* July 14 – William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer ( d. 1761 )

In 1748 a folio edition of Drayton's complete works was published under the editorial supervision of William Oldys, and again in 1753 there appeared an issue in four volumes quarto.

It seems likely, however, that the link between the saying and the Globe was made only later, originating with the industrious early Shakespeare biographer William Oldys, who claimed as his source a private manuscript to which he once had access.

William Oldys said of him that he " would not stoop to fawn ," and some of his verses seem to show that he disliked the pressures of life at court.

William Oldys in 1795

William Oldys ( 14 July 1696 – 15 April 1761 ) was an English antiquarian and bibliographer.

The illegitimate son of Dr William Oldys, chancellor of Lincoln, London was probably his place of birth.

William Oldys, the younger, lost part of his small patrimony in the South Sea Bubble, and in 1724 went to Yorkshire, spending the greater part of the next six years as the guest of the Earl of Malton.

Dr. William Oldys c. 22 October 1636 was the son of Rev.

William Oldys b. 1591 who was murdered in Adderbury, Oxford by Parliamentarian soldiers.

William Oldys was the son of John Oldys b. 13 July 1563 who was son of John Oldys b. 1520 who was son of John Oldys, Bishop of Clanmacknoise, Ireland in 1444 who was son of Richard Oldys b. 1366.

( William Oldys reports a traditional view that the inscription on Jonson's tomb (" O rare Ben Jonson ") refers to the applause this play received, after the failure of Catiline, indicating some degree of popularity.

William Beebe reports 26 inches and 2.4 ounces ( this snake must have been emaciated ) for the length and the weight of a young anaconda from British Guiana.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

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

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

* 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.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

* 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.

It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.

* 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.

After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

Carnegie's charm aided by his great wealth meant that he had many British friends, including Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

When his friend, the British publicist William T. Stead, asked him to create a new organization for the goal of a peace and arbitration society, his reply was as such:

* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

When it fell to the British Raj, the fort was dismantled on the orders of Lord William Bentinck and was converted into a sanatorium for the British troops stationed at the garrison town of Nasirabad.

He was also partners with William Goddard and Joseph Galloway the three of whom published the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British monarchy in the American colonies.

Striking southwards in the hope of collecting information about French movements, Nelson's ships stopped at Elba and Naples, where the British ambassador Sir William Hamilton reported that the French fleet had passed Sicily in the direction of Malta.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.

There are about a million British prints including more than 20, 000 satires and outstanding collections of works by William Blake and Thomas Bewick ..

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 ".

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

The systems also came with a number of smaller built-in applications such as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Oxford Quotations, the complete works of William Shakespeare, and the Digital Librarian search engine to access them.

John Russell Young died in January 1899, and “ President William McKinley found himself faced with the responsibility of appointing a Librarian of Congress who should preside over the affairs of the institution whose building had been completed but years ago .” President McKinley requested Herbert Putnam to be appointed to the task, and Putnam was officially confirmed to the duties of Librarian of Congress on December 12, 1899.

* William F. Wheeler, U. S. Marshal, Civil War officer, Minnesota territorial Librarian and secretary to two Governors, founder of Montana Historical Society, first in the West

Designed by Sydney Smirke on a suggestion by the Library's Chief Librarian Anthony Panizzi, following an earlier competition idea by William Hosking, the Reading Room was in continual use from 1857 until its temporary closure in 1997.

* William Oldys-The British Librarian

William F. Wheeler was territory Librarian and the Governor's Secretary while in office.

" These operations were overseen by the distinguished Harvard Univeristy historian William L. Langer, who, with the assistance of the American Council of Learned Societies and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, set out immediately to recruit a professional staff drawn from across the social sciences.

In 1987, William Mitchell College of Law library staff created the character Conan the Librarian for a talent show performance, and subsequently wrote The Adventures of Conan the Librarian.

In 1897 President William McKinley appointed him Librarian of Congress, the first Librarian confirmed by Congress.

Portrait of a Librarian: William Howard Brett.

During World War I, a provision was made for an archives branch of the Legislative Library, but the position of archivist was allowed to lapse after the death of Assistant Librarian and archivist William Trant in 1924.

In 1893, William Cutter was hired as Librarian of the Department, and he began a reorganization effort to modernize the library and improve its effectiveness.

Librarian William Howard Brett opened the library's first stand-alone children's room on February 22, 1898.

He was Deputy Librarian of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1950 and William Nobel Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1950 to 1952.

The first meeting of the Hakluyt Society, under the chairmanship of the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, established an eight-man steering group which included the geographer and historian William Desborough Cooley, the Army medical officer Dr Andrew Smith, the naval officer and surveyor Sir Charles Malcolm, the antiquary Bolton Corney, the British Museum Principal Librarian Sir Henry Ellis, W. R. Hamilton, FRS, and John Edward Gray, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum.