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See also:SHIRLEY, 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 (1694-1771) , colonial See also:governor of See also:Massachusetts, was See also:born at See also:Preston in See also:Sussex, See also:England, on-the 2nd of See also:December 1694. He studied See also:law, entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple, emigrated to Massachusetts in 1731, was appointed " the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's only See also:advocate-See also:general in See also:America " (i.e. of all New England except See also:Connecticut) in 1734, and in 1741, while representing Massachusetts in a boundary dispute with Rhode See also:Island, was appointed governor. His efforts to secure a permanent fixed See also:salary for himself (of £See also:I000) were unsuccessful; and his See also:attempt to prevent the further issue of See also:paper See also:money also involved him in a controversy with the General See also:Court; but their relations were not unfriendly after 1743. The most important event of his See also:administration was the See also:conquest of See also:Louisburg in 1745. The expedition was undertaken on his See also:suggestion and its success was largely due to his See also:energy and See also:enthusiasm; in See also:September 1749 £183,65o (See also:English) in See also:coin was brought to See also:Boston to See also:cover the outlay of Massachusetts, and largely through Shirley's See also:influence this was used for the redemption of outstanding paper money, thus re-establishing the finances of the See also:province, a subject towhich Shirley had given much See also:attention. Both in the colonies and in England, whither he returned in 1749 on leave of See also:absence, Shirley kept up an active agitation for the See also:expulsion of the See also:French from the whole of See also:Canada. He went back to Massachusetts as governor in 1753; led an unsuccessful expedition against Fort See also:Niagara in 1755, and alter the See also:death of General See also:Edward See also:Braddock (1755) until See also:June 1756 was See also:commander-inchief of all the See also:British forces in America. In September 1756 he was recalled to England and was succeeded as governor by See also:Spencer Phips. He was governor of the See also:Bahamas until 1770, then again returned to Massachusetts and died at See also:Roxbury on the 24th of See also:March 1771. He published a See also:Journal of the See also:Siege of Louisbourg (1745), and The Conduct of General William Shirley Briefly Stated (1758).
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