See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:MOTHERWELL (1797-1835)
, Scottish poet, See also:antiquary and journalist, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow on the 13th of See also:October 1797, the son of an ironmonger
.
At the See also:age of fifteen he was apprenticed in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the See also:sheriff-clerk at See also:Paisley, and appointed sheriff-clerk depute there in 1819
.
He spent his leisure in See also:collecting materials for a See also:volume of See also:local See also:ballads which he published in 1819 under the See also:title of The See also:Harp of See also:Renfrewshire
.
In 1827 he published a further See also:instalment in Minstrelsy See also:Ancient and See also:Modern, prefaced by an excellent See also:historical introduction
.
He contributed verses to See also:newspapers and magazines, Jeanie See also:Morrison, My Heid is like to rend, Willie, and Wearie's Could Well being his best-known poems
.
He became editor of the Paisley Advertiser in 1828, and of the Glasgow See also:Courier in 1830
.
A small volume of his poems was published in 1832, and a larger volume with a memoir in 1846, reissued, with additions, in 1848
.
See also:MOTHERWELL, a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Lanarkshire,
See also:Scotland
.
Pop
.
(1851), 900; (1901), 30,418
.
It is situated near
the right See also:bank of the See also:Clyde, 13 M
.
S.E. of Glasgow by the
Caledonian railway
.
It takes its name from an old well dedicated to the Virgin, and owes its rapid increase to the See also:coal and See also:iron mines in the neighbourhood
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It has large iron and See also:steel See also:works, See also:bridge-See also:building being a distinctive See also:industry
.
Boilers, See also:steam-See also:cranes and ironmongers' See also:ware are also made, and there are See also:brick, See also:tile and fireclay works
.
The public buildings include the See also:town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, See also:theatre and See also:hospital; the See also:park was presented in See also:commemoration of See also:Queen See also:Victoria's See also:Jubilee
.
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