Sir Edward William Elgar
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~ British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)
Sir William Alexander Craigie
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~ English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966)
Sir William Herschel
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~ English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
Sir William Gilbert
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~ a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)