William Lee Golden

William Lee Golden (born January 12, 1939), a native of Brewton, Alabama, is an American country music singer. Between 1965 and 1987, and again since December 1995, he has been the baritone singer in the country music group The Oak Ridge Boys.

Career

Golden joined Oak Ridge Boys (then a Southern gospel music group) in 1964. Golden is widely known for his waist-length beard and hair, and has become one of the most recognizable faces in the entertainment industry. Golden was voted out of The Oak Ridge Boys in 1987, as the other three members wanted to change the band's image. He was replaced by Steve Sanders, but stayed with MCA Records as a solo artist to record an album titled American Vagabond, which included two chart singles. In 1990, he moved to Mercury Records and released "Louisiana Red Dirt Highway".

Sanders left the group in 1995 and Golden returned on New Year's Eve of the same year.

Personal life

Golden lives in Burns, Tennessee with his wife Simone De Staley and his son, Solomon (b. Aug. 10, 2001). He has three older sons, Rusty (b. Jan. 3, 1959), Craig (b. Oct. 20, 1960) and Chris (b. Oct. 17, 1962), and six grandchildren. Golden's sons Rusty and Chris recorded as The Goldens for Epic Records and Capitol Records between 1988 and 1991. They also played in his road band during his solo career.

William Lee

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William Lee (civil engineer)

William Lee (1812–1891) was an English civil and sanitary engineer. He is now best known in his role as biographer and bibliographer of Daniel Defoe.

Life

He was born in Sheffield, and became Surveyor of Highways. He was one of the inspectors recruited by Edwin Chadwick in promoting his General Board of Health.

Lee was Secretary of the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society from 1845 to 1850.John Holland was a friend.

Work on Defoe

He wrote numerous contributions to Notes and Queries on Defoe:

George Saintsbury found Lee's attributions impressionistic; they brought the number of works credited to Defoe to 254, of which 64 were novel attributions.William Peterfield Trent wrote that Lee's researches were set off by the discovery of correspondence showing that Defoe had worked as a government agent. Furbank and Owens state that Lee was motivated by the dislike he had for the radical Defoe portrayed by Walter Wilson.

William Lee (bishop of Waterford and Lismore)

William Lee (born 2 December 1941) is the bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland.

Lee was born in Newport, County Tipperary. He is the eldest of the five children of John and Delia Lee, who ran a public house and auctioneering business in the town.

Lee received his early education at the local Convent of Mercy and Boys' National Schools and later went to Rockwell College. He studied for the priesthood at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and was ordained for the priesthood in the Diocese of Cashel and Emly on 19 June 1966. Lee studied in canon law at Maynooth, where he received a doctorate in 1969. He then served for two years in the large parish of Finglas West, Dublin. He also studied for a time at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.

Lee was appointed Professor of Philosophy and bursar at St Patrick's College, Thurles. For 15 years he was Director of the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council of Cashel Diocese. He also served on the Cork Regional Marriage Tribunal. He was President of St Patrick's College, Thurles from 1987 to 1993.