- U.S. short-story writer and poet.
- English theologian, philosopher, and clergyman.
- U.S. broadcasting executive.
- William. 1743–1805, English theologian and utilitarian philosopher. His chief works are The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785), Horae Paulinae (1790), A View of the Evidences of Christianity (1794), and Natural Theology (1802)
