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Wilson is in the top ten most common names in the U.S.A. and in Scotland (where it is third), it is in the top fifteen in England and the top thirty in Ireland.
Further north in Caithness and Sutherland the Wilsons were a sept of Clan Gunn being descended from William, one of the sons of the fifteenth century George Gunn the Crowner (coroner of Caithness).
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) was born in Edgeworthstown, county Longford, Ireland.
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 Henry Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Henry Wilson Henry Wilson (February 16, 1812–November 22, 1875) was a Senator from Massachusetts and the eighteenth Vice President of the United States.
Wilson was born Jeremiah Jones Colbath in Farmington, New Hampshire.
Wilson was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with President Ulysses S. Grant and served from March 4, 1873, until his death in the United States Capitol Building at Washington, DC.
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 Field-Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson
Wilson, Gough and many others became 'marked men' as a result of this incident, which had an important effect on relationships with the Government and the military hierarchy throughout the succeeding years.
In late December, a proposal to appoint Wilson to Chief of the General Staff to replace Murray was vetoed by both Asquith and Kitchener; he was hurt by Sir John French's acquiescence, the latter having promised him the post.
Wilson, having achieved the pinnacle of the British Army, was left to the politics, while the two commanders got on with winning the war.
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 First World War.com - Feature Articles - Woodrow Wilson's Administration
Wilson reluctantly agreed to choose Bryan as Secretary of State to appease a segment of the Democratic party.
Wilson, through much effort, did manage to prevent some of the more extreme punishments against Germany, and convinced the allies that a League of Nations was necessary.
Wilson served in an era before Watergate, and before all of the scandals that have reduced faith in government to tired cynicism.
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 Learn more about List of assassinated persons in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Darnley, (1567), Henry Stuart, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots
Henry Hughes Wilson, (1922), British field marshal, Conservative politician.
Henry Heusken, (1861), American diplomat (accompanying Townsend Harris from Amsterdam).
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 Henry Hughes Wilson
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, First Baronet, GCB, DSO, (May 5 1864 Ballinalee, Longford, Ireland - June 22 1922) was a British field marshal and Conservative politician.
He was born in Currygrane, Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland and was the second son of James and Constance Wilson, of Currygrane.
On June 22 1922, two English-born members of the IRA, Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, shot Sir Henry Wilson as he returned to his Eaton Square home after unveiling a war memorial in Liverpool Street Station.
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 Golfweek | Golf's Global News Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mississippi options: Dean Wilson and Steve Stricker were among those talking about their schedule for the rest of the year as they try to finish in the top 125 on the money list to secure their PGA Tour cards.
Hughes said he spoke Monday night with tournament director Robert Morgan, and another problem is where to stay.
Hughes said they could decide to move the tournament, play it on a different date or attempt to keep it on schedule.
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 037030683X - The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1918-1922 by Keith Jeffery; Imperial War ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
W. ilson was Chief of the Imperial General Staff, February 1918 to February 1922, and the correspondence selected for this Army Records Society volume reflects all the principal military concerns of the period.
A. ll these topics are covered in the correspondence, which in particular demonstrates Wilson's growing disillusionment with the government's Irish policy.
Wilson was himself an Irishman with strong Unionist sympathies which materially contributed to.
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 John Singer Sargent's General Officers of the Great War
Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), General and Commander-in-Chief of Army in India.
[see Sir Henry Timson Lukin] Whether the attack was a success or not remains an area of controversy: however most historians agree that the cost in human terms was too high for relatively little gain.
This painting had been part of a deal he had agreed to which was sort of thrust upon him -- and he seemed to hated every minute of it.
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 Henry Wilson biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Henry Wilson (February 16, 1812–November 22, 1875) was a Senator from Massachusetts and the eighteenth Vice President of the United States.
In 1833 he had his name legally changed by the legislature to Henry Wilson.
For Henry Hughes Wilson, First World War British general, see Henry Hughes Wilson.
