William Rowley

William Rowley, an English dramatist of the age of Elizabeth, who lived through the reign of James L, and died in that of Charles I. He was educated at Cambridge, belonged to the royal company of players, excelled in comedy, and was intimate with all the poets and wits of his time, many of whom he assisted in the preparation of plays, and some of whom assisted him. Thus, "A Fair Quarrel" is by T. Middleton and W. Rowley; "The Witch of Edmonton" is by Rowley, Decker, and Ford; "The Old Law" is by Massin-ger, Middleton, and Rowley; "Fortune by Land and Sea" is by Hey wood and Rowley; and it is said that in " The Birth of Merlin " Rowley received some assistance from Shakespeare. The Percy society in 1840 republished his tract, "A Search for Money, or the Lamentable Complaint for the Losse of the Wan-dring Knight, Monsieur l'Argent".

William Roy

William Roy, a British surveyor, born near Lanark, Scotland, May 4, 1726, died in London, July 1, 1790. From 1746 to 1755, being a colonel in the army, he was employed in mapping the Scottish highlands for the establishment of military posts. He became a general, and between 1783 and 1788 made a trigonometrical survey from Greenwich to Dover (the first in Great Britain), to aid in determining the difference of latitude and longitude between the Greenwich and Paris observatories. At his death he was surveyor general of the coast. The society of antiquaries published his work on "The Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain" (fol., with 51 plates and 3 maps, 1793).

William S. W Ruschenberger

William S. W Ruschenberger, an American naturalist, born in Cumberland co., N. J., Sept. 4, 1807. He studied medicine in the university of Pennsylvania, became a surgeon in the United States navy in 1826, and as such circumnavigated the globe. He has published "Three Years in the Pacific" (8vo, Philadelphia, 1834); "A Voyage round the World, including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam" (1838); "Elements of Natural History" (2 vols. 12mo, 1850); "A Lexicon of Terms used in Natural History " (12mo, 1850); and " Notes and Commentaries during a Voyage to Brazil and China in the Year 1848 " (8vo, 1854).

William Scott Stowell

William Scott Stowell, baron, an English jurist, born in He worth, Durham, Oct. 17, 1745, died Jan. 28, 1836. He graduated at Oxford in 1704, and was elected a fellow, and soon after a college tutor. In 1774 he became Camden professor of ancient history in the university. In 1779 he was admitted at doctors' commons into the faculty of advocates, and in 1780 was called to the bar. He made a specialty of ecclesiastical and admiralty practice, and within a few years was appointed successively registrar of the court of faculties, judge of the consistory court, vicar general of the archbishop of Canterbury, and advocate general. In 1798 he was made judge of the high court of admiralty, which office he occupied for 30 years. Ho was elected a member of parliament for Downton in 1790, and was one of the members for the university of Oxford from 1801 to 1821, when he was made a peer. He was a brother of Lord Eldon.