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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.
William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 – February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography ". He was born into a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the women's advocate ...
The Well at the World's End. The Well at the World's End is a high fantasy novel by the British textile designer, poet, and author William Morris. It was first published in 1896 and has been reprinted repeatedly since, most notably in two parts as the 20th and 21st volumes of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, in August and September 1970.
Lieutenant General William Henry Harrison Morris Jr. (March 22, 1890 – March 30, 1971) was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II. William Morris was born in the Ocean Grove section of Neptune Township, New Jersey on March 22, 1890. After graduating from grammar school and high school he was appointed by Congressman Benjamin Franklin Howell to the ...
Shaun Morris (fl. 1980s–2020s), U.S. Air Force lieutenant general; Staats Long Morris (1728–1800), British Army general; Thomas A. Morris (1811–1904), Indiana Militia brigadier general in service to the Union Army in the American Civil War; William H. H. Morris Jr. (1890–1971), U.S. Army lieutenant general
Simon Conway Morris. Simon Conway Morris FRS (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated in Stephen Jay Gould 's 1989 book Wonderful Life.
William Morris Fireplace Screen with monogram. The William Morris Agency ( WMA) was a Hollywood -based talent agency. It represented some of the best known 20th-century entertainers in film, television, and music. During its 109-year tenure [1] it came to be regarded as the "first great talent agency in show business".
