WACE, HERBERT, ninth son of Rev.Richard Henry Wace, Wadhurst, Sussex, Anglican clergyman and private tutor, and Eulielia, dau. of Charles Gray ; b. 31 Dec 1851 ; adm. 26 May 1864 ; QS 1866 ; left May 1870 ; Writer, Ceylon Civil Service 1873 ; Assistant Collector of Customs, Trincomalee 1876 ; Assistant Government Agent, Madura 1886 ; Government Agent, Ratnapura 1891 ; Second Assistant to Colonial Secretary 1889 ; Commissioner of Requests, Colombo 1890 ; member, Ceylon Legislative Council ; Government Agent, Central Provinces Jan 1900 ; CMG 9 Nov 1903 ; m. 5 Aug 1879 Mabel Frances, dau. of Edward Henry Blyth ; d. at Colombo, Ceylon 28 May 1906.
WADD, WILLIAM, only son of William Wadd FRCS, Basinghall Street, London, Surgeon Extraordinary to George IV, and Caroline, only dau. of John Mackenzie, Upper Guildford Street, London ; b. 23 Nov 1807 ; adm. 14 Sep 1818 ; left Christmas 1822 ; drowned in wreck of ship George Canning off Mauritius 7 Mar 1828.
WADDILOVE, ALFRED, fourth son of John Waddilove, Thorpe Hall, Skipton, Yorks., and Hannah Langley ; b. 27 Jun 1806 ; adm. 15 Feb 1820 (G) ; left 1824 ; Trinity Coll., Oxford, matr. 11 Nov 1824 ; BA 1838 ; MA 1839 ; DCL 1839 ; adm.Inner Temple 12 Jan 1836, called to bar 23 Nov 1841 ; adm.advocate, Doctors’ Commons 2 Nov 1839, Steward 1851-6, Treasurer 1856-60 ; Official, Archdeaconry of Middlesex, from 1863 ; author, Digest of Cases in the Court of Arches, 1849, and other works ; m. 6 Aug 1839 Mary Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Harrison Gordon Codd, Metropolitan Magistrate, Marylebone ; d. 8 Jul 1890.
WADDILOVE, ROBERT DARLEY, son of Abel Darley, Boroughbridge, Yorks., innholder and saddler, and Ann Waddilove ; bapt. Aldborough, Yorks. 23 Nov 1736 ; adm. Jan 1750/1 (as Robert Waldilove, sic) ; in school list 1754 ; Clare Hall, Cambridge, scholar, matr.Mich.1755 ; BA 1759 ; MA 1762 ; DD Lambeth 21 Jan 1804 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1759 (Peterborough), priest 6 Jun 1762 (Chester) ; Curate, Winwick, Northants 1759, subsequently Curate, Wotton, Surrey, and Abinger, Surrey, to 1766 ; assumed additional surname of Waddilove 1762, on inheriting Boroughbridge estate of his uncle Robert Waddilove, Principal of Barnards’ Inn, a London attorney ; adm.Inner Temple 25 Mar 1766 (chambers there 25 Apr 1766) ; Curate, Ockham, Surrey 1766-71 ; Rector of Whitby, Yorks., 2 Mar 1767 – Feb 1774 ; Chaplain to Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (qv), when Ambassador in Madrid 1771-9 ; Perpetual Curate of Dishforth, Yorks. 3 Feb 1774 – Jul 1777, and of Marton on the Moor, Yorks., 3 Feb 1774 – Oct 1779 ; Vicar of Topcliffe, Yorks., from 6 Feb 1774 ; Domestic Chaplain to Robert Hay-Drummond (qv), Archbishop of York, 31 Jan 1775 – Dec 1776 ; Rector of Cherry Burton, Yorks., from 9 Mar 1775 ; Domestic Chaplain to William Markham (qv), Archbishiop of York, Oct 1779 ; Prebendary of Ripon 25 Jul 1780 – Jan 1792 ; Prebendary of York from 22 Feb 1782 ; Archdeacon of Yorkshire East Riding from 3 Mar 1786 ; Dean of Ripon from 21 Jan 1792 ; FSA 16 Feb 1775 ; when in Spain he collated the MS of Strabo in the library of the Escurial for Thomas Falconer’s edition, 1807, and procured information for Robertson’s History of America ; translated Mengs’s Essay on Painting, 1796, and contributed several papers to Archaeologia ; m. 3 Apr 1781 Anne Hope, sister of Sir James Grant, Bart. (qv) ; d. 18 Aug 1828. ODNB.
WADDILOVE, THOMAS DARLEY, eldest son of Robert Darley Waddilove (qv) ; b. 7 Jan 1782 (IGI) ; adm. 2 Feb 1795 (Clapham) ; in school list 1795 ; KS 1796 ; d. at school 2 Mar 1799, aged 17.
WADDILOVE, WILLIAM JAMES DARLEY, son of Robert Darley Waddilove (qv) ; b. 31 Jan 1785 (IGI) ; adm. 30 Jan 1797 (Clapham) ; in school list 1797 ; Min.Can.1799 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, matr. Mich.1803 ; BA 1807 ; MA 1810 ; ordained deacon 28 Feb 1808 (Exeter, lit.dim. from York), priest 5 Mar 1809 (Winchester, lit.dim. from York) ; Perpetual Curate of Skelton, Yorks., to Nov 1810 ; Perpetual Curate of Dishforth, Yorks., to May 1818 ; Prebendary of Ripon 29 Jul 1811 – Dec 1828 ; Vicar of Wistow, Yorks., 1818 ; Perpetual Curate of Cleasby, Yorks., 1821-6 ; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Roxburghe ; of Beacon Grange, Hexham, Northumberland ; organised funding for missionary work among emigrants to Canada ; author, A Lamp in the Wilderness, 1847, and other works ; m. 4 Mar 1816 Elizabeth Anne, sister of Sir James Robert George Graham, Bart. (qv) ; d. 28 Oct 1859.
WADDINGTON, EVELYN, sixth son of Alexander Joseph Waddington, Llanllowell, Monmouthshire, solicitor, and [his second wife ?] Ellen, dau. of John Arthur, Usk, Monmouthshire, mason ; b. 5 Jul 1857 ; adm. 8 Jun 1871 (G), exhibitioner ; QS 1872 ; left May 1876 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1876 ; played Association Football v. Cambridge 1877, 1878 ; adm.solicitor Jul 1885 ; practised at Usk, Monmouthshire, to retirement 1926 ; m. 18 Jan 1894 Lucy Jane, elder dau. of Henry Stafford Gustard, Usk, Monmouthshire, solicitor ; d. Aug 1928.
WADDON, NATHANIEL, son of John Waddon MP, Plymouth, Devon, and Prudence, dau. of Thomas Fownes, Mayor of Plymouth ; bapt. St.Andrew, Plymouth 11 Dec 1633 ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1650 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1652, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1652, scholar 1652, but did not matr. ; buried Morwenstow, Cornwall 4 Mar 1663/4.
WADE, — ; b. ; in school list 1742. [Perhaps William Wade ; probably grandson of William Wade (KS 1686, qv), and great-nephew of Field Marshal Right Hon. George Wade PC MP ; b. c.1734/5 ; at school under Nicoll (ODNB) ; Cornet, 3rd Dragoon Guards 21 Jan 1752 ; Lieut., 23 Mar 1756 ; Capt., 3 Sep 1756 ; Capt., 73rd Regt. 23 May 1759 (still 1761) ; Master of Ceremonies, Bath 1769-77 ; subsequently Master of Ceremonies at Brighton ; m. 1st, 16 Dec 1760 (IGI) Katherine, sister of Humphry Gore (qv) ;.m. 2nd, 30 Jun 1787 Elizabeth Eustatia, formerly wife of John Hooke Campbell (afterwards Campbell-Hooke), Bangeston, Pembrokeshire, Lyon King of Arms, and dau. of Francis Basset, Heanton Court, Umberleigh, Devon ; d. 16 Mar 1809. ODNB.]
WADE, — ; b. ; adm. 1 Jun 1766.
WADE, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1725/6 ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (fourth form).
WADE, GEORGE, natural son of Field-Marshal Right Hon.George Wade PC MP ; nephew of William Wade (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1734 ; Cornet, 3rd Dragoon Guards 10 May 1740 ; Capt., 11 Jul 1741 ; Maj., 26 Mar 1748 ; Lieut.-Col., 31 May 1751 ; ret. 7 Feb 1759 ; m.1st, — ; m.2nd, 21 Dec 1795 Sarah Shortridge ; d. Feb 1799.
WADE, JOHN, brother of George Wade (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1734 ; adm.Middle Temple 10 Dec 1739 ; Cornet, 3rdDragoon Guards 10 Jan 1740/1 ; Capt., Bland’s Dragoons 1745 (still Jun 1747) ; [not in Army List 1755 ?] ; wounded at battle of Fontenoy ; [East India Company ?] ; m. Helen — ; d. Dec 1796 (will proved PCC 29 Dec 1796, of St.Marylebone, Middlesex).
WADE, WALTER, son of Walter Wade, Headingley, Yorks., and Beatrix, dau. of Benjamin Killingbeck, Allerton Grange, Yorks. ; bapt. St.Peter, Leeds, Yorks. 1 Nov 1722 ; adm. (aged 15) Nov 1738 ; left 1740 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Feb 1740/1 ; of New Grange, near Leeds, Yorks. ; Mayor of Leeds 1758, also Alderman ; m. Jan 1748/9 Anne, only dau. of Robert Allanson, Halifax, Yorks. ; buried Headingley, Yorks., 16 Dec 1771.
WADE, WILLIAM, son of Maj.William Wade, officer of Dragoons in Cromwellian Army, and —, dau. of Rev.Henry Stonestreet, Rector of South Heighton, Sussex ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1686 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1690, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1690, aged 18, scholar 24 May 1691, matr.1690 ; 6th in “ordo” 1693/4 ; BA 1693/4 ; MA 1697 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1696, Major Fellow 23 Apr 1697 – c.1714, Tutor 1700-1 ; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley 1710 ; ordained ; Canon of Windsor from 10 Feb 1719/20 ; m. Frances — ; d. 6 Feb 1732/3. [presumably Gulielmus Wade, MA, ordained deacon 12 Mar 1704, priest 11 Jun 1704 (both Lincoln)]
WADSWORTH, JOHN GEORGE, son of Charles Wadsworth, and Jane (Sayers ?) (IGI) ; b. 6 Sep 1816 ; adm. 12 Jan 1829 ; left Mar 1831.
WAGENER, PETER, son of Henry Wagener, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1694 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1698, adm.pens. 27 Jun 1698, aged 17, scholar 28 Apr 1699, matr.1698 ; BA 1701/2 ; MA 1710 ; ordained deacon 25 Oct 1702, priest 28 Oct 1702 (both London) ; went to America as minister to Maryland Jan 1702/3 ; beneficed in Virginia 1705 ; Rector of Stisted, Essex, from 6 Jan 1707/8 ; m. 16 Dec 1708 Mary Elizabeth Paurings (or Baurings ?), St.Clement Danes, London ; buried Stisted, Essex 25 Sep 1742.
WAGNER, ANTHONY, brother of George Wagner (qv) ; b. 2 Jul 1770 ; adm. 20 Sep 1779 ; left Aug 1786 ; adm.Staple Inn 1791, readm. 1799 ; an attorney, practising at Grosvenor Row, Chelsea, Middlesex [but not in Law List 1822] ; m. 11 Feb 1808 Sarah, dau. of Thomas Harby, Stathurn, Leics. ; d. 6 Jan 1847.
WAGNER, GEORGE, second son of George Wagner, Pall Mall, London, hatter, and Mary Wilhelmina, dau. of Henry Godde, Clewer, near Windsor, Berks., Esquire Saddler, Royal Household ; b. 6 Aug 1764 ; adm. 7 Jun 1773 ; left Midsummer 1781 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Jun 1786, matr. Lent 1787, resided six terms, name off 18 May 1790 ; ordained deacon 4 Mar 1787 (Chester, lit.dim. from Chichester), priest 18 Oct 1788 (Chichester) ; Rector of Mursley, Berks., 9 Apr 1790 – res 27 Feb 1831 ; d. unm. 25 Oct 1836.
WAINWRIGHT, CHARLES HENRY, brother of George William Reed Wainwright (qv) ; b. 26 Oct 1830 ; adm. 30 Sep 1841 ; went to King’s Coll.London ; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm.pens. 5 May 1851, matr.1851 ; BA 1855 ; MA 1864 ; ordained deacon 1855 (Lichfield), priest 1856 (Norwich) ; Curate, St.Margaret’s, Ipswich, Suffolk 1855-8, St.James’s, Manchester, Lancs., 1858-60 ; Vicar of Christ Church, Blackpool, Lancs., 1861-1900 ; m.1st, 8 Jan 1857 Emma Catherine Tabor, dau. of Charles Tottie, Swedish Consul-General in London ; m. 2nd, 25 Sep 1899 Annie Maria, only dau. of Thomas Lunt, Blackpool, Lancs., station master ; d. 13 Feb 1901.
WAINWRIGHT, GEORGE WILLIAM REED, son of George William Wainwright, Hastings, Sussex ; b. 22 Oct 1827 ; adm. 30 Sep 1841 ; adm.solicitor Mich.1853, firm Wainwright & Baillie, Staple Inn, London ; m. 1st, 15 Jan 1856 Alice (born Wigton, Cumberland), widow of Edward Owen Payne, Dorchester, Dorset ; m.2nd, 4 Apr 1876 Agnes Octavia, third dau. of John Wood, Melton Hall, Suffolk [and sister of Frederick William Wood (qv) (?)] ; d. 24 Mar 1893. [father probably plate glass manufacturer, London and Wordsley, Staffs., mother Mary, only dau. of John Holt, Wordsley House and Compton Hall, Staffs., plate glass manufacturer (they m. 8 Jan 1827)]
WAINWRIGHT, JOHN, son of Thomas Wainwright DCL, advocate, Doctors’ Commons, and Chancellor, Diocese of Chester, and Rebecca Jackson ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1703 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1708, matr. 7 Jun 1708, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1708 – void 1716 ; BA 1712 ; MA 1715 ; adm.Inner Temple 11 Nov 1708, called to bar 18 Jun 1716 ; migr. to Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jun 1720 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts to 1725 ; Clerk of Council to Frederick, Prince of Wales 1729-32 ; Third Baron of the Exchequer (I) from 26 Jun 1732 ; Busby Trustee 24 Feb 1729/30 ; m. Oct 1726 Anne, dau. of Sir John Parsons MP, Kt, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London ; d. 15 Apr 1741.
WAINWRIGHT, THOMAS, brother of John Wainwright (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1706 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1710, matr. 9 Jun 1710, aged 18, Westminster Student from 18 Dec 1710, Tutor 1717-20 ; BA 1714 ; MA 1717 ; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1721 (Oxford) ; buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 11 Aug 1721.
WAITE, see also WAYTE and WEITE.
WAITE, — ; b. ; in school list 1729.
WAKE, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. 22 Nov 1774.
WAKE, RICHARD, only child of James Wake, Carey Street, Lincoln’s Inn, and Heavitree, Devon, barrister, and Anna, dau. of Samuel Smith (adm.1744, qv) ; b. 6 Apr 1799 (IGI) ; adm. 27 May 1812 ; left 1812 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1817, aged 18, Canoneer Student 1817-21 ; of Sandridge Park, Stoke Gabriel, Devon, and of Haccombe, Exeter, Devon ; m. (registered St.Thomas third quarter 1864) Charlotte Henrietta, dau. of Henry Burlton Benett, Lympstone, Devon ; d. 9 Jan 1870.
WAKE, THOMAS, son of Robert Wake, London, and Anne Plomtree (IGI) ; bapt. St.Mary Magdalene, London [check] 20 Oct 1581 (IGI) ; at school under Ireland (J.Venn, Biog.Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, i, 149) ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Jun 1599, aged 16, scholar 25 Mar 1598/9 – 25 Mar 1604/5 ; BA 1602/3 ; MA 1606 (incorp.Oxford 10 Jul 1610) ; Junior Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll. 25 Mar 1610, Senior Fellow 25 Mar 1614/5 – 29 Sep 1630, Dean 1615, Registrar 1627/8 ; acted in performance of play Ignoramus before James I 8 Mar 1613/4 ; University Preacher 1619 ; Proctor 1626 ; ordained ; Rector of Bincombe, Dorset 29 Mar 1622 – Jul 1624 and 27 Aug 1629-34 ; Rector of Burrough Green, Cambs., 1634 – ejection 10 Jul 1644 “for swearing, drinking, quarrelling, and riding over a woman of which she died” (Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy, 1714, ii, 390) ; d. unm. 11 Nov 1658.
WAKE, THOMAS, second son of Very Rev.Robert Wake, Rector of Buxted, Sussex, and Dean of Bocking, Essex, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Grinfield, Marlborough, Wilts. ; b. 17 Jul 1706 ; adm. (aged 17) Nov 1723 ; d. when at school.
WAKE, WILLIAM, son of William Wake, Westminster, and Margaret Hooper, Dorset ; bapt. St.Margaret, Westminster 14 Aug 1598 ; at school under Wilson (GM 1785, i, 163) ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 1 Dec 1617, matr.1617 ; BA 1621/2 ; migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; MA 1625 ; ordained deacon 27 Nov 1622, priest 28 Nov 1622 (both Peterborough) ; Rector of Holy Trinity, Wareham, Dorset, from 26 Sep 1625 (sequestered 1646-60) ; grandfather of Most Rev.William Wake DD, Archbishop of Canterbury ; m. 25 Apr 1627 (IGI) Magdalen, dau. of Edward Winslow, Worcs. ; buried Wareham, Dorset 8 May 1661.
WAKEFIELD, EDWARD GIBBON, eldest son of Edward Wakefield, Pall Mall, London, land agent, author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, and his first wife Susanna, illegitimate dau. of Robert Crush, Felsted, Essex, yeoman farmer ; b. 20 Mar 1796 ; adm. 13 Jan 1808 ; left 1810 ; at Edinburgh High Sch. Sep 1810 – Jan 1812 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 5 Oct 1813 ; attaché, British Embassies at Turin and Paris ; made a runaway marriage with Eliza Ann Pattle, an heiress and ward in Chancery, but she died in Jul 1820 ; in 1826 induced Ellen Turner, a schoolgirl, to go through a ceremony of marriage with him at Gretna Green ; sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for abducting her ; advocated reforms to the administration of the Australian colonies 1829-49 ; the South Australian Association was formed in 1834 with a view to founding a colony based on Wakefield’s principles ; the originator of emigration by group settlement, and successfully carried through the settlements of Adelaide, Wellington, Dunedin and Canterbury ; adviser to Earl of Durham, Governor-Gen. of Canada 1838 ; had a large share in drafting the famous Durham report on the affairs of British North America ; London Agent for New Zealand Land Co. 1839-46 ; emigrated to New Zealand 1852 ; author, Facts relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis, 1831, and other works ; m.1st, 16 Aug 1816 at St.George’s, Hanover Square, London, after a previous marriage in Scotland, Eliza Anne, only child of Thomas Charles Pattle, EICS Canton ; m.2nd, 8 Mar 1826 (annulled by Act of Parliament 14 Jun 1827) Ellen, only dau. of William Turner, Shrigley, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, manufacturer ; d. at Wellington, New Zealand 16 May 1862. ODNB.
WAKEFIELD, GEORGE, see MARRIOTT, GEORGE PARRY.
WAKEFIELD, JOHN HOWARD, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (qv) ; b. 2 Jun 1803 ; adm. 29 Apr 1816 ; KS 1818 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1822, adm.pens. 18 May 1822, but did not matr. or reside ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1822 ; Ensign, 17th Native Infantry 11 Jul 1823 ; Lieut., 13 May 1825 ; Brevet Capt., 11 Jul 1838 ; Capt., 9 Jul 1840 ; Brevet Maj., 11 Nov 1851 ; Capt., 3rdEuropean Regt., 15 Nov 1853 ; retd. as Lieut.-Col., 1 Jan 1857 ; m. at Bareilly, India 9 Jan 1832 Maria Suffolk, “a converted Hindu”, dau. of the Wuzar of Bussahor ; d. 25 Jun 1862.
WAKLEY, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Henry Wakley FRCS, Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London, surgeon and editor of The Lancet, and Harriette Anne, third dau. of Francis Radford Blake, Rickmansworth, Herts. ; b. 10 Jul 1851 ; adm. 31 Jan 1865 ; QS 1866 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1870, matr.Mich.1870 ; St.Thomas’s Hospital ; a serious bicycle accident interrupted his medical studies for some six years ; LRCP 1883 ; entered the office of The Lancet as assistant to his uncle James Wakley, its then editor ; Joint Editor of The Lancet with his father 1886-1907, sole Editor from 1907 ; m. 8 Aug 1903 Gladys Muriel, eldest dau. of Norman Barron, Manchester, solicitor ; d. 5 Mar 1909. ODNB.
WALBANK (or WALBANKE), JAMES, son of James Walbank (or Walbanke), Storeys Gate, Westminster, pawnbroker ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1752 (as Walbanke) ; in school list 1754 ; apprenticed to Charles Rivington, stationer 2 Nov 1756 (as Walbank), turned over to Thomas Parker 1 Jul 1760 ; freed 6 Dec 1763 ; presumably “James Walbank, Salisbury Court, compositor”, intended recipient of unclaimed Bank dividend 1766.
WALBRYGE, EDMUND ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments).
WALCOT, CHARLES, son of John Walcot MP, Walcot, Shropshire, and Mary, dau. of Sir Francis Dashwood, Bart., MP ; bapt. Lydbury North, Shropshire 22 Mar 1738 ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1748 ; in school list 1754 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 6 Mar 1756 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1759-64 ; Deputy to Treasurer of the Chamber 1761 ; MP Weymouth 30 Apr 1763-8 ; Accountant of the Penny Post, Post Office 1782-4, Comptroller of the Penny Post from 1784 ; of Bitterley Court, Shropshire ; High Sheriff, Shropshire 1782 ; m. 17 Jul 1764 his cousin Anne, sister of Richard Levett (adm.1740, qv) ; buried Bitterley, Shropshire 27 Sep 1799.
WALCOT, CHARLES, eldest son of John Walcot (adm.1776, qv) ; b. 23 Jan 1794 ; adm. Christmas 1809 ; Min.Can.1809 ; left 1812 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 May 1813 ; BA 1817 ; MA 1826 ; ordained deacon 1819 [check], priest 1 Aug 1819 (both Hereford) ; Rector of Hopton Wafers, Shropshire 23 May 1820 – May 1834 ; Rector of Bitterley, Shropshire, from 5 Feb 1835 ; JP Shropshire ; m.1st, 23 Feb 1818 Anne, eldest dau. of William Walcot, Ferry Park, co.Dublin, and The Moor, Ludlow, Shropshire ; m.2nd, Jul 1827 Charlotte, eldest dau. of John Molyneux, Gravel Hill, Ludlow, Shropshire ; m.3rd, 29 Apr 1851 Mary Anne, eldest dau. of Rev.John Rocke, Clungunford House, Shropshire ; d. 18 Dec 1875.
WALCOT, JOHN, brother of Charles Walcot (adm.1748, qv) ; bapt. Lydbury North, Shropshire 20 Nov 1740 ; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1749 ; still at school for period Oct 1754 – Feb 1756 ; Accountant-General, Post Office Nov 1767-71 ; Secretary to Post Office in Ireland 21 Mar 1771 – Nov 1774 ; Post Office Agent for the Packets at Dover and Yarmouth Nov 1774-98 ; m.1st, Eliza, widow of Capt.Charles Colby, Royal Navy, Commissioner of Navy at Gibraltar ; m.2nd, 25 Sep 1805 Isabella, widow of Sir James Douglas Kt, HBM Consul, Naples, and dau. of Rev.Alexander Douglas, Church of Scotland minister, East Calder, Midlothian ; d.1819. [dead by May 1819 ? : perhaps John Walcot, will proved PCC 27 Jul 1820]
WALCOT, JOHN, eldest son of Charles Walcot (adm.1748, qv) ; b. 16 Mar 1766 ; adm. 17 Jun 1776 ; in school list 1781 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Apr 1783 ; migr. to St.Mary Hall, Oxford ; BCL 1791 ; ordained deacon 24 Feb 1793 (Norwich, lit.dim. from Hereford), priest 26 May 1793 (Hereford) ; Rector of Bitterley, Shropshire, from 22 Sep 1795 ; Perpetual Curate of Hopton Cangeford, Shropshire, from 28 Aug 1822 ; m. 2 Dec 1788 Sarah, only dau. of Sir John Dashwood King, Bart., MP ; d. 23 Nov 1834.
WALDEGRAVE, JAMES, 2nD EARL WALDEGRAVE, eldest son of James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave PC KG, Ambassador at Paris, and Mary, second dau. of Sir John Webb, Bart., Hatherop, Gloucs. ; b. 14 Mar 1714/5 ; adm. Feb 1723/4 ; left 1725 ; went to Eton Coll. ; styled Viscount Chewton 1729-41 ; secretary to father during father’s years as Ambassador to France ; succ.father as 2ndEarl Waldegrave 11 Apr 1741 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber 13 Dec 1743 – 18 Dec 1752 ; an intimate friend and adviser of George II ; Lord Warden of the Stannaries from 16 Apr 1751 ; Governor and Keeper of the Privy Purse to George, Prince of Wales, and to Prince Edward 18 Dec 1752 – Oct 1756 ; Privy Councillor 20 Dec 1752 ; a Teller of the Exchequer from 5 Feb 1757 ; employed by George II as an intermediary with his Ministers, and was finally compelled by him to accept the office of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, but he was not formally appointed and his tenure was only for five days, 8-12 Jun 1757 ; LLD Cambridge 3 Jul 1749 ; FRS 14 Dec 1749 ; KG 30 Jun 1757 (invested) ; his Memoirs from 1754 to 1758 were published in 1821 ; m. 15 May 1759 Maria (subsequently wife of HRH William Henry, Duke of Gloucester), illegitimate dau. of Hon.Sir Edward Walpole KB ; d. of smallpox 28 Apr 1763. ODNB.
WALDO, DANIEL, eldest son of Rev.Peter Waldo, Rector of Aston Clinton, Bucks., and Emma, eldest dau. of Theophilus Leigh, Adlestrop, Gloucs. ; great-nephew and godson of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (qv) ; b. 29 Oct 1713 ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1723 ; d, at school 19 Nov 1725. Buried West Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
WALDO, SIR TIMOTHY, son of Joseph Waldo, St.Botolph Aldersgate, London, and Jane, dau. of William Bradgate, Little Peatling, Leics. ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields, London 26 May 1704 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1717/8 ; adm.attorney 20 Nov 1730 ; member Common Council, City of London (Broad Street ward) 1735 ; Clerk to Salters’ Co. 3 May 1745 – 4 May 1768, Master 7 Jun 1779 ; knighted 12 Apr 1769 ; purchased Hever Castle estate, Kent 1745 ; m. 26 Apr 1736 Catherine, “only child of Mrs. Wakefield”, Cambridge Street, Soho, London ; d. 10 Jan 1786. [Perhaps adm.Inner Temple 17 Jun 1754 : or was this a relative of the same name ?]
WALFORD, — ; b. ; adm. 9 Jul 1764.
WALFORD, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 16 Feb 1814.
[WALKER, — ; b. ; in school list 1733. Probably one of the Walkers below]
[WALKER, — ; b. ; in school list 1733. Probably one of the Walkers below]
WALKER, — ; b. ; in school list Jun 1764.
WALKER, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764, 1765.
WALKER, — ; b. ; adm. 16 Sep 1768.
WALKER, ALEXANDER, son of George Walker, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1730/1 ; Min.Can.1735 ; KS 1736 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1740, adm.pens. 4 Jun 1740, scholar 10 Apr 1741, matr.1740 ; BA 1743/4 ; MA 1747 ; of Barbados, West Indies. [“Alexander Walker, Esq.”, subscriber to T.Francklin, ed, The Epistles of Phalaris, 1749]
WALKER, ANTHONY ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1723/4 ; in under school list 1727. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, Robert Walker, adm.same month].
WALKER, ARTHUR, third son of William Walker, Bolling Hall, Yorks., manufacturer, and Keziah Wesley, dau. of Rev. John Stamp, Bradford, Yorks., Methodist minister ; b. 19 Mar 1841 ; adm. Jun 1854 ; QS 1855 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1859 (with Dean Thomas), adm.pens. 13 Jun 1859, matr.1859 ; BA 1863 ; MA 1866 ; ordained deacon 1864, priest 1865 (both Worcester) ; Curate, Alvechurch, Worcs., 1864-6, St.Paul’s, Hammersmith 1866-7 ; Vicar of Easton in Gordano, Somerset 1867-1903 ; Rector of Dinder, Somerset 1903-11 ; Prebendary of Wells 1903-11 ; m.1st, 18 Jul 1866 Adelaide Augusta, eldest dau. of Ven.John Sandford, Archdeacon of Coventry ; m.2nd, 9 Jan 1881 Harriet Emma, sister of Henry Vaughan (qv) ; d. 30 Dec 1918.
WALKER, ASHLEY, brother of Arthur Walker (qv) ; b. 22 Jun 1844 ; adm. 27 Jan 1857 ; QS 1858 ; left Whitsun 1862 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 14 Jun 1862 ; migr. to Magdalene Coll., Cambridge, matr.Lent 1863 ; played cricket v. Oxford 1864-6 and for Yorkshire 1863-70 ; Second Prem.Assistant, Royal Coll., Colombo, Ceylon Aug 1876 – Jul 1877, acting First Prem.Assistant Jul 1877-9, First Prem.Assistant Jul – Aug 1879 ; acting Inspector of Schools, Ceylon Aug 1879 – Oct 1890, Inspector of Schools Oct 1890 – Aug 1894, Sep 1895 – Jul 1901 ; acting Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon Aug 1894 – Sep 1895 ; ret. Jul 1901 ; “the father of Ceylon cricket”, who captained All Ceylon against Australia in 1884 ; m. 22 Sep 1876 Rachel Eveline Ely, sister of Edward Upton Strick (qv) ; d. 26 May 1927.
WALKER, BOURCHIER, son of Thomas Walker, and Mary — (IGI) ; bapt. St.Paul, Covent Garden 5 Feb 1702/3 ; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1716 ; in under school list 1719 ; apprenticed to Thomas Morgan, Lincoln’s Inn 29 Jun 1719 ; of Helperby, Yorks. (at marriage) ; m. 25 Aug 1748 Ann, only dau. of James Boreham, Chamberlain of York ; d. at Ripon, Yorks., Mar 1769, aged 67. [Presumably younger brother of John Walker, adm.same month]
WALKER, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, second son of William Walker, Benkapur, Bihar, India, Surgeon EICS Bengal, and Elizabeth, dau. of Capt.William Pye, EICS Madras ; b. 31 Aug 1783 ; adm. 12 Feb 1796 (Clapham) ; Min.Can.1797 ; still at school Mich.1799 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1799 ; Lieut., 8thNative Infantry 15 Dec 1800 ; Capt., 18 Mar 1809 ; Maj., 30 Aug 1819 ; Lieut.-Col., 1 May 1824 ; Col., 4th Native Infantry 6 Dec 1834 ; Major-Gen., 28 Jun 1838 ; of Whetleigh House, Taunton, Somerset ; m. 23 Oct 1815 Louisa Stuart, dau. of John Miller, Carey Street, London, attorney ; d. 2 Oct 1842.
WALKER, CHARLES EDWARD, eldest son of Peter Walker, Bath, Somerset, barrister ; b. (Bath) ; adm. 12 Apr 1809 (home boarder) ; one of the founders of The Trifler (1 Mar – 8 Sep 1817) ; Head Town Boy at Christmas 1817 ; left 12 Dec 1817 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Dec 1820 ; BA 1824 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1827, priest 14 Jun 1829 (both London) ; Curate, St.Philip’s, Regent Street, London 1827, Christ Church, Woburn Square, London 1833 ; Preacher, Quebec Chapel ; gave up clerical work and went to live in Eton, Bucks., where he took pupils ; an intimate friend of the actor W.C.Macready ; wrote a number of plays ; his historical tragedy, Wallace, begun when at school, was produced at Covent Garden 14 Nov 1820 ; d.unm. 15 Apr 1891, aged 93.
WALKER, EDWARD ; b. ; in school lists 1735-8 (but forename Edward presumably only evidenced by list of Dec 1736, which is unreliable)
WALKER, FREDERICK HANSON ROBERT JOHN UNWIN, eldest son of John Hanson Walker, London, artist and portrait painter, and his first wife Frances Elizabeth, eldest dau. of John Hector Whitaker, Bath, Somerset, cabinet maker and upholsterer ; b. 4 Jan 1868 ; adm. 27 May 1880 (H) ; left Aug 1881 ; St.George’s Hospital ; MRCS ; LRCP ; m. 18 May 1895 Leila Constance, dau. of Richard Francis Leake, Brighton, Sussex, solicitor ; d. 12 Nov 1899.
WALKER, FREDERICK ; b. ; adm. 25 Sep 1771.
WALKER, FREDERICK, brother of Charles Edward Walker (qv) ; b. ; adm. 12 Apr 1809 ; “a very handsome boy, a very Cupid … fought in Green with another named Haggard. The fight lasted two hours. Cupid was not recognisable for some time afterwards and had to be attended at home by a doctor” ; left Christmas 1817.
WALKER, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Walker (adm.Jan 1715/6, qv) ; bapt. St.Christopher le Stocks, London 9 May 1705 ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1715/6 ; in under school list 1719 (probably left 1719).
WALKER, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. 30 Jan 1797 (Clapham) ; in school list 1797 ; left 1797.
WALKER, HARRY, brother of Arthur Walker (qv) ; b. 30 Oct 1846 ; adm. 3 Jun 1858 (R) ; QS 1862 ; cox of eight in races v. Eton 2 Aug 1861, 1 Aug 1862 ; Hon.Secretary, Elizabethan Club 1864 ; left Whitsun 1865 ; living with mother in Yorkshire in 1871 (1871 Census) ; d.unm. in Canada 1886.
WALKER, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Apr 1716. [Probably John Walker, son of Thomas Walker, and Mary —, bapt.St.Stephen, Coleman Street, London 10 Mar 1701 (IGI), an elder brother of Bourchier Walker, adm.same month].
WALKER, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; in school lists 1801, 1803 ; left 1807. [Maybe John Walker, son of Rev.John Walker, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1807, aged 19]
WALKER, JOHN TAYLOR, brother of Richard Walker (qv) ; b. 9 Dec 1805 ; adm. 20 Mar 1815 ; Ensign, 25th Foot 28 May 1829 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1829 ; Ensign, 33rd Native Infantry 27 Jun 1832 ; Lieut., 22 Jan 1835 (gazetted posthumously) ; d. at Negapatam, Madras 7 Jan 1835.
WALKER, MORDECAI, brother of Thomas Walker (adm.Jan 1715/6, qv) ; bapt.St.Christopher le Stocks, London 13 Apr 1704 ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1715/6 ; left 1717 ; a free merchant in India, trading between Bombay and Bengal (by 1737) ; bankrupt 1744 ; supercargo, EI Maritime Service (by 1752), to resignation 1760 ; of Long Parish, Hampshire ; m. ; d. 29 Apr 1769. [note Mordecai Walker m. 1761 Cordelia Perceval, St.Clement Danes, London]
WALKER, RICHARD, son of Richard Walker, St.James’s Street, Westminster, Apothecary to George IV, and Mary, dau. of John Taylor, Purlwell Hall, Yorks.; b. 16 May 1802 ; adm. 23 Sep 1812 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1823 ; arrived in India 4 Jun 1824 ; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Shahabad ; Acting Register, Shahabad 1825, Officiating Judge and Magistrate there 1827 ; acting magistrate, Ghazepore 1831 ; acting Salt Agent, Twenty-Four Parganas 1836 ; Deputy Accountant-General, Bengal 1846 ; res. 1 Nov 1854 ; m. at Calcutta 31 Jan 1833 Jane Mary, dau. of James Young ; d. at Cairo, Egypt 23 Nov 1854.
WALKER, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1723/4 ; in school list 1729. [“adm. with Anthony (qv)” , so brother or close kin]
WALKER, ROBERT, brother of William Walker (adm.1818, qv) ; b. 17 Apr 1812 ; adm. 16 Apr 1821 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1826 ; Addiscombe Coll. 1826-8 ; 2nd Lieut., Bengal Artillery 12 Jun 1828 ; Lieut., 7 Oct 1836 ; Brevet Capt., 12 Jun 1843 ; invalided 2 Feb 1844 ; m. 18 Jun 1838 Mary, dau. of William Curling, Sandwich, Kent, shipowner ; d. at Agra 17 Nov 1846.
WALKER, SAMUEL EDMUND, only son of Edmund Walker, Lincoln’s Inn, London, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, and Esther, dau. of Samuel Walker, Lascelles Hall, Kirkheaton, Yorks. ; b. 22 Jun 1810 ; adm. 26 Mar 1818 ; KS 1823 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1827, adm.pens. 29 May 1827, scholar 1828 ; BA 1831 ; Crosse Scholar 1833 ; MA 1834 ; BD 1841 ; DD 1846 ; ordained deacon 2 Aug 1835, priest 31 Jul 1836 (both York) ; Rector of St.Colomb Major, Cornwall, from 1841 ; became involved in significant speculative land deals in the Notting Hill district of Kensington, where his father had owned property, and their failure resulted in the sequestration of his living ; m. (presumably Sarah Anne Truelove, marriage registered Ecclesfield third quarter 1849) ; d. 16 Mar 1869.
WALKER, THOMAS, eldest surviving son of John Walker, and Ann Fromanteel ; bapt.St.Christopher le Stocks, London 26 Mar 1702 ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1715/6 ; in under school list 1719.
[WALKER, THOMAS ; b. ; in school list Dec 1736. Note that the list of Dec 1736 is not reliable evidence for this individual’s forename]
WALKER, THOMAS, brother of William Walker (adm.1818, qv) ; b. 27 Feb 1809 ; adm. 19 Feb 1818 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1824 ; Ensign, 1st Native Infantry 11 Apr 1825 ; Lieut., 24 Nov 1827 ; Brevet Capt., 11 Apr 1840 ; served in Afghan War ; d. 25 Nov 1841, from wounds received in a sortie from Kabul, Afghanistan.
WALKER, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1716 ; in under school list 1719. [Perhaps William Walker, son of Thomas Walker and Mary —, bapt.St.Stephen, Coleman Street, London 13 Aug 1706, a younger brother of John Walker and Bourchier Walker, qvv, adm.same month].
WALKER, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1730 ; left 1735.
WALKER, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 12 Oct 1796 (Clapham) ; left 1797.
WALKER, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Walker, Brunswick Square, London, and King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, London, barrister, and [his second wife ?] Sarah, dau. of William Sleigh, Whitehall, London, victualler ; b. 11 Dec 1807 ; adm. 19 Feb 1818 ; left Christmas 1823.
WALKER-HENEAGE, GEORGE HENEAGE, eldest son of George Wyld (qv) ; b. 17 Jul 1799 ; adm. 30 May 1809 ; KS 1812 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1817, matr. 22 May 1817, Westminster Student ; assumed surname of Walker-Heneage in lieu of Wyld 20 Aug 1818 ; BA 1821 ; MA 1823 ; MP (Cons) Devizes 1838-57 ; DL JP Wiltshire, High Sheriff 1829 ; Chief Proclamator, Court of Common Pleas, and hereditary Chief Usher, Court of Exchequer Nov 1822 – Jun 1852, when post abolished ; m. 7 Aug 1824 Harriet Sarah, eldest dau. of William Webber, Binfield Lodge, Berks. ; d. 21 Sep 1875.
WALL, BARTHOLOMEW, eldest son of James Wall, Stratford Langthorne, West Ham, Essex ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1747 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1751 – res 16 Nov 1756 ; adm.Middle Temple 3 Nov 1748. [perhaps m. 25 Aug 1760 Mary Gant (IGI)] [mother probably Margaret, dau. of Robert Hall, Groves, timber merchant (marriage settlement with James Wall 1728)]
WALL, GEORGE, son of Rev.George Wall, Gloucester [presumably Vicar of Hempsted, Gloucs.] ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1661 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1663, matr. 3 Jul 1663, aged 18, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1663 ; BA ; MA [check dates of degrees, none assigned him in Foster] ; death in London “a little before” noted by Anthony Wood in diary entry of 28 Jan 1680/1 (Life and Times of Anthony Wood, ii, 514) (will proved PCC 7 Apr 1681).
WALL, JOHN, son of “genteel parents” in the City of London ; b.1588 ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1604, matr. 23 Nov 1604, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1624 ; BA 1608 ; MA 1611 ; BD 1618 ; DD 1623 ; ordained ; Rector of St.Aldates, Oxford 6 Oct 1617 (still 1635) ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from May 1632 ; Vicar of Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 19 Jan 1635/6 (still 1641) ; Prebendary of Salisbury from 5 Nov 1644 ; ejected from his Canonry of Christ Church by the Parliamentary Visitors “for his high contempt and denyall of authoritie of Parliament”, 12 Apr 1648, but restored on his submission, 25 Sep 1648 ; in a letter to the Committee dated 24 Jul 1650 the Visitors report that Wall had resigned one of his two livings and that they have been “credibly informed of his affection to Parliament” (Burrows, ed., 1881, 183, 298) ; a quaint preacher and learned patristic divine ; d.unm. 20 Oct 1666. ODNB. [perhaps bapt.St.Andrew Holborn 13 Oct 1588, son of John Wall (IGI)]
WALL, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1746 ; left 1747. [“Mr Thomas Wall”, subscriber to Peirson Lloyd’s Sermons, 1765]
WALL, WILLIAM LARTON, son of Rev.John Wall, Rector of Quatt and Wollaston, Shropshire, and Elizabeth, seventh dau. of William Whitmore, Dudmaston, Shropshire, and his first wife ; b. 24 May 1806 ; adm. 9 Apr 1817 ; Min.Can.1821 ; Queen’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.1826, resided three terms ; surgeon, EI Maritime Service 1827-8 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1828 ; d. at sea on his passage to India 30 Dec 1829.
