William Smith (March 23 1769 - August 28 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology", however recognition was slow in coming. At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections preventing him from mixing easily in learned society. Consequently his work was plagiarised, he was financially ruined, and he spent time in debtors' prison. It was only much later in his life that Smith received recognition for his accomplishments.
William Smith (born March 24, 1934) is an American actor.
Smith began his acting career in his childhood. He moved forward into his adult years, appearing in several feature films and on numerous television series. He is perhaps best-known for playing Anthony Falconetti on the TV mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man and its sequel, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. The physically imposing 6'2" actor was a lifelong bodybuilder and had the distinction of being the final Marlboro Man before the cigarette ads were discontinued on TV.
Smith won the 200 pound (91 kg) arm-wrestling championship of the world multiple times and also won the Air Force weightlifting championship. At one time he was in the Guinness Book of World Records for reverse-curling his own bodyweight. His trademark arms measured 18 and 1/2 inches. Smith held a 31-1 record as an amateur boxer and studied martial arts with kenpo instructor Ed Parker for several years. Smith also played semi-pro football in Germany and competed in motocross and downhill ski events. He entered films stunt doubling for former screen Tarzan Lex Barker in a French film.
Going against his rough-hewn image, Smith was also highly educated. He held a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse and a Master's Degree in Russian Studies from UCLA. He even taught Russian at UCLA before abandoning his Ph.D. studies for an MGM contract. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Munich while learning languages courtesy of the military. Smith is fluent in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French, and German. During the Korean War he was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and was awarded a Purple Heart. He had both CIA and NSA clearance and intended to enter a classified position with the U.S. government, but married a French actress which meant he lost his security clearance.
One of his best known roles was as a Texas Ranger on the popular 60's TV Western Laredo. Smith's character, Joe Riley, was good-natured and snoozy (that is, within the typical Smith warrior persona), in contrast with Peter Brown's ladies' man and Neville Brand's relentless bumbler. Smith played Jude Bohner in a 1972 two hour episode of Gunsmoke as the "greatest bad-guy character actor of our time". Smith was added to the cast on the final season of the long running Hawaii Five-O series. On film he played Clint Eastwood's bare-knuckle nemesis Jack Wilson in Any Which Way You Can, the barbarian's father in Conan the Barbarian and a Russian commander in Red Dawn. For fans of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, Smith did a turn as chief heavy Terry Bartell in Darker Than Amber, opposite Rod Taylor and Theodore Bikel, in 1970. He also appeared in the 1983 classic film The Outsiders as a store clerk, but his starring roles typically had titles such as Grave of the Vampire, Invasion of the Bee Girls, and The Swinging Barmaids. Smith also played in several biker flicks including C.C. and Co., where he starred as the menacing "Moon", opposite football great Joe Namath and Ann Margret. He also starred in Nam's Angels, which is briefly seen on a television in a scene in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction. Smith has also made guest appearances in numerous TV shows including Backlash of the Hunter 1974 which was the pilot for The Rockford Files.
William Smith (April 12, 1728 - March 27, 1814) was an American politician and representative of the fourth congressional district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives.
Smith was born in Donegal Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1761, and was appointed a member of the committee of correspondence in 1774, and a member of the committee of observation in 1775. Smith was also one of a committee appointed by the Continental Congress to constitute a naval board in 1777.
Smith was chosen as a Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777. He subsequently pursued a career as a merchant, and then was elected to the First United States Congress, from March 4, 1789, until March 3, 1791. Smith was the First Auditor of the United States Treasury from July 16, 1791 to November 27, 1791. He returned to local politics to be elected to the Maryland Senate in 1801. Smith died in Baltimore and was interred in the Old Westminster Graveyard.
Smith's daughter Mary was married to Gen. Otho Holland Williams, founder of Williamsport, Maryland. Williams served in the Revolutionary War as Deputy Adjutant General to both Gens. Horatio Gates and Nathanael Greene.
William Smith is South Africa's best-known and most popular television science and mathematics teacher.
Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. He was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College London he carried off both the Greek and Latin prizes. He was entered at Gray's Inn in 1830, but gave up his legal studies for a post at University College School, and began to write on classical subjects.
