William Charles Redfield (March 26, 1789 – February 12, 1857) was the first President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1843).
At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1854, Mr. Redfield mentioned a storm-path in which no less than seventy odd vessels had been wrecked, dismasted, or damaged.[source: Maury's PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA, AND ITS METEOROLOGY p. 66]
William Charles Redfield is known in meteorology for his observation of the directionality of winds in hurricanes (being among the first to propose that hurricanes are large circular vortexes, though John Farrar had made similar observations six years earlier), though his interests were varied and influential.
Redfield organized and was a member of the first expedition to Mount Marcy in 1837; he was the first to guess that Marcy was the highest peak in the Adirondacks, and therefore in New York. Mount Redfield was named in his honor by Verplanck Colvin.
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Sir (Arthur) William Hessin Charles (born 25 March 1948) is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. A former member of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales and the President of the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal, he is now Vice-President of the Court of Protection.
Charles attended Malvern College, a British Public School then Christ's College, Cambridge.
In 1971, Charles was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn). He was junior counsel to the Crown Chancery from 1986 until his appointment as first junior counsel to the Treasury in Chancery matters. He continued in that role until his appointment on 12 January 1998 as a High Court judge. He was appointed to the Family Division and received the customary knighthood.
He was appointed President of the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal on 4 April 2012. On 13 January 2014, the Lord Chief Justice, following consultation with the Lord Chancellor, transferred Mr Justice Charles from the Family Division to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, appointing him as Vice-President of the Court of Protection, for a three-year term.
William Charles (March 5, 1831 – May 21, 1903) was a Pacific coast pioneer, Hudson's Bay Company factor, and a prominent figure in the early history of British Columbia.
Born in Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of John Charles, one of the early factors of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Jane Auld, the daughter of fur trader William Auld, Charles was educated at Hill Street School and University of Edinburgh.
He came to the Pacific coast from Edinburgh by way of Panama in 1852, and was for a time employed by Breck & Ogden of Portland, Oregon. In June 1853, he joined the HBC at Fort Vancouver (Vancouver, Wash.) as an apprentice clerk. He was stationed at different times at old Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River, Fort Hall, Utah, and at Fort Boisé. He was transferred to Victoria, British Columbia in 1858 and was subsequently in charge of Fort Hope, Fort Yale and Fort Kamloops.
The Fraser gold-rush of 1858, transformed the HBC in British Columbia from a fur-trading to a retailing company as the HBC placed steamers on the lower Fraser and on Kamloops Lake and entered the retail trade, selling hardware and food at all its posts in the gold districts. Joseph William McKay and Ovid Allard worked with Charles on these projects.