WALLACE, see also WALLIS.
WALLACE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 15 Oct 1787.
WALLACE, PETER, son of Peter Wallace, Twickenham, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1723 ; Min.Can.1726. [note will Peter Wallace, St.Marylebone, Middlesex, proved PCC 14 Feb 1774]
WALLER, — ; b. ; in school lists 1745, 1746.
WALLER, WILLIAM, son of Charles Waller, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1738/9 ; KS 1744 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1748, adm.pens. 13 Jun 1748, scholar 14 Apr 1749, matr.1748 ; BA 1752 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 8 Jul 1748, called to bar 20 Nov 1754, Bencher 14 Dec 1782 ; Commissioner, Stamp Office 1776-83 ; one of Warren Hastings’s attorneys or trustees in England ; of Chesterton, Hunts. ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Eldred Lancelot Lee, Coton Hall, Alveley, Shropshire, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn ; d. 13 Dec 1786. [mother perhaps Elizabeth Waldron (IGI)]
WALLER, WILLIAM, only son of William Waller (adm.1738/9, qv) ; b. 23 Jan 1757 ; adm. 13 Feb 1766 ; KS (aged 14) 1771 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1775, matr. 14 Jun 1775, but resigned Westminster Studentship 18 Dec 1775 before being adm. ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 24 Nov 1780 ; of Fingrith Hall, Blackmore, Essex ; m. 8 Feb 1790 (IGI) Marcella Araminta Mitchell. [Wife probably dau. of Thomas Mitchell (IGI)] [wife’s will proved as widow PCC 11 Aug 1836]
WALLINGTON, NICHOLAS ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1608, Westminster Student to 1616 ; BA 15 Feb 1611/2 ; MA 1614 ; ordained priest 21 Oct 1615 (Gloucester) ; Rector of Dumbleton, Gloucs., 23 Oct 1615 (still 1635) [successor 1640 ?] ; m. [perhaps bapt. Wantage, Berks., 30 Aug 1589, son of William Wallington, and Annis —, but date of baptism seems a little early] [son of Anne Wallington, and nephew of Edmund Hutchins, Dumbleton, Gloucs.]
WALLIS, ALBANY CHARLES, only son of Albany Wallis, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, attorney, and Elizabeth Vaughan ; b. ; adm. 12 Jun 1770, chorister ; portrait of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds sold Christie 7 Jul 1916 ; drowned in river Thames 29 Mar 1776, aged 13. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey (tablet in his memory erected by his father’s friend David Garrick). [mother perhaps dau. of Thomas Vaughan, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, and Inner Temple, London, Filazer, Court of King’s Bench]
WALLIS, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1724/5 ; left 1725.
[WALLS, GEORGE, son of William Walls, Rock, Worcs., and Mary, dau. of John Carver, King’s Pyon, Herefs. ; Russell Barker and Stenning identify him as KS 1661, elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1663, but the KS and Westminster Student was George Wall (above) ; George Walls, who might nonetheless have been an OW, matr. at Christ Church 4 Apr 1663 and was a Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1664 – void 1696, Tutor 1670-93, Senior Censor 1677-8 ; ordained ; travelled in France with John Locke (qv) 1675-7 ; Russell Barker and Stenning give George Walls’s other details as BA 1667, MA 23 Mar 1669/70, BD 1682, DD 1684, Chaplain to Company of Merchants Trading to Hamburg 2 Oct 1682-9, Prebendary of Worcester from 23 Apr 1694 and of St.Paul’s from 23 Mar 1694/5, Rector of Holt with Witley, Worcs., 19 Oct 1695 – Jan 1727, Vicar of Wichenford, Worcs., from 18 Apr 1707, d. 15 Sep 1727]
WALLWYN, see also WALLYN and WALWYN.
WALLWYN, RICHARD, son of James Wallwyn MP, Longworth, Herefs., and Ann, dau. of Richard Taylor, London, merchant ; b. 22 Nov 1718 ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1730 (as Walwyn) ; left 1735 ; Lincoln Coll.Oxford, matr. 12 Feb 1735/6, aged 17 ; adm.Inner Temple 27 Sep 1732 ; FSA 2 Mar 1747/8 ; m. 13 Dec 1741 Mary, dau. of Rev.William Floyer, Rector of Whitbourne, Herefs., Prebendary of Hereford ; d. 25 Mar 1750.
WALLYN, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1553 (Chapter Muniments).
WALMISLEY, EDWARD GEORGE, eldest son of William Walmisley, Copying Clerk, House of Lords, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Jackson, Bewdley, Worcs. ; b. 26 Dec 1778 ; adm. 24 Apr 1787, chorister ; a clerk, House of Lords 1799-1819, Clerk of the Journals from 1819 ; m.1st, 9 Nov 1810 Amelia Matilda, widow of George Fox, North Street, Westminster ; m.2nd, 9 Aug 1825 Mary Selina Sybella, dau. of Thomas Harris Bradshaw, Senior Clerk, Post Office ; d. 19 Sep 1835.
WALMISLEY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, second son of John Angus Walmisley (qv) ; b. 3 Jan 1820 ; adm. 26 Jan 1830, chorister ; clerk (1841 Census) ; Clerk to Metropolitan Paving Commissioners (in 1853), dismissed for embezzlement 31 Dec 1855 and warrant issued for his arrest ; m. 23 Aug 1849 Ann, eldest dau. of William Lamboll Bryant, Clapham, Surrey, surgeon ; d. in West Indies 1896.
WALMISLEY, JOHN ANGUS, brother of Edward George Walmisley (qv) ; b. 23 Nov 1791 ; at school under Vincent (ex rel. Arthur Thomas Walmisley) ; perhaps a clerk, House of Lords 1815-9 (in directories as John Hayden Walmisley) ; Extra Clerk to Clerk of Privileges and Elections, House of Commons c.1823-36 ; parliamentary agent, firm Walmisley & Son, Parliament Street, Westminster ; received thanks of Dean and Chapter for his services in giving the alarm, and for his personal exertion in extinguishing the fire in the North Transept 1829 (Chapter Acts, 20 May 1829) ; Deputy Chief Usher, Court of Exchequer 1842-52 ; one of the Earl Marshal’s gold staff officers at the coronations of George IV, William IV, and Victoria ; m. 6 Sep 1816 Anna Maria, dau. of Lieut.-Col.William Lambert, EICS Bombay ; d. 6 Feb 1862.
WALMISLEY, JOHN RICHARD LAMBERT, eldest son of John Angus Walmisley (qv) ; b. 6 Apr 1818 ; adm. 3 Jul 1827 ; left 1834 ; adm.solicitor, Hilary 1840 ; parliamentary agent, firm Walmisley & Son, Parliament Street, Westminster ; Clerk to Vestry of St.John the Evangelist, Westminster 1841-86 ; a well-known oarsman ; won Wingfield Sculls and was Amateur Champion of the Thames 1847, 1848 ; m. 1st, 15 Aug 1841 Maria Augustine, widow of Charles Louis Auguste Graff, Paris, engraver, and dau. of Auguste Nicolas Girault ; m.2nd, 7 Jul 1883 Alice Elizabeth, dau. of George William Workman; d. 9 Dec 1890.
WALMISLEY, PHILIP MOSS, third son of John Angus Walmisley (qv) ; b. 19 Nov 1821 ; adm. 17 Jan 1831 ; left 1832 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1841 ; Ensign, 16th Native Infantry 14 Jun 1843 ; Lieut., 23 Dec 1845 – struck off 6 Jan 1850 ; served in expedition to Gwalior 1843 and in First Sikh War 1845-6 ; living in England 1870 [but not in 1871 Census] ; m.1st, 26 Aug 1840 Margaret Hulme, dau. of John Nunns ; m.2nd, 11 May 1853 Augusta Annie, dau. of Percival Cray Lewis, Chalton, Hampshire ; m. 3rd, at Calcutta, India, 18 Jun 1864 Jane Margaret Townsend, dau. of John Casey.
WALMISLEY, ROBERT, brother of Edward George Walmisley (qv) ; b. 28 Jan 1786 ; in school list 1795 ; chorister ; extra clerk, House of Lords 1800-13, clerk, House of Lords c.1813-22, Clerk of Ingrossments 1822- 5 Oct 1835, Chief Clerk 5 Oct 1835 – 5 Jul 1840 ; m. 16 Nov 1811 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Robert Selby, Kingsbury, Middlesex ; d. 1 Dec 1843.
WALMISLEY, THOMAS FORBES, brother of Edward George Walmisley (qv) ; b. 23 May 1783 ; in school list 1795 ; chorister ; studied music under Hon.John Spencer and Thomas Attwood ; Assistant Organist, Female Orphan Asylum 1810-4 ; Organist, St.Martin’s in the Fields 1814-54 ; a professional member of the Catch Club 1827 ; composed glees, anthems and sacred songs ; edited his son Thomas Attwood Walmisley’s Cathedral Music, 1857 ; m. 15 Oct 1810 Mary Ann, eldest dau. of William Capon, North Street, Westminster, theatrical scene painter and Architectural Draughtsman to Duke of York ; d. 23 Jul 1866. ODNB.
WALMISLEY, WILLIAM, brother of Edward George Walmisley (qv) ; b. 9 May 1780 ; at school under Vincent (ex rel. Arthur Thomas Walmisley) ; a clerk, House of Lords 1797- c.1820, Clerk of Inrolments from c.1820 ; m. 26 Apr 1807 Eleanor, dau. of Samuel Elyard, London, stockbroker ; d. 16 Apr 1822.
WALROND, JOHN, son of John Walrond, Bovey, Beer, Devon, and Jane — ; b. ; adm. ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1600, aged 18 (Foster, sic) ; d. 25 Jun 1602, aged 17. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where his M.I. (printed Gutch, i, 474) records the fact of his education at Westminster School.
WALSH, — ; b. ; at school under Camden ; Camden wrote to Ussher 10 Jul 1618 stating that “divers gentlemen of Ireland”, including “the Walshes” were among his pupils at Westminster (Sir Henry Ellis, ed., Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men, Camden Soc.Pub.1st ser., xxiii, 125, note).
WALSH, — ; b. ; at school under Camden (Ellis, ed., op.cit.).
WALSH, CHARLES ROBERT, son of Isaac Richard Walsh, Kensington, Middlesex, and Sarah Wheeler ; b. 25 Jan 1808 ; adm. 2 Oct 1819 ; St.George’s Hospital ; LSA 1830 ; MRCS 1831 ; practised in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London ; Assistant Editor, Medical Times and Gazette ; m. 3 Sep 1838 Catherine, sister of Thomas Simons Watson (qv) ; d. 9 Sep 1855.
WALSH, EDWARD ADOLPHUS JAMES, eldest son of James Thomas Walsh, Hampton, Middlesex, and Parliament Street, Westminster, Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Tower Liberty, and Amelia Martha Augusta, dau. of Heinrich Friedrich Grobecker, Park Row, Knightsbridge, London, Page of the Back Stairs to Queen Charlotte ; b. 11 Feb 1809 ; adm. 15 Apr 1820 ; articled to George Spence, solicitor 1827 ; attorney’s clerk, bankrupt 1843 ; attorney, in debtor’s prison 1846 ; stationmaster at Dover Priory for London Chatham and Dover Railway ; m. Hannah Brett (marriage registered Marylebone second quarter 1840) ; murdered at Dover, Kent, by Thomas Wells, railway porter, 1 May 1868.
WALSH, SIR (FRANCIS) AUBREY (JAMES), brother of Edward Adolphus James Walsh (qv) ; b. 14 May 1811 ; adm. 14 Feb 1820 ; Principal, Statistical Department, HM Customs 1834-71 ; DL JP Tower Hamlets, Chairman, Quarter Sessions for Tower Liberty 1853-89 ; knighted 4 Jun 1889 ; m. 16 Apr 1842 Jane Mary, dau. of Richard Robinson, Bloomsbury Square, London ; d. 12 Apr 1893.
WALSH, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1725/6 ; in school list 1729.
WALSH, PERCIVAL, eldest son of Percival Walsh, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, Solicitor to City of Oxford, and Mary, dau. of Richard Richardson, Oxford ; b. 14 Sep 1807 ; adm. 22 Sep 1818 (Stelfox) ; left 1824 ; in partnership with father as a solicitor in Oxford ; m. 10 Jan 1837 Emily, dau. of Edward Tufton Phelp, Coston House, Leics. ; killed by being thrown out of his gig while returning from Oxford to Appleton Manor House, Berks., 7 Dec 1844.
WALTER, — ; b. ; in under school list 1721.
WALTER, — ; b. ; in school list 1739.
WALTER, ABEL, eldest son of John Walter MP, Woking, Surrey, and Lucy, dau. of Col.Abel Alleyne, Speaker of Assembly, Barbados, West Indies ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1715 ; in under school list 1717 ; of Baddesley, Hampshire ; lic. to m. 23 Jan 1729 Hon.Jane Nevill, dau. of George Nevill, 11th Baron Abergavenny ; buried Bath Abbey 15 Oct 1767.
WALTER, ALLEYNE, brother of Abel Walter (qv) ; bapt.Godalming, Surrey 11 May 1724 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 6) Jul 1730 ; left 1734 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1740 : BCL 1748 ; DCL 1752 ; ordained deacon 12 Jun 1748, priest 19 Jun 1748 (both Winchester) ; Rector of Bisley, Surrey 21 Jun 1748 – Aug 1779 ; Vicar of Chobham, Surrey 21 Jun 1748 – Aug 1779 ; Rector of Crowcombe, Somerset, from 15 Jul 1779 ; lic. to m.1st, 7 Aug 1754 Sarah, widow of Richard Winch, Bray, Berks., and dau. of Richard Bird, Woking, Surrey, yeoman ; m.2nd, 24 Oct 1771 Bridget, widow of John Butler, Kilcash, Ireland (who was de jure 16th Earl of Ormonde (I)), and dau.of — Stacey, Wokingham, Berks. ; m. 3rd, 27 Nov 1782 Catherine, dau. of Capt. Ralph Bendyshe, Army officer ; buried Crowcombe, Somerset 10 Mar 1806.
WALTER, HENRY, brother of Abel Walter (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1718/9 ; in under school list 1724 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Oct 1725 ; apprenticed to Walter Pryse, Lincoln’s Inn, attorney 27 Apr 1726 ; of Stifford, Essex ; m. 28 May 1741 Margaret, widow of William Lloyd, London, mercer. [maybe buried Bath Abbey, Somerset 1 Jun 1773 (will dated 29 Mar 1773, proved 10 Jun 1773) ; but was this Rev.Henry Walter, Curate, Rainham, Essex 20 May 1763-72, Vicar of Froyle, Hampshire, from 25 Jul 1772 – death by 7 Sep 1773 ?].
WALTER, J. ; b. ; at school under Vincent (name up School 1792).
WALTER, JAMES, brother of Abel Walter (qv) ; bapt.Godalming, Surrey 11 Nov (or Dec) 1721 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Jul 1730 ; left 1740 ; Ensign, 8th Foot 18 Mar 1741/2 ; Lieut., 4 Oct 1743 ; Capt., 11th Foot 15 Oct 1744 ; Royal Marines 5 Jun 1756 ; ret. c.1762 ; of Andover, Hampshire ; m. 28 Oct 1749 Elizabeth, dau. of John Hillman, Salisbury, Wilts. ; d. 24 Jun 1778.
WALTER, JOHN, brother of Abel Walter (qv) ; bapt.St Peter Le Poer, London 27 Jul 1704 ; adm. (aged 11) Nov 1715 ; Min.Can.1719 ; KS 1720 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 Jun 1723 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 2 Mar 1718/9 ; buried St.Michael, Barbados 20 Aug 1741.
WALTER, JOHN, son of Abel Walter (qv) ; bapt.Godalming, Surrey 26 Oct 1733 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1742 (Levet) ; left 1749 ; of Farley Hill, Swallowfield, Berks. ; High Sheriff, Berkshire 1764 ; m. 17 Nov 1757 Newton, only child of Alexander Walker, Farley Hill, Berks., and Mount Wilton plantation, Barbados, West Indies ; d.1811.
WALTER, JOSEPH, of Staffordshire ; b.1566 ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1585, adm.scholar 1586, matr.Easter 1586 ; BA 1589/90 ; MA 1593 ; BD 1602 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1591 – c.1597 ; ordained deacon and priest 13 Dec 1593 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Woodwalton, Hunts., 1596 ; Rector of Alconbury and Weston, Hunts., Dec 1606-28 ; m. ; d.1652 [but this date is presumably that of the death of his son of the same name ; the OW probably died in 1628 when his son had a dispensation to succed him as Rector of Alconbury and Weston].
WALTER, NEVILL, son of Abel Walter (qv) ; b. 17 Apr 1737 ; adm. (aged 7) Jan 1744/5 ; in school list 1754 [sic, check] ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 May 1753 ; BCL 1784 ; ordained deacon 2 Mar 1760 (Peterborough), priest 1761 (Canterbury) ; Curate, Bisley, Surrey 1760 ; Rector of Llanvetherine, Monmouthshire 10 Jul 1761 – Jan 1765 ; Rector of Bergh Apton, Norfolk, from 22 Jan 1765 ; Rector of Otley, Suffolk, from 10 Jun 1769 ; Perpetual Curate of Chilcompton, Somerset, from 30 Mar 1780 ; Domestic Chaplain to Henry, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny 23 Nov 1785 ; m. 17 Aug 1766 Rachel, dau. of Hon.George Hamilton MP ; d. 24 Oct 1802.
WALTER, RICHARD, brother of Abel Walter (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Nov 1715 ; in under school list 1719 ; living 1734.
WALTER, ROBERT, second son of William Walter, Wimbledon, Surrey, and Katherine, dau. of Humphrey Lawston, Wimbledon, Surrey ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1565, Westminster Student 11 Jan 1565/6-71 ; BA 17 Feb 1568/9 ; MP Droitwich 1593 ; m. (by 1580) Elizabeth — ; d. c.1594 (will proved 1595).
WALTER, WILLIAM, brother of Abel Walter (qv) ; b. ; in under school lists 1716, 1717 ; of Wampee plantation, Ashley barony, South Carolina ; m. 2 Sep 1740 at Charleston, South Carolina, Mary, dau. of William Cattell, Millbrook plantation, Ashley barony, South Carolina ; d. 13 Aug 1766. [but said to have been baptised at Godalming, Surrey 24 Oct 1712, which makes it unlikely that he was the individual in school lists 1716, 1717]
WALTERS, — ; b. ; in school list Jan 1732/3 (second form).
WALTHAM, — ; b. ; in school list 1795.
WALTON, — (in school lists 1769, left 1773), see WILTON, JOHN.
WALTON, PHILIP, son of William Walton, London and Streatham, Surrey, merchant, and Philippa, fourth dau. of John Bourchier MD, Great Maplestead, Essex ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1725 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1729, adm.pens. 10 Jun 1729, scholar 17 Apr 1730, matr.1729 ; BA 1732/3 ; MA 1736 ; DD 1759 ; ordained deacon 26 Dec 1737 (Bristol), priest 18 Mar 1738/9 (London) ; Domestic Chaplain to Dowager Viscountess Primrose 28 Jan 1744/5 – May 1769 ; Rector of Mickleham, Surrey, from 6 Feb 1744/5 ; Vicar of Dorking, Surrey, 7 Mar 1744/5 – Feb 1767 ; Chancellor of Salisbury from 16 Jan 1756 ; Prebendary of Winchester from 3 Jul 1756 ; Vicar of Odiham, Hampshire, from 27 Apr 1766 ; Vicar of Alton, Hampshire, from 26 Nov 1766 ; m. 12 Aug 1755 Emma, dau. of Rev.John Gilbert, Vicar of St.Andrew’s, Plymouth, Devon, and Prebendary of Exeter, and sister of Most Rev.John Gilbert LLD, Archbishop of York ; d. Apr 1771.
WALTON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. 6 Feb 1769 ; in school lists1770-4 ; left Christmas 1774. [note Thomas Walton, son of John Walton, St.Clement Danes, Westminster, apothecary, adm. Inner Temple 13 May 1774, called to bar 18 Jun 1790, but he d. at Hursley, Hampshire 9 Feb 1825, apparently aged 74, which would make him too old to have been the pupil adm. in 1769]
WALWYN, see also WALLWYN and WALLYN.
WALWYN, JAMES HARFORD, son of Richard Henry Walwyn, Clifton, Somerset, and Laura Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Sanders, Exeter, Devon, banker ; b. 1 Feb 1838 ; adm. 7 Jun 1850 (R) ; Min.Can.1852 ; Ensign, Royal Welch Fusiliers 25 Jul 1855 ; Lieut., 30 Mar 1858 ; Capt., 6 Feb 1863 ; Maj., 21 Jun 1880 ; Lieut.-Col., 10 Apr 1885 ; retd., with hon.rank Col., 8 Sep 1886 ; Mayor Monmouth 1898 ; JP Monmouthshire ; m. 25 Apr 1872 Laura Frances, fourth dau. of Thomas Onesiphorus Tyndall, The Fort, Bristol ; d. 24 Oct 1921.
WALY, JOHN, son of Thomas Waly, Somerset ; b. ; at school (aged 14) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050). [surname read by Whitmore and Tanner as “Wate” : move]
WANLY, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
WANLY, — ; b. ; adm.1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters).
WARBURTON, WILLIAM PHILIP, son of Ven.Thomas Warburton, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and Rector of Redenhall, Norfolk, and Maria, dau. of Thomas Everard, Brightlingsea, Essex ; b. 27 Dec 1760 ; adm. 27 Apr 1772 ; Min.Can.1773 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 24 Sep 1777, matr.Easter 1778, scholar 1780 ; BA 1782 ; MA 1785 ; Fellow, Jesus Coll. 1785-94 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1783, priest 9 Jan 1785 (both Norwich) ; Curate, Harleston, Norfolk 1783 ; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev.John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1793 ; Rector of Ruckinge, Kent, Jun 1793 – Dec 1794 ; Rector of Biddenden, Kent 17 Jun 1794 – Jan 1798 ; Vicar of Lydd, Kent, from 26 Dec 1797 ; m. 1st, 20 Mar 1797 Mary Ann Fisher (IGI) ; m.2nd, Elizabeth —- ; d. 7 Jul 1821, aged 59.
WARCOPP, JOHN, son of Henry Warcopp, Charing Cross, London, linen draper, and Elizabeth Vickerey (IGI); bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 19 Jan 1708 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1719/20 ; in under school list 1723 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 15 Aug 1724, scholar 29 Apr 1726, matr. 1724, readm. as fellow commoner 30 May 1729 ; LLB 1730 ; d. 14 Dec 1733.
WARD, — ; b. ; at school 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).
WARD, CHARLES FIELDING, eldest son of John Ward, Bebside, Northumberland, and of Whitby, Yorks., Russia merchant, and Mary, dau. of Capt.Charles Fielding ; bapt. St.John, Newcastle upon Tyne 6 Oct 1768 ; adm. 10 Apr 1779 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 Apr 1785, aged 16 ; migr. to University Coll. ; BA 1789 ; MA 1791 ; BCL 1795 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 24 Apr 1784, called to bar 16 May 1794 ; d. 30 Apr 1799.
WARD, SIR EDWARD, BART., son of Sir Edward Ward, Bart., and Jane, dau. of William Rant MD, Thorpe Market, Norfolk ; bapt. Bixley, Norfolk 31 Aug 1668 ; adm. ; KS 1685 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1689, adm.pens. 12 Jun 1689, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1690, matr.1689 ; succ.brother as 4th baronet Jan 1691/2 ; adm.Middle Temple 22 May 1693 ; m. 25 Apr 1697 (IGI) Barbara, dau. of Leonard Gooch, Earsham, Norfolk ; buried Bixley, Norfolk 2 Aug 1719.
WARD, HENRY ; b. ; adm. 2 Apr 1777 ; left Aug 1785 ; evidently “Mr Warde” who acted in Town Boy play Tamerlane Nov 1782. [Presumably Major-General (Henry) Warde, who on 26 Feb 1810 was appointed one of the two Stewards for the next anniversary meeting of Old Westminsters at Madras ; and therefore WARDE, HENRY, fourth son of John Warde, Squerries, Westerham, Kent, and his second wife Kitty Anne, dau. of Charles Hoskins, Croydon, Surrey ; b. 7 Jan 1766 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 2 Apr 1783 (sic) ; Capt., 6 Jul 1790 ; Lieut.-Col., 15 Oct 1794 ; Col. and Brig., 1 Jan 1801 ; Major-Gen., 25 Apr 1808 ; Lieut.-Gen., 4 Jun 1813 ; served in Flanders (wounded at siege of Valenciennes), and in Helder expedition ; commanded brigade in attack on Copenhagen ; commanded Guards brigade at battle of Corunna ; sent to India Apr 1809 ; second in command of forces at capture of Mauritius 1810, acting Governor there Apr – Jul 1811 ; returned to England May 1812 ; Col., 68th Foot 1813, 31st Foot from 13 Apr 1831 ; Commander in Chief, West Indies ; General, 22 Jul 1830 ; Governor of Barbados 8 Feb 1821 – 21 Jun 1827 ; KCB Jan 1815 ; GCB 13 Sep 1831 ; of Dean House, Alresford, Hampshire ; m. 28 May 1808 Molina, dau. of John Thomas, Hereford ; d. 1 Oct 1834. ODNB.]
WARD, HENRY CONSTANTINE EVELYN, son of Sir Henry George Ward (qv) ; b. 16 Apr 1837 ; adm. 18 Jan 1849 ; left Whitsun 1849 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1855 ; Ensign, 20 Apr 1855 ; 5th Native Infantry 6 Aug 1855 ; Lieut., 23 Nov 1856 ; Bengal Staff Corps 18 Feb 1861 ; Capt., 20 Apr 1867 ; Maj., 20 Apr 1875 ; Lieut.-Col., 20 Apr 1881 ; Col., 20 Apr 1885 ; ret. 16 Apr 1894 ; served in Indian Mutiny, in Yusufzai expedition 1858 and in expedition against Waziris 1859 ; Superintendent, Dhar State 1861-3 ; with Central Provinces Commission 1864-85 ; Minister, Bhopal State 1885-8 ; Commissioner, Nerbudda Division, Central Provinces 1889-92 ; CIE 2 Jan 1888 ; JP Berkshire 1900 ; m. 14 Nov 1868 Mary Kate Worsley, fourth dau. of Rev.John Fisher Turner, Rector of St.Mary Major, Exeter ; d. 22 Dec 1907.
WARD, SIR HENRY GEORGE, only son of Robert Ward (afterwards Plumer-Ward) MP, Clerk of the Ordnance, Gilston Park, Herts., barrister, politician and novelist, and his first wife Catherine Julia, dau. of Christopher Thompson Maling, West Herrington, co.Durham ; b. 27 Feb 1797 ; adm. 14 Jun 1808 ; KS (aged 13) 1810 ; left 1810 ; went to Harrow Sch. ; attaché, British Legation, Stockholm 1816, The Hague 1818, Madrid 1819 ; Minister Plenipotentiary, Mexico Oct 1823-7 ; MP (Whig) St.Albans 1832-7, Sheffield 1837- May 1849 ; Secretary to the Admiralty 1846 – May 1849 ; High Commissioner, Ionian Islands May 1849 – Apr 1855 ; Governor of Ceylon May 1855 – Jun 1860 ; Governor of Madras from Jun 1860 ; GCMG 1849 ; author, Mexico in 1825-7 ; m. 8 Apr 1824 Emily Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Edward Swinburne, Bart. FRS FSA MP, Capheaton, Northumberland ; d. from cholera at Madras, India 2 Aug 1860. ODNB.
WARD, HERBERT GEORGE, second son of David Ward, Terrington St.Clement, Norfolk, and King’s Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor, and Sarah Winifred, second dau. of Robert Wiles, Manor House, Terrington St Clement, Norfolk ; b. 10 Sep 1865 ; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (G) ; left Aug 1883 ; adm.Inner Temple 6 Nov 1884, called to bar 22 Jun 1887 ; South-Eastern Circuit ; Secretary, Hunstanton Golf Club ; d. from the result of an accident at Hunstanton, Norfolk 15 Feb 1910.
WARD, ISAAC, of Kent ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1567, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1572 ; BA sup. 15 Jan 1570/1.
WARD, JEREMY, brother of Thomas Watson Ward (qv) ; bapt. Great Wilbraham, Cambs. 20 Jun 1763 ; adm. 17 Jan 1774 ; KS (aged 14) 1778 ; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1779 ; Lieut., 3rd Native Infantry 6 Aug 1781 ; Capt., 4th Native Infantry 8 Jan 1796 ; Maj., 7th Native Infantry 3 Jul 1802 ; Lieut.-Col., Bombay European Regt., 1 Mar 1806 ; Commandant, Provincial Corps of Tiers ; d. 10 Feb 1818.
WARD, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576.
WARD, JOHN, son of John Ward QC MP, Capesthorne, Cheshire, barrister, and Thomazia, dau. of Thomas Terrick, York ; b. ; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1717/8 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Apr 1719 ; buried Capesthorne, Cheshire 21 Oct 1726.
WARD, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 1 Jul 1772.
WARD, MICHAEL, only son of Michael Ward, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffs., and Hannah, dau. of Rev.George Roades, Vicar of Leek, Staffs. ; b. 7 Dec 1681 ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1699 ; left 1701 ; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm.sizar 11 Jul 1698, but did not reside until 1701, matr.1701 ; LLB 1704 (incorp.Oxford 1705) ; ordained deacon 24 Sep 1704 (Coventry & Lichfield) ; Curate, Blithfield, Staffs., 1704 ; Rector of Blithfield, Staffs., 1 Sep 1713 – Nov 1723 ; Rector of Leigh, Staffs., from 14 Oct 1723 ; m.1st, 31 Jan 1707/8 Elizabeth Green ; m.2nd, 10 Jan 1714 Sarah, dau. of Rev.John Spateman, Rector of Yoxhall, Staffs. ; d. 11 Sep 1744.
WARD, ROBERT, of Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1620, matr. 12 Oct 1621, aged 19, Westminster Student to death ; BA 1624 ; MA 1627 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1629 (Oxford) ; d. 1631 (will proved Chancellor’s Court, Oxford, 7 Jul 1631).
WARD, ROBERT FAWSSETT, see FAWSSETT, ROBERT FAWSSETT.
WARD, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1670 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1673, adm.pens. 31 May 1673, scholar 1674, matr.1673 ; BA 1676/7 ; MA 1680 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1679 (London), priest 24 Dec 1682 (Lincoln) ; Vicar of Willian, Herts., from 11 Jun 1683 ; m. Catherine — ; d. 8 Jun 1725, aged 68.
WARD, THOMAS, son of Ven.Thomas Ward LLD, Curate of St.Thomas’s, Salisbury, Wiltshire, and Archdeacon of Wiltshire, [and Dorothea ?] ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1698 ; KS 1700 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1705, matr. 21 Jun 1705, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1705 – void 1713, Tutor 1712 ; BA 1709 ; MA 1 Feb 1711/2 ; ordained deacon 29 Dec 1712 (Oxford), priest 12 Jul 1713 (Winchester). [further preferments ?]
WARD, THOMAS WATSON, eldest son of Thomas Watson Ward, Great Wilbraham, Cambs., Lieut.-Col.Cambridgeshire Militia, and Anne, dau. of Rev.Jeremiah Pemberton, Rector of Girton, Cambs. ; b. 6 Apr 1762 (IGI) ; adm. 15 Jan 1774 ; KS (aged 14) 1777 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1781, adm.pens. 14 Jun 1781, scholar 19 Apr 1782, matr. Mich.1781 ; BA 1785 ; MA 1788 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1787, Major Fellow 2 Jul 1788 ; an Usher at the School 1784 – c.1798 (?) ; ordained deacon 13 May 1788, priest 25 Apr 1789 (both Rochester) ; Vicar of Felmersham cum Pavenham, Beds., from 15 Nov 1792 ; Vicar of Sharnbrook, Beds., from 9 May 1801 ; m.1st, 20 Dec 1792 Ann, eldest dau. of Charles Tufnell (qv) ; m.2nd, 21 Aug 1798 Mary, dau. of Richard Grant (adm.1751, qv) ; d. 30 May 1825.
WARD, THOMAS WATSON, son of Thomas Watson Ward (adm.1774, qv), and his first wife ; b. 19 Jan 1795 ; in school lists May and Oct 1803 ; d. 17 May 1808. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
WARD, WALTER, son of John Ward, London ; b. ; adm. ; in under school list 1715 ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1717. [Presumably, despite discrepancy in age, Walter Walker Ward, son of John Ward, St.Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Lucy Walker (IGI), bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 19 Feb 1700 [or 1700/1 ?] (IGI) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Nov 1719, aged 18, Canoneer Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 15 Jun 1741 (expiry year of grace as R.Biddenden from 5 Jul 1740), Tutor 1725-39, Junior Censor 1736, Catechist 1739, BA 1723, MA 1726, BD 1734, DD 19 Mar 1740/1 ; ordained ; Rector of Biddenden, Kent Jun 1740 – 1746/7, Vicar of Marden, Kent 30 Jan 1741/2- 1742 ; Rector of Orpington, Kent, from 23 Sep 1742 ; Rector of Great Chart, Kent 1 Nov 1742 – 1746/7 ; Rector of Chiddingstone, Kent, from 7 Feb 1746/7 ; Rector of Hayes, Kent, from 9 Feb 1746/7 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 29 Dec 1747 ; d. 20 Mar 1755. The identification is made the more likely by the fact that his parents had been married in Westminster Abbey]. [subscriber to T.Francklin, ed., The Epistles of Phalaris, 1749]
WARD, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1721/2.
WARDE, see WARD.
WARDE, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1553.
WARDE, G. ; b. ; adm. ; left 1809.
WARDE, GEORGE, eldest son of Gen.George Warde, Woodlands Castle, Glamorgan, and Charlotte, dau. of Spencer Madan (adm.1738, qv) ; b. 25 Jul 1785 ; at Harrow School 1800 ; in school list 1803 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1804 ; arrived in India 29 Jul 1805 ; acting Assistant to Magistrate, Jessore 2 Apr 1807 ; Assistant to Secretary, Board of Revenue 19 Jun 1809 ; Collector, Cuttack 5 Jan 1811 ; Secretary, Board of Revenue 24 Nov 1815 ; Collector, Allahabad 15 Dec 1820 ; officiating member, Board of Revenue, Central Provinces 1 Dec 1825 ; ret. 1 May 1830 ; m. 23 Apr 1811 Anna Amelia, widow of Charles Murray, EICS Bengal, and sister of Thomas John Dashwood (qv) ; d. 6 Jul 1855.
WARDE (or WORDE), RICHARD, of Kent ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1563, aged 15, Westminster Student 7 Jan 1563/4 – 1571 ; BA 16 Jan 1567/8 ; MA 1570 ; ordained ; Rector of Beddington, Surrey (portion), from 5 Dec 1578 (as Worde, referred to in 1620 as Woord) ; m. (by 1583) Johanna — ; buried Beddington, Surrey 19 Jan 1623/4. [surname of Rector of Beddington was certainly Worde, not Warde]
WARDE, WILLIAM, brother of George Warde (qv) ; b. 9 Feb 1788 ; adm. 1 Feb 1804 ; left Christmas 1805 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1805 ; Cornet, 5th Bengal Light Cavalry 2 Jan 1807 ; Lieut., 27 Feb 1812 ; Brevet Capt., 24 May 1821 ; Capt., 13 May 1825 ; Maj., 14 Dec 1835 ; ret. 1 Mar 1836 ; m.1st, at Dinapur, India, 18 Jun 1815 Isabella, dau. of Maj.Innis Delamain, EICS Bengal ; m.2nd, 5 Jul 1838 Catherine, dau. of Edward Hawkins, Court Herbert, Glamorgan ; d. 23 Jan 1858.
WARDMAN, NICHOLSON, son of John Wardman, Fetter Lane, London, and Elizabeth Nicholson, Petworth, Sussex ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 16 Dec 1718 ; adm. (aged 14) Jul 1733. [father probably brewer, St.James, Westminster, will PCC 16 Feb 1753]
WARDROP, (JAMES) MAITLAND, second son of James Wardrop MD FRCS, Charles Street, St.James’s, London, ophthalmic surgeon, Surgeon in Ordinary to George IV, and Margaret Willett, widow of Cdr.John Burn, Royal Navy, and dau. of Col.George Dalrymple, [42nd Foot ?], North Berwick, Haddingtonshire ; b. 16 Mar 1824 ; adm. 24 Apr 1835 ; articled pupil of Thomas Brown, architect, Edinburgh ; in partnership with Thomas Brown 1849-73 and subsequently with Charles Reid in firm Wardrop & Reid, architects, Edinburgh ; an able architect in the Scottish Baronial style ; m. 28 Sep 1853 Anna Maria, youngest dau. of James Dundas of Dundas, Linlithgowshire ; d. 27 Jun 1882.
WARHAM, — ; b. ; in school list Oct 1774.
WARING, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 12 May 1778 ; in school lists 1781. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, Samuel Waring, adm.same day]
WARING, ROBERT, son of Edmund Waring, The Lea, Staffs., and Mary, dau. of Richard Broughton, Owlbury, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1630, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 6 Apr 1648) ; BA 1634 ; MA 1637 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1639 (Oxford) ; bore arms for Royalist side during siege of Oxford ; Proctor 1647 ; Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford Univ., 2 Aug 1647 ; took an active part in resisting Parliamentary Visitors and ordered into custody, but escaped by flight ; “adjudged guilty of high contempt, and denyall of authority of Parliament”, and ordered to be removed as Proctor and Camden Professor 14 Sep 1648 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 185-6) ; it may be presumed that he was also expelled from his Studentship at Christ Church ; retired to Apley, Shropshire ; travelled with Sir William Whitmore in France ; a Latin and English poet ; author, Amoris Effigies, 1648, and other works ; d.unm. 10 May 1658. ODNB.
WARING, SAMUEL ; b. ; adm. 12 May 1778 ; in school lists 1781.
WARMESTRY, GERVASE, second son of William Warmestry, Principal Registrar, Diocese of Worcester, and Cicely, dau. of Thomas Smith, Cuerdley, Lancs. ; b. 1604 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1621, matr. 24 Jul 1624, Westminster Student to 1636/40 ; BA 1625 ; MA 1628 ; adm.Middle Temple 18 Nov 1628 ; Principal Registrar, Diocese of Worcester from 1640 (in succession to father) ; a Latin poet ; author Virescit Vulnere Virtus, England’s Wound and Cure, 1628 ; also contributed a Latin poem to Camdeni Insignia, 1624 ; m. Isabella, eldest dau. of Sir William Leigh, Kt, Longborough, Gloucs. ; d. 28 Apr 1641. ODNB.
WARNER, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
WARNER, — ; b. ; in school list Lady Day quarter 1656.
WARNER, — ; b. ; at school 1657-8 (Busby’s Account Book).
WARNER, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715-7.
WARNER, — ; b. ; in school lists 1741, 1742.
WARNER, — ; b. ; in school list 1743.
WARNER, HARRY ERNEST, eldest son of Powell Warner, Albion Road, Hampstead, Middlesex, solicitor, and Ann Frances, dau. of John Girvan ; b. 10 May 1866 ; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (H) ; left Aug 1883 ; adm.solicitor May 1892 ; practised in London ; m. Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Beverley Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and Hove, Sussex (marriage registered Wandsworth third quarter 1893) ; d. 25 Feb 1928.
WARNER, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1734/5 ; left 1736.
WARNER, JOSEPH, brother of Thomas Warner (qv) ; b. 16 Dec 1717 ; adm. Jun 1729 ; in school list 1731 ; apprenticed to Samuel Sharpe, Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, 3 Dec 1734 ; qualified as surgeon 1 Dec 1741 ; volunteered as army surgeon during rebellion of 1745 ; Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital 22 Feb 1746 – 30 Jun 1790 ; FRS 6 Dec 1750 ; Master, Corporation of Surgeons 1780, 1784 ; FRCS 1800 (first Fellow on foundation) ; practised in London ; the first surgeon to tie the common carotid artery ; author, surgical treatises ; m. 1735 [sic Whitmore : check] Elizabeth Saunders ; d. 24 Jul 1801. ODNB.
WARNER, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1721/2 ; in school list 1729. [maybe Richard Warner, son of John Warner, St.Clement’s Danes, London, Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 Jul 1730, aged 17, BA 1734] [If so, third son of John Warner, Strand, London, goldsmith and banker ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 6 Jun 1730 ; director, East India Company 1760-3 ; resident at Harts, Woodford Green, Essex, where he cultivated exotic plants ; prepared a glossary to Shakespeare’s plays, for which his manuscripts are preserved in the British Library ; completed the English translation of the Comedies of Plautus begun by Bonnell Thornton (qv), published in 5 vols 1767-74 ; author of Plantae Woodfordienses, 1771 ; bequeathed his books and drawings relating to botanical history to Wadham College, Oxford ; d. unm. 11 Apr 1775. ODNB].
