He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.

John Dover Wilson thought it almost certain that the figure of Polonius caricatured Burleigh, while A. L. Rowse speculated that Polonius's tedious verbosity might have resembled Burghley's.

John Francis Wilson thinks it possible to have been a pagan bronze statue whose true identity had been forgotten ; some have thought it to be Aesculapius, the God of healing, but the description of the standing figure and the woman kneeling in supplication is precisely that found on coins depicting the bearded emperor Hadrian reaching out to a female figure symbolizing a province kneeling before him.

It is thought that the first example of a working model tramcar in the UK built by an amateur for fun was in 1929, when Frank E. Wilson created a replica of London County Council Tramways E class car 444 in 1: 16 scale, which he demonstrated at an early Model Engineer Exhibition.

In his memoir, Marshall's only negative comment towards Wilson was, " I have sometimes thought that great men are the bane of civilization, they are the real cause of all the bitterness and contention which amounts to anything in the world.

* July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam ( b. 1766 )

The prime minister, Harold Wilson, thought the document a vote-loser and dubbed it the product of Selsdon Man-after the supposedly prehistoric Piltdown Man-in order to portray it as reactionary.

As tensions mount, Ryker hires Jack Wilson ( Jack Palance ), an unscrupulous, psychopathic gunslinger, who laughs at the thought of murder.

At this time, Wilson still had considerable control within the group and, according to Wilson, they eventually overcame their initial negative reaction, as his newly created music began to near completion ; " They thought it was too far-out to do, you know ?...

Healey thought Wilson would unite the Labour Party and lead it to victory in the next general election.

In February, while Curzon was on holiday, Wilson persuaded the Cabinet to allow withdrawal, but Curzon had the decision reversed on his return, although to Curzon ’ s fury ( he thought it “ abuse of authority ”) Wilson gave Milne permission to withdraw if he deemed it necessary.

Idealism in international relations usually refers to the school of thought personified in American diplomatic history by Woodrow Wilson, such that it is sometimes referred to as " Wilsonianism.

The subduction-related chemistry of ophiolites and their association with mountain belts suggests that their formation and emplacement are related to oceanic closure and continental collision ( final stages of the Wilson Cycle ) rather than oceanic opening and seafloor spreading as was first thought.

Poor man .” although Wilson also thought him “ brave as a lion ”.

: Mr. Wilson & Mr. Sherman moved to insert after the words " coin money " the words " nor emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold & silver coin a tender in payment of debts " making these prohibitions absolute, instead of making the measures allowable ( as in the XIII art :) with the consent of the Legislature of the U. S. ... Mr. Sherman thought this a favorable crisis for crushing paper money.

The huge number of returning veterans could not find work, something the Wilson administration had given little thought to.

Repington was later tried and found guilty of breaking it – he thought his behaviour justified and that Wilson ’ s was not-but had to resign his commission and was an important war correspondent during the Great War.

Wilson disapproved of large meetings-a view he shared with Joffre – and thought the British and French War Ministers, C-in-Cs and foreign ministers ( 6 men in total ) should meet regularly which might discourage ventures like Antwerp, Gallipoli and Salonika.

Wilson did not get on with Haig and wanted to go on half pay but Haig thought this unacceptable for such an able officer in wartime.

Wilson thought at the end of 1916 that both sides were claiming victory from that year ’ s fighting, but victory “ inclined to us ”, and that Germany might be driven to sue for peace in 1917.

Wilson met the Tsar but thought him “ as devoid of character & purpose as our own poor miserable King ”.

Robertson suggested once again that Wilson should return to commanding a corps, but Foch thought this a poor use of his talents.

His brother Jemmy proposed getting him an Ulster seat, and thought that the prospect of Wilson as an MP would annoy Robertson ( who told Wilson that there was no army job for him in Britain ), but the Irish Unionist leader Carson thought an English seat more sensible.

* Gordon Wilson ( 1927 – 1995 ), Peace campaigner and Irish senator

Immigrant groups who had made up an important part of the Democratic coalition, such as ethnic Germans and Irish, also voted for Harding in the election in reaction to their perceived persecution by the Wilson administration during World War I.

* June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British field marshal Henry Hughes Wilson in Belgravia ; the assassins are sentenced to death July 18.

** Robert Wilson Lynd, Northern Irish essayist and writer ( d. 1949 )

* Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician, Democratic Unionist Party

* 1915-British passenger liner RMS Lusitania torpedoed off Irish coast by German submarine ; 1, 200 dead include 128 Americans ; Theodore Roosevelt demands war ; Woodrow Wilson issues strong protest

On his return home from the ceremony, Wilson was assassinated by two Irish Republican Army volunteers.

While returning home from the unveiling ceremony, Wilson was assassinated by Irish Republican Army ( 1922 – 1969 ) | IRA gunmen.

* Richard Wilson ( Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art )

Tiffany was born in 1971, to parents James Robert Darwish ( of Lebanese and Syrian descent ) and Janie Wilson ( of mostly Irish and some distant Cherokee descent ).

Britain assured its fellow-victors that the situation in Ireland would be dealt with under the new principles of self-determination, and so significant Irish support in America was negated by President Wilson who would not recognise the sovereignty of the Irish Republic.

* John Wilson Croker-Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage

Foster, John Wilson ( 2008 ) in Irish Novels 1890 – 1940 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press ), pp. 478 – 81.

The second was the assassination by Irish republicans in London of a retired British general Henry Hughes Wilson.

Fiona Shaw, CBE ( born Fiona Mary Wilson ; 10 July 1958 ) is an Irish actress and theatre director.

* Roger Wilson ( rugby union ) ( born 1981 ), Irish rugby player

He was also colonel of the 19th Hussars from 11 March 1902 ( retaining this position when French persuaded Wilson to amalgamate them with the 15th to become the 15th / 19th The King's Royal Hussars ), colonel of the 1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment from 22 April 1909 and colonel-in-chief of the Royal Irish Regiment from 26 March 1913.

* Gordon Wilson ( peace campaigner ) ( 1927 – 1995 ), Peace campaigner and Irish senator

John Wilson Croker ( 20 December 1780 – 10 August 1857 ) was an Irish statesman and author.

Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO, ( 5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922 ) was an Anglo-Irish of Ulster Scots ancestry and Irish Unionist politician.

In 1914, Wilson surreptitiously supported British Army officers who threatened to resign rather than lead troops against Ulster Unionist opponents of the Third Irish Home Rule Bill in the so-called Curragh Mutiny, although some blamed him for inciting the Incident and then failing to support the " mutineers ".

The new party ’ s policies would include more vigorous prosecution of the war – Wilson urged Irish conscription – and the detachment of Turkey and Bulgaria.