• Patrick Gowers, 1936–2014), an English composer Gowers, a surname William Gower (born c. 1662), English Member of Parliament William B. Gower (1873–1937)...
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    promulgating liberal reforms. They had two sons, Sir William Frederick Gowers and Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers, who went to school at Rugby and then read Classics...
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    Gowers's argument is a tool now known as the Balog–Szemerédi–Gowers theorem, which has found many further applications. He also introduced the Gowers...
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  • William Gower (born c. 1662), of Ludlow, Shropshire, was an English Member of Parliament for Ludlow in March 1690 – 22 December 1690, 1698 – 1 March 1699...
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    in such an event Gowers would have the Government's backing. In a biographical sketch of Gowers, his great-granddaughter Rebecca Gowers comments that this...
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  • to lack of hip and thigh muscle strength. It is named after William Richard Gowers. Gowers's sign is classically seen in Duchenne muscular dystrophy where...
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  • leaving this post in 1902. He was the elder brother of Ernest Gowers. In 1902, Gowers resigned from the BSA and joined the Colonial Service, taking the...
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  • William Leveson-Gower may refer to: Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet (c. 1647–1691) William Leveson-Gower (died 1756) (c. 1696–1756), British Tory...
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    created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family...
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    Upper motor neurons (UMNs) is a term introduced by William Gowers in 1886. They are found in the cerebral cortex and brainstem and carry information down...
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    System, also known as the ‘Bible of Neurology’, is a medical textbook by William Gowers. It was first published in 1886 by P. Blackiston & Son. A second volume...
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  • Gowers is a surname of Welsh origin. Notable people with the name include: Andrew Gowers (born 1957), financial journalist and media strategist Gowers...
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  • William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville, KG, GCVO, CB, DSO (11 July 1880 – 25 June 1953), styled The Honourable William Leveson-Gower until...
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    George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, KG, FRS (19 December 1828 – 22 September 1892), styled Viscount Trentham until...
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  • William Patrick Gowers (5 May 1936 – 30 December 2014) was an English composer, mainly known for his film scores. Born in Islington, Gowers was the son...
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  • William Bleckley Gower (1873 – August 30, 1937) was an English-American businessman and close associate of copper magnate William A. Clark. Gower was...
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    and distinguished it from polio. In the 1880s British neurologist William Gowers built on Little's work by linking paralysis in newborns to difficult...
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    1883), who termed it "pseudo-sclerosis"; by the British neurologist William Gowers (in 1888); by the Finnish neuropathologist Ernst Alexander Homén (in...
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    microscopist to count the number of cells per volume of blood. In 1877, William Gowers invented a hemocytometer with a built-in counting grid, eliminating...
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  • Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet (c. 1647 – 22 December 1691) was an English politician from the Leveson-Gower family. Born William Gower, he was...
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    of America. However, the first mention of the syndrome came from a William Gowers in 1893. Schultz–Zehden described the symptoms again in 1905. A later...
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    British Art. In 1930, he was a founding member, alongside Sir Timothy William Gowers, of the CRABS, the Clare Rugby And Boating Society, the oldest of the...
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  • made to "mogigraphia", which we now know as "Writer's Cramp". In 1899, William Gowers described functional laryngeal spasms whereby the vocal cords were brought...
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  • Parliament Leveson-Gower, the name of a Scottish noble family Gowers, another surname This page lists people with the surname Gower. If an internal link...
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    mini series) Old Daniel O'Hara 3 episodes 1995 Casualty (TV series) William Gower Episode: "Lost Boys" 1996 Ellington (TV series) Falconni Episode: "Man...
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    1911–1918 Sir Robert Coryndon: 1918–1922 Sir Geoffrey Archer: 1922–1925 Sir William Gowers: 1925–1932 Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon: 1932–1935 Sir Philip Mitchell:...
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    William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the...
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    Epileptics (now the National Society for Epilepsy), along with Sir William Gowers and Sir David Ferrier. Oliver Sacks repeatedly cited Jackson as an inspiration...
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  • Lobes (1953), Aphasiology, and biographies of James Parkinson and Sir William Gowers. Macdonald Critchley was born at Bristol, son of gas collector Arthur...
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    and that of contemporary burnout. In 1888, the English neurologist William Gowers coined the term occupation neurosis to describe nerve damage caused...
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