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Do a search on the 19th century English gentleman Allen Williamson Grey or variations on the name at Google, and you will come across a Senator James Allen Williamson, a historian Allen Williamson who researches Joan of Arc, a sailor on the ill-fated USS Cole, a director at NDY, a musician, an inventor, a basketball player named Jared Allen Williamson, and a blogger Alan Williamson ("Sixeyes::an MP3 blog by Alan Williamson").

For the Joan of Arc historian, you get these sites: [1], [2], [3] and others. And at Wikipedia: User:Joan_of_Arc_fan/Page

A director at NDY's London Office and Member of Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. Says he maintains "involvement in all aspects of project delivery" including project leadership, research and development, cost management, and quality assurance. Experienced with commercial & residential development, retail, leisure, financial, educational development etc. Involved in the entire project from initial inception through to the end. Usually serves as overall Project Director, handling "Client liaison, project resourcing, programming and quality." Has served as a building services consultant in the UK; and worked for a major air conditioning equipment manufacturer.

For the Senator, we learn that he's from Oklahoma, divorced on October 8, 1992, married his second wife "on or about October 7, 1993".

The basketball player bounces in with info that he hails from Pikeville, KY, and is an acquaintance of Jeanette "The Black Widow" Lee.

This is also the name of a US sailor who served on the USS Cole when it was hit. He is now starring in a TV movie dealing with the event, playing the role of himself. The Cole incident took place on 12 October 2000, at Aden harbor during refueling. A small boat approached the port side of the ship, followed shortly by an explosion which ripped a 40-by-40-foot hole in the hull. Seventeen sailors lost their lives and 39 were wounded. The attack was blamed on al-Qaeda, and was allegedly carried out by Ibrahim al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa.

An inventor named Leigh Allen Williamson - a prolific inventor by the looks of it. His inventions include a "System and method for distributing management events to external processes" which I didn't quite understand. Also a "Fine grained role-based access to system resources" described as a "security policy process which provides role-based permissions for hierarchically organized system resources". Evidently for use with web servers to manage domain names and the like. Other inventions include: "A method for allowing an enterprise application server to integrate and make use of any messaging product or products that support a standard messaging service interfaces [sic]"; a "System and method for multi-platform implementation" for OpenDoc Canvas objects (don't ask me what that is); a "Graphical user interface having a shared menu bar for opened applications" designed to simplify the menu bar; and a "A system and method for asynchronously processing SQL language statements in a database management system" which allows applictions to connect to more than database at the same time.

Then there's a former Oklahoma representative Allen Williamson, with an article here on Wikipedia. Served in the 1970s for several years in the local legislature. The Allen Williamson Bridge in Payne County, Oklahoma, was named after him, it seems. The bridge comes with a nearby monument with a plaque explaining its namesake's term of service.

A musician associated with JMar Music was born in February, 1949 in Grand Coulee, Washington, before seeing service in the US Coast Guard in 1969. His introduction to music evidently came with a stint in the Coast Guard Marching Band. After an honorable discharge, he performed in the Northwest and Midwest in a variety of bands.

The most hits, oddly, seem to come up for the Joan of Arc historian. Associated with the Joan of Arc Archive, has written biographies, translations of letters, etc. Deals with all things Joan of Arc related.