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    William Byrd (/bɜːrd/; c. 1540 – 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a...
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    William Byrd II (March 28, 1674 – August 26, 1744) was a Virginian planter, lawyer, surveyor and writer. Born in the English colony of Virginia, Byrd...
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    House of Burgesses. He was son of William Byrd II and Maria Taylor Byrd, and the grandson of William Byrd I. Byrd inherited his family's estate of approximately...
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    Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas, William Byrd II of Westover Plantation, who established Richmond, as well as William Byrd I and Robert "King" Carter, a...
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  • William Byrd I (1652 – December 4, 1704) was an English-born Virginia colonist and politician. He came from the Shadwell section of London, where his father...
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  • William Byrd (circa 1540–1623) was an English composer. William Byrd may also refer to: William Byrd I (1652–1704), Virginia colonist William Byrd II (1674–1744)...
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  • James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African American man who was murdered by three white men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists...
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    Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia...
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  • William Byrd High School is a public secondary school located in Vinton, Virginia and is part of the Roanoke County Public Schools system. The school has...
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  • John William Byrd Jr. (December 18, 1963 – February 19, 2002) was an American murderer who was executed by lethal injection for killing convenience store...
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    William Byrd; "Worster Braules" by Thomas Tomkins; and the famous "Lachrymae Pavan" by John Dowland, as arranged by Giles Farnaby and by William Byrd...
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    by Liszt, Mozart and Wagner. In Byrd & Bull: The Visionaries of Piano Music, a double CD set of works by William Byrd and John Bull produced by Deutsche...
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    Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United...
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  • Byrd commonly refers to: William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), an American naval officer and...
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  • The Byrds (/bɜːrdz/) were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout its...
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    This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd, one of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance. Mass for Three Voices (c....
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    (1698–1771), wife of William Byrd II Marlon Byrd (born 1977), American baseball player Mary E. Byrd (1849–1934), American educator Mary Willing Byrd (1740–1814)...
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    William Byrd Traxler Jr. (born May 1, 1948) is an American jurist who currently serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals...
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  • Presbyterians are the most prevalent among them. The Byrd Family of Virginia, FFV, is descended from William Byrd I who received a 1,200-acre (4.9 km2) grant on...
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    Byrd Park, also known as William Byrd Park, is a public park located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, north of the James River and adjacent to Maymont...
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    The Byrd Theatre is a cinema in the Carytown neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It was named after William Byrd II, the founder of the city. The theater...
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  • SS William Byrd was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after William Byrd, an American planter and author from...
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  • Laudibus in sanctis is a three-section Latin motet by William Byrd that paraphrases, rather than sets, Psalm 150. Published for five-part choir in his...
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    William Byrd Hotel is a historic hotel building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1925, and is an 11-story, Classical Revival style building...
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    William Byrd was an African-American man who was lynched in Brentwood, Wayne County, Georgia by a mob on May 28, 1922. According to the United States Senate...
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  • Byrd High School, Clarksburg, West Virginia William Byrd High School, Roanoke County, Virginia William Byrd High School Historic District L. C. Bird High...
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  • the late Renaissance period is "The Bells", a piece for virginals by William Byrd. Here the ostinato (or 'ground') consists of just two notes: In Italy...
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    Maria Taylor Byrd (November 10, 1698 – August 28, 1771) was a prominent colonial woman who managed her and her husband William Byrd II's Westover Plantation...
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  • William McKendree Byrd (December 1, 1819 – September 24, 1874) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1866 to 1867. He attended Mississippi...
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    was more consistently easy and certain". Tallis taught the composer William Byrd, as later associated with Lincoln Cathedral; as also Elway Bevin, an...
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