WARNER, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Sep 1725 ; left 1733.
WARNER, SAMUEL HENRY, brother of Thomas Warner (qv) ; b. 11 Dec 1733 ; adm. (aged 9) Sep 1743 ; left 1750 ; Deputy Provost Marshal, Antigua, West Indies (by 1764) ; [Supplement records m. 1st, 2 Feb 1748 Margaret Marchant, and m.2nd, 20 Dec 1755 Ann Ash, but first date or date of 2 Feb 1748/9 would in either case be too early for this individual ; son by first wife said to have been baptized 21 Feb 1750, but this might be 21 Feb 1750/1] ; d. at St.John’s, Antigua 13 Feb 1779.
WARNER, THOMAS, eldest son of Ashton Warner, Antigua, West Indies, Speaker and Attorney-Gen., Leeward Islands, and Elizabeth Ann, widow of Maj.Samuel Byam, and dau. of George Clarke, Clarke’s Hill, Antigua ; half-brother of Samuel Byam (qv) ; b. Oct 1716 ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1728 ; left 1733 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 17 Apr 1735 ; Attorney-Gen., Leeward Islands from 1758, Speaker 1769-77 ; m. 18 Feb 1741/2 Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Kerby, Billiter Square, London ; d. 2 Jun 1779.
WARNER, WILLIAM, brother of Thomas Warner (qv) ; b. 8 Nov 1728 ; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1743 ; left 1745 ; member, Legislative Council, Antigua, and Treasurer ; m. at St.George’s, Antigua 14 Feb 1754 (IGI) Elizabeth, dau. of Stephen Blizard (qv) ; d. 11 Oct 1771.
WARREN, — ; b. ; in school list 1754.
WARREN, BROWNLOW CHARLES, third son of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 8 Nov 1815 ; adm. 14 Sep 1829 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1836 ; BA 1840 ; m. 1 Nov 1841 Maria, eldest dau. of Sir Samuel Brudenell Fludyer, Bart. (qv) ; d. 17 Jan 1874.
WARREN, CHARLES, brother of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 19 Mar 1764 ; adm. 12 Sep 1774 ; left Midsummer 1781 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 5 Jul 1780 ; 9th Wrangler 1785 ; BA 1785 ; MA 1788 ; Fellow, Jesus Coll. 1786-1813 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 30 Jan 1781, called to bar 3 Feb 1790, Bencher 16 May 1816, Treasurer 1821 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1791-1817) ; KC Easter 1816 ; Attorney-Gen. to Prince of Wales 25 May 1819 – Jan 1820 ; MP Dorchester 18 Jun 1819-26 ; Chief Justice of Chester from 1819 ; Chancellor, Diocese of Bangor, 1797 – Oct 1823 ; m. 9 Jul 1813 Amelia, dau. of William Charles Sloper MP, Sundridge, Kent ; d. 12 Aug 1829.
WARREN, EDWARD, brother of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 5 Mar 1777 ; adm. 17 Jan 1787 ; “engaged in a mercantile business” (Alumn. Westmon., 1852, 414) ; resident in Burton Street, London ; m. 4 Feb 1802 Louisa, dau. of Robert Smith FRS FSA, Basinghall Street, London, Solicitor, Board of Ordnance ; d. 14 Jan 1856.
WARREN, ERASMUS, son of John Warren, Jermyn Street, Westminster, citizen and apothecary ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1722/3 ; in under school list 1725 ; apprenticed to father 6 Sep 1726 ; apothecary, Jermyn Street, Westminster ; will proved PCC 5 Apr 1749. [presumably m. at St.Marylebone Parish Church 1 Aug 1747 Mary Taylor, both of St.James’s, Westminster].
WARREN, ERASMUS, only son of Rev.Robert Langhorne Warren, Vicar of Dedham, Essex, and Perpetual Curate of St.Mary’s, Hampstead, Middlesex, and Kitty, dau. of Henry Vere Graham, Holbrook Hall, Suffolk ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1751 ; KS 1755 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1759, adm.pens. 14 Jun 1759, scholar 2 May 1760, matr.1760 ; BA 1763 ; MA 1766 ; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1762 (London), priest 18 Mar 1764 (Exeter, lit.dim. from London) ; Perpetual Curate of St.Mary’s, Hampstead, Middlesex, from Sep 1762 ; Rector of Bromley Magna, Essex 17 Feb 1767 – Apr 1801 ; m. 14 Feb 1764 Ann, dau. of William Carbonnel, Crutched Friars, London ; d. 30 Nov 1806.
WARREN, FREDERICK, brother of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 23 Mar 1775 ; adm. 15 Jan 1783 ; entered Royal Navy Mar 1789 ; Lieut., 24 Oct 1794 ; Cdr., 10 Aug 1797 ; Post Capt., 12 May 1801 ; Rear-Adm., 22 Jul 1830 ; Vice-Adm., 23 Nov 1841 ; served in Baltic, and while in command HMS Melpomene fought a severe action with twenty Danish gunboats May 1809 ; Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope 1831-4 ; Admiral Superintendent, Plymouth 1837-41 ; m. 1803 Mary, only dau. of Rear-Adm. David Laird, Royal Navy, Strathmartin House, Dundee ; d. 22 Mar 1848. ODNB.
WARREN, FREDERICK, son of Henry Warren (adm.1780, qv) ; b. 10 Jul 1809 ; adm. 6 Jun 1822 ; living unm. with brother Henry (adm.1820, qv) at Storrington, Sussex, in 1851 (1851 Census), and at Felpham, Sussex, in 1861 (1861 Census) ; reported as visiting his brother Percy Sloper Warren (qv) in Canada in 1856-7.
WARREN, HENRY, brother of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 4 Sep 1772 ; adm. 4 Dec 1780 ; KS 1787 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1790, adm.pens. 8 Jun 1790, scholar 6 May 1791 ; BA 1794 ; MA 1797 ; ordained deacon 21 Feb 1796, priest 21 Jan 1797 (both Bangor) ; Prebendary of Bangor from 11 Sep 1797 ; Vicar of Farnham, Surrey, from 16 Aug 1799 ; Rector of Ashington, Sussex, from 26 Jan 1797 ; m. 24 Jun 1799 Eliza, youngest dau. of John Mason, Camberwell, Surrey ; d. 21 Jun 1845.
WARREN, HENRY, eldest son of Henry Warren (adm.1780, qv) ; b. 19 Jun 1807 ; adm. 9 Jun 1820 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Jan 1825, matr.Mich.1825 ; BA 1829 ; MA 1832 ; ordained deacon 24 Jul 1831, priest 5 Jul 1835 (both Chichester) ; Curate, Ashington, Sussex 1831, later Storrington, Sussex ; Rector of Sullington, Sussex 11 Mar 1859, but resigned same year ; Vicar of Flixton, Suffolk, from 1860 ; d. unm. 25 Mar 1872.
WARREN, HUMPHREY, son of Rev.Henry Warren, Rector of Stockport, Cheshire, and Catherine, dau. of Rev.Leonard Clayton, Rector of Stockport, Cheshire ; bapt. 17 Jan 1671/2 ; at school under Busby (J.E.B.Mayor & R.F.Scott, Admissions to St.John’sColl.Camb., ii, 124) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Aug 1691, aged 16, matr.1692 ; BA 1695/6 ; accidentally blinded by a shot from a gun 2 Dec 1700 ; subsequently amused himself by working a silk loom of his own contrivance ; m. 9 Feb 1702 (IGI) Susanna, dau. of William Davenport, Bramhall, Cheshire ; d. 23 Aug 1744.
WARREN, JAMES, son of Rev.John Warren, Rector of Boxford, Suffolk, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Gipps, Whelnetham. Suffolk ; b. ; adm. (aged 17) Jan 1717/8 [sic : check] ; St.Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, matr. Easter 1717 (Venn, sic) ; kept six terms there ; migr. to Trinity Coll., adm.pens. 5 Nov 1719, scholar 29 Apr 1720 ; LLB 1724 ; ordained ; Rector of Kirby Underdale, Yorks., 4 Nov 1723 – 1 Feb 1730/1, deprived. [note James Warren, son of John Warren and Elizabeth —, bapt.Boxford, Suffolk 5 Aug 1697 (sic) (IGI)] [perhaps priest 23 Dec 1722 (Chichester)]
WARREN, JOHN, son of John Warren, Boxford, Suffolk, attorney, and Ann, sister of James Johnson (adm.1717/8, qv) ; nephew of James Warren (qv) ; bapt.Boxford, Suffolk 31 Oct 1731 (IGI) ; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1744 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1748, matr. 14 Jun 1748, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1748 – void 3 Apr 1758 (expiry year of grace as V.Kempsford, Gloucs., from 6 Apr 1757), Tutor 1757 ; BA 1752 ; MA 1755 ; DCL 1762 ; ordained deacon 3 Feb 1754, priest 21 Dec 1755 (both Gloucester) ; Vicar of Kempsford, Gloucs., 31 Mar 1757 – May 1761 ; Prebendary of Gloucester from 26 May 1761 ; Vicar of St.Mary de Lode, Gloucester 9 Sep 1762 – Nov 1763 ; Rector of Kinwarton, Warwicks., from 25 Jun 1763 ; Rector of Naunton, Gloucs., 7 May 1763 – Jun 1764 ; Rector of Ripple, Worcs., from 4 May 1764 ; Archdeacon of Worcester from 22 Apr 1775 ; JP Gloucestershire, Worcestershire ; m.1st, (by 1761) Mary Noyes ; m.2nd 3 Jul 1778 Mary, eldest dau. of — Perry, Bradford upon Avon, Wilts., clothier ; d. 8 Mar 1787. [perhaps m. 1st, at Tonbridge, Kent, 16 Jan 1758 Mary Noye (sic) (IGI)]
WARREN, JOHN, eldest son of Very Rev.John Warren, Dean of Bangor, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Crooke MD, Preston, Lancs. ; b. 4 Oct 1796 ; adm. Christmas 1811 ; left 1814 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. Feb 1814, matr. Mich 1814 ; 5th Wrangler 1818 ; BA 1818 ; MA 1821 ; Fellow of Jesus Coll. 1818-29, Tutor ; Moderator 1825 ; Examiner 1826 ; ordained deacon 9 Oct 1819, priest 8 Oct 1820 (both Bangor) ; Rector of Caldecot, Hunts., from 7 Feb 1822 ; Chancellor, Diocese of Bangor, from 24 Oct 1823 ; Rector of Graveley, Cambs., from 6 Mar 1828 ; FRS 9 Dec 1830 ; author of two geometrical treatises read to the Royal Society in 1829 ; FSA (by 1831) ; m. 1835 his cousin Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; d. 16 Aug 1852. ODNB.
WARREN, PELHAM, brother of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 7 Oct 1778 ; in school list 1795 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 25 May 1795, matr. Lent 1796 ; Browne Medal for Latin Ode 1798 ; MB 1800 : MD 1805 ; Physician to St.George’s Hospital 1803-16 ; had one of the largest medical practices in London ; FRCP 30 Sep 1806, Censor 1810, Harveian Orator 1826, Elect 11 Aug 1829 ; gazetted Physician Extraordinary to William IV 24 Jul 1830, but declined the position ; FRS 8 Apr 1813 ; m. 3 May 1814 Penelope, eldest dau. of William Davies Shipley (qv) ; d. 2 Dec 1835. ODNB.
WARREN, PERCY SLOPER, youngest son of Henry Warren (adm.1780, qv) ; b. 6 Apr 1815 ; adm. 16 Jan 1830 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 18 Apr 1833, matr. Mich.1833 ; BA 1837 ; ordained deacon 18 May 1839, priest 14 Jun 1840 (both Chichester) ; Curate, Ashington, Sussex 1839-45, Wiggonholt and Greatham, Sussex 1846-7, Staunton-upon-Wye, Herefs., 1847-9, Worplesdon, Surrey 1854-9, Lakefield, Canada West 1854-63, Flixton, Suffolk 1864-73, Worting, Hampshire 1873-9 ; Vicar of Wanborough, Wilts., 1879-90 ; m. 14 Dec 1853 Margaret Charlotte, eldest dau. of Rev.William Barlee, Rector of West Chiltington, Sussex ; d. 14 Jun 1894.
WARREN, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1622, adm.scholar 1623, matr.Mich.1622 ; BA 1626/7. [perhaps Richardus Warren, BA, ordained deacon 23 Sep 1632 (Bath & Wells)]
WARREN, RICHARD, second son of Richard Warren MD FRS FSA, Physician in Ordinary to George III, and Elizabeth, only dau. of Peter Shaw MD, Physician in Ordinary to George I and II ; b. 1 Jan 1763 ; adm. 17 Sep 1773 ; KS 1777 ; had a narrow escape from drowning in the Thames 5 May 1778 (his companions Phoenix Felton (qv) and Robert Whitworth (qv) were drowned) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Oct 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 – void 13 May 1785 ; adm. Middle Temple 10 Aug 1782 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 10 Mar 1783 ; Lieut. and Capt., 16 Sep 1791 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 19 Dec 1795 ; ret. 24 May 1800 ; Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Prince of Wales 27 Aug 1790 ; m. 25 Mar 1800 Jane, dau. of Thomas Maitland, Shrubs Hill, Lyndhurst, Hampshire ; d. 11 Mar 1820.
WARREN, RICHARD PELHAM, son of Pelham Warren (qv) ; b. 21 Dec 1815 ; adm. 4 Feb 1829 ; left Aug 1833 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Dec 1833, matr.1834 ; BA 1839 ; MA 1842 ; of Hope Owen, Flintshire ; JP Flintshire 1853, High Sheriff 1868 ; JP Hampshire 1872 ; [unm. in 1881] ; d. 7 May 1897.
WARREN, ROBERT, brother of Richard Warren (adm.1773, qv) ; b.1779 ; in school list 1795 ; Cornet, 4th Dragoon Guards 26 Feb 1807 ; Lieut., 16 Feb 1809 ; Capt., 28 Nov 1811 ; 22nd Light Dragoons 30 Jul 1812 ; ret. 15 Oct 1812 ; m. May 1810 Mary, eldest dau. of Rev.Thomas Donnithorne, Rector of Holme Pierrepont, Notts. ; d. 31 Dec 1869.
WARREN, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1703-11 (Chapter Muniments 33736-43).
WARREN, THOMAS, son of John Warren (KS 1744, qv) ; b. 29 Sep 1769 ; at Rugby Sch., adm.1781 ; adm. 13 Mar 1783 ; KS 1783 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – void 8 Oct 1806 (expiry year of grace as V.Tolpuddle from 15 Oct 1805) ; BA 1791 ; MA 1794 ; ordained ; Vicar of Great Torrington, Devon 1 Oct 1798-1805 ; Vicar of Tolpuddle, Dorset, from 30 Sep 1805 ; m. Jane, dau. of John Powell, Boston, Massachusetts, North America, merchant, American loyalist ; d. 11 Nov 1851.
WARREN, VINCENT, second son of Rev.Richard Warren DCL, Marden, near Tewin, Herts., Rector of South Warnborough, Hampshire, and Catherine, only dau. of Sir Anthony Vincent, Bart., Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1708 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1712, matr. 4 Jul 1712, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1712 – void 1725 ; BA 1716 ; MA 12 Mar 1718/9 ; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1719 (Bristol), priest 9 Oct 1720 (London) ; Perpetual Curate of Ashendon and Dorton, Bucks., 1722-6 [check] ; Vicar of Marcham, Berks., from 8 Sep 1724 ; m. (by 1727) Mary — (IGI) ; buried Marcham, Berks. 25 Oct 1739.
WARREN, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1721 ; left 1721.
WARREN, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jul 1721.
WARREN, WILLIAM, brother of John Warren (adm.1811, qv) ; b. 1 Aug 1803 ; adm. 22 Jan 1818 ; left Bartholomewtide 1818 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 18 Jan 1822, matr. Mich.1822 ; BA 1826 ; MA 1829 ; ordained deacon 13 Oct 1827, priest 17 Feb 1828 (both Bangor) ; Perpetual Curate of Llanfihangel and Llanfinan, Anglesey 18 Feb 1828-32 ; Rector of Wroot, Lincs., 13 Oct 1832-76 ; m. 11 Apr 1844 Ann Sarah, eldest dau. of Rev.George Bethell, Rector of Worplesdon, Surrey ; d. 29 Dec 1877.
WARREN, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Robert Warren, Barbados, attorney, and Mary Doldane ; bapt.St.Michael, Barbados 2 Oct 1712 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 13) Aug 1724 (as William Warren) ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (as William Henry Warren) ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1729, aged 18 ; adm.Middle Temple 23 Jul 1728, called to bar 23 Nov 1739 ; m. at St.Michael, Barbados 28 Oct 1745 Mrs Elizabeth Harper. [Note William Henry Warren, Rickmansworth, Herts., will proved PCC 26 Mar 1760 ; “William Henry Warren, Esq.”, was buried Bath Abbey 26 Feb 1760]
WARREN, WILLIAM LEWIS, elder son of Maj.William Andros Warren, Royal Artillery, and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Lewis, Hobart, Tasmania ; b. Bengal 29 Nov 1864 ; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (D), exhibitioner ; QS 1879 ; left May 1880 ; RMA Woolwich ; Gentleman Cadet, Royal Artillery 2 Sep 1882 ; Lieut., 5 Jul 1884 ; Capt., 19 Aug 1893 ; Maj., 7 Sep 1903 ; Lieut.-Col., 22 Nov 1912 ; half-pay 18 Oct 1918 ; ret. 5 Feb 1919 ; served in First World War ; despatches LG 31 Oct 1917 ; d. 24 Aug 1927.
WARREN, WILLIAM SHIPLEY, son of Pelham Warren (qv) ; b. 21 Dec 1815 ; adm. 4 Feb 1829 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Dec 1833, matr.1834 ; 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade 6 May 1836 ; Lieut., 10 Jul 1840 ; Capt., 25 Apr 1845 ; ret. 30 Apr 1852 ; d. 30 Nov 1862.
WARREN-BULKELEY, THOMAS JAMES, 7TH VISCOUNT BULKELEY (I), posthumous son of James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley (I) (qv) ; b. 12 Dec 1752, succeeding father as 7th Viscount Bulkeley (I) at birth ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767 and 1769 ; said to have boarded with — Price ; left Easter 1769 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 12 Jul 1769 ; MA 1773 ; DCL 3 Jul 1810 ; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1773-4, again in Italy 1785-6 ; MP Anglesey 1774-84 ; Lord Lieut., Caernarvonshire, from 27 Dec 1781 ; created Baron Bulkeley (GB) 14 May 1784 ; assumed additional surname of Warren before that of Bulkeley 20 Sep 1802 ; Busby Trustee 16 May 1818 ; m. 26 Apr 1777 Elizabeth Harriet, only dau. of Sir George Warren KB MP ; d. 3 Jun 1822.
WARTER, — ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Mar 1722/3.
WARTER, OFFLEY, son of Rev.Meverel Warter, Fordham, Cambs., afterwards Vicar of Wooburn, Bucks., and Ursula — (IGI) ; bapt. Presbyterian Chapel, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk 28 Nov 1706 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1718 ; Min.Can.1721 ; KS 1722 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1726, matr. 13 Jun 1726, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1726 ; BA 1730 ; d. 8 Apr 1732 (Hearne, Remarks and Collections, xi, 46). Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
WARTON, see also WHARTON.
WARTON, JAMES, elder son of Sir Warton Pennyman Warton, Bart. (qv) ; bapt. 24 Jan 1725/6 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1735/6 ; left 1740 ; Cornet, King’s Horse 21 Dec 1738 ; Lieut., 14 Jul 1743 ; Capt., 9 Sep 1746 ; Maj., Queen’s Dragoons 5 Jan 1754 (as Wharton) [check] ; d.unm. 8 Apr 1755 [check].
WARTON, NATHANIEL ; b. ; in school list Dec 1736 [but Christian name cannot be relied on].
WARTON, SIR WARTON PENNYMAN, BART., fourth son of Sir James Pennyman, Bart., and Mary, dau. of Michael Warton MP, Beverley, Yorks. ; bapt. 1 Jul 1700 ; adm. (aged 14) May 1715 (as Warton Warton) ; assumed additional surname of Warton ; succ. brother as 4th baronet 17 Apr 1768 ; m. 31 Mar 1725 Charlotte, dau. of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart., MP ; d. 14 Jan 1770.
WARWICK, — ; b. ; adm. ; a boarder ; left 1656 (Busby’s Account Book).
WARWICK AND HOLLAND, EDWARD HENRY, 7th EARL OF, see RICH, EDWARD HENRY, 7TH EARL OF WARWICK AND HOLLAND.
WASEY, WILLIAM JOHN SPEARMAN, son of William Wasey MD, Gerrard Street, Soho, Westminster, Physician to St.George’s Hospital, London, and Margaret, sister of Charles Spearman (qv) ; bapt.St.Anne, Soho 14 Jan 1734 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1742/3 ; Min.Can.1747 ; left 1750 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 9 Jan 1750/1, matr. 1750/1 ; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 7 Oct 1756 ; Sub-Brig. and Cornet, Horse Guards 15 Jul 1757 ; Brig. and Lieut., 27 Aug 1760 ; Exempt and Capt., 8 Feb 1765 ; Guidon and Maj., 14 Nov 1771 ; Cornet and Maj., 28 Jul 1773 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 29 Aug 1777 ; 2ndLieut. and Lieut.-Col., 9 Jan 1779 ; ret. 29 Jul 1779 ; m. 14 Aug 1758 (IGI) his cousin Elizabeth Honoria, dau. of George Spearman, Bishop Middleham, co.Durham ; d. 12 Mar 1817.
WASHBOURNE, CHARLES, son of Rev.Thomas Washbourne DD, Rector of Dumbleton, Gloucs., and Prebendary of Gloucester, and Dorothy, dau. of Samuel Fell (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1666 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1667, matr. 12 Jul 1667, aged 18, Westminster Student 14 Sep 1668 – void 1677 ; BA 1671 ; MA 1674 ; ordained ; Vicar of Long Preston, Yorks., from 2 Aug 1677 ; buried 8 Sep 1703.
WASHER, THOMAS, son of Thomas Washer, Lincoln’s Inn, [attorney ?], and Catherine, third dau. of Sir Robert Bolles, Bart., MP, Scampton, Lincs. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1696 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1700, matr. 25 Jun 1700, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1700 – void 27 Jan 1714 (expiry year of grace as V.Snodland from 31 Aug 1713, sic) ; MA ; ordained priest 24 Sep 1710 (Rochester) ; Vicar of Snodland, Kent, from 14 Jan 1712/3 ; d. 25 Jul 1748 (will proved PCC 27 Jul 1748).
WASON, JAMES, brother of Rigby Wason (qv) ; b. 29 May 1847 ; adm. 28 Sep 1861 ; left Whitsun 1864 ; adm.solicitor Mich.1869 ; practised at Liverpool ; m. 17 Jun 1885 Wilhelmina Margaretta, widow of Henry Holland, Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire, and dau. of Rev William Nixon DD, Montrose, Angus, Free Church minister ; d. 3 Oct 1896.
WASON, LEIGHTON SANDYS, eldest son of Rigby Melvill Wason, London, solicitor, and Hannah Urquhart ; b. 31 Dec 1867 ; adm. 8 Jun 1882 (R) ; left Dec 1883 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Apr 1889 ; BA 1893 ; Ely Theol.Coll. 1893 ; ordained deacon 1894 (Ely), priest 1898 (St.Albans) ; Curate, Elmswell, Suffolk 1894-7, St.Andrew’s, Plaistow, Essex 1897-8, St.Michael’s, Shoreditch, London 1898-1904 ; Vicar of Cury cum Gunwalloe, Cornwall 1905 – 27 May 1919, when he was deprived on his refusal to abandon certain practices of ritual ; d. unm. 15 Jul 1950.
WASON, RIGBY, eldest son of Peter Rigby Wason MP, Corwar, Ayrshire, barrister, and Euphemia, dau. of Peter McTier, farmer ; b. 17 Jul 1844 ; adm. 17 Oct 1859 (R) ; Ensign, 16th Foot 28 Apr 1863 ; Lieut., 24 Aug 1866 ; 1st Dragoon Guards 30 Oct 1867 ; d. 25 Nov 1870.
WASSELL, JOSEPH ; b. ; left Midsummer 1800 (“senior”). [doubtless kin to Joseph Wassell, Parliament Street, Westminster, pawnbroker (already in business as a pawnbroker in Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, in 1784), will proved PCC 1 Feb 1803] [presumably therefore Joseph Wassell, in business as a pawnbroker in Fleet Street 1807- still 1812. and in Picket Street, Temple Bar, in 1821] [b. St Margaret, Westminster c.1785 ; living Brighton, Sussex 1861, then a widower, aged 76 ; presumably death registered Brighton third quarter 1862] [presumably Joseph Wassell, Parliament Street, Westminster, who m. 6 Sep 1806 Lucy, dau. of Thomas Marriott, Old Broad Street, London, Deputy, Common Council, City of London, smith and ironmonger ; he was living Maidenhead, Berks., 1848]
WASSELL, THOMAS HENRY ; b. ; at school 1800 (“junior”)
WATERFIELD, ALFRED, fourth son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv) ; b. 4 Apr 1840 ; adm. 6 Jun 1849 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1857 ; Cornet, Cavalry 4 Oct 1857 ; Lieut., 4th European Light Cavalry 18 May 1858 ; Capt., 16 Jul 1864 ; ret. 11 Dec 1867 ; served in Indian Mutiny ; d. unm. at Valetta, Malta 9 Feb 1871.
WATERFIELD, ARTHUR SWAINSON, son of Edward Waterfield (qv) ; b. 16 Jul 1866 ; adm. 16 Jul 1880 (D), exhbitioner ; QS 25 Sep 1881 ; left May 1885 ; Non-Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1886 ; migr. to Merton Coll. ; BA 1889 ; MA 1894 ; Assistant Master, Guildford GS 1890-2, Beverley GS 1892 ; ordained deacon 1899, priest 1900 (both Hereford) ; Head Master, Bromyard GS, and Curate, Bromyard, Herefs., 1899-1903 ; Rector of Brimfield, Herefs., 1903-26 ; Rector of Stockton-on-Teme, Worcs., from 1926 ; m. 6 Sep 1890 Laura, dau. of Thomas Botterell, Head Master Bromyard GS ; d. 20 Jul 1934.
WATERFIELD, CHARLES, brother of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv) ; b. 23 May 1806 ; adm. 10 Jan 1815 ; Min.Can.1821 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 18 Jun 1828, called to bar 27 Jan 1834 ; Deputy Registrar, Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, and afterwards at Birmingham ; m. 31 Aug 1830 Katharine Olivia, sister of George Edward Wilmot Wood (qv) ; d. 7 Jan 1871.
WATERFIELD, EDWARD, second son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv) ; b. 18 Feb 1835 ; adm. 6 Jan 1844 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1852-4 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1854 ; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Balasore ; Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector, Muzaffarnagar 1872-3 ; ret. 26 Jul 1874 ; Assistant Librarian, India Office 1876-81 ; m. 30 Nov 1860 Matilda Georgina, dau. of John Gossip, Hatfield Hall, Yorks. ; d. 28 Nov 1902.
WATERFIELD, HARRY WINGFIELD, eldest son of Edward Waterfield (qv) ; b. 29 Dec 1864 ; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (D), exhibitioner ; QS 1879 ; Capt. of the School Sep 1882-3 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1883 (with Triplett), adm.sub-sizar 5 Oct 1883, matr.1883 ; BA 1886 ; MA 1890 ; Assistant Master, Bradfield Coll. 1888-96 ; ordained deacon 1900, priest 1901 (both Rochester) ; Curate, Mortlake, Surrey 1900-2 ; head Master, Temple Grove Sch., East Sheen, Surrey (later at Eastbourne, Sussex) 1902-35, Chaplain 1935-45 ; Chaplain, Bayham Abbey, Sussex, from 1945 ; m. 30 Jul 1896 Maria Winifred, youngest dau. of Rev.George Armitage, Vicar of St.Luke’s, Gloucester ; d. 16 Mar 1951.
WATERFIELD, SIR HENRY, third son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv) ; b. 30 Jun 1837 ; adm. 22 May 1845 ; QS (Capt.) 1851 ; left 1853 ; Clerk, Board of Control 1853-9 ; Private Secretary to Earl of Ellenborough, President Board of Control, 1858 ; Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Stanley, President Board of Control, 1858-9 and to Lord Stanley and Sir Charles Wood as successive Secretaries of State for India 1859-63 ; employed India Office 1859-1902, serving as Secretary, Statistic and Commerce Dept., 1874-9 and Secretary, Financial Dept., 1879 – Jul 1902, ret. ; CB 31 Dec 1885 ; KCSI 3 Jul 1893 ; GCIE 26 Jun 1902 ; joint founder with William Waterfield (qv) of the Waterfield Prize Fund at the School ; m.1st, 24 Sep 1868 Katharine Jane, only dau. of George Edward Wilmot Wood (qv) ; m.2nd, 23 Jun 1885 Mary Augusta, dau. of Edward Obré Shee, Newcastle, co.Down, Ireland, barrister ; d. 5 Jul 1913.
WATERFIELD, JOHN, brother of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv) ; b. 9 Aug 1812 ; adm. 24 Sep 1819 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1828 ; Ensign, 38th Native Infantry 20 Jan 1829 ; Lieut., 9 Mar 1837 ; Brevet Capt., 20 Jan 1844 ; Commandant, 2nd Battn. Bundelcund Legion 9 Apr 1844 ; Capt., 24 Jan 1845 ; Brevet Maj., 28 Nov 1854 ; Brigade Maj., Ludhiana 1 Aug 1850, Aligarh 1858 ; served in Indian Mutiny ; m. 11 Jul 1837 Helen Ellenor, dau. of Gen.Sir Robert Blair KCB, EICS Bengal ; killed by mutineers at Firozabad, India 15 May 1858.
WATERFIELD, THOMAS NELSON, eldest son of William Waterfield, Barton Street, Westminster, accountant in Exchequer Bill Pay Office, and Elizabeth Weekes Patey, dau. of his landlady ; b. 22 Jul 1799 ; adm. 14 Jun 1811 ; KS 1814 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1817, adm.pens. 16 May 1817, scholar 1818, matr.1817 ; Junior Clerk, Board of Control 1818 ; Assistant Clerk (by 1830) ; Senior Clerk, Secret and Political Dept., 1839 ; Private Secretary to Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (qv) ; in charge of Records, Cannon Row, Westminster 1858-61 ; ret.1861 ; m. 17 Jun 1826 Elizabeth, sister of William Benthall (qv) ; d. 7 Sep 1862.
WATERFIELD, WILLIAM, eldest son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv) ; b. 14 Aug 1832 ; adm. 26 Jan 1843 ; QS (Capt.) 1846 ; Capt. of the School 1849 ; left 1850 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1850-2 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1852 ; arrived in India 19 Nov 1852 ; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Twenty-Four Parganas 1854 ; Assistant to Superintendent of Survey, Western Div., 1856 ; Accountant-Gen., North-West Provinces 1864-77 ; Comptroller-Gen., 1877-80 ; ret. 5 Sep 1881 ; an interesting account of his early impressions of Westminster and its precincts appears in Elizabethan, vols.vii and viii ; joint founder in 1906, with his brother Sir Henry Waterfield (qv), of a fund for providing a prize for Latin and Greek prose composition ; m.1st, 2 Jun 1864 his cousin Louisa Benthall, younger dau. of James Gay, Highgate, Middlesex ; m.2nd, 2 Jan 1885 Rose Matilda, seventh dau. of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Bart., KCH FRS, Master of the Mint ; d. 24 Jan 1907.
WATERFIELD, WILLIAM HILL, brother of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv) ; b. 15 Apr 1801 ; adm. 6 Jul 1812 ; left Whitsun 1818 ; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1817 ; Lieut., 7th Native Infantry 30 May 1818 ; Capt., 14th Native Infantry 3 Dec 1824 ; Maj., 28 Jun 1838 ; transferred to Invalid Establishment, Bombay 15 Sep 1841, and latterly attached Native Veteran Battalion ; m.1st, 25 Jun 1822 Maria, dau. of John Dowling, Boulogne, France ; m.2nd, 16 Jul 1828 Mary, third dau. of John Pullen, Fore Street, London, solicitor ; m.3rd, 22 Mar 1830 Jane Evans ; d. at Dapoolie, India 16 Feb 1842.
WATERLAND, HENRY, only son of Rev.Henry Waterland LLD, Rector of Wrington, Somerset, and Prebendary of Bristol, and his first wife Merial, dau. of — Day, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, brewer ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1742/3 ; left 1749 ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 11 Mar 1748/9, matr. 1750 ; living Jun 1751 ; d. while an undergraduate.
WATERMAN, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1733.
WATERS, RANDLE JACKSON, son of Rev.Thomas Waters DD, Master of Emmanuel Hospital, Westminster, and Sarah, widow of John Jacomb, Gracechurch Street, London, and dau. of John Dalrymple, Norwich, Norfolk, merchant ; bapt.St.Dunstan in the East, London 7 May 1803 ; adm. 21 Jan 1812 ; left 16 Jul 1818 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Jun 1820, aged 19 ; BA 1824 ; MA 1827 ; BD and DD 1844 ; ordained deacon 21 May 1826, priest 10 Jun 1827 (both London) ; Master of Emmanuel Hospital and School from 1831 ; Minor Canon of Westminster (by 1829) ; Minor Canon of St.Pauls 1830 ; m. 13 Oct 1828 Mary Elizabeth Nourse, eldest dau. of Rev.James Thorold, Rector of Kencot, Oxfordshire ; d. 19 Jan 1859.
WATERS, RANDLE JACKSON, son of Randle Jackson Waters (adm.1812, qv) ; b. 19 Mar 1835 ; adm. 3 Jun 1847 ; QS 1850 ; left 1854 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 Jun 1854 ; BA 1858 ; ordained deacon Sep 1860, priest 22 Sep 1861 (both Chester) ; Curate, South Milton, Devon 1865, subsequently Northolt, Middlesex and St.Stephen’s, Walthamstow, Essex ; became a telegraph engineer, in business at Osnaburgh Street, Regent’s Park, Middlesex ; m. 7 Apr 1874 —- (marriage registered St Saviour, Southwark second quarter 1874) ; d. 1 Dec 1876.
WATERS, THOMAS, son of Randle Jackson Waters (adm.1812, qv) ; b. 11 Dec 1839 ; adm. 22 Jun 1848 ; QS 1854 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1858, matr. 27 May 1858, Westminster Student 1858-73 ; one of the last three Westminster Students of Christ Church elected under the old system ; BA 1862 ; MA 1865 ; ordained deacon 1863, priest 1864 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Shippon, Berks., 1863, Abingdon, Berks., 1863-4 ; Vicar of Maiden Bradley, Wilts., 1864-72 ; Vicar of Thornbury, Gloucs., 1872-85 ; Vicar of Staverton, Northants., 9 Dec 1885-1904 ; m. 29 Aug 1872 Barbara Bass, younger dau. of Samuel Vessey, Halton Manor, Lincs. ; d. 18 Feb 1909.
WATERS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1721/2 ; left 1722.
WATHEN, GEORGE, only son of Samuel Wathen MD, Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate, London, and Dorking, Surrey, medical practitioner, and his second wife Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Sydenham Malthus, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, director South Sea Company ; b. 2 Mar 1762 (IGI) ; adm. 2 Jun 1774 ; KS 1776 ; Ensign, 39th Foot 19 Nov 1778 ; Lieut., 13 Oct 1780 ; Capt., 14th Foot 6 Apr 1785 ; half-pay 1791 ; Brevet Maj., 17 Feb 1795 ; ret. 23 Feb 1791 [check] ; present at siege of Gibraltar 1782 ; a well-known amateur actor, acting in comedy with Richard, 7th Earl of Barrymore, in private theatricals at Wargrave, Berks., and in London 1789-92 ; joint manager with Lord Barrymore of the Richmond Theatre 1792 ; a professional actor at Drury Lane 1795-1803, when he is said to have rejoined the army ; a Military Knight of Windsor from 1840 ; m. 19 Oct 1787 Marianne, dau. of William Norford MD, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk ; d. 21 Apr 1849, aged 87.
WATKIN-WILLIAMS, PENROSE LANYON, brother of Robert Thesiger Watkin-Williams (qv) ; b. 29 Dec 1867 ; adm. 26 Jan 1882 (H) ; left Dec 1883 ; Middlesex Hospital ; MRCS and LRCP 1894 ; FRCS (Edinburgh ) 1910 ; medical practitioner at Padstow, Cornwall ; served in 1914-8 War ; temp.Capt., RAMC 17 May 1916 ; Maj., 21 Jul 1919 ; wounded at battle of the Somme Jul 1916 ; mentioned in despatches ; DSO 19 Aug 1916 ; m. 6 Aug 1896 Ellen Margaret, second dau. of George Thornton Skilbeck, St.Issy, Cornwall, chemical and dye merchant ; d. 5 Aug 1947.
WATKIN-WILLIAMS, ROBERT THESIGER, eldest son of Sir Charles James Watkin-Williams, Kt, Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division, High Court of Justice, and his second wife Charlotte, sister of Sir Herbert William Lush-Wilson (qv) ; b. 7 Jan 1867 ; adm. 26 Jan 1882 (H) ; left May 1884 ; adm.solicitor Nov 1889 ; Master in Chancery Division, Supreme Court 1910-32 ; JP Devon 1917 ; m. 22 May 1897 Mary, third dau. of George Thornton Skilbeck, St.Issy, Cornwall, chemical and dye merchant ; d. 1 Mar 1953.
WATKINS, — ; b. ; in under school list 1717.
WATKINS, — ; b. ; adm. 20 Jun 1765.
WATKINS, FREDERICK, second son of Rev.Henry Watkins, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks., and Frances Mary, eldest dau. of Freeman Bower, Killerby Hall, Yorks., attorney ; b. 1 Apr 1808 ; adm. 18 Sep 1821 (G) ; left Christmas 1822 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 18 Jan 1825, matr. Mich.1826 ; migrated to Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm. 7 May 1827 ; BA 1830 ; MA 1833 ; BD 1840 ; Fellow, Emmanuel Coll. 1838-47 ; ordained deacon 4 Sep 1834 (St Davids), priest 1837 ; HM Inspector of Schools 1841-73 ; Rector of Long Marston, Yorks., from 1873 ; Prebendary of York from 1874, also Archdeacon of York 1874-84 ; Examining Chaplain to Archbishop of York 1877 ; m.1st, 5 Aug 1847 Amelia, eldest dau. of Rev.George Millett, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks. ; m.2nd, 17 Sep 1873 Fanny, dau. of William Chambers, Hafod, Cardiganshire ; d. 6 Feb 1888.
WATKINS, GEORGE, son of Capt.John Watkins, Royal Navy, and Mary, eldest dau,. of Vice-Adm.Sir Thomas Hopson MP, Royal Navy ; b. 20 Jun 1705 ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1716 ; in under school list 1719. [Parentage stated thus by Whitmore, but on what evidence ?] [d. 1775 ?]
WATKINS, GEORGE ; b. ; at school under Markham ; d. at school. [“see new slip”]
WATKINS, HENRY, son of Richard Watkins (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1680 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1684, matr. 16 Dec 1684, aged 18, Westminster Student 15 Dec 1684 – Jul 1713, Faculty Student from 18 Jul 1713 ; BA 1688 ; MA 1691 ; Chief Clerk, Secretary for War’s Office c.1699-1702 ; Judge-Advocate Gen. of Army 1702- Mar 1712, serving in Flanders and Germany ; Secretary to Earl of Strafford when Ambassador to the United Provinces Apr 1711 – Jan.1712 ; Secretary to Embassy, Utrecht Jan – Mar 1712; Inspector of Extraordinaries of War, Low Countries Feb 1712 – Jun 1714; Secretary to Duke of Ormonde Mar 1712 – c.Jun 1714 ; MP Brackley 20 Apr 1714 – 1715 ; Secretary to Earl of Arran, Chancellor, Oxford Univ., from Dec 1721 ; d.unm. 25 Mar 1727. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
WATKINS, JAMES ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1628, adm.scholar 1629, but did not matr.
WATKINS, PENNOYRE, elder son of Thomas Watkins (adm.1774, qv) ; b. 24 Dec 1795 ; adm. 17 Sep 1806 ; left 1810 ; Midshipman, EI Maritime Service ; drowned by falling overboard from Apollo East Indiaman, near Madeira, 18 Jun 1812.
WATKINS, PHILIP ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1683-4 (Chapter Muniments 33719).
WATKINS, RICHARD, son of Rev.Henry Watkins DD, Vicar of Sutton under Brailes, Warwicks., and Anne, widow of Richard Love ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1637 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 4 Jun 1641, aged 17, Westminster Student ; BA 1644 ; MA 1647 (incorp.Cambridge 1650) ; submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 14 Jul 1648 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 154, 158) ; ordained ; Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire 1655-9 ; Rector of Whichford, Warwicks., from 1659 ; Rector of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs., from 5 May 1679 ; wrote an account of the recovery of Anne Green, who had been hanged at Oxford 14 Dec 1650, entitled Newes from the Dead, 1651, to which were appended poems on the subject by various Oxford scholars ; m. Elizabeth Hyckes ; d. 11 Feb 1707/8.
