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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 Edward Purcell (August 3, 1856 – November 23, 1928) was a United States senator from North Dakota. Born in Flemington, New Jersey , he attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1880, commencing practice in Flemington.
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
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 sign of overt discord between Bligh and his officers occurred when the captain exchanged angry words with the carpenter, William Purcell, over the latter's methods for cutting wood. [ 60 ] [ n 6 ] Bligh ordered Purcell back to the ship and, when the carpenter stood his ground, Bligh withheld his rations, which "immediately brought him ...
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 ...
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]