William Stowe

William Stowe may refer to:

  • William Stowe (rower) (born 1940), member of the 1964 Olympic gold medal eights crew
  • William Henry Stowe (1825-1855), British scholar and journalist
  • William McFerrin Stowe (1913-1988), American bishop of the Methodist and United Methodist Churches

Famous quotes containing the words william and/or stowe:

    Among them was a Bishop, who
    Had lately been appointed to
    The balmy isle of Rum-ti-Foo,
    And Peter was his name.
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)