William Preston

William Preston may refer to: * William Preston (actor) (1921–1998) * William Preston (Freemason) (1742–1818), Scottish author of Illustrations of Masonry * William Preston (Kentucky soldier) (1816–1887), U.S. politician, ambassador, and Confederate officer * William Preston (poet) (1753–1807), Irish poet * William Preston (Virginia soldier) (1729–1783), Irish-born frontier Virginia leader, signer of the Fincastle Resolutions * , captain in the British Royal Navy who, along with James Stirling, was responsible for the foundations of Perth and Fremantle in Western Australia * William Preston (British politician) (1874–1941), Conservative M.P. for Walsall, 1924–1929 * William Alfred Preston (1848–1944), MPP in Ontario, Canada * William B. Preston (Mormon) (1830–1908), Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1884–1907 * William Ballard Preston (1805–1862), U.S. ...