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See also:BINNEY, See also:EDWARD 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 (1812-1881) , See also:English geologist, was See also:born at See also:Morton, in See also:Nottinghamshire, in 1812. He was articled to a See also:solicitor in See also:Chesterfield, and in 1836 settled at See also:Manchester. He retired soon afterwards from legal practice and gave his See also:chief See also:attention to See also:geological pursuits. He assisted in 1838 in See also:founding the Manchester Geological Society, of which he was then chosen one of the honorary secretaries; he was elected See also:president in 1857, and again in 1865. He was also successively secretary and president of the See also:Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Working especially at the Carboniferous and See also:Permian rocks of the See also:north of See also:England, he studied also the See also:Drift deposits of See also:Lancashire, and made himself See also:familiar with the See also:geology of the See also:country around Manchester. On the See also:Coal See also:Measures in particular he became an acknowledged authority, and his Observations on the Structure of Fossil See also:Plants found in the Carboniferous Strata (1868-1875) formed one of the monographs of the Palaeontographical Society. His large collection of fossils was placed in See also:Owens See also:College. He was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society in 1856. He died at Manchester on the 19th of See also:December 1881.
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