

In addition to the fire station, the building housed a police station on Whitworth Street, an ambulance station on Minshull Street South, a branch of William Deacon's bank at the corner of London Road and Fairfield Street ,< a Coroner's Court, and a gas-meter testing station on London Road.

There was a general " neo-Malthusian " revival in the 1950s, 60s and 70s after the publication of two influential books in 1948 ( Fairfield Osborn's Our Plundered Planet and William Vogt's Road to Survival ).

The business moved to a new yard at the former Fairfield Farm at the Govan riverside in 1868, changing its name to the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, after the old farm, in 1886, at which time it was owned by Sir William Pearce.

The Liberty ship, launched in June 1944 as the William Hodson, which served as the Chung Tung under Lend-Lease to the Republic of China, was renamed Arthur P. Fairfield in 1947, then Admiral Arthur P. Fairfield in 1948, while being operated by the American Pacific Steamship Company.

In 1976 the building was rechristened " Warren Towers " as a tribute to three generations of the Warren family at Boston University: William Fairfield Warren ( the University's first president ), William Marshall Warren ( a Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences ; son of William Fairfield Warren ), and Shields Warren ( a famous physician ; son of William Marshall Warren and grandson of William Fairfield Warren ).

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Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting ( 1842 – 1919 ), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition.

In March 1849 lieutenants William H. C. Whiting and William F. Smith were sent out by Maj. Gen. William J.

The Connecticut General Assembly, held in Hartford in 1706, appointed William Pitkin, Joseph Tallcot, William Whiting and Richard Lord, as a committee with full power to lay out the bounds of the town and divisions of the land, to admit inhabitants.

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The earliest European settlers in Burlington were four men: Moses and Lemuel Smith, the sons of a Revolutionary War veteran, Benjamin Perce, and William Whiting, all of whom arrived on December 27 or December 28, 1835 and built a cabin ; Moses Smith and Whiting had been in the area previously, making a so-called " jackknife claim " ( carving their names and the date on trees in the vicinity ), on December 15, 1835.

On screen, Robert has been portrayed by Gordon Whiting in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ), part of the series Theatre 625, and by Richard Ireson in the TV drama Blood Royal: William the Conqueror ( 1990 ).

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In the mid-19th century, watercress was grown at Moor Farm, known locally as " The Bog ", ( now Low Farm ) by Richard Whiting Bradbery, the son of William Bradbery, the first British watercress pioneer who had a large cress farm at West Hyde, Hertfordshire.

When Maj. Gen. William H. C. Whiting left the army on medical furlough July 26, Hood was the senior brigade commander and replaced Whiting as a division commander in Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia.

* William Whiting Boardman ( 1794 – 1871 ), a U. S. Representative born in town, was the son of Elijah Boardman.

Whiting, Allen S .( special editor ), with contributions by William T. R. Fox et al., “ In Memoriam: Quincy Wright, 1890-1970 — A Symposium ,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 14 ( December 1970 )

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Bill Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan as William John Clifton Haley.

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

* William " WAK " King ( trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer ) – born January 30, 1949, Alabama.

Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon to William Barks and his wife Arminta Johnson.

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia ( née Welz, a housewife ) and William Kappelhoff ( a music teacher and choir master ).

William Dwight Schultz ( born November 24, 1947 ) is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist.

Atchison was born to William Atchison in Frogtown ( later Kirklevington ), which is now part of Lexington, Kentucky.

Their son William, and Henry's illegitimate son, Geoffrey, were born just months apart.

Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

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.

Although born in Inverness, was brought up and educated in Fort William.

* Justin Ryan-interior decorator and television presenter, although born in Glasgow, was brought up in Fort William.

* Allan MacDonald-Roman Catholic priest, Scottish Gaelic scholar, and pastor in South Uist and Eriskay, was born and brought up in Fort William.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.

William Gary Busey ( born June 29, 1944 ), best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor, and artist.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.