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- William Hoskins (17 February 1816 – 28 September 1886) was a Shakespearean actor from England whose later career was mostly in Australia and New Zealand, reputedly "one of the best actors who has ever trod our stage".
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William Hoskins (17 February 1816 – 28 September 1886) was a Shakespearean actor from England whose later career was mostly in Australia and New Zealand, reputedly "one of the best actors who has ever trod our stage".
In his pioneering work The Making of the English Landscape (1955), William George Hoskins (1908-1992) claimed ‘to those who know how to read it aright, the English landscape is the richest historical document we possess’.
William Hoskins (17 February 1816 – 28 September 1886) was a Shakespearean actor from England whose later career was mostly in Australia and New Zealand, reputedly "one of the best actors who has ever trod our stage". History.
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William Hoskins was born by about 1611 (freeman in 1634/5, married in 1636), presumably at Aghadown, Cork, Ireland. He was the son of Henry Hoskins and Anne Winthrop as shown by a letter Anne (Winthrop) Hoskins wrote to her cousin John Winthrop (the younger)in 1638 specifically requesting to know how her son William Hoskins was doing. In the list o...
Origins
The 1638 letter from Anne Hoskins to John Winthropprovides the only known connection linking William Hoskins to his origin. Anderson only includes a single William Hoskins in New England by 1635. Anne's letter also states that her husband died about three years ago, suggesting her son William had left before then. If this William was not her son, then her son would have had to have died or left New England seemingly without leaving a record.
Pequot War
William is said to have served in the Pequot War in 1637, but he is not on the list of men who volunteered.In any event, no one from Plymouth participtated in the war as the Pequots were vanquished before the Plymouth men deployed.
Thomas Hoskins
Another would-be child, Thomas Hoskins, appears to have been added by a GEDCOM upload, 7 April 2011. There is no evidence on his profile to support his existence, let alone a relationship to William Hoskins.
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 6 vols. (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical...Worthington C. Ford, et al., eds, Winthrop Papers, 6 vols. (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1929-1992) 4: 7-8 "Ann Hoskins to John Winthrop, Jr."HathiTrust. Transcript also located in:...Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet & Pulsifer, David. Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England 12 vols. (AMS Press: New York, 1855-1861), 1: 4, Internet Archive.Thank you to all who have contributed to this profile. Click the Changes tab to see those previous edits.
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- September 7, 1695
William George Hoskins CBE FBA (22 May 1908 – 11 January 1992) was an English local historian who founded the first university department of English Local History. His great contribution to the study of history was in the field of landscape history .
Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker on the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven.
He was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was living after being evacuated as a result of the heavy bombings. He is the son of Elsie Lillian (Hopkins), a nursery school teacher and cook, and Robert William Hoskins, Sr., who drove a lorry and worked as a bookkeeper.