He next turned his attention to practical lexicography. His first attempt was the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, which appeared in 1842. The greater part of this was written by him. In 1849 followed the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography in 1857. In this work some of the leading scholars of the day were associated with him. In 1850 he published the first of the school dictionaries; and in 1853 he began the Principia series, which marked a distinct step in the school teaching of Greek and Latin. Then came the Students' Manuals of History and Literature, in which the Greek history was the editor's own work. In carrying out this task Smith was most ably seconded by John Murray, the publisher, who, when the original publishers of the dictionaries got into difficulties, volunteered to take a share in the undertaking. The most important, perhaps, of the books edited by Smith were those that dealt with ecclesiastical subjects. These were the Dictionary of the Bible (1860-1865); the Dictionary of Christian Antiquities (1875-1880), undertaken in collaboration with Archdeacon Samuel Cheetham; and the Dictionary of Christian Biography (1877-1887), jointly with Dr. Henry Wace. The Atlas, on which Sir George Grove collaborated, appeared in 1875. From 1853 to 1869 Smith was classical examiner to the University of London, and on his retirement he became a member of the Senate. He sat on the Committee to inquire into questions of copyright, and was for several years registrar of the Royal Literary Fund. He edited Gibbon, with Guizot's and Milman's notes, in 1854-1855. In 1867, he became editor of the Quarterly Review, which he directed with marked success until his death; his remarkable memory and accuracy, as well as his tact and courtesy, specially fitting him for such a post. He was DCL of Oxford and Dublin, and the honour of knighthood was conferred on him the year before his death (7 October 1893). He was survived by his wife and brother.
William Smith (also found as William B. Smith) (March 13 1811 – November 13, 1893) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Smith was the eighth child of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith and was the younger brother of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
William Smith (born c. 1775 in Blyth, Northumberland) was the English captain who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago near Antarctica.
In 1819, while sailing cargo on the Williams from Buenos Aires to Valparaíso, he sailed further south round Cape Horn in an attempt of catching the right winds. On 19 February 1819 he spotted the new land at 62° West but did not land on it. The naval authorities did not believe his discovery, but on a subsequent trip on 16 October he landed on the largest of the islands. He named the island King George Island and the archipelago South Shetland Islands in honour of the Shetland Islands which are to the north of Scotland. At the beginning of the following year, 1820, the Williams was chartered by the Royal Navy, and dispatched with Smith and Lieutenant Edward Bransfield onboard to survey the newly discovered islands, discovering also the Antarctic Peninsula in the process.
William Smith (June 25, 1728 – November 3, 1793) was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, later Lower Canada, from 1786 until his death. He was the son of Judge William Smith of New York and the brother of Joshua Hett Smith, the supposed “dupe” of Benedict Arnold and Major John André.
During the American Revolution, he was referred to as “the weathercock” because his contemporaries were not able to understand which side he was on. Basically, though, he was neither friend to American or Loyalist and was one of the main reasons that the loyalists themselves declared that they did never trust the family of Smith.
He, along with his brother Joshua Hett Smith, escaped prosecution and probable execution by the Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York in 1778 for the crime of treason due to the memory of their father's influence upon the Justice system: the elder William Smith had, despite the efforts of friends and relatives, refused his own appointment to the Office of Chief Justice of the Province of New York in 1760, which his son William had accepted.
His brother, Doctor Thomas Smith, was the owner of the “treason house” in Haverstraw, Orange County, New York that was being occupied by his other brother, Joshua Hett Smith, at the time that Benedict Arnold and Major John André planned their conspiracies.
Smith returned to England in 1783 and then came to Quebec City in 1786, when he was named Chief Justice for the province and also named to the legislative council. In 1791, he became chief justice for Lower Canada and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, serving as its first speaker. He died in Quebec City in 1793.
He published The history of the Province of New York from its Discovery in 1532,... in London in 1757.
William Smith (September 20, 1751 - June 22, 1837) was a congressman, state senator and judge from South Carolina.
Smith was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the oldest son of Ralph Smith and Mercy Penquite Smith. He moved to Spartan District, South Carolina with his family in 1765 where he became a planter. He fought in the Revolutionary War and served as a county judge from 1785 to 1797. He served in the South Carolina Senate from the Spartan District from 1790 to 1796 and was later elected a Democratic-Republican to the fifth congress serving from 1797 to 1799. He was elected back to the South Carolina Senate serving from 1810 to 1818. He died in the Spartan District in 1837.
William Smith (September 6, 1762 - June 26, 1840) was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816. He ran unsuccessfully for reelection when his term expired in 1823. He was again elected Senator in 1826 and was again an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1831.
In the presidential election of 1836, 23 electors from Virginia voted for him for Vice President. Those same electors had voted for Martin Van Buren for President and were pledged to vote for Van Buren's running mate Richard M. Johnson, but instead cast their votes for Smith. This denied Johnson the electoral majority and resulted in the only vice presidential contest so far that needed to be determined by the Senate. The Senate elected Johnson Vice President. This was not the first time that faithless electors had voted for Smith. In the election of 1828, seven electors from Georgia who were pledged to vote for John C. Calhoun voted for Smith instead.
On March 3, 1837, outgoing President Andrew Jackson nominated Smith to the Supreme Court. The Senate confirmed Smith's nomination by a vote of 23–18; nevertheless, Smith declined to serve.