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 Henry Wilson (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Wilson, (1812–75) eighteenth Vice President of the United States and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Henry Lane Wilson (born 1857) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
Henry Bristow Wilson(1803–1888), theologian and fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
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 4th Mississippi Cavalry
Wilson, Forty-third Tennessee, which defeated a body of Federal raiders at Rocky Creek, near Ellisville, June 25, 1863, capturing thirty-seven soldiers of the Fifth Illinois Cavalry.
Colonel Henry Hughes, formerly of the Twelfth Infantry, organized a partisan corps in the spring and summer of 1862, including infantry and cavalry.
During siege of Port Hudson, Hughes' Battalion was with the command of Col. John L. Logan, headquarters Clinton, La., operating in the Federal rear.
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 Notes: Play has sped up on the PGA TOUR - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
While 10 minutes might not seem like much over the course of one round, the drastic drop in the number of players who are timed for being out of position is a big improvement.
A year ago, Hughes said there were slightly more than 100 players who had been put on the clock at least four times during the season.
Other big moves came from David Frost, who finished fifth and jumped 26 spots to No. 110; and Dean Wilson (T14), who went from No. 104 to No. 92 and is safe for next year.
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 Henry Hughes Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO, (May 5, 1864 – June 22, 1922) was a British field marshal and Conservative politician.
On June 22, 1922, two English-born members of the IRA, Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, shot and killed Sir Henry Wilson as he returned to his Eaton Square home after unveiling a war memorial in Liverpool Street Station.
Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: His Life and Diaries by Major-General Sir C E Callwell, Cassell, 1927.
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 TIME.com: Posthumous Onslaughts -- Oct. 17, 1927 -- Page 1
Than the late Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, assassinated on the steps of his London home by two Sinn Feiners on July 22, 1922, there has rarely been a soldier whose sarcasm has been so biting, whose criticism so penetrative, whose mind so outspoken, whose ego so self-exalted.
As was to be expected, their contents were plentifully interlarded with vigorous attacks on the statesmen of the War and armistice periods, most of whom are still celebrities living in shadow of fame.
We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting him in his proper place; but I was not able to persuade Lloyd George, and after lunch he went off to Walton Heath.
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 Hamilton College - Academics - History
Wilson, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1989, earned a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Wilson has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and Summer Stipend.
Wilson edited On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius (Harvard, 2003), to which he also contributed two chapters and is currently co-authoring a cultural history of Confucius titled Confucius through the Ages, to be published by Random House.
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 4th Mississippi Cavalry
Colonel Henry Hughes, formerly of the Twelfth Mississippi Infantry, organized a partisan corps in the spring and summer of 1862, which included infantry and cavalry.
During the siege of Port Hudson, Hughes' Battalion was with the command of Col. John L. Logan, headquartered at Clinton, Louisiana, operating in the Federal rear.
The combined Hughes and Stockdale Battalions under the command of Col. John L. Logan, defeated on August 3, 1863, near Jackson, East Feliciana Parish, a detachment, mainly of the "Corps d'Afrique", under Lt. Hanham, who were out collecting Negro recruits.
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2005027739   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Henry Wilson was the only British field marshal ever to die in action, killed on his own doorstep in 1922 by two IRA men (one of whom had a wooden leg).
Wilson was a flamboyant, maverick Irishman, at the centre of affairs during the First World War years and after, recording everything in his
Using a wide range of official and private sources, this is the first modern biography of this controversial and misunderstood figure.
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 Hughes, May, Reynolds, Smith, Family in 1900 Kent
Hughes, May, Reynolds, Smith, Family in 1900 Kent
In Gaelic Hugh signifies affability, a guest, a stranger.
It is a craft that was practiced in all countries, making the surname and its derivations the most common of all surnames.
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 1922 | Political Events: The People's Chronology
U.S. Navy fleet commander Adm. Henry D. Wiley, now 62, is critical of the concessions made by Washington (see 1930).
Ernst Heinkel Flugzerugfwerke is founded at Warnemünde by aircraft designer Heinkel, now 34, who has been chief designer for the Albatros Aircraft Co. at Berlin that produced fighter planes during the Great War (see 1921; catapult, 1925).
