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William King "Bill" Harvey (September 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, best known for his role in the terrorism and sabotage campaign known as Operation Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond", a tag given to him by Edward Lansdale. [1]
King Henry VIII of England prevented his tenants from depriving him of royal revenue by sponsoring the 1535 law called the Statute of Uses. [ 6 ] Such right entitled the king to all the revenues of the deceased's estate, excluding those lands, generally one third of the estate, allocated to his widow as dower , until the heir reached his ...
Simon Carrington (born 1942), conductor, musician, and former founding member of The King's Singers; Harry Christophers CBE (born 1953), conductor; John Wesley Harding (born 1965), singer-songwriter and author; William Lewarne Harris (1929-2013), composer and teacher; Andrew Marriner (born 1954), former principal clarinettist of the London ...
William Harvey visited Scotland in his role as physician to King Charles I in 1633 and 1641. [3] During the first visit, he was granted the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh and was made an honorary member of the Incorporation of Surgeons (which later became the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh).
The Visitation of Bedfordshire, annis domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, made by William Harvey, esq, Clarencieulx King of Arms, Robert Cooke, esq, Clarencieulx King of Arms, and George Owen, esq, York Herald, as deputy for Sir Richard St George, Kt, Clarencieulx King of Arms; together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from Harleian MS 1531, and an ...
William Harvey (officer of arms) (1510–1567), English herald and Norroy King of Arms; William Harvey (Bible Christian) (1787–1870, English cotton mill owner, deacon, and activist; William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish botanist; William Hope Harvey (1851–1936), "free silver" activist
William Harvey JP (1787 – 25 December 1870) was an English industrialist, cotton mill owner, deacon, and activist. He was an advocate for parliamentary reform, temperance, vegetarianism and against tobacco. Harvey helped found the Bible Christian Church and served as deacon from 1809 till his death.
William Harvey (1510 – 1567) was an English officer of arms. William Harvey, engraving possibly 18th century by Charles Hall. Born June 1510 to Turner and Mary Harvey in Ashill, Somerset. He had a brother Thomas Harvey of London, whose daughter Audrey Harvey married William Jefferay. [1]