WATKINS, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1631, but was never adm.
WATKINS, SAMUEL ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1678-80 (Chapter Muniments 33714-5).
WATKINS, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1719/20.
WATKINS, THOMAS, younger son of Pennoyre Watkins, Brecon, Breconshire, attorney, and Mary, dau. of David Lloyd, Rhosferig, Breconshire ; b. 2 Sep 1761 ; adm. 14 Feb 1774 ; in school list Jul 1779 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1779 ; BA 1783 ; MA 1786 ; Grand Tour (Italy, Switzerland, Near East) 1787-9 ; ordained deacon 6 Jun 1784 (Oxford, lit.dim. from St.Davids), priest 24 Sep 1785 (St Davids) ; Curate, Llansadwrn with Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire 24 Sep 1785, Vicar 23 Apr 1790 – Mar 1799, also Vicar of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire 17 Apr 1790 – Mar 1799 ; Rector of Llandyfaelog Fach, Breconshire, from 2 Apr 1799 ; FRS 23 Jan 1794 ; FSA 11 Feb 1796 ; called “Cellarius” Watkins by George Colman (qv) in his Random Records, 1830, i, 296 ; author, Travels throughSwitzerland, Italy, etc.,1792 ; m. 22 Jan 1795 Susanna Eleonora, only dau. of Richard Vaughan, Shenfield, Essex, and Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Lord Lieut. Carmarthenshire ; d. 15 Oct 1829.
WATKINSON, HENRY, son of Henry Watkinson, Whitechapel, Middlesex, and Mary (Clarke ?) (IGI) ; bapt.St.Mary, Whitechapel 27 Jul 1704 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1718 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1721/2 ; BA 1725 ; MA 1728 ; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1729, priest 20 Dec 1730 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire 1729 ; Lecturer, St.Olave, Hart Street, Holborn 24 Apr 1733 – Apr 1754, when he resigned owing to ill-health ; library advertised for sale by auction on 15 Dec 1757 (so maybe dead by then).
WATKINSON, JOSEPH, son of Joseph Watkinson, Wakefield, Yorks., and Margaret, dau. of Robert Hartley, Cannon Hall, Yorks. ; bapt.All Saints, Wakefield, Yorks., 24 Apr 1683 (IGI) ; at school under Knipe (M.I.Merton Coll.) ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Mar 1700, aged 16, postmaster ; BA 1703 ; MA 1709 ; Fellow of Merton Coll. from 1709, also Tutor ; ordained deacon 29 May 1712, priest 29 Mar 1713 (both Oxford) ; Minister of St.Peter’s in the East, Oxford ; buried Merton Coll.Chapel, Oxford 26 Dec 1720, aged 37.
WATS, see also WATTS.
WATS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1726 ; in under school list 1728.
WATSON, — ; b. ; at school under Busby (Busby’s Account Book).
WATSON, — ; b. ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (third form).
WATSON, — ; b. ; in school list Apr 1774, 1775 ; left 1777.
WATSON, CHARLES, son of Rev.John Watson, Rector of Castle Camps, Cambs., and Prebendary of Westminster, and Eleanor, dau. of Alexander Parker, St.Edmund, Lombard Street, London, haberdasher, member Society of Friends ; bapt.Castle Camps, Cambs., 29 May 1714 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1723 ; in under school lists 1724, 1725 ; entered Royal Navy as Volunteer, HMS Romney 1728 ; Lieut., 2 Aug 1734 ; Cdr. ; Post Capt., 14 Feb 1737/8 ; Rear Adm., 12 May 1748 ; Vice-Adm. 4 Jun 1756 ; distinguished himself in engagements off Cape Finisterre and in Bay of Biscay 1747 ; Commander-in-Chief, Newfoundland station 1748 ; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies 1754 ; co-operated with Robert Clive in reducing Gheria, freeing Calcutta, taking Chandernagore and crushing Saraj ud Dowlah ; a baronetcy was conferred on his son after his death, in consideration of Watson’s “many great and eminent services” ; m. 1741 Rebecca, eldest sister of William Buller (adm.1743, qv) ; d. at Calcutta, India 16 Aug 1757. Monument in Westminster Abbey, erected by EI Company. ODNB.
WATSON, GEORGE, son of George Watson, York ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1700 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1703, adm. 28 May 1703, aged 19, scholar 28 Apr 1704, matr.1704 ; 9th in “ordo” 1706/7 ; BA 1706/7 ; ordained deacon Jan 1708/9, priest Mar 1708/9 (both Norwich) ; Rector of Buxhall, Suffolk, from 22 Mar 1708/9 ; d. by 4 Jan 1709/10.
WATSON, HENRY MARSHALL ; b. 7 Jun 1845 (birth registered Strand second quarter 1845) ; adm. 20 Jan 1860 ; left Whitsun 1861 ; an actor, playwright and author in England, Australia and the United States under the stage name of Harry St.Maur, specialising in comic roles ; in an interview with the South Australian Register, 24 Nov 1886, he referred to “the dear old English school of Westminster where I was educated” ; living in Camberwell, Surrey, in 1881 (1881 Census), stating that he was aged 30 (sic), with a wife Louisa (born Chelmsford, Essex), aged 32, parents John St Maur and Harriet St Maur, both aged 70, and a daughter Litza St Maur, aged 9 ; made US debut as an actor 31 Dec 1881 ; co-respondent in divorce petition brought in 1886 by Digby de Rontaunay Willoughby, soldier of fortune, against his wife Emma Reid Willoughby (née Remington), who had been touring as an actress with St.Maur in Australia ; author, A Railway Mystery (detective story), 1891 ; m. 4 Nov 1894 Kate Vandenhoff, actress and author, dau. of Harry Vandenhoff ; d. Stamford, Connecticut, USA 29 Mar 1907
WATSON, HENRY WILLIAM, eldest son of Henry William Watson FRCS, LSA,, Burnopfield, co.Durham, surgeon, and Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Highat ; b. 19 Nov 1854 ; at Durham Sch. 1867-70 ; adm. 6 Feb 1871 ; left Christmas 1871 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1875 ; “ironmaker and smelter” (1881 Census, then unm.) ; proprietor, Hamsterley Colliery, co.Durham ; d. unm. at Lampasas, Texas, USA 16 Jul 1891.
WATSON, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1723. [Presumably a brother of, or close kin to, either Charles Watson (qv) or Jermyn Watson (qv), both adm. same month]
WATSON, JERMYN, son of Robert Watson, and Mary — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 2 Aug 1712 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1723 ; in under school list 1725.
WATSON, JOHN HERBERT, son of William Watson, Hedon, Yorks., solicitor, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Matthews, Hedon, Yorks. ; b. 31 Aug 1857 ; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (G) ; QS 1872 ; left May 1876 ; adm.solicitor Feb 1881 ; practised at Hedon, Yorks. ; subsequently a wine merchant in Edinburgh ; emigrated to New Zealand 1885 ; latterly farming at Rocky Bay, Waiheke Island, New Zealand ; m. 1st, 2 Mar 1882 (divorced 1897) Jane Binning, eldest dau. of Andrew Usher, Blackford Park, Edinburgh, brewer ; m. 2nd, at Auckland, New Zealand, 6 May 1897 Isabella Lucy Rowbottom, Derby, Derbyshire ; d. 1938.
WATSON, LEWIS, 1ST BARON SONDES, brother of John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (qv) ; b. 28 Nov 1728 ; adm. Apr 1737 (as Lewis Monson) ; left 1745 ; assumed surname of Watson in lieu of Monson on inheriting estates in Northamptonshire and Kent of his cousin Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham 26 Feb 1745/6 ; Grand Tour (Italy, Germany) 1749-50 ; MP Boroughbridge 23 Apr 1750-4, Kent 1754 – 20 May 1760 ; Joint Auditor of the Imprest Feb 1754 – Jul 1785, when post abolished ; created Baron Sondes 20 May 1760 ; DL Kent 1746, Northamptonshire 1756 and 1792 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1751 ; m. 12 Oct 1752 Frances, second dau. of Hon.Henry Pelham (b.1696, qv) ; d. 30 Mar 1795.
WATSON, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1610, Westminster Student Jan 1610/1-20, Faculty Student from 1620 ; BA 1614 ; MA 1617 ; d. 1635.
WATSON, RICHARD, son of Thomas Watson, Rotherham, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. 17 Jun 1772 ; left Easter 1775 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1775, aged 17.
WATSON, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. 4 Jul 1771.
WATSON, SAMUEL, son of James Watson, St.Andrew’s, Holborn ; b. ; adm. 9 Sep 1776 ; KS (aged 13) 1777 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Jun 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 – void by marriage 13 Oct 1787 ; BA 1785 ; MA 1792 ; BD and DD 1806 ; ordained deacon 30 Nov 1787, priest 13 May 1788 (both Rochester) ; Curate, Plumstead, Kent, and East Wickham, Kent 1796 ; Vicar of Whitchurch, Bucks., 22 Dec 1810-2 ; Rector of Gravesend, Kent, from 18 Jul 1811 ; Senior Chaplain, Ordnance Dept., Woolwich, from 1 Jul 1812 ; Chaplain to Dowager Countess of Elgin ; JP Kent ; m. ; d. 9 Apr 1837.
WATSON, THOMAS SIMONS, only son of John Watson, Berners Street, London, surgeon, Secretary to Court of Examiners, Society of Apothecaries, and Ann, dau. of William Simons, Westminster, apothecary ; b. 18 Jan 1813 ; adm. 14 Jan 1828 ; London Univ. ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 17 Apr 1833, scholar 25 Mar 1834 – 29 Sep 1836 ; BA 1837 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 12 Jun 1832 ; Secretary, Art Union, from Apr 1844 ; m. 20 Aug 1846 Mary Ann, dau. of James Bravery, Dorking, Surrey, corn miller ; d. 7 Dec 1891.
WATSON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1736 ; left 1741 ; d. 1781 [what evidence is there for this year of death ?]. [Maybe if so William Watson, Westminster, gentleman, will proved PCC 3 Dec 1781]
WATSON-WENTWORTH, CHARLES, 2ND MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM, brother of William Watson-Wentworth, Viscount Higham (qv) ; b. 13 May 1730 ; adm. Apr 1738 ; styled Viscount Higham 1739-46, Earl of Malton 1746-50 ; it is related that on one occasion while he was at school he “dressed himself up in a hoop and petticoat” and hiring a sedan chair called upon Dr.Nicoll, the Head Master, and asked to be shown over the School (Mrs Stirling, ed., The Hothams, ii, 16) ; served as a volunteer under the Duke of Cumberland during the insurrection of 1745-6 (Lord Albemarle, Fifty Years of my Life, 1876, ii, 331-2) ; Grand Tour (Italy, Germany) 1748-50 ; created Earl of Malton (I) 17 Sep 1750 ; succ.father as 2nd Marquis of Rockingham 14 Dec 1750 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber 18 Jul 1751 – Oct 1762 ; Lord Lieut., Yorkshire West Riding 18 Jul 1751 – 25 Feb 1763, and from 12 Sep 1765 ; Vice-Adm., Yorkshire 1755- Jan 1763 and from 1776 ; KG 6 May 1760 ; bearer of sceptre and orb at Coronation of George III 22 Sep 1761 ; resigned from Bedchamber Oct 1762 and dismissed from Lieutenancy and Vice-Admiralty of Yorkshire Jan-Feb 1763 ; on Pitt’s refusal of office in Jul 1765 Rockingham formed a new administration ; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury 10 Jul 1765 – Jul 1766 ; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1765 ; annoyed George III by repealing the Stamp Act, refusing allowances to the King’s brothers, and condemning General Warrants ; dismissed from office Jul 1766 ; led principal opposition grouping in House of Lords 1767-82 ; declared for the independence of the American Colonies, and supported Sir George Savile’s bill for the partial enfranchisement of Roman Catholics ; formed his second ministry in Mar 1782 ; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 27 Mar 1782 ; conceded legislative independence to Ireland and initiated reforms to curtail the power of the Crown ; FRS 7 Nov 1751 ; FSA 13 Feb 1752 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1755 ; Busby Trustee 14 Apr 1763 ; a prominent Whig politician ; a patron of the Turf and owner of Allabaculia, winner of the first St.Leger in 1776 ; a collector of Roman coins ; m. 26 Feb 1752 Mary, dau. of Thomas Bright (formerly Liddell), Badsworth, Yorks . ; d. 1 Jul 1782. ODNB.
WATSON-WENTWORTH, WILLIAM, VISCOUNT HIGHAM, fourth son of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton KB (afterwards 1st Marquis of Rockingham), Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks., Lord Lieut., Yorkshire West Riding, and Lady Mary Finch, fourth dau. of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and 6th Earl of Winchilsea (qv), and his second wife ; bapt. 2 Sep 1728 ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1738 ; d. 16 Aug 1739.
WATT, JAMES, eldest son of Alexander Pollock Watt, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, literary agent, and Roberta Ferrier, dau. of John Strahan, Tain, Perthshire, Messenger-at-Arms ; b. 12 Mar 1867 ; adm. 27 May 1880 (G), exhibitioner ; QS 1881 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1885 (with Triplett), adm.pens. 2 Oct 1885, matr.1885 ; BA 1888 ; MA 1892 ; Assistant Master, Bradfield Coll. 1890-1903 ; Second Master, Royal Naval Coll., Osborne (later at Dartmouth), from 1903 ; MVO 2 Aug 1910 ; bequeathed to the School his portrait as a QS by John Pettie RA ; d. 8 May 1929.
WATTES, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-3 (Chapter Muniments).
WATTS, see also WATS and WATTES.
WATTS, GEOFFREY, fourth son of Sir John Watts, Kt, Lord Mayor of London, and Margaret, dau. of Sir James Hawes, Kt, Lord Mayor of London ; b. ; at school under Camden (Alum.Cant.) ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 1601, matr.Mich.1601 ; BA 1604/5 ; migr. to Jesus Coll. ; MA 1608 (incorp.Oxford 12 Jul 1608) ; BD 1615 ; Fellow, Jesus Coll. 21 Jul 1606-19 ; ordained ; Vicar of Clavering, Essex 23 Nov 1616 – c.Oct 1643, resigned ; Vicar of Great Leighs, Essex, from 14 Dec 1619 ; m. Fortune, dau. of William Glascock, Felsted, Essex ; buried Great Leighs, Essex 5 Jan 1662/3.
WATTS, HARRY ; b. ; adm. 14 Oct 1780.
WATTS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) May 1744 ; left 1749.
WATTS, JOHN EDWARD, son of John Watts, Millbank Street, Westminster, and Catherine — ; b. 10 Feb 1803 ; adm. 19 Sep 1814 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1821-2 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1822 ; Cornet, 4th Light Cavalry 2 May 1823 ; Lieut., 21 Feb 1825 ; 8th Light Cavalry 29 Jul 1825 ; d. at Kamptee, near Nagpur, India 5 Oct 1827.
WATTS, JOHN JAMES, eldest son of John Nicholson Watts, EICS Madras, Hawkesdale, Cumberland, and Anne Pitt, dau. of James Dodson, Reading Hill, Berks. ; b. India 15 Mar 1803 ; adm. 23 Jan 1817 ; of Hawkesdale Hall, Cumberland ; Roman Catholic convert ; Knight of Malta 19 Jan 1833 ; m. Eliza Mary Selby ; d. 9 Jul 1883.
WATTS, MARTIN ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1624, adm.scholar 1625, matr.Easter 1625.
WATTS, MONTAGU, brother of John James Watts (qv) ; b. 5 Mar 1808 ; adm. 23 Jan 1817 ; Addiscombe Coll. 1819-24 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1824 ; 2nd Lieut., Artillery 16 Dec 1824 ;, Lieut., 23 May 1825 ; Capt., 10 Jun 1842 ; Brevet Maj., 11 Nov 1851 ; ret. as Lieut.-Col., 28 Nov 1854 ; m. 19 Apr 1855 Catherine Jane, youngest dau. of John Bird, EICS Madras ; d. 24 Nov 1867.
WATTS, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1740/1 ; left 1748 [Perhaps Thomas Watts, son of Thomas Watts MP, Enfield Chase, Middlesex, Secretary and Cashier Sun Fire Office, and Susanna, dau. of Benjamin Gascoyne, Chiswick, Middlesex, and sister of Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Kt, Lord Mayor of London ; bapt.St.Christopher Le Stocks, London, 14 Jul 1730 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1748, aged 17 ; manager, Sun Fire Office 1753, Secretary, Sun Fire Office 1764-86 : still director, Sun Fire Office 1794 ; of Craig’s Court, Charing Cross (at death) ; m.1st, 31 Aug 1767 Mary Prior ; m.2nd, 6 May 1785 Mary Ann Barton ; d. 3 Sep 1798, aged 68]
WATTS, WILLIAM, son of Ven.William Watts DD, Rector of St.Alban’s, Wood Street, London, and Archdeacon of Wells, scholar and editor, and Dorothy, dau. of Rev.Griffin (or Griffith) Vaughan, Rector of Ashtead, Surrey, and niece of Right Rev.Richard Vaughan DD, Bishop of London) ; b ; in school lists 1656 ; BB 1659 ; an undated petition from his mother to the Governors asks for a Lord’s scholarship for her son “at this time a scholler in Westminster schoole” and “nearely allyed” to the late Archbishop Williams (Chapter Muniments 43102) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Jul 1663, aged 17. [Some further biographical details provided by Russell Barker and Stenning relate to a different William Watts, and were eliminated by Whitmore & Radcliffe, Supplement] [perhaps William Watts, bequeathed £10 per annum for ten years by will of Brian Duppa (qv), dated Feb 1661/2, “to encourage him to continue in his studies”]
WAVERLEY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1625, adm.scholar 1626, matr.Easter 1626 ; 5th in “ordo” 1629/30 ; BA 1629/30 ; MA 1633 ; faculty from Archbishop of Canterbury to be ordained deacon “extra tempora” 5 Dec 1633.
WAYTE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1727 ; in under school list 1729 (in school list Feb 1727/8 as “Johannes Weight”).
WEARE, EDWIN THOMAS CLINTON, only son of Thomas William Weare (qv), and his first wife ; b. 12 Feb 1859 ; adm. 16 Jun 1870 ; left May 1874 ; Non-Coll., Oxford, matr. 10 May 1879 ; of Hampton House, Hereford ; d. 15 Oct 1921.
WEARE, SIR HENRY EDWIN, brother of Thomas William Weare (qv) ; b. 27 Aug 1825 ; adm. 3 Jul 1837 ; QS 1840 ; left Oct 1841 ; Ensign, 32nd Foot 29 Oct 1841 ; Lieut., 22 Dec 1843 ; Capt., 26 May 1848 ; exchanged into 50th Foot 18 Aug 1848 ; Maj., 22 Dec 1854 ; Lieut.-Col., 6 Jun 1856 ; Col., 10 Apr 1863 ; Major-Gen., 9 Nov 1868 ; ret. as Lieut.-Gen., 12 Aug 1881 ; served in Punjab campaign 1848, Crimean War 1854-5 (severely wounded at battle of the Alma 20 Sep 1854) and New Zealand War 1863-6 ; mentioned in despatches LG 10 Oct 1854, 14 May 1864, 12 Apr 1865 ; CB 5 Jul 1865 ; KCB 30 May 1891 ; m. 16 Jul 1850 Charlotte Georgiana, only dau. of Rev.Charles Oxenden, Rector of Barham, Kent ; d. 31 Dec 1898.
WEARE, THOMAS WILLIAM, elder son of Col.Thomas Weare KH, Hampton House, Hereford, ADC to Queen Victoria and Commandant, Provisional Battalion, Chatham, Kent, and Anne, dau. of John Pugh, Gaer, Radnorshire ; b. 2 Nov 1813 ; adm. 16 Jan 1826 (G) ; KS 1828 ; rowed v.Eton 12 May 1831 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1832, matr. 7 Jun 1832, Westminster Student ; BA 1836 ; MA 1838 ; ordained deacon 1839, priest 1840 (both Oxford) ; Curate, East Sutton, Kent ; Under Master of the School 27 Sep 1841 – Aug 1861 ; Rector of Isfield, Sussex, from 27 Aug 1867 ; gave evidence before the Public Schools Commission 21 Jun 1862 (Parliamentary Papers 1864, xxi, 402-11) ; composed the inscription on the Crimean War Memorial, and a number of epilogues and epigrams ; author, The Trinummus of Plautus, translated into English Verse by an Old Westminster, 1860 ; m.1st, 23 Aug 1853 Louisa Emma Mary, dau. of Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv), and his first wife ; m.2nd. 17 Apr 1866 Henrietta Maria, third dau. of Capt.William Henry Majendie, 1st Foot Guards ; d. 24 Feb 1871.
WEATHERELL, see also WEATHERILL and WETHERELL.
WEATHERELL, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 2 Jun 1779 ; left Midsummer 1781.
WEATHERILL, MICHAEL LAMBERT, eldest son of Col.James Weatherill, Antigua, West Indies, and Margaret, dau. of Michael Lambert, Governor of St.Kitts, West Indies ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1732/3 ; left 1737 ; living in England 1767 ; m. Elizabeth — ; d. c.1773 (his widow stated under oath 20 Aug 1776 that he “died about three years ago”).
WEBB, — ; b. ; adm. 20 Jan 1768 ; left Easter 1771.
WEBB, — ; b. ; in school lists Jul 1773, Oct 1773 ; chorister.
WEBB, CHARLES THOMAS, son of James Webb, Brimscombe, Stroud, Gloucs., and Mary — (IGI) ; bapt.Stroud, Gloucs. 21 Aug 1799 (IGI) ; adm. 19 Feb 1811 ; KS (aged 14) 1815 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1819, adm. pens. 20 May 1819, scholar 1820, matr.1819.
WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN, brother of Edmund James Webb (qv) ; b. 25 Jun 1865 ; adm. 22 Sep 1876 (R), exhibitioner 1879 ; QS 1880 (the last “Liberty Boy”) ; Mure Scholar 1882 ; Capt. of the School 1883 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1884, matr. 10 Oct 1884 ; 2nd cl.Cl.Mods 1886, 1stcl.Lit.Hum.1888 ; BA 1888 ; MA 1891 ; Fellow, Magdalen Coll. 1889-1920, Tutor 1890, Senior Dean 1894-7, Vice-Pres. 1898-9 ; Senior Proctor 1905-6 ; Tutor in Philosophy to Non-Coll. students 1907-20 ; Oriel Professor of Christian Philosophy, Oxford Univ. 1920-30 ; Fellow, Oriel Coll. 1922-30, Hon.Fellow from 1930 ; LLD St.Andrew’s 1922 ; FBA 1927 ; DD Glasgow 1937 ; Hon.Student, Christ Church, Oxford 1953 ; author, A History of Philosophy, 1911, and other works ; a Governor of the School from 1905 ; Busby Trustee May 1914 ; m. 15 Aug 1905 Eleanor Theodora, dau. of Rev.Alexander Joseph, Rector of St.John’s, Chatham, Kent ; d. 5 Oct 1954. ODNB.
WEBB, DANIEL, eldest son of Daniel Webb, Treasurer of Christ’s Hospital, London, and his second wife Ann, dau. of Nicholas Webb, Gloucester ; b. ; adm. 27 Sep 1774 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr,.25 Nov 1782, aged 17 ; MA 1786 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jun 1783 ; of Audley Square, London, and Tunbridge Wells, Kent ; m. 2 Jun 1790 Anne, dau. of John Peploe Birch (formerly Peploe), Garmstone, Herefs. ; d. 7 Apr 1828.
WEBB, EDMUND JAMES, second son of Rev.Benjamin Webb, Vicar of St.Andrew’s, Well Street, London, and Prebendary of St.Paul’s, ecclesiologist, and Maria Elphinstone, dau. of Rev.William Hodge Mill DD, Canon of Ely and Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge Univ. ; b. 15 Oct 1852 ; adm. 22 Jan 1864 ; QS (Capt.) 1867 ; Capt. of the School 1870 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1871, matr. 27 May 1871 ; BA 1875 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jan 1875 ; law student (1881 Census), writer (1901 Census) ; author, A History of England for the use of Schools and Colleges, 1889, and other works, including The Names of the Stars, 1952 (posthumously published) ; m. 25 Nov 1913 Katharine Adams, bookbinder, only dau. of Rev.William Fulford Adams, Rector of Weston-sub-Edge, Gloucs. ; d.17 Nov 1945.
WEBB, EDWARD, son of Charles Tarr Webb, Old Bond Street, London, and Park Hill House, Clapham, Surrey, gold lace manufacturer, and Ann, dau. of Henry Aston ; b. 13 Jul 1805 ; adm. 14 Jul 1818 ; water-colour painter and engraver ; father of Sir Aston Webb RA, architect ; m. 27 Nov 1844 Anne, dau. of John Evans, Stoke Newington, Middlesex ; d. 4 Oct 1854.
WEBB, HENRY, brother of Edward Webb (qv) ; b. 19 Feb 1809 ; adm. 14 Jul 1818 ; adm.solicitor 1830 ; practised in London ; of Redstone Manor, Reigate, Surrey ; a well-known collector of English coins (sales at Sotheby’s 1885, 1894, 1895) ; m. 4 Aug 1834 Martha Shears ; d. 24 Mar 1894.
WEBB, JOHN ; b. ; adm.(aged 13) Oct 1742 ; left 1746.
WEBB, JOHN, son of John Webb, London, and —, dau. of John Hawksley, Porto Bello, Sheffield, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1765 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1769 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 23 May 1769, aged 18, scholar 4 May 1770, matr.1769 ; ordained deacon 7 Mar 1773 (London, lit.dim. from Lichfield), priest 18 Dec 1774 (Lichfield) ; Perpetual Curate of Dore, Derbs., 19 Dec 1774 ; Perpetual Curate of Barlow, Derbs., from 27 Oct 1775 ; m. Martha, dau. of George Mower, Woodseats, Derbs. ; dead by 18 Nov 1816.
WEBB, JOHN ERNEST ROBERTSON, son of John Craske Webb MD MRCS LSA, Lower Belgrave Street, Eaton Square, London, and his first wife Alicia Jemima Stewart, youngest dau. of Lieut.-Col.Alexander Robertson, Halcraig, Carluke, Lanarkshire ; b. 20 Feb 1864 ; adm. 4 Jun 1877 (H) ; left May 1881 ; Secretary, Musical International College ; bequeathed £250 to the School ; d. 16 Jan 1934.
WEBB, MICHAEL ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1681.
WEBB, PHILIP GEORGE LANCELOT, brother of Edmund James Webb (qv) ; b. 4 Aug 1856 ; adm. 30 Sep 1867, exhibitioner 1870 ; QS 1871 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1875, matr. 20 May 1875 ; BA 1879 ; MA 1890 ; Higher Division Clerk, Patent Office 1880 ; Private Secretary to Comptroller-Gen., 1883-8 ; Chief Clerk 1898 ; Assistant Comptroller of Patents 1920-1 ; served during First World War as Establishment Officer, Ministry of Munitions 1915-6 and Deputy Controller of Petrol, Board of Trade 1916-9 ; CBE 1 Jan 1918 ; CB 1 Jan 1919 ; Hon.Secretary, Handel Society 1882-1934, Keats-Shelley Memorial Association 1922-32 ; author, Poems, 1927, and other works ; d. unm. 5 May 1937.
WEBB, RICHMOND, eldest son of Lieut.-Col.Richmond Webb, Bandon, co.Cork, [32nd Foot ?], and Sarah, dau. of John Griffyths, Downton, Radnorshire ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 11) 1761 ; KS 1762 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1767, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1767, but did not matr. ; Ensign, 40th Foot 12 Nov 1762 [check] ; Lieut., 16 Aug 1770 ; sold out 14 Mar 1777 ; sailed from Kingston, Jamaica for Montego Bay Jun 1777, and not heard of again.
WEBB, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1733 ; left 1736.
WEBB, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Webb, Warminster, Wilts., and Elizabeth — ; b. ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (fourth form) ; d. of smallpox 8 Nov 1728, aged 17 (M.I.Warminster, Wilts., recording the fact of his education at Westminster School).
WEBB, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1742/3 ; left 1746. [“William Webb, Esq.”, subscriber to T.Francklin, ed., The Epistles of Phalaris, 1749]
WEBB, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 12 Jun 1770, chorister.
WEBB, WILLIAM BERESFORD, son of Charles Locock Webb QC, barrister, Bencher Middle Temple, and Sarah Ann Hitchcock ; b. 7 Dec 1855 ; adm. 21 Jan 1870 ; left Christmas 1872 ; employed London Stock Exchange ; accountant (1881 Census, then unm.) ; emigrated to USA 1889 ; latterly known as Beresford Webb ; m. 4 May 1905 Millicent, dau. of Celestin Kaltenback, Potosi, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA, store owner and postmaster ; d. at Spokane, Washington, USA 14 Apr 1938.
WEBBE, — ; b. ; adm.1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters).
WEBBE, — ; b. ; adm. 1656 (school list 1656, last quarter).
WEBBE, JOHN (or WEBB) ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1600, Westminster Student Jan 1600/1-11 ; BA 1604 ; MA 1607 ; ordained deacon 12 Mar 1608/9 (Oxford) ; Rector of Harpsden, Oxfordshire 27 Oct 1614 – res May 1639 ; m. 1st, Sarah, dau. of Roger Allanson, London ; m.2nd, —.
WEBBE, JOHN, son of Rev.John Webbe DD, Rector of Wilsthorpe, Lincs. ; b. ; at school under Busby (J.Venn, Biog.Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll., i, 344) ; also at Stamford Sch. ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Jul 1641, aged 17.
WEBBE, SAMUEL EGERTON HENRY, son of Samuel Webbe, London and Liverpool, organist, and Diana Smith ; b. 28 Feb 1810 ; adm. 20 Feb 1823 (G) ; left Christmas 1824 ; Glasgow Univ. ; known in adult life as Egerton Webbe ; journalist, writer on musical subjects and author of sonnets ; d. unm. 24 Jun 1840.
WEBBER, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school lists 1656, first two quarters).
WEBBER, CHARLES, brother of Robert Webber (qv) ; b. 29 Aug 1722 ; in school lists 1733 ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1736 ; left 1738 ; entered Royal Navy 1740 ; Lieut., Royal Navy 23 Jan 1743/4 ; Cdr., 1756 ; Capt., 5 Apr 1756 ; Rear-Adm. 26 Sep 1780 ; present at siege of Havana 1782 ; m. 1770 Ann Vining, dau. of Patrick Heron, Havant, Hampshire, attorney ; d. 23 May 1783.
WEBBER, CHARLES, son of William Webber (qv) ; bapt. 17 May 1762 ; adm. 2 Mar 1772 ; in school lists 1775 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1778, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1778 – void 10 Oct 1789 (expiry year of grace as V.Boxgrove from 10 Oct 1788) ; BA 1782 ; MA 1785 ; ordained deacon 22 May 1785 (Oxford), priest 28 Oct 1786 ; Domestic Chaplain to Charles Lennox, 3rdDuke of Richmond and Lennox (qv), 6 Jan 1787 ; Vicar of Boxgrove, Sussex, from 4 Oct 1788 ; Vicar of Eartham, Sussex 21 Dec 1797-8 ; Prebendary of Chichester from 25 Apr 1798, Canon Residentiary from 6 May 1801, Archdeacon of Chichester 5 Mar 1808 – Dec 1840 ; Rector of Tangmere, Sussex 2 May 1798-1828 ; Rector of Felpham, Sussex 6 Sep 1806-25 ; Warden of St.Mary’s Hospital, Chichester, Sussex 5 May 1825 ; Vicar of Amport, Hampshire, from 20 Mar 1828 ; m. 18 Nov 1789 Mary, dau. of Francis Peirson, Lowthorpe, Yorks. ; d. 13 Jun 1848, aged 86.
WEBBER, CHARLES, son of Charles Webber (adm.1772, qv) ; bapt. 30 Aug 1794 ; adm. ; KS 1809 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1813, matr. 1 Jun 1813, Westminster Student (still 1829) ; BA 1816 ; MA 1820 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1817, priest 20 Dec 1818 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Tangmere, Sussex 1818 ; Master of Chichester Prebendal Sch. ; Prebendary of Chichester from 28 Jun 1824, Canon Residentiary from 20 Jan 1829 ; Rector of Felpham, Sussex 22 Jul 1830-2 ; Rector of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs., from 10 May 1837 ; m. 3 Mar 1840 his cousin Caroline, dau. of Robert Webber, Brockley Hill, Edgware, Middlesex ; d. 6 Mar 1850, aged 55.
WEBBER, CHARLES JAMES WALTER, son of James Webber (qv) ; b. 5 Jul 1824 ; adm. 22 Oct 1834 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Oct 1842, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1843-5 ; entered Austrian Army ; Lieut., 4th Austrian Lancers ; d. in England from effects of wound caused by the accidental discharge of a pistol, 9 Jun 1850.
WEBBER, CYRIL WILLIAM, son of James Webber (qv) ; b. 24 Mar 1821 ; adm. 13 Oct 1834 ; d. 18 Jan 1839.
WEBBER, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, son of James Webber (qv) ; b. 15 Aug 1816 ; adm. 9 Apr 1828 ; KS 1831 ; drowned while sailing on the Thames in a violent storm 11 Jun 1833. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey (tablet now in Dark Cloister).
WEBBER, ETIENNE AUGUSTE, son of Ven.Richard Legg Webber, Archdeacon of Demerara [and Henrietta Porter, youngest dau. of John Ross MD, St.Croix, West Indies ?] ; b. 7 Nov 1868 ; adm. 8 Jun 1882 (A) ; left Apr 1885 ; London Univ., BA 1892 ; m. 7 Sep 1929 Mary Eirene Agnes, widow of William McLaughlin Jones, Bermuda, and elder dau. of Ven.Samuel Edward Branch, Archdeacon of Antigua ; d. 13 Feb 1943.
WEBBER, FRANCIS PEIRSON, son of Charles Webber (adm.1772, qv) ; bapt. Boxgrove, Sussex 1 Nov 1798 (IGI) ; adm. 3 Jun 1806 ; left 1813 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot 2 May 1816 ; Lieut., 22 May 1817 ; half-pay 25 Dec 1818 ; Lieut., 36th Foot 25 Nov 1819 ; half-pay, Rifle Brigade 30 May 1822 ; d. 30 Oct 1822.
WEBBER, GEORGE HENRY, son of Charles Webber (adm.1772, qv) ; bapt. 14 Feb 1801 ; adm. 14 Jun 1808 ; KS 1815 ; Capt. of the School 1819 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1820, matr. 12 May 1820, Westminster Student ; BA 1824 ; MA 1826 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1824, priest 28 May 1826 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire, from 28 Mar 1826 ; Vicar of West Hampnett, Sussex 20 Dec 1827-8 ; Prebendary of Chichester 25 Jul 1827-40, Ripon from 28 Jun 1830 (Canon 1836) ; m. 19 May 1835 Frances, youngest dau. of George Worsley (qv) ; d. 4 Mar 1858, aged 57.
WEBBER, JAMES, son of William Webber (qv) ; bapt. 16 Jun 1772 ; adm. 9 Sep 1783 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1789, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1790 – res 21 Dec 1813, Tutor 1794-1810, Junior Censor 1804-5, Senior Censor 1806-10, Catechist 1806-10, Librarian 1808 ; BA 1793 ; MA 1796 ; BD 1807 ; DD 1829 ; adm.Middle Temple 8 Feb 1790 ; ordained deacon 31 May 1795 (Oxford), priest 8 May 1796 (London) ; Chaplain to British Embassy, Copenhagen 1795 ; Curate, Drayton, Oxfordshire 10 Mar 1798 (still 1802) ; Vicar of St.Mary Magdalen, Oxford 31 Jan 1803 – Jan 1808 ; Perpetual Curate of Great Torrington, Devon 28 Jun – Dec 1810 ; Vicar of Sutton on the Forest, Yorks., 22 Jan 1811 – Aug 1812 ; Chaplain to Speaker of House of Commons 1812-5 ; Whitehall Preacher 1812-5 ; Prebendary of York 29 May 1812 – Nov 1828, Chichester May 1813 – Jul 1827, Ripon 20 Aug 1814 – Nov 1828, and Westminster from 24 Feb 1816 ; Rector of Kirkham, Lancs., from 18 Jan 1813 ; Curate, St.Margaret’s, Westminster 26 Feb 1828-35 ; Dean of Ripon from 28 Nov 1828 ; m. 13 Sep 1813 Caroline Frances, sister of Henry Fynes-Clinton (adm.1796, qv) ; d. 3 Sep 1847, aged 75.
WEBBER, ROBERT, son of Robert Webber, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, attorney (an illegitimate son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox), and Mary Andrews, St.Dunstan in the West, London ; bapt. 25 Dec 1715 ; adm. ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (fourth form) ; KS 1729 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1734, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1734, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1735, matr.1734 ; BA 1737/8 ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1737 (Lincoln), priest 20 Jan 1739/40 (St Asaph) ; Rector of St.Laurence, Winchester, from 20 Mar 1739/40 ; Domestic Chaplain to John, Baron De La Warr ; dead by 12 Oct 1742.
WEBBER, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Sep 1723 ; in under school lists 1727.
WEBBER, THOMAS CHARLES, eldest son of Daniel Webb Webber KC (I) MP, Leekfield, co.Sligo, and Sarah, dau. of Charles Wood, Leekfield, co.Sligo ; b. ; adm. 14 Jun 1813 ; KS (aged 14) 1815 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1819, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1819 ; BA 1822 ; MA 1827 ; ordained ; Rector of Castle Macadam, co.Wicklow, from 1826 ; m. 5 Sep 1832 Frances, second dau. of Rev.Thomas Kelly, Kellyville, Queen’s County, Ireland ; d. 27 Feb 1845.
WEBBER, WILLIAM, brother of Robert Webber (qv) ; b.15 Mar 1723 [or 1723/4] ; in school lists 1731-6 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.sizar 21 May 1743, aged 18, Matthews Scholar 10 Nov 1743, Poor Scholar 14 Jan 1743/4, matr.1743 ; BA 1746/7 ; MA 1752 (incorp.Oxford 1754) ; ordained deacon 7 Jun 1747 (Norwich), priest 24 Jul 1748 (Chichester) ; Domestic Chaplain to Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Lennox 19 Aug 1747, to Dowager Duchess of Richmond 26 Jan 1750/1, and to Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv) 1 May 1752 (still 1766) ; Rector of Selsey, Sussex, from 13 Jun 1750 ; Prebendary of Chichester from 30 Oct 1761, Canon Residentiary from 7 Aug 1772 ; Rector of West Stoke, Sussex, 30 Jun 1766-75 ; Rector of Birdham, Sussex, from 15 Aug 1775 ; FRS 5 Jun 1766 ; m. c.1760 Ann, dau. of John Smith, Chichester, Sussex, surgeon ; d. 18 Jun 1790, aged 66.
WEBBER, WILLIAM CHARLES, second son of Charles Webber (adm.1772, qv) ; bapt. 9 Apr 1797 ; adm. 29 Mar 1806 ; left Bartholomewtide 1809 ; entered Royal Navy 1 Sep 1809 ; Midshipman on HMS Eurotas when she captured French ship La Clorinde 25 Feb 1814 ; Lieut., 3 Oct 1825 ; half-pay ; Commander 1 Jul 1864 ; m. 18 Nov 1829 Catharine, dau. of Lieut.-Col.George Mason CB, EICS Bengal, Bengal Artillery ; d. 19 Apr 1869, aged 72.
WEBBER, WILLIAM CHARLES FYNES, eldest son of James Webber (qv) ; b. 1 Jan 1815 ; adm. 5 Apr 1826 ; KS 1829 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1833, matr. 23 May 1833, Westminster Student ; BA 1837 ; MA 1839 ; an Usher at the School 1837-40 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1839, priest 20 Dec 1840 (both Oxford) ; Perpetual Curate of Maiden Bradley, Wilts., 1842-4 ; Rector of St.Botolph’s, Aldersgate, London 6 Jun 1845 – 3 Aug 1876 ; Minor Canon of St.Paul’s 2 Dec 1851 – 23 Dec 1858, Sub-Dean from 23 Dec 1858, Succentor 1859-75 ; m. 19 Apr 1853 his cousin Catherine Mary, eldest dau. of William Charles Webber (qv) ; d. at Lausanne, Switzerland 27 Jun 1881.
WEBBER, WILLIAM GEORGE EVERARD, son of William Charles Webber (qv) ; b. 12 Aug 1832 ; adm. 30 Jan 1847 ; left Christmas 1848 ; Ensign, 42nd Foot 23 Nov 1852 ; Lieut., 11 Aug 1854 ; Capt., 10 Aug 1855 ; served in Crimean War 1854-5 ; m. 4 May 1858 Catherine, only dau. of Col. Frederick Hammond, 66th Foot, Lauriston House, Dover, Kent ; d. at Sukkur, India 9 Jul 1866.
WEBLEY, EDWARD, only son of Henry Webley, Tidenham, Gloucs. ; b. 22 Apr 1723 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 15) May 1739 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Nov 1741 ; migr. to Jesus Coll., adm.pens. 31 Oct 1743, scholar 1743, matr.1743 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 26 Nov 1745, called to bar 28 Jun 1750 ; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Kingston, Jamaica Jul 1765 ; member of Assembly, Jamaica (in 1760s, still at death) ; Chief Justice of Jamaica from 1774 ; m. 1st (?) Mar 1749 “Miss Hadley”, Bristol, Gloucs. (Penny London Post 27 Mar 1749) ; m. 2nd (?) Mary Ashton ; d. in Jamaica 20 Oct 1777.
