Quite a few of the pioneering apologists were Baptist pastors, like I. M. Haldeman, or participants in the Plymouth Brethren, like William C. Irvine and Sydney Watson.

The earliest forms of the name enabled place-name scholar William J. Watson to show that the name originally meant something like " yew-place ".

The Phrenological Society of Edinburgh founded by George and Andrew Combe was an example of the credibility of phrenology at the time, and included a number of extremely influential social reformers and intellectuals, including the publisher Robert Chambers, the astronomer John Pringle Nichol, the evolutionary environmentalist Hewett Cottrell Watson and asylum reformer William A. F.

The cases of Bishop of St. David's Thomas Watson in 1699 and of Dean of York William Cockburn in 1841 were particularly notable.

* Watson, William J.

* May 10 – William Watson, English physician and scientist ( b. 1715 )

* December 9 – William Watson, English conspirator ( b. 1559 )

* April 3 – William Watson, English physician and scientist ( d. 1787 )

The first into Pretoria, was Lt. William Watson of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, who persuaded the Boers to surrender the capital.

* Watson, William.

The best example of this school is William E. Watson, who does believe the battle has such importance, as will be specifically discussed below, but analyzes it militarily, culturally and politically, rather than seeing it as a classic " Muslim versus Christian " confrontation.

William E. Watson, strongly supports Tours as a macrohistorical event, but distances himself from the rhetoric of Gibbon and Drubeck, writing, for example, of the battle's importance in Frankish, and world, history in 1993:

* Watson, William E., " The Battle of Tours-Poitiers Revisited ", Providence: Studies in Western Civilization, 2 ( 1993 )

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* 1747 — William Watson, while experimenting with a Leyden jar, observes that a discharge of static electricity causes electric current to flow and develops the concept of an electrical potential ( voltage ).

* Watson, William.

The film stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, with Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson and William Bendix.

* Minor Watson as William J. Harding

* John William Clark Watson ( 1808 – 1890 ), Confederate politician and judge

Most of the state had capitulated to the British after their capture of Charleston, but after the Waxhaw Massacre in nearby Lancaster County in May 1780, residents of the New Acquisition took part in a regional resistance, led by men such as William " Billy " Hill, William Bratton and Samuel Watson.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

Prince William arrived in Albania at his provisional capital of Durrës on 7 March 1914 along with the Royal family.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

After William of Montferrat arrived in 1176, he fell ill and died in June 1177, leaving Sibylla widowed and pregnant with the future Baldwin V. Raynald was then named regent.

Malcolm arrived there on 24 August 1093 to find that William Rufus refused to negotiate, insisting that the dispute be judged by the English barons.

Pawnbrokerage arrived in England with William the Conqueror, but known by the Italian name, Lombard.

In September 1362, Abbot William arrived in Avignon, returning from Naples, where he had been sent by Pope Innocent IV as papal legate, only to learn that the pope had died.

" Their Majesties " referred to were William and Mary, who had recently arrived from the Netherlands and had been appointed joint monarchs.

Scholars Edward Daniel Clarke and William Richard Hamilton, newly arrived from England, agreed to examine the collections in Alexandria and claimed to have found many artefacts that the French had not revealed.

* Nimrod ( later Bastion )-a prototype Super Sentinel that arrived from the " Days of Future Past " timeline and was later reactivated by Reverend William Stryker.

A papal embassy arrived in England during this period, asking that William do fealty for England to the papacy, a request that William rejected.

For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.

The British forces were led at first by the turncoat Benedict Arnold, and then by William Phillips before General Charles, Earl Cornwallis arrived in late May with his southern army to take command.

When William V arrived in Schoonhoven in 1787, after the authority of the stadholders had been restored, the church bells are said to have played the Wilhelmus continuously.

A new British envoy, William Whitlock, arrived on 11 March 1969 with a proposal for a new interim British administration.

Duke William arrived soon afterwards and ordered Guy to turn Harold over to him.

Contemporary sources, such as William of Tyre, discount the alleged infidelity of Melisende and instead point out that Fulk overly favoured newly arrived Frankish crusaders from Anjou over the native nobility of the kingdom.

After the fall of Bari, the cities of Trani, Giovinazzo, Andria, Taranto, and Brindisi were also captured, and William who arrived with his army ( which included 2, 000 knights ) was heavily defeated.

Four years later Philippa was betrothed to Prince Edward when, in the summer of 1326, Queen Isabella arrived at the Hainaut court seeking aid from Count William to depose King Edward.

A much larger shipment of seed collected ( also in the Calaveras Grove ) by William Lobb, acting for the Veitch Nursery at Budlake near Exeter, arrived in England in December 1853 ; seed from this batch was widely distributed throughout Europe.

In the mid-18th century, Sir William Johnson, founder of Fort Johnson in Montgomery County and of Johnstown, arrived in the area that would become Fulton County.

In 1876 William S. Clark arrived to found an agricultural college in Sapporo.

The first white settler in the area that would become Montgomery County was William Offield, earlier of Tennessee, who arrived in 1821 with his wife Jennie ( née Laughlin ) and one child and settled near the confluence of Offield Creek and Sugar Creek, about five miles ( 8 km ) southwest of Crawfordsville.