No, he discovered Titanium in 1791.
1791
Titanium was first discovered in 1791 by William Gregor, an English pastor, who found a reddish brown calx he couldn't recognize. Later in 1795, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, an Austrian chemist, identified titanium as a new element.
Titanium oxide was isolated for the first time by William Gregor in 1791. However, the compound was independently rediscovered and named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1795.
William gregor found titanum in 1791. another man named martin klaproth also thought he discovered it and named it titanium. a while after William got told that he found it first but it still kept the same name.
William Gregor was an English pastor who studied Cornish minerals as a hobby. He found some Ilmenite in a Cornish mine and broke it down and noticed one element that he could not identify. Later that same year a German chemist also discovered this element and named it titanium because the mineral had the "strength of the titans." When he learned of Gregor's results, Martin Heinrich Klaproth gave William Gregor the credit for the discovery.
There is no specifically known date that he discovered titanium, although the year is known to be 1791. It was discovered in the United Kingdom when Gregor noticed a stream with black sand that seemed to be magnetic.
William Himrod was born in 1791.
William Pitcairn died in 1791.
William Selden was born in 1791.
William Wareing was born in 1791.
William Bull II died in 1791.
William Patrick - minister - was born in 1791.