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Encyclopedia > William Twaddell

William John Twaddell (1884-22 May 1922) was a Unionist politician from Belfast. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ...


Twaddell was a draper from Belfast who was educated at a Belfast primary school.


He was a Member of Belfast City Council from 1910 and sat as an Ulster Unionist Party member. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Parliament for Belfast West from the general election of 1921 until he was assassinated on the 22nd May 1922 by the Irish Republican Army. Belfast City Council is the largest local council serving the largest city in Northern Ireland which has a population of 277,391. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party ) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland, which formed its government between 1921 and 1972 and was supported by most unionists throughout the Troubles. ... The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which existed from June 7, 1921 to March 30, 1972, when it was suspended. ... Belfast is the largest city and capital of Northern Ireland. ... The Seán Hogan Flying column during the War of Independence. ...


His death precipitated a clamp-down on the IRA in Northern Ireland and 350 IRA members were interned. Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official languages English (de facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3, BSL, NISL, ISL Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Ian Paisley  - Deputy First Minister...


Twaddell was buried at Drumcree Church where his headstone records that he was 'foully murdered in Belfast'.[1] Drumcree Church is the parish church of Drumcree, a rural Church of Ireland parish to the north of Portadown in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. ...


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Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Twaddell, William Freeman (314 words)
W(illiam) Freeman Twaddell (1906-1982), professor of German and linguistics, was born in Rye, New York, on March 22, 1906.
From 1929 to 1946 he taught at the University of Wisconsin, where he was chairman of the German Department from 1937 to 1946 and also of the Division of the Humanities from 1943 to 1946.
Freeman Twaddell had an outstanding sense of humor and a horde of friends to enjoy it.
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The Brown Alumni Association presented its highest honor, the William Rogers Award, to William H. Twaddell ’63, U.S. ambassador to Nigeria from 1997 to 2001, during the 19th annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony Saturday, Sept.
Following his graduation in 1769, William Rogers served as vice president of the Society for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery and of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
Twaddell now lives in Providence and remains active with the Nigeria Working Group, which seeks to further relations between members of the Corporate Council on Africa and their Nigerian private-sector counterparts.
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