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Purcell was born in or near to Norwich on 22 January 1912. [1] Purcell was educated at Norwich School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and ordained in 1938. [ 2 ] After a curacy in Headingley , Yorkshire he was raised to the position of a Minor Canon of Ripon Cathedral in that county.
William Whitney Pursell (June 9, 1926 – September 3, 2020) was an American composer and onetime session pianist. [1] He had a brief but successful career as a pop musician before continuing on as a session player. Pursell is best known for the top ten hit "Our Winter Love."
William Purcell Witcutt (1908–1972) was a notable British religious minister, folklorist and author. He was born into the Anglican church, converted to Catholicism in the early 1930s, and returned to the Church of England in the mid-1950s.
William Purcell may refer to: William Purcell (d. 1834), last known survivor of HMS Bounty; William E. Purcell (1856–1928), state senator from North Dakota; William Frederick Purcell (1866–1919), arachnologist and biologist; William Gray Purcell (1880–1965), architect; William R. Purcell (born 1931), state senator from North Carolina
In the late 1950s, Fr. William Purcell, then President of All Hallows, commissioned a building to honour his predecessor, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell, C. M. O’Donnell had been renowned for a book he wrote in 1910 on the ideals and duties of priests., [2] and for his biography of Fr. John Hand. [3]
William Robert Purcell [1] (born February 12, 1931, in Laurinburg, North Carolina) is a Democratic politician. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-fifth Senate district, including constituents in Anson , Richmond , Scotland and Stanly counties 1997–2013.
On 24 March 1897, Purcell married Anna Cambier Faure, [7] who was a close South African friend of Olive Schreiner. The Purcell's had three children, Frederick Walter Faure Purcell, Olive Margaretha Deneys Purcell and William Frederick Hertzog Purcell. Anna Purcell was a cousin of Barry Hertzog, and her sister Joey married a Smuts.
William Paxson Purcell III (born October 25, 1953) is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor [1] of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, elected first in 1999 and reelected to a second term in 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party.