William Stewart
Sign in to saveAlso known as William Allen Stewart, William Allan Stewart
Australian sprinter, born 1889
Person · Open Library
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- The trial of William Stewart, for the murder of his father, Benjamin Stewart
- Catalogue of the superb and valuable collection of scarce and rare prints, portraits, and drawings, of a nobleman, deceased
- Live and Learn
- Revised Case for Stewart and others, Court of Session (Lord Meadowbank, reporter), 1829
- Precedents of law forms in the courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer
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William Stewart was in The Prisonaires, they were just that, five African-American male singers who also happened to be inmates of the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. Despite what normally would be considered circumstances too onerous to start a pop music career, the Prisonaires were celebrities, albeit briefly, after the recording of the one and only hit record, "Just Walkin' in the Rain," which Sam Phillips released on Sun in 1953 -- a song that three years later became a million se
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Stewart
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Tasmania
- Occupation
- sprinter
- Participant in
- 1912 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Australasia at the Olympics
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- date of birth
- 1889-10-22
- date of death
- 1958-04-29
- different from
- William Alexander Stewart
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