WEBSTER, — ; b. ; adm.1803 ; in school list Oct 1803.
WEBSTER, ERNEST RANDOLPH, son of Rev.Samuel King Webster, Vicar of Ingham, Lincs., and his first wife Maria, third dau. of Rev.Herbert Randolph, Rector of Letcombe Bassett, Berks. ; b. 8 Jul 1854 ; adm. 2 Oct 1866, BB ; QS 1868 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1872 (with Triplett), adm.sub-sizar 11 Jul 1872, sizar 1875, matr.1872 ; BA 1876 ; MA 1887 ; ordained deacon 1879, priest 1880 (Winchester) ; held several curacies ; Rector of Rettendon, Essex, from 1905 ; m. 19 Dec 1905 Amy Sophie, eldest dau. of Frederick Beesly MICE, civil engineer ; d. 2 Sep 1912.
WEBSTER, GEORGE EDIS, son of Daniel Webster, Deene, Northants, and Elizabeth Edis (IGI) ; b. 5 Jan 1787 ; adm. ; KS 1801 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1804, adm.pens. 12 May 1804, scholar 26 Apr 1805, matr.1804 ; 12th Wrangler 1808 ; BA 1808 ; MA 1811 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1810, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1811, Senior Fellow 1830, Senior Dean 1831-2 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1811, priest 27 Jun 1812 (both Bristol) ; Rector of Grundisburgh, Suffolk, from 5 Jan 1832 ; m. 1 Mar 1832 Elizabeth, dau. of John Growse, Bilderstone, Suffolk ; d. 25 Nov 1869.
WEBSTER, HENRY ; b. ; adm. ; left 1809.
WEBSTER, JOHN ERNESTUS, younger son of John Webster, Caversham, Berks., and Sarah, dau. of Joseph Webster, Penns, Warwickshire, wire manufacturer ; b. 18 Dec 1785 ; ; in third form Christmas 1798 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1804 ; arrived in India 10 Sep 1805 ; Ensign 6 Sep 1805 ; Lieut., 7 Sep 1805 ; 22nd Bengal Native Infantry 1806 ; Adjutant May 1815 – Nov 1818 ; Capt., 2ndbattalion, 22nd Bengal Native Infantry 9 Oct 1818 ; d. unm. at Calcutta 20 Jan 1822.
WEBSTER, WILLIAM, son of James Webster, London ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1744/5 ; KS 1748 ; left 1751.
WEBSTER, WILLIAM KING, son of Rev.Samuel King Webster, Vicar of Ingham, Lincs., by his second wife Rosa Anna, eldest dau. of John Saunders, Belitha Villas, Barnsbury, Islington, Middlesex [proctor Doctors Commons ?] ; half-brother of Ernest Randolph Webster (qv) ; b. 12 Mar 1865 ; adm. 26 Jan 1877 (R) ; left May 1878 ; at St.Paul’s Sch. Sep 1878 – Dec 1881 ; marine insurance broker, firms Wendt & Co. (partner 1896-1915) and W.K.Webster & Co., Lime Street Square, London (partner 1915-33) ; m. 1898 Agnes Johanna Theodora, dau. of Emil Hermann Theodor Hemken, London (marriage registered Woolwich second quarter 1898) ; d. 20 Nov 1938. [but he apparently (also ?) m. (previously ?) a dau. of Wilhelm Arnold, partner Wendt & Co]
WEDGWOOD, JOHN ALLEN, eldest son of John Wedgwood, Cote House, Bristol, banker, and Louisa Jane, sister of John Hensleigh Allen (qv) ; grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, potter ; b. 20 Jun 1796 ; adm. Christmas 1811 ; left 1813 ; ordained deacon 7 Oct 1821, priest 29 Sep 1822 (both Chester) ; Perpetual Curate of Maer, Staffs., 10 Aug 1825-64 ; d.unm. 19 Jul 1882.
WEDGWOOD, THOMAS JOSIAH, brother of John Allen Wedgwood (qv) ; b. 10 Sep 1797 ; adm.Christmas 1811 ; left 1811 ; Ensign and Lieut., 3rd Foot Guards 11 Jan 1814 ; Lieut. and Capt., 28 Dec 1820 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 31 Dec 1830 ; ret. 10 Nov 1837 ; served at battle of Waterloo ; m. 1836 Anne Maria, sister of Roper Trevor Tyler (qv) ; d. 7 Nov 1860.
WEEDON, RICHARD, brother of Thomas Weedon (qv) ; b. 4 Nov 1706 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1718 ; in under school list 1720 ; apprenticed to Foot Gregg, attorney, 19 Jul 1725. [perhaps of the Six Clerks’ Office in Jul 1730]
WEEDON, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Weedon, St.Dionis Backchurch, London, and Hampstead, Middlesex, merchant, and his second wife Susanna, widow of Thomas Roberts, London, and sister of Jacob Wachter ; b. 30 Jul 1705 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1718 ; adm.Middle Temple 8 Nov 1723 ; apprenticed to William Sims, attorney, King’s Bench, 4 Jun 1724 ; an attorney, with chambers in Middle Temple Lane ; d. 14 Apr 1740.
WEEKES, see also WEKES.
WEEKES, ABRAHAM, brother of Thomas Hobbs Weekes (qv) ; b. 22 Sep 1717 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1727/8 ; left 1729 ; of Southampton and Rookley, Hampshire ; bankrupt in Jun 1750 ; m. 14 Sep 1743 Frances, sixth dau. of Sir John Astley, Bart., MP, Patshull, Shropshire ; d. at Boulogne, France 8 Jun 1755. [Perhaps 5th Mate, EI Maritime Service 1736-7]
WEEKES, FRANCIS, brother of Thomas Hobbs Weekes (qv) ; bapt. Sparsholt, Hampshire 18 Mar 1719/20 ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1727/8 ; in under school list 1731 ; went to Winchester Coll., scholar 1732-7 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 2 Dec 1737 ; BA 1741 ; of Sparsholt, Hampshire ; dead by 24 Mar 1749/50. [will proved Winchester 1749 : check].
WEEKES, THOMAS HOBBS, eldest son of Hobbs Weekes, Christ Church, Mulde Co., Virginia, North America, and Mary, dau. of Richard Perrott, Virginia ; b. 11 Jun 1715 ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1727/8 ; in under school list 1729 ; New Coll.Oxford, matr. 12 Jul 1731 ; of Southampton, Hampshire ; buried Ashley, Hampshire 29 Apr 1742.
WEGERSLOFF, CHRISTIAN, son of Christian Wegersloff, Palace Yarrd, Westminster, merchant, and his third wife Letitia, dau. of Thomas Collins, London, citizen and vintner ; bapt.St.Mary Whitechapel 11 May 1713 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1727/8 ; in school list Feb 1727/8 ; apprenticed to John Tidmarsh, vintner 7 May 1729 ; m. (by 1739) Sarah —.
WEIR, ARCHIBALD ALFRED EGLES, eldest son of Rev.Archibald Weir DCL, Vicar of Forty Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, and Cassandra Rebecca, eldest dau. of Alfred Jones, Highbury, Middlesex ; b. 27 May 1859 ; adm. 22 Sep 1871 (R) ; Min.Can.1875 ; left Dec 1875 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 May 1877 ; BA 1880 ; MA 1885 ; long distance amateur bicycle champion 1878 ; rode v.Cambridge 1878, 1879 ; adm.Inner Temple 20 May 1881 ; a writer and journalist ; author, The Historical Basis of Modern Europe, 1886, and other works ; m.1st, Anne, dau. of Edward Frederick Christian Ritter PhD, language teacher (marriage registered Edmonton second quarter 1881) ; m.2nd, 7 Sep 1897 Amelia Wathen, youngest dau. of James Cooper, Gray’s Inn, barrister ; d. 26 Dec 1935.
WEIR, PERCY VIPONT, brother of Archibald Alfred Egles Weir (qv) ; b. 2 Jul 1860 ; adm. 16 Jun 1873 ; left Dec 1876 ; in business in South Africa and Rhodesia in 1880s and 1890s ; living in Marylebone, London, in 1911 (1911 Census) ; served in 1914-8 War ; Lieut, RNVR 29 Apr 1915 ; m. at Cape Town, South Africa 4 Oct 1900 Ada Beatrice Mildred, youngest dau. of Major-Gen.Henry Heyman, Royal Artillery ; d. 5 Feb 1925.
WEITE, see also WAYTE.
WEITE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1715/6.
WEKES, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
WEKETT, see WICKETT.
WELBOURNE, ROBERT, son of Robert Welbourne, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1708 ; QS 1709 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1713, matr. 23 Jun 1713, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1713 – void 10 Jul 1731 (expiry year of grace as R,Wendlebury from 1 Jul 1730) ; BA 1717 ; MA 1720 ; adm.Inner Temple 12 Feb 1716/7 ; ordained deacon 18 Feb 1721/2 (London), priest 20 May 1722 (Oxford) ; Rector of Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, from 25 Jun 1730 ; Rector of Bletchley, Bucks., 15 Mar 1741/2-4 ; Rector of Lowick, Northants 31 Aug 1744-61 ; bequeathed a collection of Greek and Roman coins to Christ Church, Oxford ; buried Wendlebury, Oxfordshire 11 Oct 1764, unm.
WELBOURNE, WILLIAM, brother of Robert Welbourne (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; QS (aged 15) 1713 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.pens. 7 Jul 1714 (as Welburne), aged 17, scholar 1716 ; BA 1718.
WELBY, — ; b. ; at school in 1657 (Chapter Muniments) ; a witness on Busby’s behalf in the Bagshaw dispute before the Governors in 1657.
WELBY, ARTHUR EARLE, third son of Sir William Earle Welby, Bart., MP, and Wilhelmina, only dau. of William Spry LLD, Governor of Barbados ; b. 22 Aug 1815 ; adm. 28 Jan 1828 ; left Dec 1829 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 Apr 1835 ; University Coll.Durham ; BA 1846 ; ordained deacon Sep 1847, priest Sep 1848 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Newton, Lincs., 1848-58 ; Rector of Holy Trinity, Hulme, Lancs., from 1858 ; m. 13 May 1843 Julia Catherine, dau. of Capt.George Macdonald, 17th Foot ; d. 26 Nov 1884.
WELCH, ARTHUR ; b. ; adm. 15 Jan 1806 ; left 1809. [probably elder surviving son of Richard Welch (qv) ; b. 20 Jan 1797 ; Lieut., Royal Navy 9 Feb 1822 ; Chief Officer, Coast Guard ; Magistrate, Jamaica Jan 1835 ; m. ; d. in Jamaica 2 Feb 1838, aged 41, after a fall from his horse, “one of Her Majesty’s Special Magistrates for the island”]
WELCH, JOHN, only son of John Welch, St.Kitts, West Indies, and Frances — ; b. ; adm. 19 Apr 1786 ; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1791 ; left 1795 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Jun 1795, but did not matr. ; adm.Middle Temple 12 Jan 1792.
WELCH, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Welch, Chief Justice of Jamaica, and Lucretia Mary Favel, sister of George Dehany (qv) ; b. ; adm. 1 Feb 1779 ; left Aug 1786 ; probably “Welsh”, who played cricket for OWW against Old Etonians at Lord’s 13-14 May 1793 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Oct 1786, aged 16 ; BA 1790 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1784 ; of the Hyde estate, Jamaica ; m. (settlement dated 5 Apr 1792) Alice Anne, younger dau. of Rev.Nathaniel Preston, Swainston, co.Meath, Ireland, and his first wife ; d. at Swainston, co.Meath 20 Apr 1809.
WELD, GEORGE HENRY, fifth son of William Weld, Twickenham, Middlesex, and Jane, dau.of John Jones, Tarporley, Cheshire ; b. 25 Feb 1803 ; adm. 15 Sep 1817 (G) ; left 8 Feb 1819 ; articled to Joseph Jessopp, Waltham Cross, Essex, attorney 28 Aug 1821, transferred to Samuel Weld, Saville Place, New Burlington Street, London 21 Jan 1826 ; adm. attorney, King’s Bench 4 May 1827, and Common Pleas 23 Nov 1830 ; practised at Woolwich, Kent ; m. 20 Feb 1830 Mary Caroline, dau. of William Breeze ; d. 13 Feb 1850.
WELD, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1665 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1668, adm.pens. 5 Jun 1668, scholar 1669, matr.1668 ; BA 1671/2 ; MA 1675 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1674 – c.1684, Tutor 1676-81 ; ordained deacon 21 May 1676, priest 22 Dec 1678 (both London) ; Vicar of Ware, Herts., 10 Dec 1681 – Mar 1681/2 ; Vicar of Masham with Kirkby Malzeard, Yorks., 5 Apr 1682-8 ; Vicar of Haydor with Kelby, Lincs., from 17 Apr 1688 ; dead by 16 Mar 1727/8.
WELD, THOMAS, sixth son of Sir John Weld, Kt MP, Willey, Shropshire, and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir George Whitmore, Kt, Lord Mayor of London ; bapt. Willey, Shroipshire 18 Jul 1657 ; adm. ; KS 1673 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1676, adm.pens. 23 Jun 1676, aged 18, scholar 1677, matr.1676 ; BA 1679/80 ; MA 1683 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1682 – c.1690 ; Lieut., Independent Co.Foot 26 Jun 1685 ; Capt., 14th Foot 24 Aug 1685 ; re-commissioned on regiment being re-formed 28 Feb 1698 [check] ; retd. before 1694 [check] ; buried Bridgnorth, Shropshire 23 May 1700.
WELD-FORESTER, CECIL, 1ST BARON FORESTER, eldest son of Cecil Forester (qv) ; bapt. 7 Apr 1767 ; adm. 18 Feb 1779 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1785 ; MP Wenlock 1790-1820 ; created Baron Forester 17 Jul 1821 ; a famous hunting man, Master Shropshire Foxhounds 1811-6 ; assumed additional surname of Weld 24 Aug 1811 ; m. 16 Jun 1800 Lady Katharine Mary Manners, second dau. of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland KG PC ; d. 23 May 1828.
WELD-FORESTER, HON.EMELIUS JOHN, fifth son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (qv) ; b. 10 Feb 1815 ; adm. 27 Sep 1827 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 28 Dec 1832 ; Lieut., 9 Apr 1838 ; Capt., 23 May 1845 ; Maj., 26 Sep 1857 ; half-pay 5 Mar 1858 ; Lieut.-Col., 10 Nov 1868 ; retd., hon.rank of Col., 1 Jul 1881 ; served in Afghan War 1838-42 ; d. unm. 29 Jan 1899.
WELD-FORESTER, GEORGE CECIL, 3rd BARON FORESTER, second son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (qv) ; b. 10 May 1807 ; adm. 20 May 1818 ; left Bartholomewtide 1822 ; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 27 May 1824 ; Lieut., 1 Aug 1826 ; Capt., 6 Jul 1832 ; Maj., 9 Nov 1846 ; Lieut.-Col., 19 Sep 1848 ; Col., 25 Nov 1854 ; Major-Gen., 29 Jan 1863 ; Lieut.-Gen., 25 Oct 1871 ; Gen. (retd.) 1 Oct 1877 ; MP (Conservative ) Wenlock 17 Jun 1828 – 10 Oct 1874 ; “father” of the House of Commons 1873-4 ; Groom of the Bedchamber Feb 1830 – c. Feb 1831 ; Comptroller of the Household Mar – Dec 1852, Feb 1858 – Jul 1859 ; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852 ; succ.brother as 3rd Baron Forester 10 Oct 1874 ; for many years a well-known figure in London society ; m. 8 Nov 1862 Hon.Mary Ann Ricketts, widow of David Ochterlony Dyce-Sombré MP, Anglo-Indian adventurer, and third dau. of Edward Jervis Ricketts, 2nd Viscount St.Vincent ; d. 14 Feb 1886.
WELD-FORESTER, JOHN GEORGE, 2nd BARON FORESTER, eldest son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (qv) ; b. 9 Aug 1801 ; adm. 13 Jun 1814 ; left Bartholomewtide 1818 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Nov 1820 ; MP Wenlock 1826 – 23 May 1828 ; succ. father as 2nd Baron Forester 23 May 1828 ; took Conservative whip in Commons and Lords ; Captain, Gentlemen at Arms 8 Sep 1841 – Jul 1846 ; Privy Councillor 14 Sep 1841 ; Master, Belvoir Foxhounds 1830-58 ; m. 10 Jun 1856 Alexandrina Julia Theresa Wilhelmina Sophia, widow of Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne PC GCB, diplomat, and dau. of Joachim Charles Louis Mortimer, Graf von Maltzan ; d. 10 Oct 1874.
WELD-FORESTER, ORLANDO WATKIN, 4TH BARON FORESTER, fourth son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (qv) ; b. 18 Apr 1813 ; adm. 10 Jun 1825 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 24 Sep 1831, matr.Mich.1833 ; MA 1835 ; ordained deacon 25 Sep 1836, priest 21 May 1837 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Dunton, Bucks., 22 May 1837 ; Rector of Broseley, Shropshire 1841-59 ; Prebendary of Hereford 30 Nov 1846 – res by 14 Sep 1868 ; Rector of Doveridge, Derbs., 1859-67 ; Rector of Gedling, Notts., 1867 – Nov 1887 ; Chancellor and Canon Residentiary of York from 18 Dec 1874, also Chancellor of York 19 May 1874 – May 1891 ; succ.brother as 4th Baron Forester 14 Feb 1886 ; author, Letters and Sermons, and other works ; m.1st, 14 Jul 1840 Sophia Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Norman MP, Melton Mowbray, Leics., landowner ; m.2nd, 5 Oct 1875 Emma Maria, eldest dau. of William Tollemache ; d. 22 Jun 1894.
WELFITT, TIMOTHY ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; a contributor to the congratulatory verses to Charles I written by the KSS on his return from Scotland in 1633 (British Library, Royal MSS) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 May 1635 ; BA 1638/9 ; MA 1642 ; DD 1661 ; Master, Caistor GS 1640 ; ordained deacon and priest 27 Jul 1648 (Oxford) ; Rector of Rand, Lincs., from 17 Aug 1648 ; Rector of Grimoldby, Lincs., 18 Nov 1664 – Oct 1669 ; Rector of South Kelsey St Mary, Lincs., 4 Apr 1668 (disp. to hold with R.Rand) ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 22 Dec 1662 ; m.1st, by 1647, Susanna — ; m.2nd, 19 Jun 1651 [check] Eleanor, dau. of Laurence Caldwell, Thorganby, Lincs. ; d. 7 Feb 1685/6, aged 64.
WELLDON, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1566-7 (tutors, the Head Master and Prebendary Watts) (Chapter Muniments 54010-5).
WELLES, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS 18 Dec 1553 (Chapter Muniments).
WELLES, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-3 (Chapter Muniments).
WELLESLEY, AUGUSTUS COLLEY DE VERE, fourth son of Richard Wellesley MP, Commissioner, Stamp Office, and Jane, dau. of George Chambers MP, Hartfield, Hunts. ; b. 15 Apr 1831 ; at King’s Coll.Sch. 1840 ; adm. 13 Feb 1843 ; Clerk, Home Office ; of Clover Hill, co.Antrim ; musician and composer ; m. 12 Aug 1854 Clara, younger dau. of Richard Ashmore, Belfast, Ireland ; d. 2 Jan 1873.
WELLINGS, — ; b. ; in school list Oct 1767 ; chorister.
WELLS, see also WELLES.
WELLS, — ; b. ; adm. 19 Sep 1768.
WELLS (or WELLES), CORNELIUS ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1562, adm.scholar 1565, matr.Mich.1564 ; BA 1567/8 ; MA 1571 ; BD 1578 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1570 – c.1578 ; ordained deacon 31 Dec 1569 (Ely), aged 22 ; Vicar of Masham with Kirkby Malzeard, Yorks., from 8 Feb 1577/8 ; d. 1600 (will dated 15 Dec 1599).
WELLS, DYMOKE, second son of Dymoke Wells, Grebby Hall, Lincs., and Anne, dau. of Thomas Waterhouse, Beckingham Hall, Notts. ; b. 24 Feb 1804 ; adm. 25 Sep 1815 ; left Midsummer 1817 ; Queens Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 17 May 1831, matr. Mich.1831, but did not graduate ; presented a petition to the Crown in 1839 to terminate the abeyance of the barony of Kyme in his favour, but did not proceed further with the claim ; d. unm. 2 Feb 1852.
WELLS, EDMUND LIONEL, see WELLS-DYMOKE, EDMUND LIONEL.
WELLS, EDWARD, son of Rev.Edward Wells, Vicar of Corsham, Wilts., and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.John Whitborne, Vicar of Croscombe, Somerset ; b. 27 Dec 1667 ; adm. ; KS 1680 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1686, matr.17 Dec 1686, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1686 – void 1704 (expiry year of grace as R.Cotesbach from 26 Mar 1701/2), Tutor 1691-1702, Catechist 1702-3 ; BA 1690 ; MA 1693 ; BD and DD 1704 ; delivered the first Fell oration at Christ Church 10 Jul 1694 (Thompson, Christ Church, 99) ; ordained ; Rector of Cotesbach, Leics., from 2 Jan 1701/2 ; Rector of Bletchley, Bucks., from 28 Mar 1716 ; quarrelled with his patron and former pupil Browne Willis (qv), and slandered him from the pulpit ; a mathematician, geographer and divine ; author, A Treatise of Ancient and Present Geography, 1701, and of numerous other works ; d. unm.11 Jul 1727. ODNB.
WELLS, GEORGE FRANCIS, eldest son of Rev.George Wells, Rector of Boxford, Kent, and Augusta, fourth dau. of Rev.John Starky DD, Rector of Charlinch, Somerset ; b. 6 Sep 1836 ; adm. 23 Jan 1849 (G) ; QS 1851 ; left 1855 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Jan 1856 ; BA 1860 ; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1861 (both Salisbury) ; Curate, Chiseldon, Wilts., 1860-4, Welford, Berks., 1864-6, Woodchurch, Kent 1866-9 ; Chaplain, Middlesex Hospital 1869-71 ; Curate, Boxford, Kent, 1871-2, Rector 1872-93 ; Rector of St.Peter’s, March, Cambs., from 1893 ; m. 21 Sep 1875 Anna White, dau. of William White Woodbury, Portland, Maine, USA ; d. 16 Apr 1916.
WELLS, GIFFARD, son of Jonah Smith Wells, Islington, Middlesex, stockbroker, and Diana, sister of John Giffard (qv) ; b. 22 Oct 1802 ; adm. 22 May 1815 ; left Whitsun 1816 ; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1816-20 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 21Jul 1819, matr.Mich.1820 ; migr. to Sidney Sussex Coll., adm. 22 Jan 1822 ; BA 1824 ; MA 1827 ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1825, priest 25 Mar 1827 (both Salisbury) ; Vicar of St.Thomas’s, Stourbridge, Worcs., 15 Aug 1833 – Jun 1858 ; Head Master, Stourbridge GS 1833-55 ; m. 17 Dec 1829 Mary Anne, dau. of Joseph Bradshaw, Ham House, Cheltenham, Gloucs. ; d. 3 Aug 1876.
WELLS, HARRY MORLAND, sixth son of Frederick Octavius Wells, EICS Bengal, and Maria Alicia, dau. of Lieut.-Col.Richard Scott, EICS Bengal ; b. 16 Mar 1841 ; adm. Jan 1854 ; at Cheltenham Coll. 1856-9 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Mar 1859, matr.Mich.1859 ; BA 1863 ; ordained deacon 1864, priest 1865 (both Bath & Wells) ; Curate, Alford, Somerset 1864-6 ; held other curacies ; Rector of Denton with Caldicot, Hunts., 1871-5 ; Vicar of Prestwood, Bucks., 1875-92 ; m. 14 Feb 1871 Frances Ellen Paterson, dau. of Joseph Busk, Codicote Lodge, Welwyn, Herts. ; d. 7 Feb 1932.
WELLS, JOHN, brother of Joseph Wells (qv) ; bapt. Hungerford, Berks., 4 Apr 1694 (IGI) ; at school under Freind (Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., ii, 210) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Jul 1713, aged 17, matr.1713 ; BA 1716/7 ; MA 1724 ; ordained deacon 9 Feb 1717/8, priest 4 Jun 1721 (both London) ; living 1749. [presumably John Wells BA, Rector of Manningford Bruce, Wilts., from 4 Jul 1722 ; m. Sarah —- ; buried 9 Jun 1763]
WELLS, JOSEPH, son of Rev.Joseph Wells, Vicar of Hungerford, Berks., and Sarah — (IGI) ; bapt.Hungerford, Berks., 13 Apr 1690 (IGI) ; adm. ; BB in 1703 ; QS 1706 ; d. 1708.
WELLS-DYMOKE, EDMUND LIONEL, brother of Dymoke Wells (qv) ; b. 21 Mar 1814 ; adm. 6 Feb 1824 ; Queens’ Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 14 Dec 1831, matr. Lent 1832, but did not graduate ; adm.Middle Temple 14 Nov 1835, called to bar 2 Nov 1838 ; assumed additional surname of Dymoke by royal licence 27 Aug 1866 ; m.1st, 22 Apr 1840 Mary Ann, eldest dau. of Thomas Galliers, Stapleton Castle, Herefs. ; m.2nd, 14 Jul 1864 Laura De Blair, dau. of Thomas Robert Jefferson MD, Gloucester Square, London ; d. 15 Jun 1892.
WELSTED, LEONARD ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1667, adm.pens. 1 Jul 1667, matr.1667 ; BA 1670/1 ; MA 1674 (incorp.Oxford 11 Jul 1676) ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1673 – c.1687, Tutor 1677-83 ; ordained deacon 21 May 1676, priest 24 May 1676 (both London) ; Chaplain to John Dolben (qv), Archbishop of York ; Prebendary of York from 30 Dec 1684 ; Vicar of Abington, Northants 15 Jun 1685-92 ; Vicar of St.Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, from Jan 1692/3 ; m. 12 Dec 1686 Anne, second dau. of Thomas Staveley, Leicester, barrister and antiquary ; d. 13 Nov 1694.
WELSTED, LEONARD, eldest son of Leonard Welsted (qv) ; bapt. Abington, Northants 3 Jun 1688 ; adm. ; QS 1703 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1707, adm.pens. 12 Jun 1707, aged 18, but did not matr. ; Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office ; afterwards Clerk Extraordinary (by 1725) and Clerk in Ordinary (from 1730) to Clerk of Deliveries, Ordnance Office ; Commissioner for managing State Lottery May 1731 ; quarrelled with the poet Alexander Pope, who immortalised him in the Dunciad ; translated Longinus on the Sublime, 1712 ; author, Apple-Pye, 1704 (first published in 1713), and numerous other poems ; his collected Works in Verse and Prose were published in 1787 ; m.1st, c.1707 Frances, dau. of Henry Purcell, Organist of Westminster Abbey ; m.2nd, 4 Dec 1712 (IGI) Anna Maria, dau. of Col.William Walker, Tankerstown, Queen’s Co., Ireland ; d. Aug 1747. ODNB.
WELTON, RICHARD, son of Rev.Richard Welton DD, Rector of St.Mary, Whitechapel, Middlesex, afterwards a Non-Juring bishop and Minister of Christ Church, Philadelphia, North America, and Temperance, dau. of Robert Goodwin, Hollesley, Suffolk ; bapt.St.Dunstan, Stepney 17 Jun 1708 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Mar 1717/8 ; in under school list 1722 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1724 ; BA 1728 ; MA (from St.Alban’s Hall) 1739 ; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1731, priest 31 May 1734 (both Oxford).
WENKAM, — ; b. ; in school list 1754. [probably John Wenham, illegitimate son of John Wenham, Hayes, Kent, director South Sea Company ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 Mar 1759, aged 18 ; BA 1762 ; MA 1765 ; subscriber to Peirson Lloyd, Sermons, 1765 ; ordained deacon 23 Feb 1766 (Lincoln, lit.dim. from Chester), priest 23 Mar 1766 (Chester) ; Domestic Chaplain to 2nd Earl De La Warr 8 Dec 1766 ; Rector of Hamsey, Sussex ; buried Hamsey, Sussex 13 Mar 1773]
WENMAN, PHILIP, 7th VISCOUNT WENMAN (I), eldest son of Philip Wenman, 6th Viscount Wenman (I), and Sophia, eldest dau. of James Herbert MP, Tythrop, Oxfordshire ; b. 18 Apr 1742 ; adm.Jan 1752 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Feb 1760 ; MA 1762 ; DCL 7 Jul 1773 ; succ.father as 7thViscount Wenman (I) 16 Aug 1760 ; MP Oxfordshire 1768-96 ; m. 7 Jul 1766 Lady Eleanor Bertie, sister of Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon (qv) ; d. 26 Mar 1800.
WENMAN, HON.THOMAS FRANCIS, brother of Philip Wenman, 7th Viscount Wenman (I) (qv) ; b. 18 Nov 1745 ; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1771) ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1762 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll., from 1765 ; BCL 1771 ; DCL 1780 ; Keeper of the Records, Oxford Univ., from 15 Jan 1781 ; Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford Univ., from 1789 (concurrently Prebendary of Salisbury, although not in holy orders, from 3 Oct 1789) ; adm.Inner Temple 12 May 1764, called to bar 9 Feb 1770, chambers Inner Temple 10 Feb 1769 – May 1781, when they were destroyed by fire ; MP Westbury 1774-80 ; FRS 21 Jan 1779 ; drowned in river Cherwell, near Water Eaton, Oxfordshire, while collecting botanical specimens, unm. 8 Apr 1796. ODNB.
WENTWORTH, — ; b. ; in school list 1797.
WENTWORTH, SIR CHARLES MARY, BART., only son of Sir John Wentworth, Bart., DCL, Governor of New Hampshire and Lieut.-Governor of Nova Scotia, American loyalist, and his cousin Frances, widow of Theodore Atkinson, junior, Secretary of Province of New Hampshire, and dau. of Samuel Wentworth, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ; b. 18 Jan 1775 ; adm. 1 Apr 1785 ; KS 1788 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1792, but went to Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1792 ; BA 1796 ; MA 1799 ; BCL and DCL 1806 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 20 Oct 1795 ; member of Council, Nova Scotia 1801-5 ; succ.father as 2nd baronet 8 Apr 1820 ; d.unm. 10 Apr 1844.
WENTWORTH, GODFREY, brother of William Wentworth (adm.1738, qv) ; b. 25 Apr 1730 ; adm.May 1739 ; left 1746 ; buried Woolley, Yorks., 20 Aug 1757, unm.
WENTWORTH, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1562. [Perhaps = William Wentford, Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens., scholar 1562, matr.1562 ; BA 1565/6 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1566 – c.1567]
WENTWORTH, WILLIAM, eldest son of Godfrey Wentworth MP, Woolley Park, Yorks., and Dorothy, sister of Sir Lionel Pilkington, Bart. (qv) ; bapt.Darton, Yorks. 18 Nov 1728 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 9) May 1738 ; left 1744 ; buried Woolley, Yorks., 2 May 1746, unm.
WERRY, GEORGE FRANCIS, son of Francis Howe Stephen Werry, British Vice-Consul successively at Mitylene, Greece, and at Tunis, and his first wife Jeanette Reddish ; b. Mitylene, Greece 25 Apr 1852 ; adm. 27 Sep 1866 ; left Aug 1869 ; of Dagmar House, Cowes, Isle of Wight (at death) ; m. 9 Feb 1888 Sarah Elizabeth, widow of John Ellis Morton, Lisburn, co.Antrim, agent of Ulster Bank there, and dau. of Rev.William Edmund Breakey, Lisburn, co.Antrim, Presbyterian minister ; d. 20 Aug 1915. WESLEY, see also WESTLEY.
WESLEY, CHARLES, brother of Samuel Wesley (qv) ; b. 18 Dec 1707 ; adm. Apr 1716 ; KS 1721 ; Capt. of the School 1725 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1726, matr. 13 Jun 1726, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1726 – void by marriage 5 May 1749, Tutor 1732-3 ; acquired the nickname “Methodist” while at university ; BA 1730 ; MA 12 Mar 1732/3 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1735 (Oxford, as Thomas Wesley), priest 29 Sep 1735 (London) ; Secretary to James Oglethorpe, Governor of Georgia 1736-8 (but was only in Georgia to Jul 1736) ; became “converted” 21 May 1738 ; settled at Bristol and made evangelistic journeys through the country 1739-56 ; removed to Bath 1761 and to London 1771 ; preached at the City Road Chapel ; called by Robert Southey (qv) “the sweet singer of Methodism” ; composed some 6500 hymns ; his poetical works, together with those of his brother John, were published in thirteen volumes 1868-72 ; m. 8 Apr 1749 Sarah, third dau. of Marmaduke Gwynne, Garth, Llanlleonfel, Breconshire ; d. 29 Mar 1788. Tablet to him and his brother John erected in Westminster Abbey 1871. ODNB.
WESLEY, SAMUEL, eldest son of Rev.Samuel Wesley LLD, Rector of Epworth, Lincs., and Susanna, youngest dau. of Rev.Samuel Annesley, Vicar of St.Giles’s, Cripplegate, London, afterwards a Nonconformist minister ; b. 10 Feb 1690/1 ; adm. Dec 1703 (“the day after the high wind”) ; BB 1705 ; QS 1707 (“by Bp Sprat’s favour”) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1711, matr. 9 Jun 1711, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1711 – void 1723 ; BA 1715 ; MA 1718 ; an Usher at the School 1714-34 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1716, priest 9 Mar 1716/7 (both Rochester) ; helped to promote the first Infirmary at Westminster (the origin of both Westminster and St.George’s Hospitals) ; passed over for post of Under Master on Nicholl’s promotion to the Head Mastership in May 1733 ; Head Master, Blundell’s Sch., Tiverton, from Apr 1734 ; author, Poems on Several Occasions, 1736, and other poems ; m. by 1724 Ursula, dau. of Rev. John Berry, Vicar of Watton, Norfolk (and proprietor of a boarding house for Westminster boys) ; d. 6 Nov 1739. ODNB.
WEST, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).
WEST, CHARLES, son of Charles West, Westminster, apothecary ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1714 ; KS 1715 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1719, adm.pens. 28 May 1719, scholar 29 Apr 1720, matr.1720 ; BA 1722/3 ; MA 1726 ; MD 1728 ; medical practitioner at Great Stanmore, Middlesex ; m.1st, — ; m.2nd, lic. 19 Oct 1748 [check date] Mary Astley, Great Stanmore, Middlesex ; m.3rd, 6 Feb 1748/9 Susanna Derby, St.Mary Woolnoth, London, widow. [father presumably Charles West, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, apothecary, who had licence to marry Elizabeth Mansell, same parish 4 Jan 1691/2] [she dau. of Christopher Mansel, Bucks., and buried Westminster Abbey]
WEST, CHARLES FRANCIS LUTTRELL, son of Rev.Charles West, Head Master, Northampton GS, and Eleanor — ; b. (Horley, Oxfordshire) 5 Jul 1828 ; adm. 6 Jan 1844 (G) ; rowed v.Eton 29 Jul 1845, 30 Jul 1846 ; left 1847 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 22 Jun 1847, matr.Mich.1847 ; 32ndWrangler 1851 ; BA 1851 ; MA 1854 ; ordained deacon 1851, priest 1852 (both Peterborough) ; Curate, All Saints, Northampton, and All Saints, Stamford, Lincs. ; Rector of Shenley, Bucks., 1866-77 ; living in Wandsworth, Surrey 1881 (1881 Census) ; m. 27 Oct 1873 Ellen Matilda, only dau. of Wenman Langham Woodford, Upton, Northants ; d. 25 Feb 1892.
WEST, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1735.
WEST, JOHNSON, son of Johnson West, St.John’s, Westminster, and Elizabeth — ; b. 4 Jun 1745 ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1760 ; left 1760. [He or his father will PCC 5 Jun 1776, cooper, St.John’s, Westminster] [presumably Johnson West, Market Street, St.John’s, Westminster, cooper, bankrupt 1785, 1791 ; still living in Market Street 1796]
WEST, RICHARD, son of Thomas West, Hardington, Northants, and his second wife Dorothy, sister of Sir Richard Lane (qv) ; bapt. Hardington, Northants 6 Oct 1614 ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1629 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1632, matr. 15 Feb 1632/3, Westminster Student ; BA 1636 ; MA 1639 (incorp.Cambridge 1641) ; DD 1669 ; ejected from Westminster Studentship 1649 by Parliamentary Visitors ; ordained ; Rector of Shillingstone, Dorset, from 1649 ; Prebendary of Wells from 21 Apr 1664 ; Rector of Durweston, Dorset, from 30 Dec 1664 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II [but not listed by Bucholz] ; m. Anne, dau. of Thomas Bettesworth, Winchester, Hampshire ; d. 22 May 1690.
WEST, SAMUEL HATCH, eldest son of John West, Bayswater, London, Deputy Inspector-Gen. of Mails, General Post Office, and Sarah Hatch ; b. 13 Apr 1848 ; adm. 30 May 1861 ; QS 1863 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1867, matr. 12 Jun 1867 ; 2ndcl.Classics (Mods) 1869, 1st cl.Nat.Science 1871 ; Radcliffe Travelling Fellow 1874 ; MA and MB 1875 ; MD 1882 ; St.Bartholomew’s Hospital ; MRCP 1877 ; FRCP 1885 ; Assistant Physician, St.Bartholomew’s Hospital 1887-1903, Physician 1903-13, also Lecturer in Medicine there ; Consulting Physician, Royal Free Hospital ; a Governor of the School from 1907 ; Busby Trustee 22 May 1917 ; author, Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, 1909 ; m. 22 Dec 1881 Margaret Nanny, dau. of Sir Edward Frankland KCB FRS DCL, Professor of Chemistry, Royal School of Mines ; d. 2 Mar 1920.
WESTBROOK, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1730 ; left 1738. [John Westbrook, gentleman, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, will dated 7 Nov 1767, proved PCC 26 Feb 1768 (he was of Chapel Street, Westminster)] [“John Westbrook, Esq.” subscriber to Peirson Lloyd’s Sermons, 1765] [note death 17 Nov 1762 of “Mr.John Westbrook, junior, many years Surgeon of the two parishes of St.Margaret’s and of St.John’s Westminster” (Lloyd’s Evening Post 19 Nov 1762) ; and death 4 Jan 1768 of “Mr.Westbrook, an eminent Surgeon”, “at his house in Dartmouth-street, Westminster” (St.James’s Chronicle 5 Jan 1768) ; presumably it was John Westbrook, junior, who was adm. in 1730]
WESTBY, JOHN, son of Titus Westby, York ; bapt. 6 Jun 1613 St.Gregory by St.Paul, London (IGI) ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f.224). [father presumably St.Paul’s Churchyard, London, draper]
WESTCORN, — ; b. ; at school 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).
WESTENRA, HENRY ROBERT, 3RD BARON ROSSMORE (I), eldest son of Warner Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore (I), and his first wife Mary Anne, second dau. of Charles Walsh, Walsh Park, co.Tipperary ; b. 24 Aug 1792 ; adm. 9 Apr 1804 ; left 1806 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.fellow commoner 4 Jul 1810 ; MP Co.Monaghan 1818-30, 1831-2, 17 May – 30 Jul 1834, 1835 – 10 Aug 1842 ; succ.father as 3rd Baron Rossmore (I) 10 Aug 1842 ; Lord Lieut., Co.Monaghan, from 1843 ; m.1st, 25 Jan 1820 Anne Douglas Hamilton, natural dau. of Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton (S) KT ; m.2nd, 19 May 1846 Julia Ellen Josephine, second dau. of Henry Lloyd, Farinrory, co.Tipperary ; d. 1 Dec 1860.
WESTENRA, HON.JOHN CRAVEN, brother of Henry Robert Westenra, 3rd baron Rossmore (I) (qv) ; b. 31 Mar 1798 ; at school under Carey (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1844) ; Ensign and Lieut., 3rd Foot Guards 4 May 1814 ; Lieut. and Capt., 7 Oct 1824 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 9 Aug 1833 ; retd. 13 Jan 1843 ; MP (Whig) King’s Co. 1835-52 ; m.1st, 31 Mar 1834 Eleanor Mary, widow of Sir Gilbert East, Bart., and sister of Hylton Jolliffe (qv) ; m.2nd, 23 Jul 1842 Ann, dau. of Louis Charles Daubuz, Truro, Cornwall ; d. 5 Dec 1874.
WESTERN, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Western MP, Rivenhall, Essex, and Mary, youngest dau. of Sir Richard Shirley, Bart. ; bapt.St.Andrew’s, Holborn 13 Jan 1713/4 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Dec 1724 ; left 1728 ; went to Hackney Sch. ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm. 4 Nov 1731 ; of Rivenhall Place, Essex ; m. 18 Mar 1735 (IGI) Anne, dau. of Robert Callis ; d. 26 May 1766.
WESTLEY, CHARLES, son of Robert Westley, St.Mary le Bow, London, and Sarah — ; bapt. St.Pancras Soper Lane, London 22 Dec 1715 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1726/7 ; left 1733 ; Lincoln Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Apr 1734 ; BA 1737.
