Example sentences of "william charles " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jimmy ’ ( his real name was William Charles ) Wilde was a Palace first-team regular for eight full seasons from 1928–29 and club captain for six of them . |
| 2 | Charles and Elizabeth seem to have come up with an intelligent expedient : they would give the boy two Christian names — the first Frome Titford ever to enjoy this luxury — and he could be called ‘ William Charles ’ after his uncle/godfather and father respectively , though they would actually use the name ‘ Charles ’ in everyday conversation . |
| 3 | Family notes listing Charles Titford 's children from William Charles onwards ; the notes themselves were written many years after the events they outline — in 1860 or thereabouts . |
| 4 | And pretty cramped it must have been there , too , with three males ( Charles , described in the census as a ‘ shopkeeper ’ , with son William Charles and son John ) and five females ( Elizabeth the mother , and daughters Elizabeth , Sarah , Mary and Lydia ) . |
| 5 | William Charles , the eldest son , had only recently left town for good , off to join his cousins in London ; young Benjamin was too young to be playing at soldiers , and Charles the Cheesemonger himself was a bit too old and certainly far too unhealthy to offer his services as a volunteer . |
| 6 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 7 | One male Titford of the new generation — William Charles — had left the town already ; his brother Benjamin was soon to follow him to London ; Elizabeth was now a married woman , with two as yet unmarried sisters , Mary and Sarah . |
| 8 | This is the background against which we must see the departure of William Charles Titford for London . |
| 9 | Assuming he could not afford the luxury of a high-speed post-chaise , William Charles may have taken one of the coaches which left the George in Frome for the Bell Sauvage in Ludgate Hill on Sundays , Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3 o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 10 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 11 | At 26 , then , young William Charles ( 'Call me Charles … ' ) had magically catapulted himself into the lower echelons of the Establishment — all achieved , we may suppose , with the help of a good head for business , a degree of energy and flamboyance and an ingratiating style with customers , especially ladies ? |
| 12 | Maybe William Charles 's premises were designed in that style ? |
| 13 | William Charles Titford ran his linen draper 's business from 77 Bishopsgate Street , at the end of Sutton 's Court between the Vine Inn and the Four Swans Inn , from 1798 to 1806 . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , however humble the business , the City did not take kindly to outsiders trading within its boundaries ; William Charles had a bit of bureaucracy to sort out before he could feel safe and settled . |
| 15 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
| 16 | William Charles was then half-way there ; the next stage was to take along a piece of paper certifying this aforesaid freedom , and present it to the Chamberlain 's Office as part of the procedure for achieving full freedom of the City . |
| 17 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 18 | William Charles 's sponsor was no less a gentleman than ‘ Robert Peckham Esquire this City 's Justice for the Borough of Southwark ’ , who was allowed to present three men to the said honour . |
| 19 | The order of the Court of Aldermen to admit William Charles to the City freedom is dated 15 January 1799 ; just over two weeks later his brother John , the brave little Frome volunteer , died of his consumption back home . |
| 20 | William Charles had very definitely arrived on the scene . |
| 21 | Well , it was mainly altruism ; to an extent the relationship they had with William Charles , the poor relation up from the country , was a symbiotic one . |
| 22 | A list of ‘ Marriages and Deaths of remarkable Persons ’ includes the marriage of William Charles Titford and Anne Edgar on 21 June 1799 . |
| 23 | His own son , Richard , was contemporary with William Charles , and William senior was also acting as a surrogate father for his brother Isaac 's son , a certain William Jowett Titford . |
| 24 | So much for one reason why William Charles had had the wherewithal to prosper so quickly in his new surroundings ; but there was another , just as vital to his continuing success — he had made a prudent marriage . |
| 25 | The Gentleman 's Magazine for 1799 was pleased to announce the wedding of ‘ Mr William Charles Titford of Bishopsgate Within to Miss Anne Edgar of Gough Square , Fleet Street . |
| 26 | Any account of William Charles 's doings in the City during the early 19th century would be incomplete without some mention of his illustrious cousin , William Jowett Titford . |
| 27 | Shortly after his arrival in Spanish Town he wrote to his cousin William Charles , informing him that : ‘ … some of your shawls sold for 200 and 300 per cent.profit … ’ , but adding : |
| 28 | Being undersold out there in Jamaica was to be only one of William Charles 's problems as time went by : after a period of increasing success as a linen draper and mercer , he was eventually beset by financial problems , occasioning a move northwards from Bishopsgate to Finsbury Place , Finsbury Square ( on the corner of Chiswell Street ) , together with a reproof from William Jowett , who lost no time in admonishing his cousin in a letter to Richard Titford from Jamaica , dated 28 April 1806 : |
| 29 | Of the surviving children of William Charles and Anne , five were baptised together on the same day ( 10 July 1817 ) in their father 's original parish at the miniature City church of St Ethelburga , Bishopsgate . |
| 30 | Two of the three daughters of William Charles were to find husbands for themselves . |