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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.
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 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
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."
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.
The first publication of a section of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas was the air "Ah! Belinda" in Orpheus Britannicus, transposed up one step, from C to D. [8] Henry Hall, who had studied composition with Purcell under John Blow, wrote the dedicatory poems at the beginning of each volume, (1698 and 1702) and also wrote one for Blow's Amphion ...
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. Purcell served as a captain in ...
The Double Dealer is a comic play written by English playwright William Congreve, first produced in 1693. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Incidental music for the play was written by Henry Purcell . Characters and plot