William "Deucem" Smith (1896–1947) was known as one of the most talented sheep shearers in the world. His character and skill with the shears earned him a reputation as the greatest shearer of the first half of the twentieth century.
William Walker Smith (b. 1920 in Belfast, Ireland), 'Fighting Bill Smith' was born in Belfast Ireland in 1920. He was later to immigrate to Canada, and presently resides in Wawa Ontario He had a nine year amateur career which began in 1936, and he took his first national championship in 1941. He won four National Championships and a myriad of other titles in his career record 147 bouts with only 27 losses. An amazing feat for even this day. In 1943 he was the first man to hold both the Northern and Southern Irish Championships. He was a south paw and started his career as a welter weight 145 lb. He joined the Navy in 1945 and saw through the last six months of the war. He worked as an engineer aboard a tanker, and took his decommission and an honourable discharge in 1954. After the Navy he began a career in mining with the Algoma Ore as a 'underground mechanic.' After a number of difficult accidents he retired in 1986, and took his 'stationary engineering papers'. In 1988 he won $233,000.00 with the Canadian 649 lottery. Bill established the first pugilist club in Wawa, the "Wawa Amateur Boxing Club". He was married to his wife Edith in 1954 whereupon they had four children(son,William Wayne, a daughter Kathleen Gayle, then twins "Glynis Mary & Jeffrey James." His family became his sole purpose in life! William W. Smith also has 9 grandchildren Regan, Demitria, Kelsey, Wade, Cody, Rikki-Lee, Teela, Tyson and Taara.
William Smith (1756 - 1835) was a British politician and dissenter and Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich.
Very Revd. Dr William Smith (1711–1787), Dean of Chester, Greek and Latin scholar and first translator of the works of Thucydides.
Smith was born in Worcester in 1711, the son of the rector of St Nicholas' Church. He was sent to RGS Worcester after which he proceeded to New College, Oxford in 1728. He remained here for many years gaining four degrees including D.D. in 1758. He became headmaster of Brentwood School, Essex, in 1748, before leaving to become vicar of St George's, Liverpool. He left there in 1767 to go to Chester and after a time in Holy Trinity became Dean of Chester Cathedral. He remained in this post until his death in 1787. Amongst his greatest achievements was the translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and some of his other works as well as the works of Xenophon including A History of Greece.
William Smith (born May 16, 1924) was one of the greatest competitive swimmers of the first half of the 20th century. He was a four-time All-American on the Ohio State University swim team. He was undefeated in fours years of duel meet competition. He set seven world records and won fourteen National Championships: seven NCAA, six NAAU indoor and one NAAU outdoor. He won two gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games in the 400 freestyle and 800 freestyle relay. Smith held all the world records between the 200 and 1000-meter freestyle.
William Henry Smith (October 28, 1957 - March 8, 2005) was executed by the state of Ohio for the rape and murder of 47-year-old Mary Virginia Bradford of Cincinnati, Ohio that occurred on September 26, 1987.
Smith and Bradford were seen talking and dancing together at a local bar where they were both regulars. They left the bar at different times on the night of September 26. On the following day, Bradford's boyfriend became concerned because he had not seen her that day. He entered her unlocked apartment and found Bradford's body, nude from the waist down, on the bed. Missing from the apartment were Bradford's two television sets and her stereo components.
During the autopsy the coroner located ten stab wounds in her neck and chest. Of these wounds, one penetrated her right lung, two penetrated the liver, and two penetrated the heart. The coroner concluded that although five of the wounds could ultimately have been fatal, the immediate cause of death was the two heart wounds, one in the right atrium and the other in the right ventricle. The autopsy also indicated that although Bradford had had intercourse before her death, the sex was not consensual.
When the police executed a search warrant at the residence of Smith's mother, they recovered the two television sets, bloody clothing and bloody shoes. Analysis of the blood on the clothing yielded a sample that matched Bradford's blood type.
Smith subsequently confessed to the crime, telling police officers that he had gone to Bradford's apartment sometime after leaving tavern. When he left her apartment, he remembered that he had forgotten his cigarettes and $2,500 worth of cocaine. Upon his return to the apartment, Bradford told him that she did not have the cocaine, and after further discussion about restitution, she offered to reimburse Smith by having sexual relations with him. After having sexual intercourse, the two argued in the living room, and according to Smith, Bradford threatened him with a kitchen knife. He said that he took the knife from Bradford and stabbed her in the neck and stomach, causing her to fall back into a living-room chair, and that the two engaged in intercourse for a second time after Bradford retreated to the bedroom and fell on her bed. Smith admitted that he took from Bradford's apartment two televisions and the stereo components, but he claimed that they were his. He ended his account of the incident by telling the police that he dropped the knife in the river on the way to his mother's residence.
