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Robert Williams
Robert Williams
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Wheatsheaf Hall
Robert Williams (27 January 1848 – 16 October 1918) was a Welsh architect and
social campaigner. Born in South Wales, he studied architecture in London and
established a practice there in 1887. Williams' work showed a Gothic Revival influence
and included public and educational buildings in Wales and London
including Wheatsheaf Hall and Cowbridge Girls School. From 1914 he practiced in
Egypt, constructing Cairo's largest shop for the Davies Bryan Company, as well as a
number of other commercial and public buildings.
Williams was a member of the Independent Labour Party and sat on the executive
committees of the Land Nationalisation Society and the London Reform Union. He was
elected a London County Council councillor in 1901 and advocated for more stringent
housing standards. Williams wrote several books on housing and advocated for internal
toilets at a time when outdoor privies were the norm. His daughter Margaret Travers
Symons was also a social campaigner and suffragette.
Contents
1Early life
2Architecture
3Social campaigning
4Other interests
5References
Early life[edit]
Williams was born in Ystradowen, Glamorgan, on 27 Januar
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The Destroyer (novel series)
Series of novels by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
The Destroyer is a series of paperback novels about a U.S. government operative named Remo Williams, originally by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. The first novel was published in 1971, although the manuscript was completed on June 25, 1963.[1] Over 150 novels have been published. The main characters were adapted to film in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985).[2]
Authors
[edit]The series was initially co-authored by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, with each writing a portion of each book separately. In the late 1970s, the relationship between the two became tense, and Sapir withdrew. In the early 1980s, Murphy began using ghostwriters to help with the series, among them his wife Molly Cochran.[3] In the mid-1980s, Sapir returned to participating in the series.
In the late 1980s, Will Murray took over the sole responsibility of writing the series with #74, having written several previous books with Murphy (and one with Cochran). After Sapir's death, Murray continued the series until the late 1990s. When Murray left after novel #107, three novels were written by interim ghostwriters (#108 & #110 by Mike Newton; #109 by Alan Philipson). Jim M