* William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More ( 1716 ).

The middle scenes of the play depict More as chancellor, and they are a medley of episodes taken from William Roper's biography and Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

Roper's lone attempt at federal office took place in the 1935 election, when he ran for the newly-formed Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Edmonton East ; he finished fourth of six candidates as William Samuel Hall took the riding for the Social Credit Party of Canada.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

Another early written account is attributed to escaped convict William Buckley in his 1852 biography of thirty years living with the Wathaurong people.

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

Thompson's first major work was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party.

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".

Another account appears in a biography by William Rawley, Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain:

After her death in July 1852 he married secondly Norah Creina Blanche, daughter of Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peninsular War, whose biography he edited.

* Carson, Christopher Kit Photograph of Kit Carson in a beaver hat and short biography by William H. Wroth New Mexico Office of the State Historian

The fourth important source of information is William of Saint-Parthus ' biography, which he wrote using the papal inquest mentioned above.

They say that this inferred profile of the author fits Oxford's biography better than the documented biography of William Shakespeare.

Oriental Jones: A biography of Sir William Jones, 1746-1794.

The brief biography of Malory goes thus: Born on 6 December 1425 at Morton Court, Shropshire, he was the eldest son of Sir William Malory, representative of Parliament to Cambridgeshire.

King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny ( Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, 2011 ), detailed popular biography

William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924-1932: The Lonely Heights ( 1963 ) standard biography, online edition.

William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939: the Prism of Unity ( 1976 ) standard biography online edition.

* William of Ockham biography at University of St Andrews, Scotland

* William S. Burroughs biography and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit

* Tim Powers, The Mystery That Is William Ashbless is an intriguing brief biography of the poet

* William Ewart Gladstone 1809 – 98 biography from the Liberal Democrat History Group

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

* Nevil Shute Norway, Slide Rule ( William Heinemann, London, 1954 ) Norway's biography covers his time at Airspeed in great detail

* In the 1956 essay Hamlet oder Hekuba: der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel ( Hamlet or Hecuba: the Irruption of Time into the Play ), the German legal theorist Carl Schmitt suggests that elements of the Earl's biography, in particular his final days and last words, were incorporated into William Shakespeare's Hamlet at both the level of dialogue and the level of characterization.

In a review of William Carlos Williams ' biography, " Something Urgent I Have to Say to You ": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams, by Herbert Leibowitz, book critic Christopher Benfey wrote of Williams's poetry, " Early and late, Williams held the conviction that poetry was in his friend Kenneth Burke's phrase, ' equipment for living, a necessary guide amid the bewilderments of life.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

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.

More recent efforts to introduce undergraduates to categories as a foundation for mathematics include William Lawvere and Rosebrugh ( 2003 ) and Lawvere and Stephen Schanuel ( 1997 ) and Mirroslav Yotov ( 2012 ).

His time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the days of King Henry VIII: John Colet, Thomas More, John Fisher, Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn.

More recent Governors-General in this category include Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir John Kerr, Sir Ninian Stephen, Bill Hayden and Sir William Deane.

Many young churchmen and others enquiring about their faith visited him and sought his advice, including such well-known social figures as the writer and philanthropist Hannah More, and the young Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, who had recently undergone a crisis of conscience and religious conversion as he was contemplating leaving politics.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

More distant relatives included William Liath de Burgh, Tiobóid mac Walter Ciotach Bourke, and Charles Bourke.

More recent challenges to this traditional belief came at the turn of the 20th century from scholars such as William Wrede in 1903 and Alfred Loisy in 1933 challenged the traditional view of the authorship.

In 1778, Jefferson's " Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge " and subsequent efforts to reduce control by clergy led to some small changes at William and Mary College, but free public education was not established until the late nineteenth century.

More received a classical education at Oxford and was a pupil of Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn, becoming proficient in both Greek and Latin.

Between 1512 and 1519, Thomas More worked on a History of King Richard III, which was never finished, but which greatly influenced William Shakespeare's play Richard III.

In 1531, William Tyndale published An Answer unto Sir Thomas More ’ s Dialogue in response to More ’ s Dialogue Concerning Heresies.

More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I ( any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out ).

Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

* More about The Earl of Chatham, William Pitt ' The Elder ' on the Downing Street website.

* More about William Ewart Gladstone on the Downing Street website.

** William Roper, son-in-law and biographer of Thomas More ( d. 1578 )

Thomas More wrote that the princes were smothered to death with their pillows, and his account forms the basis of William Shakespeare's play Richard III, in which Tyrrell murders the princes on Richard's orders.