Sinn Fein terrorists murder British field marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 58; the president of the Dail Eireann, Arthur Griffith, dies suddenly August 12; Prime Minister and urban guerrilla terrorist Michael Collins is mortally wounded August 22 at age 31 in an IRA ambush between Bandon and Macroom.
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 Hen Did You Mean hen?
Henry, 3rd Earl Of, Earl of Leicester, Lord Lancaster Lancaster
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl, Baron Bathurst of Battlesden, Lord Apsley, Baron of Apsley Bathurst
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl, Baron Bathurst of Battlesden, Lord Apsley, Baron of Apsley Bathurst
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 A20060201   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
William Hughes was a Corporal in the Civil War.
The Wilson Brothers shirt factory made 3-1/2 million articles of military clothing, and Electro-Voice Manufacturing Co. produced a special “mustache lip” microphone that could be worn under a gas mask.
The Oliver Plow Works kept right on making plows, although in 1944 labor was in such short supply that there was a plan to use Italian and German prisoners of war because Oliver was the only factory in town not engaged in direct war production, from which POWs were excluded by the Geneva Convention.
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 Guide to the Jacob Gould Schurman Papers,1867-1942 [1986]
His active interest in politics, the problems of peace and the League of Nations, and his diplomatic activities are discussed in correspondence with William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, Henry Lane Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Wadsworth, Joseph Foraker, and Frank Kellogg, including comments on Gustav Stresemann, German politics, and the German economy.
Wilson, Henry Lane; Borah, William E.; Scott, James Brown; Adamson, Ethel M.; Hammond, William A.; Betts, Charles H.; Elliott, John Lovejoy; Wilson, Henry Lane.
Lehman, Herbert H.; Hughes, Charles E.; La Guardia, F. H.; Gannett, Frank E. Telegrams of condolence on the death of Jacob Gould Schurman to Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr.
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 Amazon.com: "Henry Hughes": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Unlike the other actors milling about, all attired in costumes of a more subdued nature, Henry Hughes was dressed in the multicolored cloth of motley.
Although Comte's Cours de philosophie positive (1830-1842) had been a basic intellectual resource for America 's antebellum sociologists-Henry Hughes, George Fitzhugh, George Frederick Holmes, and Joseph Le Conte `-It did not exert a similar influence on those of the...
No one expressed these positive views of the state more enthusiastically or boldly than Henry Hughes of Port Gibson, Mississippi, whose statism was a central feature of his thought.
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 Lamza Family Connections William Stacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
One of the signers of the petition to establish the state of "Franklin." The petition failed and the area became East Tennessee.
• Land Purchase: 200 Acres from Henry Hughes for 100 pounds, 1789, Sullivan County, Tennessee.
Lists William Henry with 1 male 20-30 (Richard Henry), one male 70-80 (William), and one female 60-70 (Dolley).
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 Amazon.com: "Jimmy Wilson": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His Army pal, Jimmy Wilson - with elbows on the side- walk cafe's table,...
Ward and his associates - including a realtor named Jimmy Wilson - felt I might be able to repre- sent the owners of these bonds against the Germans,...
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 List of people associated with World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Henri Bourassa (1868–1952) led French Canadian opposition to conscription
Henry Norwest (1884–1918) one of the most famous snipers in World War I
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, (1864-1922), Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1918
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 Texas Weslyan Rams vs CSW Mustangs (Feb 15, 2003)
Walks - Henry; Putman; Mull; Forrister; Schott; Anson 2.
Henry out at second c to 2b, caught stealing.
CSW Mustangs - inning 7 Wilson to p for Martinez.
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 Lycoming County Genealogical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
These trustees brought a lawsuit against Aaron Hagerman in September of the year in a dispute over the ownership of 10 acres of land in Loyalsock Twp which were in Aaron's possession.
Into April 1822 variance in the matter was referred to Henry Hughes, William Wilson, Thomas Caldwell (sp?), Jacob Bastien, and Peter Vanderbilt, these men met at Mr Hughes’ home to decide.
Each was paid $1 per day for their service, the cost of which Aaron Hagerman eventually had to pay when the case was decided in favour of the Trustees.
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