WESTLEY, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1752 ; in school list 1754. [Perhaps Thomas Westley, bapt.St.Mary, Marylebone Road 12 Jan 1740, son of Thomas Westley, and Edith — (IGI)]
WESTMACOTT, CHARLES BABINGTON, son of Augustus Frederick Westmacott, Hertford Street, Mayfair, London, elocutionist, and Hannah, dau. of Samuel Lyons, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, auctioneer and property developer ; b. 5 Feb 1864 ; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (R) ; left Aug 1880 ; emigrated to Australia 1884 ; made debut as actor at Sydney 29 Oct 1887 ; after 1895 combined career as an actor with theatre management ; general manager, J.C.Williamson Ltd, theatrical producers, and lessee of Theatre Royal, Sydney 1916 – Jan 1934 ; a prominent figure in Australian yachting and horse racing ; OBE 4 Oct 1918 ; m. 3 Aug 1893 Rosa Butler ; d. at Sydney 21 Oct 1934. See Australian Dictionary of Biography.
WESTMINSTER, MARQUISES OF, see GROSVENOR.
WESTMORLAND, EARLS OF, see FANE.
WESTMORLAND, HENRY STEWART, eldest son of Hon.Henry Westmorland, Prospect, St.Mary, Jamaica, plantation owner, member Jamaican House of Assembly and Jamaica Legislative Council, and Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Thomas Stewart DD, Rector of Kingston, Jamaica ; b. 30 Jul 1860 ; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (G) ; left Aug 1879 ; owner of Esher plantation, Jamaica ; m. 8 Nov 1882 Agnes Louise, dau. of Wilmot Westmorland, Jamaica, plantation owner [his cousin ?] ; d. in Jamaica 12 Oct 1898.
WESTON, — ; b. ; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
WESTON, ANTHONY, of Staffordshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1614, Westminster Student (still 1616) ; migr. to Gloucester Hall, matr. 30 Oct 1618, aged 18 ; BA 1618 ; MA 1621 ; buried St.Thomas, Oxford 10 Jun 1622. [possibly Anthony Weston, son of Ralph Weston, bapt.Rugeley, Staffs., 27 Jan 1597 (IGI)]
WESTON, HAMBDEN, brother of Robert Weston (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1728 ; left 1733 ; adm.Inner Temple 10 May 1735 ; apprenticed to William Ingram, New Inn, attorney, 25 Jun 1735 ; adm.Staple Inn 2 Feb 1747/8 (as Hampden Weston).
WESTON, JOHN, brother of Richard Weston (qv) ; bapt.St.James, Clerkenwell 19 Apr 1724 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1735 ; left 1737 ; tallow chandler, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, and Hatton Street, Holborn, Middlesex ; Master, Tallow Chandlers Company 1775 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Pippin, Clipston, Northants ; d.1785.
WESTON, RICHARD, son of Richard Weston, Clerkenwell, London, tallow chandler, and Catherine — ; bapt. St.James, Clerkenwell (IGI) 3 Nov 1719 ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1729 ; left 1735 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 20 Feb 1735/6 ; BA 1739 ; MA 1742 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1741 (Lincoln) [but check], priest 18 Feb 1743/4 (Coventry and Lichfield) to curacy of Dunchurch, Warwicks. ; dead by 1784.
WESTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Weston, Inner Temple, London, and Martha — ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1719 ; in under school list 1723 ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 Apr 1727 ; adm.Inner Temple 10 May 1727, called to bar 24 Nov 1733, left Inner Temple 1748 ; migrated to Lincoln’s Inn [check] ; Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (I) 1772 – c. May 1774 ; Joint Resident Secretary to Lord Lieut., Ireland 19 Jun 1775 – Feb 1789 ; Solicitor in England to Irish Revenue Commissioners 1775-89 ; Collector of the Coal Duty, Customs (occurs 1776) ; principal shareholder of lessees of Eddystone Lighthouse (in succession to his father) ; FRS 28 May 1767 ; m. 16 Sep 1760 Louisa, dau. of Hon.James Brudenell MP, Gentleman of Horse to George II ; d. 21 Mar 1793, aged 80 (sic). Buried West Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
WESTPHALING, — ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1718/9 ; in under school list 1723. [Surname probably Westfaling (Herefordshire family)]
WESTWOOD, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1630 ; the expenses of his burial are charged in the Abbey Treasurer’s accounts for the year ending Mich.1631 (Chapter Muniments 33686).
WESTWOOD, JOHN, eldest son of Rev.John Westwood, Vicar of Halesowen, Worcs., and Rebecca, sister of Adam Littleton (qv) ; bapt. 7 Mar 1664/5 ; adm. ; KS 1680 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1684, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1684, aged 18, scholar 1 May 1685, matr.1685 ; BA 1687/8 ; ordained deacon 28 May 1689 (Rochester), priest 22 Dec 1689 (Winchester) ; Vicar of Overton, Hampshire, from 30 Jan 1689/90 ; m. 1 Oct 1691 Susanna, dau. of Edward Nott, Minety, Wiltshire ; buried Overton, Hampshire 9 Oct 1709.
WETENHALL, EDWARD, son of Francis Wetenhall, Tixall, Staffs. ; b. 7 Oct 1636 ; adm. ; KS 1651 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1655, adm.pens. 23 May 1655, scholar 1655, matr.Easter 1658 ; BA 1658/9 (incorp.Oxford 18 Jun 1661) ; migr. to Lincoln Coll.Oxford 1660 ; MA 10 Jul 1691 ; BD 1669 (incorp.Cambridge 1670) ; DD Dublin 1674 (ad eundem Oxford) ; ordained ; Chaplain, Lincoln Coll. ; Perpetual Curate of Combe Long, Oxfordshire 1661 ; Vicar of St.Stephen’s, St.Albans, Herts., 1661-3 ; Prebendary of Exeter 11 Jun 1667-74 ; Master of Cathedral Sch., Exeter 1667-72 ; Master of Blue Coat Sch., Dublin May 1672-6 ; Curate, St.Werburgh’s, Dublin 1676-9 ; Prebendary of St.Patrick’s, Dublin 23 Jul 1674 ; Precentor of Christ Church, Dublin 1675 ; consecrated Bishop of Cork and Ross 23 Mar 1678/9 ; translated to Kilmore and Ardagh 18 Apr 1699 ; FRS 4 Jul 1683 ; held an OW dinner at Cork 8 Apr 1696 ; author of Graecae Grammaticae Institutio Compendiara (various editions), of An Earnest and Compassionate Suit for Forbearance, 1691, and other works ; m.1st, — ; m.2nd, Philippa, sixth dau. of Sir William D’Oyly, Bart. ; d. 12 Nov 1713. Buried South Transept, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
WETENHALL, THOMAS, younger son of Thomas Wetenhall, Nantwich, Cheshire, and Mary, dau. of Rev.Richard Wright, Prebendary of Chester ; bapt. 26 Sep 1708 ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1718 ; in under school list 1722 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 May 1726 ; BA 1729/30 ; ordained by 1733 ; Curate, Nantwich, Cheshire ; Rector of Baddiley, Cheshire 26 Jul 1758-9 ; Rector of Walthamstow, Essex, from 2 Jan 1759 ; of Nantwich, Cheshire ; m.1st, 9 Sep 1734 (IGI) Diana, widow of Henry Mainwaring, Over Peover, Cheshire, and dau. of William Blackett, Newby, Yorks. ; m.2nd, 4 Feb 1740 (IGI) Anna Maria, dau. of Rev.Nathaniel Lancaster DD, Rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex ; buried Nantwich, Cheshire 20 Oct 1776.
WETHERALL, — ; b. ; at school 1789, third quarter ; left Sep 1789.
WETHERELL, RICHARD, fourth son of Very Rev.Nathan Wetherell DD, Dean of Hereford and Master of University Coll.Oxford, and Richarda, dau. of Alexander Croke, Studley Priory, Oxfordshire ; b.1773 ; adm. 7 Feb 1786 ; KS 1788 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1791 ; BA 1795 ; MA 1798 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1796, priest 21 Dec 1797 (both Salisbury) ; Vicar of Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucs., from 7 Apr 1798 ; Rector of Wick Rissington, Gloucs., 28 Nov 1809 – Apr 1810 ; Rector of Notgrove, Gloucs., from 9 Feb 1810 ; m.1st, 23 Nov 1796 Caroline, only child of Charles May, Pashley House, Sussex ; m.2nd, 12 Jul 1836 Sarah Maria, widow of Capt. K. [or R. ?] Duff, 78th Foot, and dau. of Charles Gordon Gray, Stratton House, Somerset ; d. 22 Jan 1858.
WETHERELL, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Wetherell (qv), and his first wife ; b. 30 Mar 1800 ; adm. 22 Jan 1810 ; left 1811 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1818 ; of Frant, Sussex ; JP Sussex ; m. 2 Oct 1832 Edith Lee, dau. of William Tebitt, Park Farm, Hawkhurst, Kent ; d. 31 Aug 1893.
WETTON, HAROLD, son of Henry Wetton, Abbey House, Chertsey, Surrey, brewer, and Marion, dau. of William Collins Worthington FRCS, London Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, surgeon ; b. 29 May 1864 ; adm. 27 Sep 1877 (G) ; left Dec 1881 ; with British South Africa Mounted Police Dec 1896 – Oct 1898 ; living in Alberta, Canada, in 1911 ; served in First World War with 67th battn., Canadian Infantry Sep 1915 – Oct 1919 ; an accountant ; m. 26 Feb 1901 Jessie Sarah Mabel, dau. of Alfred Daniel Capon, Bearsted, Kent, afterwards of New Jersey, USA ; death registered Bromley, Kent, third quarter 1946.
WHADDELL, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) May 1728 ; in school list 1729 (as “Waddle”).
WHALEY, HENRY JOHN , brother of William Drummond Whaley (qv) ; b. 3 Nov 1816 ; adm. 18 Jun 1827 ; clerk, Bank of England 28 Apr 1835 ; cashier, Bank of England 25 Aug 1870 (still 1881 Census) ; m. 1844 Catherine Scott (IGI) (marriage registered Islington second quarter 1844) ; d. 30 May 1882. [wife probably dau. of Abraham Scott, London, jeweller]
WHALEY, WILLIAM DRUMMOND, son of William John Whaley, Gloucester Place, St.Marylebone, surgeon, and Catherine — ; b. 23 Sep 1814 ; adm. 15 Jan 1827 (G) ; clerk, Bank of England 30 Dec 1831 (acting Superintendent, Three Per Cent Consols Office, in 1859) ; “out of employment” in 1867 ; m. 28 Feb 1836 Susanna, dau. of Stephen Neame, Deal, Kent ; d. 14 Nov 1879 (IGI), aged 65.
WHALLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM CHARLES BUXTON, eldest son of Frederick Whalley, Westminster, Secretary to Comptrollers of Army Accounts, and Mary, dau. of John Buxton, Nottingham, thread merchant ; b. 25 Apr 1811 ; adm. 10 Jan 1825 ; left Mar 1828 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Dec 1828 ; BA 1833 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 17 Apr 1837, called to bar 9 Jun 1842 ; m. 27 Mar 1845 Frances Augusta Caroline, only child of Lieut.-Col.William Medows Hamerton, 7th Fusiliers, Hamerton, co.Tipperary, Ireland ; d. 3 Jun 1881. [evidently kin to (nephew of ?) next]
WHALLEY, WILLIAM, second son of Rev.William Morgan Whalley, Upper Slaughter, Gloucs., and Martha, widow of John Buxton, Nottingham, thread merchant, and dau. of Rev.Ferdinando Tracey Travell, Rector of Upper Slaughter, Gloucs. ; bapt. Upper Slaughter, Gloucs. 28 Feb 1801 (IGI) ; adm.Christmas 1814 ; left Bartholomewtide 1816 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1819, aged 18 ; BA 1823 ; MA 1830 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1823 (London), priest 19 Dec 1824 (Oxford) ; Curate, Swerford, Oxfordshire 1824 ; Vicar of Toddington with Stanley Pontlarge, Gloucs., 1843 ; Vicar of Didbrook with Pinnock and Hailes, Gloucs., from 1843 ; m. 9 Jun 1846 Mary, third dau. of John Sikes Sawbridge (qv) ; d. 12 Oct 1871.
WHARTON, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1726.
WHARTON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1726 ; in under school lists 1729.
WHARTON, PHILIP ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1723.
WHARTON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1735 ; left 1741. [probably Thomas Wharton, son of Thomas Wharton, St.George’s, Hanover Square, apprenticed to Alexander Reid, Chelsea, surgeon 29 Jul 1741 ; see advert in London Evening Post 28 Sep 1752, advertising for sale the shop furniture and household goods of “Mr.Thomas Wharton, Surgeon-Apothecary of Trowbridge in the county of Wilts, lately deceas’d”, mentioning his widow Elizabeth and “Mr.Thomas Wharton, Gardiner, near the neat-House, Tothill-fields, London”, and recording that “the Deceas’d came to the abovesaid Town about four years ago a perfect Stranger ; and though it was his first Outset, he soon acquir’d considerable Business, and had a promising Prospect of an extensive Practice”]
WHATELEY, see WHATLEY.
WHATELY, CHARLES, eldest son of Rev.Thomas Whately, Vicar of Cookham, Berks., and Isabella Sophia, second dau. of Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart., Master in Chancery ; b. 17 Jul 1815 ; adm. 23 Sep 1828 ; KS 1829 ; left 1833 ; St.Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1833 ; BA 1837 ; MA 1840 ; ordained deacon 29 Jul 1838 (Ripon for Lichfield), priest 1839 (Hereford) ; Rector of Rise, Yorks., 1839-50 ; Rector of Taplow, Bucks., 1850-90 ; m. 4 Dec 1855 Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Twemlow, Betley Court, Staffs. ; d. 5 Mar 1895.
WHATLEY, GEORGE KEMBLE, son of Kemble Whatley, Westminster, and Hartfield, Sussex, carpenter and builder, and Elizabeth Marsh (IGI) ; b. ; adm. 14 Oct 1765 (as Whateley) ; in school lists 1771 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 14 May 1771, aged 18 (as Whateley), scholar 7 May 1773 ; BA 1776 ; ordained deacon 2 Jun 1776 (London) ; m. (by 1783) Sarah — [dau. of Joseph Pattisson, Maldon, Essex [check] ?] ; d. at Hows Green, Wokingham, Berkshire 8 Feb 1833.
WHEATLEY, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner in 1603 (tutor, Mr.Soane) (Chapter Muniments 33656-7).
WHEATLEY, J. ; b. ; adm. 6 Jul 1810 ; left 1811.
WHEATLEY, THOMAS, son of Zabulon Wheatley, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 16) 1648 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1651, adm.pens. 3 Jun 1651, scholar 1651, matr.Mich.1651 ; the sum of £5 was granted to him by the Governors of the School “towards buying of books and releeving him in his greate necessities” 23 Oct 1652.
WHEELER, see also WHELER.
WHEELER, JAMES ARNOLD, third son of Rev.William Wheeler DD, Rector of Saltfleetby All Saints, Lincs., and Chaplain, RMC Sandhurst, Berks., and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of John Mangles, Hurley, Berks. ; b. 1 Mar 1814 ; adm. 15 Jan 1827 ; left Mar 1828 ; went to Rugby School ; RMC Sandhurst ; Ensign, 77th Foot 21 Dec 1832 ; Lieut., 20 Mar 1837 ; ret.1842 ; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1842 ; d. 27 Aug 1859. [maybe Assistant Police Magistrate, Port Sorell, Tasmania 1848 (still 1853)]
WHEELER, JOHN, son of Edmund Wheeler, Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, and Blanche, sister of Stephen Luddington (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1699 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1702, matr. 12 Jun 1702, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1702 – Mar 1715, Tutor 1709, Faculty Student 24 Mar 1715 – c. 13 Nov 1749 ; BA 1706 ; MA 1709 ; MB 1712 ; MD 1718 ; “an eminent physician at Chester” (Wotton, Baronetage, 1741, iv, 95).
WHEELER, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 12 Jun 1770, chorister.
WHEELER, JOHN (adm.1772), see WHELER, JOHN.
WHEELER, PHILIP ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1718/9.
WHEELER, THOMAS WHITTENBURY, only son of Thomas Wheeler LLD, Holland Park Terrace, Kensington, Serjeant-at-Law, Judge of Metropolitan County Courts, and Frances, elder dau. of John Whittenbury, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancs. [cotton merchant ?] ; b. 28 Apr 1839 ; adm. 16 Feb 1852 ; a graphic account of his tussle with the Captain of the QSS at the Rod Drawer up School is given by Sir Alfred Edward Turner (qv), Sixty Years of a Soldier’s Life, 19-20 ; left 1858 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. Oct 1859, matr.Mich.1859 ; BA 1863 ; MA 1878 ; adm.Inner Temple 26 Apr 1861, called to bar 26 Jan 1865, Bencher 26 Jan 1894 ; QC Nov 1886 ; County Court Judge Jul 1905-18, res., successively on Circuits 35 and 38 ; JP Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire ; m. 15 Jul 1865 Henrietta Brooksbank, youngest dau. of Edward Lodge Ogle MD MRCS, Gloucester Street, Pimlico ; d. 3 Apr 1923.
WHEELER, THOMAS WILLIAM OGLE, second son of Thomas Whittenbury Wheeler (qv) ; b. 30 Jun 1868 ; adm. 27 May 1880 (R) ; left Jul 1887; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1887 ; BA 1890 ; adm.solicitor Feb 1894 ; practised in London ; m. 22 Mar 1902 Ethel Violet, younger dau. of Henry W.Lowe, Walton on Thames, Surrey ; d. 28 Dec 1944.
WHEELOCK, ANTHONY, eldest son of Bryan Wheelock, Deputy Secretary, Board of Trade, and Steward to Anthony, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, and Frances Whitney (IGI), attendant of Countess of Shaftesbury ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) May 1732 ; left 1734 ; Clerk in Ordinary, Ordnance Office (at death) ; Clerk of the Markets, Jamaica, from Apr 1735 ; Agent for East Florida 1770-2 ; of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ; m. ; d. 22 Apr 1781.
WHEELOCK, BRYAN, brother of Anthony Wheelock (qv) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 4 Oct 1722 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 9) May 1732.
WHEELOCK, JEFFERY, only son of Anthony Wheelock (qv) ; b. ; adm. 21 Jun 1776 (Morel) ; KS (aged 14) 1777 ; in school list Jul 1779 ; Cornet, 15th Dragoons 24 Sep 1779 ; Lieut., 29 Sep 1781 ; Capt., 28 May 1790 ; Maj., 93rd Foot 30 Oct 1793 ; served in Flanders 1793 ; d. 15 Jan 1794.
WHEELOCK, JOHN, brother of Anthony Wheelock (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) May 1732 ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., 26 Jun 1741 ; Cdr., 19 Feb 1756 ; Capt., 21 Dec 1757 ; served in West Indies 1762 ; d. unm.1778, while in command of HMS Sultan in the West Indies (will proved PCC 20 Mar 1779).
WHELER, JOHN, son of John Wheler, Evesham, Worcs. ; b. ; adm. 21 Jan 1772 ; KS (aged 13) 1772 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1776, matr. 25 Jun 1776, but resigned from his Westminster Studentship 27 Jan 1777, before being admitted, as he had married his bed maker ; 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines 17 Dec 1777 ; 1st Lieut., 18 Aug 1779 ; half-pay 1 Sep 1783 ; tried at Old Bailey 30 Oct 1793 (as John Wheeler) for theft of watch belonging to David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv), from College dormitory at Westminster on 12 Oct ; Wheler stated in evidence that he had found the watch in St.James’s Park and was acquitted ; a witness stated that he was then in a “deplorable condition” ; probably John Wheeler (spelled thus), who had been “originally placed in a genteel stile of life, and received a liberal education”, who was found guilty of bigamy and sentenced to transportation for seven years at the Old Bailey 24 Oct 1798, then aged 38, his first marriage having been to Mary Goodall at St.James’s, Piccadilly, on 5 Dec 1776 (his surname given in register as Wheler), “whom he soon left, and entered into the Navy”, and his second, bigamous, marriage having been to Elizabeth Watkins at St.Bride’s, Fleet Street 22 Apr 1798 ; he was described in London Chronicle 25 Oct 1798 as “a stout but not well favoured man, of about 40 years old, as he declared himself, but apparently some years older”.
WHELER, THEOPHILUS, elder son of Rev.Granville Wheler, Rector of Otterden, Kent, and his first wife Lady Catherine Maria Hastings, fourth dau. of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon ; b. 7 Apr 1725 ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1739/40 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 11 Jan 1741/2, matr.1742 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jan 1742/3 ; d.unm. Dec 1743.
WHINYATES, THOMAS, son of Charles Whinyates, Westminster, Richmond Herald, and Amy, third dau. of Thomas Parker, Abbotsleigh, Devon ; bapt. St.Paul, Covent Garden 2 Jan 1716/7 ; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1727 ; Min.Can.1731 ; KS 1732 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1736, adm.pens. 24 Jun 1736, scholar 6 May 1737, matr.1736 ; BA 1739/40 ; ordained deacon Sep 1740 (Ely), priest 14 Aug 1741 (Winchester) ; Rector of Charleton, Devon, from 25 Jun 1742 ; m. 22 Aug 1751 (IGI) Margaret, eldest dau. of Rev.John Salter, Rector of Stoke Fleming, Devon ; buried Charleton, Devon 17 Aug 1783.
WHISKINS, ROBERT, son of William Whiskins, Milton, Cambs. ; b. ; at school under Grant (J.Venn, Biog.Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll., i, 137) ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Jun 1589, aged 16, scholar 25 Mar 1589 – 25 Mar 1595 ; BA 1592/3 ; ordained deacon and priest 27 Nov 1603 (Ely) ; Curate, Rampton, Cambs., 1606 ; Vicar of Annagelliff and Denn, co.Cavan, Ireland, by 1613 (still 1626).
WHISTON, PHILIP HENRY, youngest son of Rev.Robert Whiston, Head Master, Cathedral School, Rochester, Kent, and Ellen, dau. of Richard Wedd MRCS LSA, Ripple, Kent, medical practitioner ; b. 16 Jan 1864 ; adm. 23 Jan 1879 (R) ; left May 1881 ; St.Thomas’s Hospital ; LRCP MRCS 1887 ; DPH 1891 ; Army Surgeon 29 Jul 1890 ; seconded to Egyptian Army Dec 1891 – Jan 1899 ; Surgeon-Maj., 29 Jul 1902 ; Irish Guards 15 Oct 1902 ; Surgeon-Lieut.-Col., Irish Guards 29 Jul 1910 ; ret. 28 Jan 1911 ; re-employed 1914 ; Brevet Col., 3 Jun 1919 ; served in expedition to Dongola 1896, Nile expedition 1897-8 and First World War ; mentioned in despatches LG 3 Nov 1896, 30 Sep 1898, 17 Sep 1917 ; m. 4 Feb 1907 Florence Adelaide, widow of Joseph Washington Flood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, barrister, and dau. of Hon.John Bligh Suttor, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, farmer and member New South Wales Legislative Council ; d. 22 Dec 1950.
WHITAKER, see also WHITTAKER.
WHITAKER, EDWARD WRIGHT, brother of John Ayton Whitaker (qv) ; b. 1 Jul 1839 ; adm. 10 Jun 1852 (G) ; QS 1854 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1858, matr. 27 May 1858, Westminster Student (one of the last three Westminster Students elected under the old system) ; BA 1863 ; MA 1865 ; ordained deacon 1864, priest 1866 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Croft, Yorks., 1865, Stanton-by-Bridge with Swarkeston, Derbs., 1866-8 ; Rector of Stanton-by-Bridge with Swarkeston, Derbs., from 1868 ; m. 31 Mar 1869 Cecilia Elizabeth, only dau. of Joseph Thomas Cantrell, Kings Newton, Derbs., County Court Judge ; d. 22 Apr 1881.
WHITAKER, FREDERICK ALEXANDER, eldest son of Sir Frederick Whitaker KCMG, Auckland, New Zealand, Prime Minister and Attorney-Gen. of New Zealand, solicitor, and Jane Augusta Griffith, stepdau. of Alexander Shepherd, Colonial Treasurer, New Zealand ; b. Pernambuco, Brazil 1 Mar 1847 ; at Marlborough Coll. 1860-1 ; adm. 23 Jan 1862 (G) ; left Aug 1864 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 19 Nov 1864 ; migr. to Inner Temple 17 Apr 1868, called to bar 30 Apr 1868 ; of Auckland, New Zealand ; member, New Zealand House of Representatives (Waipa constituency) 1879-84 ; m. 30 Sep 1879 Catherine, dau. of Alfred Cox, farmer, member New Zealand House of Representatives ; committed suicide in Auckland Club, Auckland, New Zealand 9 Jun 1887.
WHITAKER, JOHN AYTON, second son of Rev.Thomas Wright Whitaker, Rector of Stanton-by-Bridge, Derbs., Prebendary of Lichfield, and Anna, second dau. of Rev. Henry Patteson, Rector of Drinkstone, Suffolk ; b. 29 Nov 1833 ; adm. 3 Feb 1848 (G) ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1853 ; BA 1856 ; MA 1860 ; ordained deacon 1857, priest 1858 ; Curate, Idridgehay, Derbs., Graveley, Herts., 1870-2, Burwash, Sussex 1872-5 ; Perpetual Curate of Great Bricet, Suffolk 1875-86 ; Rector of Breadsall, Derbs., from 1886 ; m. 30 Oct 1872 Hannah, youngest dau. of Rev.Richardson Cox, Vicar of Ticknall, Derbs. ; d. 26 Feb 1919.
WHITAKER, MILES, elder son of Miles Whitaker, St.Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, and Theobalds, Cheshunt, Herts. ; b. 3 Jan 1600/1 ; at school in 1618 (Chapter Muniments 33673) ; Queen’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 1618, matr. Mich.1618.
WHITCHESTER, FRANCIS, LORD, see SCOTT, FRANCIS, EARL OF DALKEITH.
WHITCHURCH, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764, 1765. [probably James Wadham Whitchurch, brother of Thomas Whitchurch (qv) ; b. 21 Aug 1749 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1766, aged 16 ; BA 1770 ; MA 1774 ; ordained deacon 24 Apr 1774, priest 23 Sep 1775 (both Bath & Wells) ; Curate of Nunney, Somerset ; author, An Essay upon Education, 1772 ; d. unm. 5 Jan 1776]
WHITCHURCH, THOMAS, son of Rev.Samuel Whitchurch DD, Rector of Nunney, Somerset, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Coward, Spargrove, Somerset ; b. 19 Apr 1746 ; at school under Markham (a humorous Latin poem by “poor Whitchurch”, from which extracts are printed in a letter of 26 Jan 1777 from Joseph Jekyll (qv) to Jekyll’s Christ Church contemporary William Osgoode, includes a reference to a visit by Whitchurch to “Mrs Chelsum’s in North Street”, the boarding house kept by Mrs Chelsum until 1766 for Westminster School pupils (but no longer in being in the 1770s), and it is reasonable to comclude from this that Whitchurch had been a pupil at the School in the past) ; Whitchurch was also a subscriber to Peirson Lloyd’s Sermons, 1765 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 31 Oct 1763, aged 17 ; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, Canoneer Student 5 Jul 1765 – void 1805 (presumably at death) ; BA 1767 ; MA 1770 ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1768, priest 10 Jun 1770 (both Oxford) ; Reader at Carfax, Oxford Dec 1770 ; Chaplain, British Embassy, Vienna (in 1771) ; d. 1805.
WHITCHURCH, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1721/2 ; in under school list 1723. [Perhaps John Whitchurch, son of James Whitchurch and Ruth —, bapt.St.Dionis Backchurch, London 14 Dec 1706 (IGI)]
WHITE, see also WHYTE.
WHITE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1568-9 (tutor, the Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54018).
WHITE, BENJAMIN, son of Christopher White, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, High Constable of Westminster, citizen and pewterer, London, and Margery — ; bapt. 6 Jul 1632 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1648 (Chapter Muniments 43054) ; Leiden Univ.1655 ; practised as a physician at Lewes, Sussex ; lic. to m. 29 May 1671 Dorothy, dau. of Henry Constable [or Courthope ?], Goddards Green, Cranbrook, Kent ; buried All Saints, Lewes, Sussex May 1713 (will proved PCC 3 Oct 1713).
WHITE, BLAZE, “cler.fil.” (i.e. son of a Church of England clergyman) ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1648, matr. 13 Mar 1650/1, Westminster Student ; BA 26 Feb 1651/2 ; MA 1654 ; ordained ; Rector of St.George’s, Canterbury, Kent 7 May 1661-6 ; Minor Canon of Canterbury (by 1662) ; Rector of Stonar, Isle of Thanet, from 15 Aug 1663 ; a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal 14 Mar 1663/4 – 10 Jul 1675 (dismissed), and from c.1682 ; Vicar Choral, Lichfield Cathedral (occurs 1677, still at death) ; m.1st, 6 May 1662 Susanna Wright, widow ; m.2nd, 27 Jun 1665 Anne, dau. of William Burges, Westminster ; d. 24 Feb 1698/9, aged 69.
WHITE, CHARLES, son of Fitzwilliam White, Louth, Lincs., and his first wife Mary — ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1743 ; left 1745 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 17 Aug 1748, but did not matr. ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 15 Jul 1746, called to bar 6 Feb 1752 ; of The Close, Lincoln ; m. Dec 1774 Jane, sister of Sir Francis Bernard, Bart. (qv) ; d. 7 Feb 1810, stated in GM to have been aged 83.
WHITE, CHARLES BARRETT, elder surviving son of William Henry White, Parliament Place, Old Palace Yard, Westminster, Deputy Receiver of Crown Rents, and Anne, sister of Samuel Browne Tuffnell Barrett (qv) ; b. 20 Dec 1799 ; adm. 27 Apr 1809 ; left 1813 ; living 1838.
WHITE, CHARLES BEST, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv) ; b. 7 Oct 1812 ; adm. 16 Jan 1824 ; probably “young White”, who in 1834 interviewed William IV and obtained his permission for the performance of the Latin Play, which had been abandoned owing to the death of the Duke of Gloucester (Elizabethan xiv, 29 ; cf. The Lady’s Magazine, 1835, 62, identifying the individual concerned as one of the sons of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv)) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 20 May 1830, aged 17, matr.Mich.1830 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jan 1832 ; of Castor House, Northamptonshire ; m. 6 Jul 1841 Anne Aglae Josephine, dau. of Adm. — Ferrand, French Navy ; d. 29 Mar 1859.
WHITE, FRANCIS, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv) ; b. 5 May 1803 ; adm. 17 Sep 1812 ; KS 1816 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1820, adm.pens. 18 May 1820, scholar 1821 ; BA 1824 ; MA 1827 ; Norrisian Prize 1826 ; ordained deacon 21 May 1826 (Lincoln), priest 10 Jun 1827 (Peterborough) ; Curate, Broughton, Northants 1836 ; living at Bentinck Terrace, Regents Park, London, at death ; d. 13 May 1876.
WHITE, FRANCIS SELLON, brother of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv) ; b. 22 Aug 1780 ; in school list 1795 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1800 ; Ensign, 4th Native Infantry 28 Nov 1801 ; Lieut., 30 Sep 1803 ; employed on surveying duties in Bengal 1805-15 ; Brevet Capt., 6 Jan 1816 ; 4th Native Infantry 22 Jun 1816 ; ret. 6 Feb 1819 ; latterly of Kensington, Middlesex ; author, A History ofInventions and Discoveries, 1827 ; m. 18 Nov 1818 Joanna, dau. of Charles Goldney Rees, Cross Hall, Chorley, Lancs., calico printer ; d. 19 Jul 1850.
WHITE, GEORGE TOWRY, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv) ; b. 14 Mar 1814 ; adm. 16 Jan 1824 ; KS 1827 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1831, adm.pens. 26 May 1831, scholar 1832 ; 18th Wrangler 1835 ; BA 1835 ; MA 1838 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb 1835, called to bar 19 Nov 1838 ; author, A Treatise on Proceedings in Equity, 1843 ; m. 14 Aug 1848 Euphemia Anne, only dau. of Maj.Robert Williams Shirriff, Assistant Commissary-Gen., EICS Madras ; d. 14 Dec 1867.
WHITE, GILBERT, third son of Sir Sampson White, Kt, draper, Mayor of Oxford, and Mary, dau. of Richard Soper, East Oakley, Hampshire ; b. 15 Feb 1650 ; adm. ; KS 1666 ; St.Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 10 Jul 1668 ; migrated to Magdalen Coll., demy 1668-72 ; BA 1672 ; MA 6 Feb 1674/5 ; Fellow, Magdalen Coll. 1672-81 ; ordained priest 26 May 1678 (Oxford) ; Rector of Brandeston, Norfolk 14 Jun 1680 – Aug 1681 ; Rector of Selborne, Hampshire, from 14 Mar 1680/1 ; m. Rebecca Luckin, Nore Hill, Newton Valence, Hampshire ; d. 13 Feb 1727/8.
WHITE, HANCHETT, son of Fuller White, and Mary — ; b. 24 Mar 1737 [or 1737/8 ?] (bapt.St.John, Smith Square, Westminster 23 Apr 1738) ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1746 ; left 1751. [father presumably carpenter and builder, Cowley Street, Westminster] [note Hanchett White, who m. 10 Aug 1753 (sic) Sarah Bayliff, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster]
WHITE, JOHN, brother of Samuel White (qv) ; bapt.St.Margaret, Westminster 16 Nov 1682 ; adm. ; KS 1696 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1700, matr. 25 Jun 1700, aged 17, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1700 – void 1721, Tutor 1705-21, Senior Censor 1712-9 ; BA 1704 ; admonished by Christ Church authorities for assault 10 Jan 1707 ; MA 1707 ; Proctor 1716 ; a friend of the Oxford antiquary Thomas Hearne, who mentions the excellence of his sermons ; adm. Inner Temple 28 Nov 1700 ; ordained deacon 23 May 1708, priest 20 Dec 1713 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Upham, Hampshire, from 8 Aug 1720 ; d. 22 Jun 1738.
WHITE, JOHN, son of Timothy White, Conway, Caernarvonshire ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1723 ; Min.Can.1726 ; KS 1727 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1731, adm.pens. 22 Jun 1731, scholar 12 May 1732, matr.1732 ; BA 1733/4 ; MA 1738 ; BD 1751 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1737, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1738 ; ordained deacon 20 Sep 1735 (Peterborough) ; Vicar of Chesterton, Cambs., 31 Mar 1752-7 ; Rector of North Runcton, Norfolk, from 5 Feb 1756 ; Rector of South Runcton with Holme, Norfolk, from 15 Mar 1764 ; d. Jan 1778 (will proved PCC 3 Feb 1778).
WHITE, JOHN, son of Col.John White, [check regt.], Lower Brook Street, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Major-Gen. Richard O’Farrell, Col.22nd Foot ; b. ; adm. 6 Jun 1774 ; KS (aged 13) 1775 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1778 ; arrived in India 14 Jul 1778 ; Assistant in Secretary’s Office, General Dept., 1779 ; Sub-Secretary and Sub-Accountant to Commissioner of Customs 1782 ; attended OW dinner at Calcutta c Jul – Oct 1784 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6) ; Junior Merchant, Deputy Secretary, Public Dept., and Remembrancer in Criminal Courts 1788 ; Sub-Secretary, Public Dept., and member, Supreme Council 1790 ; Second Judge of Provincial Court of Appeal and Circuit, Calcutta ; res. from EICS 1801 [check] ; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup ; lived at Doncaster, Yorks., after return to England ; m. at Calcutta, India 4 Nov 1784 Matilda, dau. of Rev.Thomas Denton, Rector of Ashtead, Surrey ; d. 16 Aug 1837.
WHITE, JOHN HOLT, son of George White, Newington House, Oxfordshire, Clerk, Committee of Privileges and Elections, House of Commons, and Elizabeth Mary, dau. of William Powell, actor at Drury Lane Theatre ; bapt. 30 Jan 1789 ; adm.23 Jan 1803 ; in school lists May and Oct 1803 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1806 ; Cornet, 1st Light Cavalry 1 Aug 1807 ; Lieut., 1 Sep 1818 ; Capt., 14 Apr 1822 ; 10th Light Cavalry 13 May 1825 ; invalided in India 25 Dec 1831 ; ret. in England 25 Jan 1833 ; m.1st, at Benares, India 31 May 1821 Mary, dau. of John Satterthwaite, Woodside, Devon ; m.2nd, at Madras, India, 9 Mar 1832 Eliza, widow of Thomas Luxmoore MD MRCS, Surgeon, EICS Bengal, also widow of — Perrot, Lucknow, India ; d. 27 Jan 1854.
WHITE, JOHN PETRE ; b. ; adm. 1 Mar 1800 ; in school list 1801. [note will John Peter White, Liverpool, proved PCC 29 Apr 1839]
WHITE, MICHAEL ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1695 ; left 1700 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.scholar 9 Jan 1700/1, matr.1700 ; LLB 1705 ; ordained deacon Dec 1708 (Norwich), priest 18 Dec 1709 (Lincoln) ; Vicar of Upton cum Chalvey, Bucks., 19 Dec 1709-25 ; Vicar of Titchfield, Hampshire, from 22 Jan 1725/6 ; m. (by 1710) Elizabeth — ; d. by 13 Apr 1734.
WHITE, SIR MICHAEL, brother of Robert White (in school list 1801, qv) ; bapt.Crowan, Cornwall 12 Oct 1790 (IGI) ; in school lists 1801, May and Oct 1803 ; Cornet, 24th Light Dragoons 15 Aug 1804 ; Lieut., 14 May 1805 ; Capt., 7 Nov 1815 ; half-pay, 24 May 1819 ; 11th Hussars 25 Dec 1819 ; brevet Maj., 10 Jan 1837 ; Maj., 3rd Light Dragoons 4 Jan 1839 ; Lieut.-Col., 13 Dec 1839 ; Col. in the Army and ADC to Queen Victoria 3 Apr 1846 ; Major-Gen., 20 Jun 1854 ; Col., 7th Light Dragoons, from 26 Aug 1858 ; Lieut.-Gen., 31 Aug 1860 ; served in India 1809-17 ; took part in Mahratta campaign 1817-8 and in siege and capture of Bhurtpur 1825-6 ; commanded the cavalry throughout the Afghan campaign of 1842 ; served in the Sikh wars of 1845-6 and 1848-9 ; wounded at battle of Ferozshah 21 Dec 1845 ; CB 29 Dec 1842 ; KCB 10 Nov 1862 ; m. 3 May 1815 Anne, dau. of Maj. James Mylne, 24th Light Dragoons ; d. 27 Jan 1868. ODNB.
WHITE, MOSES, son of William White, Ostend, Flanders ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1740/1 ; KS 1743 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1747, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1747, scholar 6 May 1748, matr.1747 ; BA 1750/1 ; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1751 (London), priest 23 Feb 1752 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Freethorpe, Norfolk, from 28 Jul 1752 ; Rector of High Easter, Essex 19 Mar 1756 – Apr 1764 (as Moses Wight in London episcopal act book) ; Rector of Reedham, Norfolk, from 12 Aug 1758 ; d. 2 Feb 1771.
WHITE, ROBERT ; b. ; in under school lists 1725, 1726, school lists Feb 1727/8 (third form), 1729.
WHITE, ROBERT, son of Maj.Robert White, 27th Light Dragoons, and Anne, sister of Sir John St.Aubyn, Bart. (qv) ; bapt. Crowan, Cornwall 12 Oct 1790 ; in school list 1801 ; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1809 ; Ensign, 1st Native Infantry 6 Apr 1811 ; Lieut., 29 Apr 1815 ; invalided in India 27 Nov 1816 ; pensioned in India 8 Jul 1824 ; m. at Bombay, India, 14 Nov 1821 Sabina Ayious ; d. 9 Feb 1843.
WHITE, SAMUEL, son of Robert White, Tothill Street, Westminster, and Mary — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Margaret’s, Westminster 31 Jul 1676 ; adm. ; KS 1691 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1696, adm.pens. 16 Jun 1696, aged 18, scholar 23 Apr 1697, matr.1696/7 ; BA 1699/1700 ; MA 1703 ; BD 1710 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1702, Major Fellow Apr 1703 ; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley 1709/10 ; ordained ; Chaplain to Earl of Portland (by 1709) ; Rector of Everleigh, Wiltshire, from 11 Apr 1716 ; author, A Commentary on the prophet Isaiah, 1709 ; committed suicide 5 Oct 1716. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
WHITE, STEPHEN PRESCOTT, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv) ; b. 2 Oct 1801 ; adm. Mich.1812 ; KS 1814 ; his portrait as a KS appears in Ackermann’s Public Schools ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1818, adm.pens. 4 May 1818, scholar 1819 ; BA 1822 ; MA 1825 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1819, called to bar 22 May 1827 ; equity draftsman and conveyancer ; Midland and Welsh Circuits ; d.unm. 22 Jun 1866.
WHITE, THOMAS GILBERT, brother of John Holt White (qv) ; b. ; in school list 1803 ; left Whitsun 1805 ; adm.Middle Temple 22 Jun 1808 ; of Newington House, Oxfordshire ; d. 18 Apr 1878, aged 87.
WHITE, WILLIAM, son of Kenelm White, Houndsditch, City of London, and Woodford, Essex, merchant taylor, and Mary — ; bapt.St.Botolph without Aldgate Aug 1632 (IGI) ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1648 ; KS 1650 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, Westminster Student, subscribed 7 Nov 1655.
WHITE, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1740 ; left 1745.
WHITE, WILLIAM ; b. 23 Dec 1805 ; adm. 13 Jan 1818 (G).