On October 21, 1987, Smith was indicted for the crimes that resulted in Mary Bradford's death. He entered a plea of not guilty to the four counts and the accompanying specifications. A separate plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was later withdrawn in open court. After Smith waived a jury trial, a three-judge panel heard the evidence and found Smith guilty of all counts and specifications on April 6, 1988. Five days after the guilt phase of the trial, the penalty phase commenced, and on April 14, 1988, the three-judge panel sentenced Smith to death.
Smith spent 6,172 days on death row before he was executed by lethal injection.
William Smith (1697–1769) was a judge of the Province of New York and the father of William Smith, Joshua Hett Smith, and Doctor Thomas Smith. In 1760, Smith was offered the position of chief justice of the province. Against the advice of friends and family, he turned down the offer. Smith's son, the younger William Smith, was then offered the position, which he accepted. The elder Smith's actions in this instance would prove popular with the Patriots in the American Revolution.
William Smith (1838 - January 12, 1902) was born in Ireland and was a Union Navy sailor during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at Cherbourg, France. He was buried at Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
William Smith was a private in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action at Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory on October 20, 1869 during the Indian Wars.
The Rev. Dr. William Smith (1727-1803) was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania.
He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, to Thomas and Elizabeth (Duncan) Smith. He attended the University of Aberdeen. In 1753, Smith wrote a pamphlet outlining his thoughts about education. sm683_753g&PagePosition=1" target="_blank">http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=ac7_sm683_753g&PagePosition=1 The book fell into the hands of _Benjamin Franklin; as a result Franklin asked Smith to come to Philadelphia and teach at the newly established academy there (now the University of Pennsylvania).
In 1755 Smith became the first provost (the equivalent of the modern post of college president) of the school. He held the post until 1779. Smith was an Anglican priest and together with William Moore, Smith was briefly jailed in 1758 for his criticism of the military policy in the Quaker-run colony. Indeed, during the French and Indian War, Smith published two anti-Quaker pamphlets that advocated the disenfranchisement of all Quakers--who were, at the time, the political elite in Pennsylvania. However, their pacifist beliefs made it difficult for the Quakers in government to provide funds for defense, and as a result anti-Quaker sentiment ran high, especially in the backcountry which suffered from frequent raids from Indians allied with the French. Smith's second pamphlet, A Brief View of the Conduct of Pennsylvania, For the Year 1755 (1756) actually went so far as to suggest that while one way of "ridding our Assembly of Quakers” would be to require an oath, “another way of getting rid of them" would be "by cutting their Throats.” Smith's virulent attacks on Quakers alienated him from Franklin, who was closely allied with the Pennsylvania Assembly.
Smith courted and married Moore's daughter, Rebecca, and had seven children.
Smith advocated for the Church of England to appoint a bishop in America, a highly controversial proposal insofar as many Americans feared any ecclesiastical institution that might compel compliance with the force of royal authority. Smith received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from University of Oxford and Aberdeen in 1759 and from University College Dublin in 1763. In 1768 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society.
When the American Revolution broke out, Dr. Smith was in a bind. As an Anglican priest, he was viewed as a loyalist, though his sentiments were far more sympathetic towards the patriots than otherwise. Forced to leave Philadelphia, Smith moved to Maryland where he established another school, Washington College.
After the war he returned to Philadelphia where he briefly regained his post at Penn. His final project was the development of land in the western region of the state. Huntingdon, Pennsylvania was founded by Rev. Smith and his sons were the first leaders of its government.
William Smith (15??-16??) was an English sonneteer and friend of Edmund Spenser. He participated in The Phoenix Nest (1593), "England's Helicon" (1600) and published a sonnet sequence Chloris or The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard in 1596.
William Smith (1603–1645) was an English composer from the city of Durham. He is chiefly known for his set of choral responses for the Anglican liturgy of Evening Prayer.
William Smith was an eighteenth and nineteenth century congressman from Virginia.
Born in Chesterfield, Virginia, Smith completed preparatory studies and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782. He was elected a Democratic-Republican, Crawford Republican and Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1820, serving from 1821 to 1827.
William Faulder Smith (born November 14, 1886 - died March 3, 1937) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
He was a member of the British field hockey team, which won the gold medal.
William Smith (November 16, 1847 - January 22, 1931) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Columbus, Canada West, the son of William Smith and Elizabeth Laing, Smith received his early education in the public schools of Columbus after which he continued his studies in Upper Canada College. An agriculturist, Smith was deputy reeve and afterwards reeve of the township of East Whitby. He was also trustee of Columbus School Board for twenty years. He was the Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1887-1891, 1892-1896, and 1911-1921.
William Alexander Bremner Smith (22 July 1902 - 21 December 1937) was a Scottish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, blank">CricketArchive profile he played once for the _Scotland national cricket team in 1927. CricketEurope Stats Zone profile
