Byrd William

Byrd 1

, William c. 1540-1623.
English composer noted for his Masses, motets, and keyboard works.

Byrd 2

, William 1674-1744.
American planter and colonial official whose diaries (written in shorthand) provide a rare and humorous account of daily life in pre-Revolutionary Virginia.
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