WHITE, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD ARMSTRONG, elder son of Rev.Stephen White LLD, Rector of Conington, Hunts., and Elizabeth Hannah, dau. of William Sellon (qv) ; b. 24 May 1776 ; adm. 13 Jul 1785 ; Min.Can.1791 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 7 Dec 1793, called to bar 5 May 1801 ; Metropolitan Police Magistrate, Shadwell 1816-7, Queen’s Square, Westminster, from 1817 ; FRS 13 Apr 1837 ; FSA ; m. 26 Jul 1800 Sarah, eldest dau. of Johnson Newman, Russian Consul at Hull, previously Councillor, Russian Embassy, London ; d. 7 Dec 1847.
WHITE, WILLIAM RICHARD, see WHYTE, WILLIAM RICHARD.
WHITE, WILLIAM SPRANGER, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv) ; b. 3 Dec 1809 ; adm. 6 Jul 1820 ; presumably “White”, a home-boarder in 1826 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 16 May 1828, matr.Mich.1828 ; BA 1832 ; MA 1835 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 11 Dec 1830 ; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1833, priest 21 Sep 1834 (both Lincoln) ; Minister, Episcopal Chapel, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire ; Vicar of St.Just in Penwith, Cornwall 1850 ; Vicar of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs., 1855-9 ; Rector of Potter Hanworth, Lincs., from 1859 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 1876 ; JP Lincolnshire ; m. 13 Apr 1850 Hon.Louise Madeline Campbell, dau. of John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell PC, Lord Chancellor ; d. 8 Jul 1892.
WHITEFOOT, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656. [maybe Decimus Whitefoot(e), a brother of Phineas Whitefoot(e) (qv) ; Gloucester Hall, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1663, aged 16 ; migr. to Merton Coll. ; ordained deacon 16 Feb 1667/8 (Lichfield) ; Curate, Llanbedr, Carmarthenshire 6 Aug 1673]
WHITEFOOT (or WHITEFOOTE), PHINEAS, son of Rev.Thomas Whitefoot, Head Master, Royal Grammar School, Worcester ; bapt.St.Swithin, Worcester 22 Jul 1640 (IGI) ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student 10 Feb 1661/2 – expelled for drunkenness 22 Mar 1664/5 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1665 (Gloucester, date of subscription), priest 19 Dec 1669 (St.Davids) ; Curate, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, 1669 ; cited for drunkenness and blasphemy in presence of Mayor of Haverfordwest and others 19 Nov 1670 ; licensed as schoolmaster, Haverfordwest 19 May 1673 ; Rector of Uzmaston, Pembrokeshire ; living 1676.
WHITEHALL, JAMES, of Warwickshire ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1602, matr. 5 Nov 1602, aged 15, Westminster Student to 1621 (when “turned out”) ; BA 1606 ; MA 1609 ; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1609 (Oxford), priest 24 Mar 1612 (Chichester, date of subscription ?) ; had leave of absence for five years granted him in 1616 to go beyond the seas with Sir Walter Raleigh on the Orinoco expedition which returned to England in 1618 ; imprisoned for preaching Judaism (i.e. obedience to the Mosaic code) at Christ Church, but escaped to Ireland, where he held a benefice at Ferns, co.Wexford 1623 ; apprehended and again imprisoned in the New Prison, Clerkenwell, Middlesex 1624.
WHITEHALL, ROBERT, second son of Rev.Robert Whitehall, Rector of Addington, Bucks., and his first wife Bridget Watkins, Amersham, Bucks. ; bapt. 18 Mar 1625 ; adm. ; KS 1639 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1643, Westminster Student ; BA 1647 ; ejected from his Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission 7 Jul 1648, he having stated that “I can acknowledge noe Visitation but K.Charles” (Burrows, ed., 1881, 68, 144) ; afterwards submitted ; Fellow of Merton Coll. from 1651, Sub-Warden in 1671 ; MA 1652 ; when “Terrae Filius” in 1655 he derided the Puritan discipline under which the University was then governed ; MB 7 Sep 1657 (by letters from Richard Cromwell, Chancellor of the University) ; allowed leave of absence in 1657 to give instruction at Trinity Coll.Dublin (Brodrick, Memorials of Merton, 106) ; licensed to practice medicine 21 Jun 1665 ; Wood describes him as “no better than a meer poetaster, and time serving poet”, who made “divers sallies into the practice of physic” (Ath.Oxon., iv, 177) ; author Technepolemogamia, or the Marriage of Armes and Arts, 1651, and other minor poems ; d. unm. 8 Jul 1685. ODNB.
WHITEHEAD, ARTHUR CROXALL, brother of Francis Whitehead (qv) ; b. 4 Feb 1862 ; adm. 31 Mar 1875 (R) ; QS 1876 ; left Christmas 1879 ; adm.solicitor Feb 1886 ; practised in London, firm Burch & Co ; d. 7 May 1935.
WHITEHEAD, FRANCIS, second son of John Whitehead, Inverness Terrace, London, and Eastham, Worcs., barrister, and Jane Philippa Baskerville, youngest dau. of Hugh Hovell Farmar, Dunsinane, co.Wexford, Ireland ; b. 18 Jul 1856 ; adm. 1 Feb 1869 ; QS Nov 1871 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1875, adm.pens. 25 May 1875, matr.Mich.1875 ; BA 1879 ; MA 1882 ; ordained deacon 1879, priest 1880 (Salisbury) ; Curate, Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts., 1879-82 ; held other curacies ; Rector of Pembridge, Herefs., from 23 Jan 1889 ; m. 19 Apr 1893 Ellen Frances Webb, dau. of Brigade-Surgeon Henry Atkins, Bombay Medical Service, previously EICS Bombay ; d. 27 Jan 1913.
WHITEHEAD, GEORGE THOMAS, son of John Whitehead, Smith Street, Westminster, [plasterer ?], and Sarah — ; b. ; adm. 21 Jan 1766 ; KS (aged 14) 1770 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1774, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1774, scholar 5 May 1775, matr.1775 ; ordained deacon (Norwich, lit.dim. from London) 2 Aug 1778 ; m. 27 Jun 1808 Charlotte Bennett [check].
WHITEHORNE, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1626, adm.scholar 1627 ; BA 1630/1 ; MA 1634.
WHITELOCK, — ; b. ; in school list 1795.
WHITELOCKE, see also WHITLOCK
WHITELOCKE, JOHN, son of Samuel Whitlock, Chilton Foliat, Wilts., and his second wife Catherine, dau. of John Dolben (bapt.1662, qv) ; b. 16 Jul 1707 ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1715/6 ; left 1717 ; of Chilton Foliat and of Marriage Hill, Ramsbury, Wilts. ; resumed the former spelling of his surname ; d.unm. Oct 1787.
WHITFIELD, JOHN, brother of William Whitfield (qv) ; bapt. 27 Sep 1660 ; adm. ; KS 1676 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 May 1680, aged 18, Somerset Scholar ; BA 1 Feb 1683/4 ; MA 1688 ; Fellow, Merton Coll., from 1684 ; adm.Inner Temple 21 May 1680 ; edited the first volume of Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta, Oxford, 1692 ; the Greek Grammar which he used at school was obtained by a later OW (Elizabethan vii, 37-8) ; d. unm. 10 Aug 1694.
WHITFIELD, JOHN, son of William Whitfield (qv) ; bapt.St.Martin’s Ludgate, London 7 Jun 1705 (IGI) ; adm. ; in under school list 1715 ; Min.Can. (aged 12) 1717 ; KS 1718 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 4 Apr 1743 (expiry year of grace as R.Bideford from 24 Apr 1742), Tutor 1733-40, Junior Censor 1735, Senior Censor 1736-8 ; BA 1726 ; MA 1728/9 ; Professor of Poetry, Oxford Univ. 1738-41 ; Proctor 1739 ; ordained priest 19 Sep 1730 (Winchester) ; tutor and chaplain to Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv) ; Rector of Bideford, Devon, from 26 Mar 1741/2 ; possessed a ready wit and a knack of writing epigrams ; buried Bideford, Devon 25 Apr 1783.
WHITFIELD, JOHN, son of Joseph Whitfield, Newbury, Berks. ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Mar 1738/9 ; KS 1744 ; left 1746.
WHITFIELD, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1745.
WHITFIELD, WILLIAM, son of Rev.John Whitfield, Rector of Bugbrooke, Northants, and Alice, dau. of Rev.William Burkitt DD, Vicar of Guilsborough, Northants ; bapt. 1 Jul 1658 ; adm. ; KS 1673 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1677, matr. 4 Dec 1677, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1677 – void 1692, Tutor 1685-6 ; BA 1681 ; MA 1684 ; DD Lambeth 23 Jul 1716 ; adm.Inner Temple 8 Feb 1678/9 ; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1686 (Gloucester), priest 6 Jun 1687 (Rochester) ; Rector of St.Martin’s, Ludgate, London 5 Dec 1691-1713 ; Rector of Ewhurst, Surrey 27 Jan 1692/3-1715 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 16 Jan 1694/5 and of Canterbury from 4 Feb 1708/9 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Mary and to Queen Anne c.1691 – 1 Aug 1714 ; Vicar of St.Giles’s, Cripplegate, London, from 5 Oct 1714 ; m. Catherine — (IGI) ; d. 4 Mar 1716/7.
WHITFIELD, WILLIAM LANCASTER, son of John Whitfield, Clifford’s Inn, London, comic actor, and his first wife Mary Lane (Mary Whitfield, actress), Canterbury, Kent ; bapt. St.Martin in the Fields 21 Jan 1781 (IGI); adm. 16 Jan 1792 ; in school list 1795 ; still at school Dec 1795 ; a merchant at Kingston, Jamaica ; Naval Officer, Jamaica ; member, Jamaica House of Assembly, from 1823 ; d. 17 Oct 1824, in 45th year (sic).
WHITFORD, ADAM, third son of Right Rev.Walter Whitford DD, Bishop of Brechin, and Anne, fourth dau. of Sir John Carmichael of that ilk, Kt, PC (S) MP (S) ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1640 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1641, matr. 10 Dec 1641, aged 17, Westminster Student ; BA 1646 ; served in Royalist garrison of Oxford ; buried South Transept, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 10 Feb 1646/7, having been killed during siege of city. ODNB (s.v.father).
WHITFORD, DAVID, brother of Adam Whitford (qv) ; b.1626 ; adm. ; KS 1640 (CSP Dom 1639-40, 567, for warrant dated 21 Mar 1639/40 commanding the Electors to admit him to “the next scholar’s place that shall be void”) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1642, matr. [check], Westminster Student ; BA 1647 ; MA 14 Jan 1660/1 ; enrolled with brother in Royalist garrison of Oxford ; his response on 10 May 1648 to the Visitors’ questions, attributed in their minutes to “T.Whiteford”, was ambiguous (Burrows, ed., 1881, 70), but he seems to have retained his Studentship at that time ; attached himself to Charles II ; wounded and taken prisoner at battle of Worcester 3 Sep 1651 ; he claimed in Aug 1660 that he was “evicted out of his said Student’s place for attending the King lately at Worcester” ; an Usher in James Shirley’s school at Whitefriars ; adm.Inner Temple Nov 1658 ; reinstated in Studentship 1660, and granted dispensation to retain it though disabled by the custom of the college (CSP Dom 1660-1, 432) ; held Studentship until death ; a tutor at Christ Church ; ordained ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II 16 Nov 1665 (no longer 1673) ; Chaplain to Lord George Douglas’s Regt. of Foot, 26 Jul 1666 ; officiated as Minister to Scottish Regt. in France 1672 ; Vicar of Middleton Tyas, Yorks., from 20 Mar 1672/3 [or 1673/4 ?] ; an excellent scholar ; author, Musaei, Moschi et Bionis quae extant omnia, quibus accessere quaedam selectiora Theocriti Eidyllia, 1655 ; d. unm. 26 Oct 1674. Buried South Transept, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. ODNB.
WHITGIFT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1589, adm.scholar 1590, matr.Mich.1589.
WHITING, BEVERLEY, son of Henry Whiting, Virginia, North America, and Anne, dau. of Peter Beverley, Gloucester Co., Virginia ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1720 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1722 ; adm.Middle Temple 8 Sep 1722 ; Burgess for Gloucester Co., House of Burgesses, Virginia, May 1740 (but unseated), and from May 1742 ; a godfather of George Washington, the first President of the USA ; m. 1st, 22 Aug 1733 Mary, dau. of Rev. John Skaife, Rector of Stratton Major, King and Queen Co., Virginia ; m.2nd, Elizabeth — ; d. Mar 1755.
WHITLOCK, ASTON LEGH, eldest son of Rev.George Stewart Whitlock, Vicar of Christ Church, Chelsea, London, and Frances, younger dau. of William Clowes, Middle Temple, London, barrister ; b. 24 Jan 1858 ; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (G) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1876, matr. 13 Oct 1876 ; BA 1880 ; BCL and MA 1883 ; ordained deacon 1882 (Dover), priest 1883 (Canterbury) ; Curate, St.James, Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1882-6, Windsor, Berks., 1887-94 ; Rector of Sidlow Bridge, Surrey, from 1894 ; m. 15 Sep 1891 Edith Trevor, dau. of Charles Trevor Wheler, Hambrook, Gloucs. ; d. 20 Dec 1927.
WHITLOCK, JOHN, see WHITELOCKE, JOHN.
WHITLOCK (or WHITELOCKE), WILLIAM, only surviving son of Hierom Whitlock, Wokingham, Berkshire ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1579, matr. 20 Nov 1581, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1590 ; BA 8 Feb 1582/3 ; MA 1586 ; ordained ; Prebendary of Lichfield from 22 Jul 1589 ; Prebendary of Wells from 26 Jul 1589 ; Vicar of Sonning, Berks., from 10 Mar 1592/3 ; m. ; buried Sonning, Berks., 20 Jan 1598/9.
WHITMORE, — ; b. ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803.
WHITMORE, ARTHUR GEORGE, brother of James Morrah Whitmore (qv) ; b. 25 Apr 1857 ; adm. 22 Jan 1869 ; left Whitsun 1872 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1874 ; St.George’s Hospital ; medical student (1881 Census) ; m. 12 Feb 1883 Susan Florence, dau. of Samuel Lower, Wandsworth, Surrey ; d. 7 Feb 1929.
WHITMORE, FREDERICK JOHN, brother of James Morrah Whitmore (qv) ; b. 22 Sep 1852 ; adm. 26 Jan 1866 ; QS 1 Oct 1867 ; left Whitsun 1870 ; a West India sugar merchant in London from 1872 ; Master, Haberdashers’ Co. 1924 ; m. 1 Jun 1878 Mary, dau. of William Andrew Macfarlane, Leadenhall Street, London, and Campden Hill, Kensington, merchant ; d. 29 Jan 1934.
WHITMORE, JAMES MORRAH, second son of John Whitmore MRCS LSA, Sloane Street, Chelsea, surgeon, and Catherine Anne, dau. of William Beach, Sloane Terrace, Chelsea ; b. 5 Jan 1850 ; at Tonbridge Sch. 1861-3 ; adm. 27 Jan 1863 ; QS 1865 ; left 1867 ; adm.solicitor Easter 1873 ; practised in London, firm Brundrett Whitmore and Randall, King’s Bench Walk, Temple ; d.unm. 3 Apr 1925.
WHITTAKER, see also WHITAKER.
WHITTAKER, CHARLES GUSTAVUS, eldest son of Thomas Whittaker, Barming, Kent, landowner [and Mary — ?] ; b. 27 May 1792 ; adm.Mich.1807 ; left 1809 ; of Barming Place, Kent ; m. 9 Apr 1818 Camilla, dau. of Mordecai Andrus, Longfield, Kent ; d. 1 May 1872.
WHITTAKER, CHARLES GUSTAVUS, eldest son of Charles Gustavus Whittaker (adm.1807, qv) ; b. 8 Sep 1820 ; adm. 18 Jan 1831 ; left Dec 1836 ; played cricket for Kent 1838-47, and for the Gentlemen v.Players 1839-42, 1845 ; “income from land and houses” (1881 Census) ; m.1st, 9 Sep 1874 Anne Sophia, dau. of Hillery Dadson ; m.2nd, 13 Jan 1882 Emily Anne, eldest dau. of Rev.William Meyler, Rector of St.Lawrence, Pembrokeshire ; d. 15 Nov 1886.
WHITTAKER, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1680-2, 1684-5, 1687 (Chapter Muniments 33716-7, 33719-21).
WHITTAM, GEORGE, illegitimate son of William Whittam, and nephew of George Whittam, Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons ; b. ; in school list 1801 ; left 1806 ; clerk, House of Commons 1806, clerk attending committees 1812, Assistant Deputy Committee Clerk 1815, Deputy Committee Clerk 1827, Committee Clerk 1836, Senior Committee Clerk 1842, Second Clerk, Committee Office 1848, Senior Clerk 1849, Principal Clerk from 1851 ; Chief Clerk, Private Bill Office ; m. 13 Jan 1829 Lucretia, eldest dau. of Francis Rogers Parslow, Eaton Square, Westminster, surgeon ; d. 21 Mar 1853, aged 65.
WHITTLE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1742/3.
WHITWICK, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school lists 1656, first three quarters).
WHITWORTH, CHARLES, 1ST BARON WHITWORTH (I), second son of Richard Whitworth, Blowerpipe and Adbaston, Staffs., and Anne, dau. of Rev.Francis Mosley, Rector of Wilmslow, Cheshire ; bapt. Wilmslow, Cheshire 14 Oct 1675 ; adm. ; KS 1690 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1694, adm.pens. 21 Jun 1694, aged 18, scholar 5 Apr 1695 ; BA 1699/1700 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1700 – c.1708 [check] ; adm.Middle Temple 30 Oct 1694 ; Clerk, Board of Trade c.1696 – 11 Mar 1701 ; entered diplomatic service under wing of George Stepney (qv) ; British representative at Diet of Ratisbon, 28 Feb 1701/2 ; Envoy Extraordinary to Russia 2 Sep 1704 – May 1710 ; Special Envoy to Prussia May – Jun 1711 ; Ambassador to Poland Jun – Oct 1711 ; Ambassador to Vienna Jul – Sep 1711 ; British Plenipotentiary at Congress at Baden 30 Apr 1714-16 ; Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin 1716-7, 1719-22 ; Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague 1717-21 ; created Baron Whitworth (I) 9 Jan 1720/1 ; one of British plenipotentiaries at Congress of Cambrai Feb 1721/2-5 ; MP Newport (IOW) from 1722 ; his Account of Russia as it was in the year 1710 was published by Horace Walpole at his Strawberry Hill Press in 1758 ; m. 24 Jun 1720 Magdalena Jacoba, dau. of Albert Hendrik de Salengre, Receiver General of Walloon Flanders ; d. 23 Oct 1725. Buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
WHITWORTH, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Francis Whitworth (qv) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 26 Jun 1721 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1730 ; left 1738 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 1738 [check] ; MP Minehead 1747-61, Bletchingley 1761-8, Minehead 1768-74, East Looe 14 Oct – Dec 1774, Saltash from 3 Jan 1775 ; Lieut.-Governor, Gravesend and Tilbury, from Aug 1758 ; Chairman, Committee of Ways and Means, House of Commons, from May 1768 ; knighted 19 Aug 1768 ; FSA 9 Nov 1758 ; author, A Collection of the Supplies and Ways and Means from the Revolution to the present Time, 1764, and other works ; m. 29 May 1749 Martha, eldest dau. of Richard Shelley, Chairman, Board of Stamps ; d. 22 Aug 1778. ODNB.
WHITWORTH, FRANCIS, brother of Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth (I) (qv) ; b. 9 May 1684 ; adm. ; KS 1701 ; Secretary, Island of Barbados, from 1719 ; MP Minehead from 24 May 1723 ; Surveyor-Gen. of HM Woods and Forests, South of the Trent, from 6 Apr 1732 ; of Leybourne, Kent ; m. 2 May 1719 (IGI) Joan, dau. of William Wyndham, Clearwell, Newland, Gloucs. ; d. 6 Mar 1741/2.
WHITWORTH, GERARD, brother of Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth (I) (qv) ; bapt. St.Anne, Soho 16 May 1693 (IGI) ; at school under Knipe (Admissions to Trin.Coll.Camb., iii, 34) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 29 Jan 1710/1, aged 17, scholar 1 May 1713, matr.1710/1 ; BA 1714/5 ; MA 1718 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1717, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1718, Junior Bursar 1721-2 ; ordained deacon 15 Nov 1719 (Ely), priest 6 Jan 1720/1 (Coventry & Lichfield) ; Rector of Leybourne, Kent, from 24 Feb 1723 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I from 15 Dec 1720 ; d. 29 Mar 1727.
WHITWORTH, ROBERT, youngest son of Sir Charles Whitworth (qv) ; bapt. 16 Oct 1761 ; adm. 2 Nov 1773 ; KS 1775 ; drowned while sailing on river Thames between Lambeth and Vauxhall with Phoenix Felton (qv) and Richard Warren (qv), 5 May 1778, aged 16. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
WHYTE, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1725 ; in under school list 1727 (probably left 1727).
WHYTE, WILLIAM RICHARD, second son of James Whyte, Denbies, Surrey, and his first wife Gertrude, dau. of James Gee, Receiver-Gen. for Yorkshire ; b. 23 Mar 1776 ; adm. 19 Jan 1787 (as White) ; in school list Dec 1788 (as Whyte) ; KS (aged 15) 1792 (as Whyte) ; d. at school 20 Aug 1793.
WIAT, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1635.
WICHE, see WYCHE.
WICKETT (or WEKETT), TONG, third son of Rev.William Wekett, Rector of Brancepeth, co.Durham, and Mary, dau. of … Pigott, Bowood, Netherbury, Dorset ; bapt.Brancepeth, Durham 18 Jul 1735 ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1744/5 ; Ensign, 4th Foot 20 May 1752 ; Lieut., 23 Mar 1756 ; Capt.-Lieut., 23 Jul 1762 ; d.1763 (will proved PCC 4 May 1765, will made on HMS Danae when Lieut. in Gen.Duroure’s Foot, Guadeloupe).
WICKHAM, HENRY, son of Ven.Henry Wickham DD, Rector of Bedale, Yorks., and Archdeacon of York, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Browne, Kt, Fidlers, Writtle, Essex ; bapt. St.Michael le Belfry, York 16 Sep 1630 ; adm. ; KS 1642 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1647, adm.pens. 22 Jun 1647, scholar 1648, matr.1647 ; BA 1650/1 ; MA 1654 (incorp.Oxford 13 Jul 1669) ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1651 – c.1658 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 23 Mar 1651/2 ; Head Master, Ipswich Sch. 1659-63 ; ordained deacon and priest 23 Nov 1660 (both Norwich) ; Rector of Wilby, Suffolk, from 13 Oct 1662 ; dead by 25 Apr 1699 when successor appointed.
WICKHAM, HENRY LAMPLUGH, son of Henry Lewis Wickham (qv) ; b. 19 Feb 1838 ; adm. 30 May 1850 (R) ; left Bartholomewtide 1854 ; Ensign, Rifle Brigade 11 May 1855 ; Lieut., 3 Mar 1857 ; Capt., 4 Aug 1865 ; ret. Sep 1872 ; served in Crimean War ; of Wootton Hall, Warwicks. ; JP Hampshire 1875, also Worcestershire ; Roman Catholic convert 1859 ; m. 24 Feb 1873 Hon.Theresa Maria Josephine Arundell, widow of Sir Alfred Joseph Doughty-Tichborne, Bart., and dau. of Henry Arundell, 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour ; d. 8 Feb 1929.
WICKHAM, HENRY LEWIS, only son of Right Hon.William Wickham PC DCL MP, Bingley, Yorkshire, politician and administrator, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Eléonore Madeleine, dau. of Louis Bertrand, Professor of Mathematics, Geneva Univ. ; b. 19 May 1789 ; adm. 29 Mar 1799 ; in school list 1801 ; KS 1803 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student ; BA 1811 ; MA 1813 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 30 Apr 1811, called to bar 13 May 1817 ; Receiver-Gen., Gibraltar Mar 1807 ; Private Secretary to Viscount Althorp MP when Chancellor of the Exchequer Dec 1830 – Jun 1833 ; a Commissioner of Excise Dept. Inquiry 1833 ; a Commissioner for the French Claims 1838 ; Chairman, Board of Stamps and Taxes 1838-48 ; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1846 ; joint author with his cousin John Antony Cramer (qv) of Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps ; m. 19 Jun 1830 Lucy, youngest dau. of William Markham (adm.1767, qv) ; d. 27 Oct 1864. ODNB (s.v.father).
WICKHAM, RICHARD, eldest son of Rev.John Wickham, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and Prebendary of Westminster, and his first wife Mary, dau. of William Hovenden, Canterbury, Kent ; nephew of William Wickham (QS 1569, qv) ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1593, matr. 8 Nov 1598 [year must be wrong], aged 17, Westminster Student to 1597 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll. ; adm.Middle Temple 16 Feb 1604/5 ; d. 10 Mar 1612 [or 1612/3 ?], in 35th year. Buried Cowley, Oxford (MI).
WICKHAM, WILLIAM, second son of Edward Wickham, St.Dunstans, Canterbury, Kent, and Elizabeth Williamson, Fordwich, Kent ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1569 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1572, Westminster Student to 1586 ; BA 27 Feb 1575/6 ; MA 1579 ; BCL (sup.) 23 Apr 1583 ; adm.Inner Temple 1582 ; notary public 1587 ; of Islington, Middlesex ; gave the advowson of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs., to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1622 ; m.1st, Mary Reice, Canterbury, Kent ; m.2nd, Elizabeth Sagewick, York ; d. 11 Apr 1624.
WICKHAM, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1718 ; in under school list 1721. [perhaps adm.Inner Temple 9 Dec 1725, son of John Wickham, Antigua, West Indies].
WICKHAM, WILLIAM, son of Henry Lewis Wickham (qv) ; b. 10 Jul 1831 ; adm. 19 Jan 1844 ; QS 1846 ; left Whitsun 1847 ; New Inn Hall, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1850 ; BA 1854 ; MA 1857 ; adm.Inner Temple 20 Nov 1854, called to bar 6 Jun 1857 ; MP (Conservative) East Hampshire from 1892 ; DL Hampshire, High Sheriff 1888, JP 1866 ; Vice-Chairman, Hampshire County Council, from 1889 ; member Society of Dilettanti 1894 ; Busby Trustee 17 Jun 1884 ; edited The Correspondence of the RightHon.WilliamWickham from 1794, 1870 ; m. 9 May 1860 Sophia Emma, youngest dau. of Henry Francis Shaw-Lefevre, London, merchant and banker ; d. 16 May 1897.
WICKLIFFE, JAMES, son of John Wickliffe, Petworth, Sussex, and Sarah Soule, Petworth, Sussex ; bapt.Petworth, Sussex 26 Apr 1723 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1734/5 ; Min.Can. 1739 ; left 1740 ; buried Petworth, Sussex 19 Mar 1790.
WICKLIFFE, JOHN, brother of James Wickliffe (qv) ; bapt.Petworth, Sussex 1 Nov 1724 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1735 ; KS 1740 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1744, adm.pens. 24 May 1744, scholar 3 May 1745, matr.1744 ; BA 1747/8 ; MA 1751 ; ordained deacon 26 Jul 1748 (Chichester), priest 3 Mar 1749/50 (Hereford) ; Curate, Kirdford, Sussex 1748 ; Rector of Barton in Farbis, Notts., from 4 Mar 1749/50 ; d.unm. 25 Nov 1792.
WIDDRINGTON, HON.ANTHONY, fifth son of William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington, and Mary, dau. of Sir Anthony Thorold, Kt, Blankney, Lincs. ; bapt. 3 Mar 1641/2 ; at school under Busby (J.Peile, Biog.Reg. of Christ’s Coll., i, 593) ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 9 Jul 1660, aged 17, matr.1660 ; MA 1662 ; Roman Catholic convert ; joined Society of Jesus 1665 ; sent as penitentiary to Loretto 1674 ; assigned to French province ; at Paris in 1679 ; d.unm. at Ghent, Flanders 5 May 1682.
WIGAN, GEORGE, son of William Wigan (qv) ; bapt. 6 Sep 1692 ; adm. ; QS 1707 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1711, matr. 9 Jun 1711, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1711 – void 1727, Tutor 1716-24, Librarian 1722 ; BA 1715 ; MA 1718 ; DD 1749 ; Principal, New Inn Hall 5 Oct 1726 – summer 1732 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1719, priest 18 Dec 1720 (both Bath & Wells) ; Rector of Old Swinford, Worcs., from 12 May 1722 ; Rector of Ashbury, Berks., from 11 Oct 1722 (sinecure) ; d. 11 Nov 1776.
WIGAN, JOHN, son of William Wigan (qv) ; bapt. 31 Jan 1694/5 ; adm. ; QS (Capt.) 1710 ; got into serious trouble with George Tollet (qv), the Under Master, but at the intercession of Bishop Trelawny was “admitted again” by the Dean (Atterbury, Correspondence, ii, 6) ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1714, matr. 15 Jun 1714, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1714 – May 1727, Faculty Student 25 May 1727 – void by marriage 25 Apr 1739 ; BA 6 Feb 1718/9 ; MA 22 Mar 1720/1 ; MB and MD 1727 ; travelling tutor on European continent with Stephen Fox 1723-5 (in Italy 1724-5) ; FRCP 12 Apr 1732 ; Physician to Westminster Hospital 1733-7 ; went to Jamaica as Physician and Secretary to Edward Trelawny (qv), Governor of Jamaica, 1738 ; translated Longinus, De curandis Febribus continuis Liber, 1718, edited Aretaeus, 1723, and edited the Opera Omnia Medica of John Freind (qv), 1732 ; m. 1739 Mary, widow of Philip Wheeler, Jamaica, and dau. of John Doace, Jamaica, planter ; d. in Jamaica 5 Dec 1739. ODNB.
WIGAN, WILLIAM, son of Humphrey Wigan, Gray’s Inn Lane, London, alehouse keeper, and Barbara — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 27 Aug 1640 (IGI) ; adm. ; in school lists 1656, last three quarters ; KS 1656, Christmas quarter ; gave evidence before the Governors in the Busby and Bagshaw dispute 1657 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 21 Jul 1658, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 1669) ; BA 22 Mar 1661/2 ; MA 1664 (incorp.Cambridge 1681) ; ordained ; Chaplain to Humphrey Henchman (qv), Bishop of London ; Rector of Wennington, Essex 13 Nov 1671- Mar 1674/5 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 12 Mar 1671/2 ; Vicar of Kensington, Middlesex, from 31 Aug 1672 ; Rector of Orsett, Essex, from 1 Mar 1674/5 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II 6 Mar 1683/4, and to William III and Mary from c.1691 ; Proctor in Convocation for diocese of London 1695 ; m. 16 Feb 1687 Mary Sondes, Orsett, Essex ; d. 22 Apr 1700.
WIGFALL, THOMAS, youngest son of Daniel Wigfall, Botolph Lane, London, Woodfall, Essex, and Renishaw, Derbs., merchant, and Dorothy Elmsall, Doncaster, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1701 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1705, matr. 21 Jun 1705, aged 20, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1705 – void 1707 (evidently at death, will proved PCC 8 May 1707).
WIGGS, — ; b. ; in school list 1731 ; left 1733. [perhaps = Francis Weekes]
WILBE, RICHARD HAYDOCK WIFFIN, son of Richard Haydock Wilbe MD MRCS LSA, Queen’s Road, St.John’s Wood, and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of William Wiffin, High Holborn, London, card maker ; b. 18 Jun 1865 ; adm. 23 Jan 1879 (G) ; left May 1881 ; St.Bartholomew’s Hospital ; MRCS 1886 ; LRCP 1887 ; MB Durham 1887 ; MD 1889 ; medical practitioner in London ; m. 1899 Marian Clara, dau. of Charles Greenwood, Ewell, Surrey, estate agent (marriage registered Marylebone third quarter 1899) ; d. 20 Dec 1953.
WILBRAHAM, PETER, third son of Ralph Wilbraham, Dorfold, Cheshire, and Elizabeth — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 17 Apr 1726 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 15) Feb 1740/1 ; left 1742 ; adm.Middle Temple 5 Jul 1742 ; Lieut., 37th Foot 15 May 1749 (from half-pay) ; Capt.-Lieut., 18th Foot 30 Oct 1755 ; Capt., Jun 1758 ; not in Army List 1761 [?] ; m. Mary — ; d. 27 Feb 1765, aged 40 (sic) (M.I., St.Mary, Chester).
WILBRAHAM, RANDLE, second son of Richard Wilbraham (afterwards Wilbraham-Bootle) MP, Rode Hall, Cheshire, and Mary, dau. of Capt. Robert Bootle, Lathom House, Lancs., East India Maritime Service, subsequently director, East India Company ; b. 10 Jan 1773 ; adm. 14 Jan 1784 (G) ; left Jan 1789 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Oct 1790 ; Grand Tour (Germany, Italy, Near East) 1793-8 ; of Rode Hall, Odd Rode, Cheshire ; JP Cheshire ; High Steward of Congleton ; m.1st, 5 Dec 1798 Letitia, dau. of Rev.Edward Rudd, Rector of Haughton-le-Skerne, co.Durham ; m.2nd, 9 Feb 1808 Sybella, youngest dau. of Philip Egerton, Low Oulton, Cheshire ; d. 12 Jan 1861.
WILBRAHAM, RANDLE, eldest son of Randle Wilbraham (adm.1784, qv), and his first wife ; b. 1 Mar 1801 ; adm.Christmas 1814 ; left 1814 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Feb 1820 ; of Rode Hall, Odd Rode, Cheshire ; DL Cheshire, JP Cheshire 1827 ; High Steward of Congleton ; m. 12 Nov 1833 Sybella, dau. of William Egerton, Gresford, Denbighshire ; d. 10 Mar 1887.
WILCOCKS, see also WILCOX.
WILCOCKS, JOSEPH, only surviving son of Right Rev.Joseph Wilcocks DD, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and Jane, dau. of John Milner, British Consul at Lisbon ; b. 4 Jan 1723/4 ; adm. Sep 1731 ; KS 1736 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1740, matr. 10 Jun 1740, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1740 – void 26 Jun 1753 ; BA 1744 ; MA 1747 ; lived at Barton, Northants, and afterwards at Lady Place, near Hurley, Berks. ; travelled abroad ; in Italy and France in 1761-2, his piety and benevolence when at Rome winning him the admiration of Pope Clement XIII, who called him “the blessed heretic” ; FSA 17 Feb 1763 ; prepared four books of Sacred Exercises… compiled for the use of Places of Education, particularly Westminster School, 1759 ; his Roman Conversations, or a short Description of the Antiquities of Rome, 1763, were reissued in an enlarged version, incorporating a memoir of him, in 1792-4, 2 vols. ; d.unm. 23 Dec 1791. Buried under Consistory Court, Westminster Abbey. ODNB (s.v.father).
WILCOX, GILES, son of Jonathan Wilcox, Westminster, and Emma — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 1653 (IGI) ; adm. ; KS 1670 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1673, aged 18 ; BA 1677 ; ordained deacon and priest 25 Apr 1676 (both London) ; Rector of Alburgh, Norfolk 16 Oct 1680 – Nov 1682 ; Rector of Bixley, Norfolk 26 Oct 1682-90, when deprived as a non-juror ; committed to Newgate Prison for high treason (“conspiring the death of the king”) 26 Feb 1691/2 ; still in custody May 1692 ; released and re-arrested 16 Apr 1696. [father carpenter ?]
WILDE, SAMUEL FRANCIS THOMAS, eldest son of Samuel Wilde, Teller, Exchequer Office, and Isabella, dau. of Francis Mowatt, East Dereham, Norfolk ; bapt.St.Mary, St.Marylebone Road 31 Mar 1790 (IGI) ; in school list 1801 ; left 1808 ; adm.Inner Temple 2 Jun 1808, called to bar 10 Feb 1815 ; conveyancer ; lecturer on law of real property to Incorporated Law Society 1833-43 ; one of the four Tellers of the Receipt of Exchequer Aug – Oct 1834 ; JP Middlesex, Hertfordshire ; m.1st, 19 Oct 1819 Maria Matilda, youngest dau. of John Rowlatt, Charterhouse Square, London, merchant ; m.2nd, 2 Mar 1829 Margaret, youngest dau. of Peter Finch Martineau, St.Albans, Herts., banker ; d. 4 Jun 1862, aged 72.
WILKES, HENRY ; b. ; adm. 7 Jul 1777.
WILKES, HOPE, brother of John Wilkes (qv) ; bapt.New Broad Street Independent Chapel 21 Sep 1738 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1752 ; of Lofts Hall, Essex ; m. 6 Dec 1768 Martha Anne, dau. of Rev.Robert Fiske, Rector of Wendens Ambo, Essex ; d. 24 Oct 1803.
WILKES, JOHN, eldest son of Nathaniel Wilkes, Lofts Hall, Essex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Hope, Norton Folgate, London, brewer ; nephew of John Wilkes MP ; bapt.New Broad Street Independent Chapel 17 Jun 1737 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1752 ; Hertford Coll.Oxford, matr. 31 Oct 1755 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 16 Nov 1757 ; High Sheriff, Essex 1764 ; d. 14 Feb 1787.
WILKINS, — ; b. ; in school list 1736.
WILKINS, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Mar 1719/20.
WILKINS, WILLIAM, son of John Wilkins, Westminster, and Chalfont St Peter, Bucks., ironmonger ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1716/7 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Feb 1719/20 ; adm.Middle Temple 25 May 1720, called to bar 25 May 1727.
WILKINS, WILLIAM, son of William Wilkins, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1734 ; Min.Can.1735 ; KS 1736 ; d.1740. [Perhaps bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 16 Dec 1722, son of William Wilkins, and Eleanor — (IGI)]
WILKINSON, see also WYLKYNSONE.
WILKINSON, — ; b. ; adm.Mich.1806 ; left 1807.
WILKINSON, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. 3 Jun 1788.
WILKINSON, GEORGE GREY, brother of Thomas Henry Des Voeux Wilkinson (qv) ; b. 30 Apr 1861 ; adm. 4 Jun 1874 ; left Apr 1877 ; merchants’ clerk (1881 Census) ; Pembroke Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 Oct 1886, matr.Mich.1886 ; BA 1890 ; MA 1895 ; ordained deacon 1891, priest 1894 (both London) ; Curate, St.Peter’s, Eaton Square, London 1891-1909 ; Deputy Priest in Ordinary to Edward VII 21 May 1907- Oct 1909, Priest in Ordinary 29 Oct 1909-10 ; Priest in Ordinary to George V from 1910 ; Capt., 1stCadet Battn., London Regt., 17 Mar 1903 ; d. 15 May 1915, while marching through the streets with his battalion of cadets, after an inspection by the King in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. [perhaps marriage registered Southampton third quarter 1890]
WILKINSON, JOHN EDWARD, son of Edward Wilkinson, Potterton Hall, Yorks., and Abnn, dau. of Nicholas Pearse, Woodford, Essex ; b. 28 Oct 1789 ; adm. 29 Jan 1800 (Clapham) ; in school list 1801 ; Min.Can.1804 ; left Dec 1807 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1809 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1810 ; arrived in India 15 Oct 1811 ; Assistant to Collector of Customs, Cuttack 7 Aug 1813 ; Officiating Collector of Customs, Hooghly 7 Jun 1815 ; Deputy Collector of Customs, Benares 7 Mar 1819 ; Collector, Banda 25 May 1821 ; Magistrate, Tirhoot 5 Apr 1831 ; res. 1 May 1843 ; m. 11 Apr 1814 Catherine, eldest dau. of Robert Bathurst, EICS Bengal ; d. 4 Aug 1850.
WILKINSON, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. 8 May 1773. [perhaps WILKINSON, JOSEPH, son of Joseph Wilkinson, Berners Street, London, afterwards of Carlisle, Cumberland, and Alice, dau. of John Beck ; bapt.St.Olave, Hart Street, London 24 Apr 1765 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Apr 1783 ; BA 1786 ; ordained deacon 1 Aug 1790, priest 5 Aug 1792 (both Carlisle) (both as “lit.”) ; Curate, Boltongate, Cumberland 1790 ; Curate, Irthington, Cumberland 1792 ; Minor Canon of Carlisle ; Curate, Monkwearmouth, co.Durham 1793 ; Rector of East and West Wretham, Norfolk, from 5 Aug 1803 ; author, Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, 1810, and The Architectural Remains of the Ancient Town and Borough of Thetford, 1822 ; m. 1 Nov 1788 Mary Wood ; d. 23 Oct 1831]
WILKINSON, P. ; b. ; adm. ; left 1807.
WILKINSON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. 17 Jan 1811 ; left Christmas 1819.
WILKINSON, THOMAS HENRY DES VOEUX, eldest son of Right Rev.George Howard Wilkinson DD, Bishop of Truro and of St.Andrews, and Caroline Charlotte, elder dau. of Lieut.-Col.Benfield Des Voeux, 3rd Foot ; b. 11 Jun 1858 ; adm. 10 Nov 1873 ; left Aug 1875 ; RMC Sandhurst ; 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade 13 Aug 1879 ; Lieut., 1 Jul 1881 ; Adjutant, 3 Feb 1887 ; Capt., 14 Mar 1890 ; Maj., 5 Sep 1897 ; ret. 28 Sep 1898 ; served in Mahsud Waziri expedition 1881 and in Burmese expedition 1886-8 ; mentioned in despatches LG 2 Sep 1887 ; DSO 1 Jul 1887 ; d. 27 Jan 1928.
