William Rose Benet notes the notoriety of Abigail Hill, better known as " Mrs Masham ", a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne.

With William Heelis acting for her she bought contiguous pasture, and in 1909 the Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top Farm.

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

One of the club's directors Henry Norris, and his friend William Hill, took over Arsenal in the early 1910s, the plan being to merge Fulham with Arsenal, to form a " London superclub " at Craven Cottage.

The book was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.

The start of the Norman Conquest was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066 ; although the battle itself took place to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at a site now known as Norman's Bay.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.

The Lady Augusta, captained by Francis Cadell, reached Swan Hill while another, Mary Ann, captained by William Randell, made it as far as Moama ( near Echuca ).

* 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.

Anastrepta orcadensis, a liverwort also known as Orkney Notchwort, was first discovered on Ward Hill by William Jackson Hooker in 1808.

American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert.

* Paul Giamatti as Staff Sergeant William Hill, a paratrooper

It is the oldest English language university in Canada and one of four schools that claim the title of oldest public university in North America ( the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The College of William and Mary also claim this title ).

** William " Red " Hill Sr. makes his famous five-hour journey down the Niagara lower rapids.

* March 3 – George William Hill, American astronomer ( d. 1914 )

* January 10 – Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud is executed for treason on Tower Hill, London.

When General Amherst heard of this surprise action, he immediately dispatched troops under his nephew William Amherst, who regained control of Newfoundland after the Battle of Signal Hill in September 1762.

* May 31 – Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northampton ( b. 1045 ) ( beheaded on St. Giles's Hill, near Winchester, by the order of William the Conqueror )

Prior to its sale to News Corp, the last members of the board of directors of the company were: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann, David Li, M. Peter McPherson ( Chairman ), Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865, edited by Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin ( Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999 ) – a large collection of war-time letters ( November 1860 to May 1865 ).

He was popular with his classmates, however, and befriended a number of men who would become prominent during the Civil War, including George Henry Thomas, William S. Rosecrans, John Pope, D. H. Hill, Lafayette McLaws, George Pickett, and Ulysses S. Grant of the class of 1843.

Although Great Northern and Northern Pacific were backed by J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill, the Union Pacific was backed not only by its president, Edward H. Harriman, but by the extremely powerful William Rockefeller and Jacob Schiff.

The Democratic Party's continued enchantment with the populist William Jennings Bryan led Hill to support Republican presidential candidates William McKinley ( 1896 and 1900 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 1904 ), William Howard Taft ( 1908 and 1912 ).

This somewhat cynical comment may be found in `` Blue Skies, Brown Studies '', a collection of travel essays by William Sansom, who would never consider staying home for long.

George William Brown, the Mayor of Baltimore, and other suspect Maryland politicians were arrested and imprisoned, without a warrant, as Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.

William Reginald Hall, British Director of Naval Intelligence criticized the agreement on the basis that " the Jews have a strong material, and a very strong political, interest in the future of the country " and that " in the Brown area the question of Zionism, and also of British control of all Palestine railways, in the interest of Egypt, have to be considered ".

Brown himself received six Academy Award nominations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.

Brown, at left, with William Holman Hunt.

Brown University, University of Maryland, College Park, Miami University, and the College of William and Mary, offer leading examples of Georgian architecture in the Americas.

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

Widely considered a national hero, William Brown is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina.

The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.

While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne.

* John William Brown ( 1913 – 1993 ), Ohio governor for eleven days in 1957 ( R )

" Brown also quoted William Shaw, a broadcaster who was presenting the Cult Fiction series on BBC Radio Five Live: " Most Moonies embrace a morality which would make them acceptable in the most genteel Anglican social circle.

* LT Jammal Brown, William Roaf, Jermon Bushrod

Other historical non-Sabbatarians from more recent times include the Anglicans Peter Heylin, William Paley and John Milton ; the nonconformist Philip Doddridge ; the Quaker Robert Barclay ; and Congregationalist James Baldwin Brown.

* Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin ' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup ( New York: Harper and Row, 1969 )

Ross was succeeded as editor by William Shawn ( 1951 – 1987 ), followed by Robert Gottlieb ( 1987 – 1992 ) and Tina Brown ( 1992 – 1998 ).

* Brown, Miracles and the Critical Mind, Paternoster, Exeter UK / William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1984.

** William Brown ( admiral ), Irish-born first admiral of Argentina ( d. 1857 )

Although other abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison did not endorse his tactics, Brown dreamed of fighting to create a new state for freed slaves, and made preparations for military action.

In 1964 William C. Brown demonstrated a miniature helicopter equipped with a combination antenna and rectifier device called a rectenna.

* William W. Brown,, " Antenna structure ".

His two alleged attackers, William David Brown, Jr., 20, and Joseph Eli Bearden, 21, were indicted for robbery and first-degree murder.

* Brown, C., " William Wallace " 2005.

In response to this gift, Carnegie Mellon renamed the College of Humanities of Social Sciences as the Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences after William Dietrich's mother.

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats