William Ross, 8th Lord Ross of Halkhead (died August 1640) was a Scottish nobleman.
15-492: William Ross may refer to: Nobility [ edit ] William Ross, 8th Lord Ross (died 1640), Scottish nobleman William Ross, 10th Lord Ross (died 1656), Scottish nobleman William Ross, 12th Lord Ross (died 1738), Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician William Ross, 14th Lord Ross (died 1754), Scottish nobleman Politics [ edit ] William Ross (speaker) (died 1830), New York politician, Speaker of
30-459: A TOWNSHIP. High land, with beautiful sea views for dwellings. Excellent metalled roads. Distance from Elsternwick Railway Station, commencing at 1½ miles. Threepenny omnibus fares from Elsternwick Station. Free passes by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway for 10 years for houses costing £1000, and for shorter periods for smaller houses. Two express trains in the morning and two in
45-816: The 1890s William Ross (baseball) (1893–1964), American Negro leagues baseball player William Ross (rower) (1900–1992), Canadian Olympic rower William Alexander Ross (1913–1942), Scottish rugby player William Ross (footballer, born 1921) (1921–1995), Scottish footballer William Ross (water polo) (1928–2021), US water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics Bill Ross (footballer) (born 1944), Australian rules footballer Bill Ross (rugby union) (born 1956), Australian rugby union player Eric Ross (William Eric Ross, born 1944), Northern Irish footballer Other fields [ edit ] William Ross (poet) (1762–1790/91), Scottish Gaelic poet William Charles Ross (1794–1860), British artist William P. Ross (1820–1891), Principal Chief of
60-712: The Cherokee Nation William Murray Ross (1825–1904), entrepreneur in Melbourne William Stewart Ross (1844–1906), Scottish writer and publisher W. D. Ross (William David Ross, 1877–1971), British philosopher William Edward Daniel Ross (1912–1995), Canadian actor, playwright and bestselling writer William Ross (theatrical producer) (1915–1994), State Managers Association, Actors' Equity Association William Ross (actor) (1923–2014), Tokyo-based American actor, voice actor, voice director and editor, and
75-820: The New South Wales Legislative Assembly William Gladstone Ross (1889–1948), lawyer, judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock (1911–1988), Secretary of State for Scotland in the 1960s William Cecil Ross (1911–1998), leader of the (communist) Labour Progressive Party of Manitoba in 1945 William Ross (Unionist politician) (born 1936), Ulster Unionist Party member of Parliament until 2001 Sports [ edit ] William Ross (cricketer) (fl. 1860), Australian cricketer William Ross (footballer, born 1874) (1874–?), English professional footballer active in
90-1085: The State Assembly 1814 William H. H. Ross (1814–1887), American politician and former governor of Delaware William Ross (Canadian politician) (1824–1912), merchant, ship builder and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada William Ross (Ontario politician) (1854–1937), merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada William Benjamin Ross (1855–1929), Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman William Roderick Ross (1869–1928), lawyer and politician in British Columbia, Canada William Donald Ross (1869–1947), financier, banker and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario William B. Ross (1873–1924), Governor of Wyoming William Henry Ross (1886–1943), provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada Bill Ross (Australian politician) (1888–1966), member of
105-620: The beet grown by the gardeners. Omnibuses from tho Elsternwick Railway Station arrive at 9 and 11.15 a.m., and 4.15 and 5.21 p.m.; leave at 9.6 and 11.34 a.m., and 4.36 and 5.22 p.m. For full particulars see plans and prospectuses, to be obtained from the principal auctioneers and estate agents, or at the offices of the Victorian Permanent Property Investment and Building Society, Collins- street east. Ross died in 1904. His failed sugar beet mill, which had been known for many years as "Ross's Folly",
120-451: The cost of building large houses, and about one-half for cottages, repayable as in the case of the land. Sums advanced up to £2000, or more, for a gentleman's residence, £200, or more, for a workman's or gardener's cottage. Three-acre blocks for gentlemen's houses. One-acre blocks for worbmen's cottages. Six to nine acre blocks for market-gardens The best soil for market-gardens round Melbourne. A sugar-works in their very midst, to buy
135-514: The evening, only 12 minutes from town. A new line of railway—the Rosstown Junction— to be made from Elsternwick to the sugar-works, to have three stations in this suburb. Price of land one-half to one-fourth the price in other suburbs, viz. from £50 to £100 per acre Purchasing the land without capital on long timo payments, repayable over 6, 8, 10 or 12 years, in fortnightly, quarterly, &c. payments. Three-fourths advanced of
150-513: The founder of Frontier Enterprises William Ross (composer) (born 1948), soundtrack composer Fictional [ edit ] William Ross ( Star Trek ) , a character in Star Trek See also [ edit ] Willie Ross (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
165-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Ross&oldid=1253339676 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Ross, 8th Lord Ross Ross was
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#1732776368151180-485: The middle of Caulfield, he went on to buy a further 200 acres (80 hectares) acres in 1859, and then a massive 1,000 acres (400 hectares). By the mid-1860s, he was the primary holder of more than one-fifth of Caulfield , worth about £20,000 In 1875, he launched his new suburb of Rosstown, running this advertisement in the Argus : THE NEW SUBURB of ROSSTOWN SHIRE of CAULFIELD. MURRAY ROSS Has CONVERTED his ESTATE into
195-651: The second son of James Ross, 6th Lord Ross , who died on 17 December 1633, by Margaret, daughter of Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch . He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his elder brother James , at Jaffa in March 1636. The Rosses of Halkhead , or Hawkhead, in Renfrewshire , were a Lowland family, not apparently related to the Earls of Ross or the Highland family of Ross of Balnagown . Ross
210-667: Was part of a larger "Rosstown Project", which included a sugar beet processing mill and a residential estate. Parts of the rail line easement have been preserved as the Rosstown Railway Heritage Trail . Ross was born in 1825 in Liverpool, England, He was an insurance broker for the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company, and moved to Melbourne in 1852, working at the company's Collins Street office. In 1857, Ross began buying land for future subdivision and development. Purchasing 20 acres (8 hectares) in
225-589: Was served heir of his brother in Broomlands and other lands, and also (on 8 September 1636) in Melville, Stanehouse and other lands. Ross died unmarried in August 1640 and was succeeded by his younger brother, Robert . William Murray Ross William Murray Ross (1825–1904) was an entrepreneur best remembered for his failed " Rosstown Railway " in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne . The railway
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