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• 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

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• GRATTAN, HENRY (1746-1820)

GRATTAN]

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• TYRONE
• TYRONE, EARLS OF

TYRONE (1797-1841)  , Irish actor, was born near Kilmacthomas on the and of November 1797 . At the age of fourteen he joined a company of strolling players, eventually getting small parts in the London theatres . On the sudden death of Charles Connor he was given his parts and was immediately recognized as the best stage Irishman of his generation, becoming a popular favourite in London, Dublin and America . He was on board the ill-fated " President " when she foundered at sea in March 1841 . Power wrote and performed several Irish plays, and published three novels and tools, textile machinery, pumping machinery, cranes—in fact his Impressions of America (1836) . He had married when every kind of machine which requires any considerable quantity twenty and left a widow and seven children, the oldest of whom, Sir William Tyrone Power, K.C.E . (b . 1819), became Commissary-general of the British army and was knighted in 1865 .