William C. Kirby [SEP] educated at
William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby (; born 1950) is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. He is the former Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, and the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. After a four-year tenure he announced on January 27, 2006 that he would resign as Dean.
A historian of modern China, his work examines China's economic and political development in an
William Purefoy
William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.
Born into a long-established Warwickshire family, Purefoy was educated at Cambridge University and Gray's Inn. He travelled extensively on the continent of Europe, returning with extreme Calvinist views.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Coventry