WILKINSON, WILLIAM JOHN, third son of Thomas Wilkinson, Elvet, Durham, and Jane, dau. of Richard Williamson, Kirk Ella, Yorks. ; bapt. 26 Nov 1770 ; adm. 6 Oct 1784 ; KS (aged 15) 1787 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1789 ; BA 1793 ; MA 1800 ; ordained deacon 16 Mar 1793 (Carlisle, lit.dim. from York), priest 21 Dec 1794 (London, lit.dim. from York) ; Vicar of Elloughton, Yorks., 9 Oct 1798 – 1842 ; Vicar of Kirk Ella, Yorks., 1 Mar 1804 – Apr 1837 ; Rector of Little Colden, Yorks., 28 Apr 1813 ; d. 2 Sep 1856.
WILKS, see also WILKES.
WILKS, CHARLES VINCENT, only son of William Henry Wilks, Moor Grange, Headingley, Yorks., colliery proprietor, and Harriet Roberts, dau. of Vincent Barker, Kimpton Bury, Herts. ; b. 13 Oct 1860 ; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (R) ; left Aug 1879 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1879 ; BA 1884 ; MA 1887 ; temp. Lieut., General List 30 Nov 1916 – 1 Oct 1918, while employed on recruiting duties ; m. Beatrice Katherine, dau. of Maj.Francis Powell Hopkins, 15th Foot, also artist and journalist (marriage registered Westminster second quarter 1910) ; d. 25 Apr 1933.
WILKS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 16 Mar 1784 ; left Midsummer 1785.
WILLAN, WILLIAM ; b. 18 Dec 1807 ; adm. 27 Jan 1818 ; left 1822 ; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1822-3 ; adm.solicitor ; practised in Herefordshire ; d. 30 Jan 1838. [Perhaps bapt.Wichenford, Worcs., 20 Dec 1807, son of John Willan, and Hannah — (IGI)]
WILLAUME, — ; b. ; in school list 1797. [maybe WILLAUME, CHARLES DYMOKE, son of John Williams Willaume (qv) ; b. 26 Nov 1782 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, adm. 31 May 1802, matr. 31 May 1802 ; BA 1806 ; MA 1809 ; ordained deacon 2 Mar 1806 (Oxford for Winchester), priest 20 Dec 1806 (Exeter for Winchester) ; Rector of Brown Candover, Hampshire, from 1807 ; Rector of Chilton Candover, Hampshire, from 1809 ; Chaplain to William, 3rd Earl Harcourt 15 Aug 1809 ; m. 22 Feb 1819 Margaret Anne, dau. of Very Rev.George William Lukin DD, Dean of Wells ; d. 27 Feb 1848. He seems to have been the only male Willaume of his generation].
WILLAUME, CHARLES DYMOKE, brother of Edward Willaume (qv) ; bapt. Tingrith, Beds. 8 Mar 1738 [or 1738/9] ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1748 ; KS 1752 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1757, adm.pens. 9 Jun 1757, scholar 11 May 1759, readm. as fellow commoner 20 Apr 1762, matr.1758 ; BA 1761 ; of Tingrith, Beds. ; m. 1st, 8 Jan 1772 Mary Hamilton, Tingrith, Beds. ; m.2nd, Anne Catherine —- ; buried Tingrith, Beds., 3 Feb 1807.
WILLAUME, EDWARD DYMOKE, eldest son of David Willaume, London, and Tingrith, Beds., goldsmith, and Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Dymoke, Ampthill, Beds. ; bapt. Tingrith, Beds. 7 Oct 1736 ; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1745/6 ; KS 1750 ; Capt. of the School 1754 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1755, adm.pens. 28 May 1755, scholar 14 May 1756, matr. 1756 ; BA 1759 ; MA 1770 ; adm.Middle Temple 7 Jul 1753 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1759 (Lincoln), priest 21 Dec 1760 (Chester, lit.dim. from Winchester) ; Rector of Cranley, Surrey 23 Dec 1760 – Apr 1764 ; Rector of Great Holland, Essex 27 Jan 1770 – Mar 1782, reinstituted 25 Sep 1782 – Sep 1783 ; Rector of Bow Brickhill, Bucks., 18 Dec 1780 – Mar 1783 ; Domestic Chaplain to George, Viscount Torrington 29 Mar 1782 ; Rector of Tingrith, Beds., from May 1782 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 11 May 1782 ; m. 11 Mar 1776 Essex, dau. of Charles Blackwell, The Strand, London [apothecary ?] ; d. 13 Oct 1787.
WILLAUME, JOHN WILLIAMS, brother of Edward Willaume (qv) ; bapt. Tingrith, Beds. 5 [or 10] Apr 1741 ; adm. (aged 8) May 1749 ; KS (Capt.) 1753 ; Capt. of the School 1757 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1758, adm.pens. 24 May 1758, scholar 11 May 1759, matr. 1759 ; BA 1762 ; MA 1767 ; adm.Grays Inn 3 Nov 1773 ; of Tingrith, Beds. ; m. (by 1782) Mary — ; d. 16 Jun 1810.
WILLES, CHARLES, see WILLES, JOHN.
WILLES, EDWARD, eldest son of Right Rev.Edward Willes DD, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Jane, second dau. of Henry White MP, Oxford ; b. 30 Aug 1721 ; adm. Jan 1730/1 ; left 1736 ; Queens’ Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 31 Mar 1737, matr.1737 ; LLB 1745 ; Chancellor, Diocese of Bath and Wells (by 1774) – 1788 ; Decipherer, Foreign Office c.1741 – c.1804 ; of Barton, Beds. ; d.unm. 25 Dec 1812.
WILLES, EDWARD, brother of William Willes (adm.1813, qv) ; b. 25 Jan 1803 ; adm. 14 Jan 1814 ; Min.Can.1817 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Jan 1821 ; BA 1825 ; MA 1827 ; ordained deacon 21 May 1826, priest 10 Jun 1827 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of Ampney Crucis, Gloucs., 31 Aug 1827 – Aug 1829 ; Rector of Stratton, Gloucs., Aug- Sep 1829, re-instituted 10 Oct 1831-1833 ; Rector of Whitnash, Warwicks., 27 Mar 1829 – Oct 1833 ; Rector of Hamstall Ridware and Yoxall, Staffs., from 6 Aug 1833 ; m. 1 Jun 1826 Laura, third dau. of Samuel Edward Steward, Myton House, Warwicks., Lieut.-Col. Warwickshire Militia ; d. 13 Oct 1848.
WILLES, SIR FRANCIS, brother of Edward Willes (adm.1730/1, qv) ; b. 30 May 1735 ; adm. May 1744 ; left 1748 ; Decipherer, Foreign Office c.1758 – c.1807, salary commencing 5 Apr 1763 ; Under Secretary of State, Southern Dept., Oct 1772 – Nov 1775 ; knighted 11 Aug 1784 ; of Cockenhatch and Ippolits, Herts., and of Hampstead, Middlesex ; m. 6 Aug 1778 Mary, eldest dau. of Adm. of the Fleet Hon.George Clinton MP, Royal Navy, Governor of New York ; d. 30 Oct 1827. Buried North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey.
WILLES, JOHN, brother of Edward Willes (adm.1730/1, qv) ; bapt.Westminster Abbey 10 Mar 1729 ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1739/40 (Christian name recorded as “Charles” by Russell Barker and Stenning, but Hudson’s transcript reads “John”) ; left 1747 ; Lieut., Royal Navy 1 Mar 1749 ; Cdr., superannuated, 29 Sep 1796 ; d.unm.1804.
WILLES, WILLIAM, brother of Edward Willes (adm.1730/1, qv) ; bapt. Westminster Abbey 20 Dec 1731 ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1739/40 ; left 1741 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1747 ; BA 27 Feb 1749/50 ; MA 1753 ; employed as government decipherer c.1752 – c.1764 ; ordained deacon 1 Dec 1755 (Rochester for London), priest 4 Jan 1756 (Bath and Wells) ; Rector of Christian Malford, Wilts., from 16 Jan 1756 ; Prebendary of Wells 14 Oct 1757-60, Chancellor 3 Apr 1758-60 ; Archdeacon of Taunton 31 Dec 1760-7, Archdeacon of Wells from 20 Oct 1767 ; Rector of West Camel, Somerset 7 May 1788 – 22 Dec 1796 ; m. 23 Oct 1766 Margaret, dau. of William Jeanes, Shroton, Dorset ; d. 12 May 1815 (M.I.Christian Malford, Wilts.).
WILLES, WILLIAM, second son of Rev.William Shippen Willes, Rector of Preston Bissett, Bucks., and Prebendary of York, and his second wife Margaret, only dau. of John Williams, Panthowell, Carmarthenshire ; b. 6 Mar 1802 ; adm. 3 May 1813 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1818-20 ; Writer, EICS Bombay 1819 ; Assistant to Collector, Poona 18 Jul 1821 ; Assistant Register of Adawlut, Northern Concan 7 Oct 1822 ; Register, Candeish 2 Feb 1824 ; acting magistrate, Centre Division 20 Aug 1833 ; out of service 1834 ; of Astrop House, Northants ; DL JP Northants, High Sheriff 1837 ; JP Oxfordshire ; m. 8 Dec 1831 Sophia, dau. of William Ralph Cartwright MP, Aynho, Northants ; d. 15 Mar 1865.
WILLET, — ; b. ; in school list 1764 ; left Dec 1764.
WILLET, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764, 1765.
WILLETT, AUGUSTUS SALTREN, eldest son of John Saltren Willett (qv) ; b. 25 Oct 1817 ; adm. 26 Jan 1830 ; left Whitsun 1832 ; RMC Sandhurst ; Cornet, 17th Lancers 9 Dec 1836 ; Lieut., 31 Dec 1839 ; Capt., 11 Jun 1842 ; Maj., 28 May 1852 ; served in the Crimea ; d.unm. at Balaclava, of cholera, 22 Oct 1854.
WILLETT, FREDERIC, son of William Catt (afterwards Willett), Portland Place, Brighton, Sussex, brewer, and Elizabeth, fourth dau. of William Verrall, Southover, Lewes, Sussex, brewer ; b. 16 Jun 1838 ; adm. 29 Jan 1852 (as Frederic Catt) (G) ; QS 1853 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1857, adm.pens. 6 Jul 1857 ; BA 1861 ; MA 1864 ; ordained deacon 1861 (Rochester), priest 1862 (Lichfield) ; Curate, St.Peter, Wolverhampton, Staffs., 1861-5 ; Vicar of West Bromwich, Staffs., 1865-81 ; Curate in charge, Scaynes Hill, Lindfield, Sussex 1881-4 ; assumed surname of Willett in lieu of Catt 27 Jun 1863 ; author, Osney Foss, 1908 ; m. 6 Apr 1869 Mary, eldest dau. of John Nock Bagnall, Lichfield, Staffs., ironmaster ; d. 5 Jun 1939.
WILLETT, HENRY, brother of Ralph Willett (qv) ; b. 23 Oct 1721 ; adm. Jan 1732/3 ; d. at school 9 Nov 1733.
WILLETT, HERBERT BURROWS, eldest son of Alfred Willett FRCS, Wimpole Street, London, and Rose Ellen, only dau. of Sir George Burrows, Bart., MD FRS, President, Royal College of Physicians ; nephew of Frederic Willett (qv) ; b. 25 Apr 1870 ; adm. 26 Jan 1883 (R) ; left Jul 1888 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1888 ; played hockey v. Cambridge 1890, 1891 ; BA 1891 ; adm.solicitor May 1895 ; practised in London ; JP Sussex ; m. 19 Apr 1900 Isobel, dau. of James Matthews Duncan MD FRS FRCP (Ed), Brook Street, Hanover Square, London, obstetric physician ; m.2nd, 4 Nov 1937 Esmee, only dau. of Henry Goodwyn Stephenson, London, solicitor ; death registered Battle third quarter 1951, aged 82.
WILLETT, JOHN SALTREN, brother of William Saltren Willett (qv) ; bapt. Northam, Devon 19 Oct 1785 ; adm. ; in school lists 1797, 1801 (as John Salter Willett) ; proctor, Doctors’ Commons (still 1858) ; of Petticombe, Monkleigh, Devon ; m. 1814 Elizabeth Percy, sister of John Holt White (qv) ; d. 13 Dec 1871.
WILLETT, RALPH, elder son of Henry Willett, St.Kitts, West Indies, and Elizabeth, elder dau. of Col.John Stanley, Nevis, West Indies ; b. 8 Aug 1719 ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1732/3 ; left 1734 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Jun 1736, aged 17 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 4 Jan 1738/9 ; inherited large West Indian estates on death of his father in 1749 ; of Merly, Dorset ; High Sheriff, Dorset 1760 ; FSA 5 Dec 1763 ; FRS 21 Jun 1764 ; a collector of early printed books, specimens of block printing, prints, pictures and botanical drawings ; author of three papers in Archaeologia ; m.1st, 9 Dec 1779 (IGI) Annabella Robinson, St Anne, Soho, Westminster (previously his mistress ?) ; m.2nd, 15 May 1786 Charlotte, widow of Samuel Strutt, Assistant Clerk, House of Lords, and dau. of — Locke, Clerkenwell ; d. 13 Jan 1795. ODNB.
WILLETT, THOMAS, eldest son of Rev.Waring Willett, St.Margaret’s Churchyard, Westminster, Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey, and Hannah — ; bapt. St.Mary, Marylebone Road 21 Apr 1773 (IGI) ; adm. 15 Jan 1783 ; KS (aged 12) 1785 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1789, adm.pens. 10 Jun 1789 ; migrated to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 6 May 1791 ; BA 1796 ; MA 1797 ; Assistant Master, Loughborough House Sch., Lambeth, Surrey, subsequently Head Master and proprietor ; d. 11 Jan 1847.
WILLETT, WARING, brother of Thomas Willett (qv) ; b. ; adm. 15 Jan 1783 ; apprenticed to William Falwasser, apothecary 2 Oct 1792.
WILLETT, WILLIAM SALTREN, second son of Augustus Saltren Willett (previously Saltren), Port Hill, Northam, Devon, army agent, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George III, and Frances, sister of John Davie, Northam, Devon ; bapt. Northam, Devon 26 Jan 1783 ; in school list 1797 (as William Salter Willett) ; Ensign, 3rd Foot 14 Jul 1804 ; Lieut., 7th Foot Sep 1804 ; Capt., 2 Dec 1806 ; 34th Foot 10 Nov 1807 ; half-pay, 23rd Foot 1815 ; m. 1 Mar 1819 Christina Adelaide, sister of Daniel Nantes (qv) ; d. 1823.
WILLEY, EDWARD, son of Lieut.-Col.Edward Willey, 4th Dragoon Guards, Askham Bryan, Yorks., and Lucy, dau. of Jocelyn Price, Camblesforth, Yorks. ; bapt.Holy Trinity, Micklegate, Yorks. 17 Jul 1797 (IGI) ; adm. Christmas 1811 ; left 1814 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Jan 1813, matr. Mich.1814 ; 1st cl.Civil Law 1816/7 ; left 1819 ; BCL 1819 ; Cornet, 3rd Dragoon Guards 22 Oct 1818, Lieut., 19thLight Dragoons 23 May 1822, half-pay 19 Jun 1823 (still 1840).
WILLIAMS, see also WYLLIAMS.
WILLIAMS, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1579 (Chapter Muniments 39716).
WILLIAMS, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school list, first quarter 1656).
WILLIAMS, — ; b. ; in under school list 1715.
WILLIAMS, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1727-30, school lists 1731-3.
WILLIAMS, — ; b. ; in school lists 1743-5.
WILLIAMS, — ; b. ; in school list Jun 1764 ; left 16 Aug 1764.
WILLIAMS, — ; b. ; in school lists May and Oct 1803.
WILLIAMS, ARTHUR, eldest son of Simon Williams, Mellteyrn, Caernarvonshire, and Mary, dau. of Hugh Rowlands, Mellteyrn ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston four years (J.E.B.Mayor & R.F.Scott, Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., i, 21) ; BB ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 21 Oct 1634, aged 18, Bishop Williams scholar 6 Nov 1634, matr.1634 ; of Meillionydd, Caernarvonshire ; m. Anne, dau. of Robert Owen, Ystumcegid, Caernarvonshire ; d.1653.
WILLIAMS, ARTHUR CHARLES VAUGHAN, son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv) ; b. 8 Nov 1834 ; adm. 22 Oct 1846 ; QS 1849 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1853, matr. 18 May 1853, Westminster Student ; BA 1857 ; MA 1860 ; ordained deacon Dec 1860 (Oxford) ; Vicar of Down Ampney, Gloucs., from 1868 ; father of Ralph Vaughan Williams OM, musical composer ; m. 22 Feb 1868 Margaret Susan, second dau. of Josiah Wedgwood, Leith Hill Place, Surrey ; d. 9 Feb 1875.
WILLIAMS, ASHTON, eldest son of Thomas Williams, Nantwich, Cheshire ; bapt.Nantwich, Cheshire 22 Nov 1706 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 15) May 1723 ; adm.Inner Temple 3 Jun 1726.
WILLIAMS, CADWALLADER, son of John Williams, Bangor, Caernarvonshire ; b. ; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1718 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1720 ; BA 1724 ; ordained deacon 15 Mar 1724/5 (Bangor), priest 19 Sep 1725 (Winchester) ; Curate, Newport, Isle of Wight, 1725-6, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, from 1726 (with West Cowes 1728) ; d. c.1735.
WILLIAMS, CHARLES ; b. ; BB 1712-6 ; in under school list 1715.
WILLIAMS, CHARLES, eldest son of John Williams, Daventry, Northants, Serjeant-at-law, and Mary, dau. of Charles Clarke, Forebridge, near Stafford ; b. ; adm. ; left 1811 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Jun 1811 ; migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 17 Oct 1822, matr. Lent 1823 ; LLB 1827 ; adm. Inner Temple 24 Nov 1814 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1825, priest 21 May 1826 (both Lincoln) ; d. 26 Aug 1835, aged 41. [Perhaps bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 4 May 1794 (IGI)]
WILLIAMS, CHARLES WILLIAM, eldest son of Thomas Robert Williams, Newton Nottage, Glamorgan, banker and colliery proprietor, and Jane Frederica Butler, dau. of Charles Savery, Bristol, solicitor ; b. 11 Jun 1842 ; adm. Jan 1855 ; BB 3 Mar 1855 ; adm.solicitor Trinity 1863 ; practised at Newport, Monmouthshire ; m. 1864 Elizabeth, dau. of John Clarke, Alteryn House, Newport, Monmouthshire, corn merchant (marriage registered fourth quarter 1864) ; d. 5 Sep 1873.
WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER ; b. ; in under school lists 1715, 1716 ; BB 1716-7.
WILLIAMS, SIR DAVID, BART., son of Rev.Sir Gilbert Williams, Bart., Vicar of Islington, Middlesex, and Dorothy, widow of Thomas Day, Rickmansworth, Herts., and dau. of William Wankford, Rickmansworth, Herts. ; b. 13 May 1726 ; adm.Jul 1737 ; left 1742 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1742 ; BA 1748 ; MA 1751 ; succ. as 6th baronet Apr 1768 ; m. 19 Aug 1762 Rebecca, dau. of Rev.Thomas Harding Rowland, Whitchurch, Bucks. ; d. 9 Dec 1792.
WILLIAMS, DAVID ARCHER VAUGHAN COLT, see COLT-WILLIAMS, DAVID ARCHER VAUGHAN.
WILLIAMS, DUDLEY, second son of Anthony Williams, Hertford and Abbots Langley, Herts., and Mary, dau. of William Peere, Wadnoll, Kent ; bapt. Gilston, Herts., 11 Mar 1616 (IGI) ; godson of his great-uncle Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester (qv) ; adm. ; KS 1630 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1635, adm.pens. 10 May 1635, scholar 1635, but did not matr.
WILLIAMS, EDMUND ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1722/3 ; in school list 1731.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD, see WILLAUME, EDWARD.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD, brother of Rowland Williams (qv) ; bapt. St John’s, Antigua ; 30 Apr 1710 ; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1721 ; in under school list 1724 ; of Thames Ditton, Surrey ; also plantation owner in Antigua ; m. 1747 [check] Mary Bennett, Penrith, Cumberland ; d. 6 Apr 1784.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD FRASER VAUGHAN, son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv) ; b. 17 May 1833 ; adm. 22 Oct 1846 ; QS 1848 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1852, adm.pens. 21 May 1852, matr. Mich.1852, scholar 1853 ; BA 1856 ; MA 1860 ; ordained deacon 1862 (Bath and Wells), priest 1866 (Bishop Anderson for Bath & Wells) ; Curate, Batheaston, Somerset 1862-8 ; Rector of North Tidworth, Wilts., 1869-1911 ; m. 6 Oct 1868 Emily Eugenia, dau. of Thomas Gibson Inman, Bath, Somerset, barrister ; d. 25 Jun 1914.
WILLIAMS. SIR EDWARD VAUGHAN, brother of Charles Williams (left 1811, qv) ; b. ; at Winchester Coll. 1808-11 ; adm. Christmas 1811 (Best) ; KS (Capt.) 1812 ; probably the editor of The World at Westminster, a school periodical which appeared from 28 Nov 1815 to 20 May 1816 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1816, adm.pens. 27 May 1816, aged 18, matr.Mich.1816, scholar 1817 ; BA 1820 ; MA 1823 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jun 1818, called to bar 17 Jun 1823 ; initially joined Oxford Circuit, later on South Wales and Chester Circuits ; Serjeant-at-Law 27 Oct 1846 ; Puisne Justice, Court of Common Pleas 3 Nov 1846 – Feb 1865, retired ; knighted 4 Feb 1847 ; Privy Councillor 9 Mar 1865 ; member, Judicial Committee, Privy Council ; a fine scholar, learned lawyer and excellent judge ; Busby Trustee 26 May 1854 ; author, Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators, 1832, and other works ; m. 5 Sep 1826 Jane Margaret, eighth dau. of Walter Bagot (adm.1739/40, qv) ; d. 2 Nov 1875. ODNB.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD WILLIAM COLT, see COLT, EDWARD WILLIAM.
WILLIAMS, EZEKIEL, son of John Williams, Truro, Cornwall, and Alice — (IGI) ; bapt. Truro, Cornwall 12 May 1704 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1717 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Mar 1721/2 ; BA 1725 ; BCL 21 Jan 1731/2 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1726 (Peterborough), priest 1728 (Exeter) ; Vicar of Crowan, Cornwall (disp. to hold with Helland 1731/2) (to death) ; Rector of Helland, Cornwall, from 22 Mar 1731/2 ; d. Aug 1777.
WILLIAMS, FRANCIS, son of Right Rev.Griffith Williams DD, Bishop of Ossory, Dean of Bangor and Prebendary of Westminster, and Anne — ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f.224).
WILLIAMS, FRANCIS ERNEST, second son of Watkin Wynn Williams, Argyll Road, Kensington, shipbuilder, and Amelia Louisa, dau. of Thomas Roberts, Hillsborough, Waterford, Ireland ; b. 18 Sep 1863 ; adm. 5 Mar 1877 (R) ; left Nov 1880 ; student at Westminster Hospital but ill-health caused him to abandon medical career ; lived at home with his parents ; d. unm. 6 Jan 1943.
WILLIAMS, FREDERICK GEORGE ADOLPHUS, brother of Thomas Lockyer Williams (qv) ; b. 18 Sep 1825 ; adm. 29 Jan 1838 ; QS 1840 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1844, adm.pens. 16 May 1844, matr.Mich.1844 ; BA 1848 ; adm.Inner Temple 9 Nov 1848, called to bar 30 Apr 1852 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 23 Dec 1856 ; equity draftsman and conveyancer ; Chancery Reporter for Incorporated Council of Law Reporting ; m. 28 Dec 1865 Mary Katherine, third dau. of James Leman, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, solicitor ; d. 15 Apr 1889.
WILLIAMS, GEORGE ARTHUR, brother of Edward William Colt (qv) ; b. 29 Dec 1851 ; adm. 26 May 1864 (G) ; left Whitsun 1865 ; readm. 21 Jun 1867, BB ; left 1868 ; d. 25 May 1871.
WILLIAMS, GEORGE HARVEY GRAHAM, son of George Harvey Williams MD MRCS LSA, Oswestry, Shropshire, and Ellen, dau. of Joseph Cooper, Wrexham, Denbighshire ; b. 11 Dec 1852 ; adm. 8 Feb 1866 (G) ; Min.Can.1867 ; left Whitsun 1867 ; death registered St.Asaph third quarter 1874, aged 21.
WILLIAMS, GEORGE JAMES, fourth son of William Peere Williams MP, Gray’s Inn, London, barrister, Chancery Reporter, and Anne, second dau. of Sir George Hutchins, Kt, Greville Street, Holborn, King’s Serjeant ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1727 ; Min.Can.1732 ; KS 1733 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1737, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jun 1737 ; adm.Inner Temple 13 Nov 1739 ; Inspector-Gen., Inland Excise Duties Sep 1751 – Nov 1774 ; Deputy Cofferer, Royal Household Nov 1761 – Jul 1765 ; Paymaster to Forces, Nova Scotia Jul 1767 (still 1780) ; Joint Receiver of Revenues, Virginia 1 Sep 1772 (still 1780) ; Receiver-Gen., Excise 8 Nov 1774-81 ; FSA 15 Nov 1781 ; known as “Gilly” Williams ; an intimate friend of George Selwyn, Richard Edgcumbe and Horace Walpole ; m. 13 Jun 1751 (or Jul 1752 ?) Diana, illegitimate dau. of Hon.Peregrine Bertie, and step-daughter of William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry (Notes and Queries clxxiii, 206) ; d. 28 Nov 1805. ODNB.
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH, son of Roger Williams, London, citizen and merchant, and Mary, dau. of Norton Curtiss, Morden, Surrey ; bapt. St.Bride, Fleet Street 8 Jul 1675 ; adm. ; KS 1691 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1693, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1693, aged 18, scholar 20 Apr 1694, matr.1693 ; BA 1696/7 ; MA 1700 ; BD 1708 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1699, Major Fellow 5 Apr 1700 – c.1715 ; ordained deacon 12 Mar 1703/4 (Lincoln), priest 19 May 1706 (Ely) ; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley 1709 ; Rector of North Runcton, Norfolk, from 18 Apr 1712 ; m. Anne, only dau. of Rev.Robert Purland, Rector of East Walton, Norfolk ; d. 8 Jan 1718.
WILLIAMS, HERVEY VAUGHAN, eldest son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv) ; b. 5 Apr 1829 ; adm. 12 Apr 1842 ; QS 1843 ; rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1845, 30 Jul 1846, 29 Jul 1847 ; Capt. of the School 1847 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1848, matr. 28 Jun 1848, Westminster Student ; BA 1852 ; d. 4 Nov 1852.
WILLIAMS, HOLLAND, son of William Williams, Caernarvonshire, and his first wife Margaret, dau. of William Holland, Conway, Caernarvonshire ; b. 21 Aug 1641 ; adm. ; KS 1658 (Chapter Muniments 43060) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Jul 1659 ; adm.Inner Temple 6 May 1659, called to bar 22 Nov 1668 ; m. Jane, dau. of Edward Edwards, Llwyndu, Merioneth ; d. 1 Jan 1680.
WILLIAMS, J. ; b. ; at school 1792 ; in school list 1795.
WILLIAMS, J.N. ; b. ; adm. 2 Jun 1806 ; left 1806.
WILLIAMS, JAMES, son of Sir Thomas Williams, Bart. MP, Chymical Physician to Charles II, and his second wife Grace, widow of — Carwardine, Madeley, Herefordshire, and dau. of Thomas Lewis, The Moor, Hereford ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1685 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1688, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1688, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1689, matr.1688 ; BA 1691/2 ; MA 1695 ; DD 1709 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1694, Major Fellow 8 Mar 1695 – c.1712 ; ordained deacon 20 Mar 1697/8, priest 25 Sep 1698 (both Lincoln) ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 12 Dec 1707 ; Rector of St.Magnus, London Bridge, from 29 Jan 1710/1 ; Vicar of Chigwell, Essex, from 16 Oct 1721 ; d. Jul 1727.
WILLIAMS, JAMES, brother of Richard Williams (adm.1718, qv) ; bapt.St.Dunstan in the East, London 29 Jul 1717 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 6) Jun 1724 ; in under school list 1729 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 5 Apr 1734, matr.1734 ; adm.Middle Temple 2 Nov 1734 ; Ensign, 31st Foot 20 Jan 1735/6 ; 1st Foot Guards 17 Jul 1739 ; Capt., 46th Foot 27 Jan 1740/1 ; 7th Dragoons 4 Apr 1745 ; Lieut.-Col., 19th Foot 6 Feb 1746/7 ; killed at battle of Lauffeldt, Netherlands 2 Jul 1747, unm.
[WILLIAMS, SIR JAMES, BART. : “new slip”]
WILLIAMS, JAMES OSBORNE, third son of Penry Williams (adm.1822, qv) ; b. 7 May 1844 ; adm. 28 Mar 1859 (R) ; left Christmas 1862 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1864 ; d.unm. in Malta 21 Apr 1871.
WILLIAMS, JENKIN ; b. ; adm. 17 Jan 1781.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, of Denbighshire ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1583, matr. 2 Jul 1585, aged 18, Westminster Student to c.1597 ; BA 1587 ; MA 1590 ; BD 1597 ; DD 1602 ; ordained ; Rector of Llanarmon yn Ial, Denbighshire 28 Feb 1594/5 [or 1595/6 ?] ; Rector of Llangybi, Caernarvonshire 1597 [but check]; Vicar of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire 16 Feb 1597/8 [but check] ; Vicar of Llanfwrog, Denbighshire 1603 ; Rector of Bangor–is-y-Coed, Denbighshire 1606 ; Warden of Ruthin, Denbighshire, from 1606 ; d. 1621.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, son of Edward Williams, Llannefydd, Denbighshire, and Anne, dau. of William ap Robert, Llanefydd, Denbighshire ; b. ; at school under Busby two years (J.E.B.Mayor & R.F.Scott, Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., i, 56), BB ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 23 Oct 1640, aged 17, Bishop Williams scholar 4 Nov 1640 ; of Pont-y-Gwyddel, Llanefydd, Denbighshire ; m. (by 1649) Sydney, dau. of Edward Wynn, Ystrad, Denbighshire ; buried Llannefydd, Denbighshire 11 Feb 1673.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, son of John Williams, Bangor, Caernarvonshire ; b. (Anglesey) 1682 ; at school under Knipe (Admissions to Trin.Coll.Camb., ii, 611) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Sep 1700, aged 18, scholar 17 Apr 1702, matr.1700 ; BA 1704/5 ; MA 1708 ; BD 1719 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1707, Major Fellow 19 Apr 1708, Junior Bursar 1713-4, Tutor 1721-8, Senior Fellow 1728 ; ordained deacon 29 Feb 1707/8, priest Jun 1709 (Ely) ; Rector of North Runcton, Norfolk, from 27 Mar 1727 ; d. by 29 Mar 1738/9.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, son of Rev.John Williams, Tiverton, Devon ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1716 ; KS 1722 ; Capt. of the School 1726 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1727, matr. 8 Jun 1727, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1727 – void 5 Apr 1732 ; BA 1731 ; ordained deacon 24 Sep 1732, priest 18 Feb 1732/3 (both Rochester) ; Curate, Aylesford, Kent 1732 ; Vicar of Oakham, Rutland, from 1 Oct 1736 ; m. Mary Wotton ; d. Nov 1781.
WILLIAMS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1716/7.
WILLIAMS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) May 1718 ; in under school list 1723.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, see ONSLOW, JOHN WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS, JOHN ; b.1763 ; adm. 19 Sep 1774 ; left 1779 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1783 ; arrived in India 7 Aug 1783 ; Assistant in Secretary’s Office, Commercial Dept., 1785 ; Factor and Second Assistant to Collector, Midnapur 1788 ; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup.
WILLIAMS, JOHN, eldest son of Rev.John Williams, Rhayader, Radnorshire, Vicar of North Leverton, Notts., and South Stoke, Oxfordshire, and Abigail, dau. of Evan Evans, Noyadd Cwmdanddwr, Radnorshire ; b. ; adm. Christmas 1811 ; KS (aged 13) 1812 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1816, matr. 25 May 1816, Westminster Student, Tutor and Censor 1829 ; BA 1820 ; MA 1822 ; Pro-Proctor 1831 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1828 (Oxford) ; Perpetual Curate of Tring, Herts., 1839-41 ; Vicar of Spelsbury, Oxfordshire 1841-56 ; of Bryntirion, Rhayader, Radnorshire ; m. 1840 Jane, widow of John Patterson, Devonshire (marriage registered Warwick first quarter 1840) ; d. 30 Nov 1873.
WILLIAMS, JOHN HERBERT, son of Robert Griffith Williams QC, Denbigh, Denbighshire, barrister, and Jane, dau. of Thomas Evans, Denbigh [but adm.MT as eldest son of John Herbert Williams, barrister, deceased] ; b. 6 Aug 1857 ; adm. 23 Sep 1869 (G) ; QS 1872 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1876 (with Triplett), adm.pens. 10 Oct 1876, matr.Mich.1876 ; LLB 1880 ; LLM 1911 ; adm.Middle Temple 8 Nov 1878, called to bar 29 Jun 1881 ; 1st Equity scholarship Jun 1880, student Oct 1880 ; North Wales circuit ; Capt., on staff Judge Advocate Gen., 19 Oct 1917 ; went out to France 29 Oct 1917, but soon afterwards invalided home ; joint author, The Law of Ejectment, 1911, and other works ; m. 8 Sep 1885 Jessie Wilhelmina, younger dau. of William Hunter, Dhunellan, Innellan, Argyllshire ; d. 18 Nov 1917.
WILLIAMS, LEWIS, son of Hugh Williams, Menai, Anglesey ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1623, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1638. [ordained deacon 25 Sep 1631, MA Christ Church, Oxford, priest 24 May 1635, also as MA Christ Church (both Oxford)] [perhaps son of Hugh Williams and Catherine Pugh]
WILLIAMS, LEWIS VAUGHAN, son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv) ; b. 19 Jul 1836 ; adm. Nov 1849 ; QS 1851 ; left 1855 ; Ensign, Rifle Brigade 6 Jul 1855 ; Lieut., 19 Feb 1858 ; Adjutant, 1stbattn., 9 Mar 1860 ; Capt., 16 Nov 1866 ; retd. Sep 1868 ; d. 3 Oct 1869.
WILLIAMS, MORGAN ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1618, Westminster Student to 1620, but did not matr. [Possibly same individual as Morgan Williams, son of John Williams, Llansanttfraid, Cardiganshire, Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 25 (sic)]
WILLIAMS, OWEN, eldest son of Thomas Williams MP, Llanidan, Anglesey, solicitor and copper mine proprietor, and Catherine, dau. of John Lloyd, Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, Anglesey, attorney ; bapt. 19 Jul 1764 ; adm. 16 Sep 1776 ; KS (aged 14) 1779 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1782, but was never adm. ; MP Great Marlow from 1796 ; of Temple House, Marlow, Berks., and Craig-y-Don, Anglesey ; m. 18 Jul 1792 Margaret, eldest dau. of Rev.Edward Hughes, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire ; d. 23 Feb 1832.
WILLIAMS, OWEN EDWARD, son of Owen Williams (qv) ; b. Jan 1798 ; adm. 27 Jan 1812 ; left Midsummer 1815 ; partner, family bank, to 1832, when he inherited £35,000 from his father ; of Craig-y-Don, Anglesey ; “went to Venice”. [evidently Owen Edward Williams who bequeathed £800 to commune of Dolo, Venezia, Italy, by his will dated 26 May 1869, for endowment of an old people’s home there]
WILLIAMS, PENROSE LANYON WATKIN, see WATKIN-WILLIAMS, PENROSE LANYON.
WILLIAMS, PENRY, elder son of Penry Williams, Penpont, Breconshire, and Anna Jane, second dau. of Samuel Sheppard, Minchinhampton, Gloucs. ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1727 ; in school list 1731 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 Feb 1731/2 ; adm.Middle Temple 21 Feb 1731/2 ; of Penpont, Breconshire ; m. 10 Feb 1737/8 Anne, dau. of Thomas Smith, Stoke, Shropshire ; d. 15 Jan 1781.
WILLIAMS, PENRY, son of Philip Williams, Penpont, Breconshire, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of John Osborne, Gloucestershire ; grandson of Penry Williams (adm.1727, qv) ; b. ; at school 1792 ; in school lists 1795, 1797 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1799 ; MA [check] 25 Feb 1802 ; High Sheriff, Breconshire 1804 ; Lord Lieut., Breconshire, from 24 Dec 1835 ; m. 1 May 1804 Maria, dau. of Samuel Yeats, Monks Mill, Wotton under Edge, Gloucs., clothier ; d. 16 Jan 1847, aged 64.
WILLIAMS, PENRY, elder son of Penry Williams (in school lists 1795-7, qv) ; b. 3 Nov 1807 ; adm. 15 Feb 1822 (G) ; left Bartholomewtide 1825 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1826 ; BA 1830 ; DL JP Breconshire, High Sheriff 1848 ; m. 19 Jul 1832 Anne, dau. of Thomas Downes, Hereford ; d. 4 Feb 1886.
WILLIAMS, PHILIP, brother of Penry Williams (adm.1727, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1735 ; left 1737.
WILLIAMS, PHILIP, second son of Llewellyn Williams, Duffryn Clydach, Glamorgan, and Middle Temple, London, barrister, and Jane, dau. of Edward Turbervill, Ewenny Abbey, Glamorgan ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1743 ; Min.Can.1747 ; left 1747 ; adm.Middle Temple 27 May 1747 ; of Duffryn Clydach, Glamorgan ; High Sheriff, Glamorgan 1762 ; m. Catherine, dau. of Anthony Maddocks, Cefn Ydfa, Glamorgan ; buried Llangattock, Breconshire 4 Sep 1772.
WILLIAMS, PHILIP PENRY, younger son of Penry Williams (in school lists 1795-7, qv) ; b. 6 Jul 1812 ; adm. 1 Jun 1825 (G) ; Head Town Boy 1829 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 May 1830 ; BA 1834 ; of Stoke House, Tenbury, Worcs. ; DL JP Breconshire, Worcestershire, JP Shropshire ; m. 15 Apr 1837 Charlotte Hamilton, youngest dau. of Cdr.Francis Edward Seymour, Royal Navy ; d. 9 Feb 1873.
WILLIAMS, REGINALD, son of Rev.Herbert Williams, Head Master, Brewers’ Sch., London, and Eliza, only dau. of Rev.William Thompson, Minister of St.Barnabas, King Square, London ; b. 11 Oct 1859 ; at Charterhouse Sch. 1870-1 ; adm. 5 Feb 1872 ; 2ndLieut., 24th Foot 21 Jun 1879 ; Lieut., South Wales Borderers 16 Oct 1880 ; Bombay Staff Corps 12 Jul 1882 ; Capt., Indian Staff Corps., 21 Jun 1890 ; Maj., 21 Jun 1899 ; retd. 17 Nov 1900 ; served in Burmese expedition 1885-9 ; m. 2 Nov 1887 Evelyn Mary Stanley, dau. of John Stanley Clarke, Bombay ; d. 26 Mar 1909.
WILLIAMS, REGINALD HENRY, second son of Rev.Daniel Rowland Williams, Rector of Bowers Gifford, Essex, and Mary Elizabeth, third dau. of John Tarratt, Moseley Hall, Staffordshire ; b. 28 May 1864 ; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (D), exhibitioner ; QS 1879 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1883, matr. 22 Oct 1883 ; 3rd cl.Classics (Mods) 1885, 1st cl. Natural Science (Morphology) 1887 ; BA 1887 ; MA 1894 ; ordained deacon Jun 1889, priest Jun 1890 (both Chester) ; Curate, Odd Rode, Cheshire 1889-93 ; held other curacies ; Rector of Bowers Gifford, Essex 1915-23 ; Rector of Ashingdon, Essex, 1923-30 ; d. 27 Jan 1937.
WILLIAMS, RICHARD, son of Sir John Williams, Kt, MP, Tendring Hall, Stoke juxta Nayland, Suffolk, director South Sea Co., Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, and Hon.Mary Onslow, dau. of Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow ; bapt.St.Dunstan in the East, London 5 Jul 1710 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1718 ; in under school list 1722 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 4 Aug 1729, matr.1729/30 ; MA 1733 ; adm.Middle Temple 23 Jan 1730/1 ; latterly a bankrupt ; m. 22 Dec 1738 Sarah Bishop, Manningtree, Essex ; d. 1750.
WILLIAMS, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1739/40 ; left 1740.
WILLIAMS, RICHARD BULKELEY, see WILLIAMS-BULKELEY, SIR RICHARD BULKELEY, BART.
WILLIAMS, SIR ROBERT, BART., eldest son of Sir Hugh Williams, Bart., MP, and Emma, widow of James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley (I) (qv), and only dau. of Thomas Rowlands, Nant, Caernarvonshire ; b. 20 Jul 1764 ; adm. 12 Sep 1774 ; at Harrow School 1776-80 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1786 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 Jun 1782 ; Lieut. and Capt., 30 Dec 1789 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 4 Oct 1794 ; retd. 12 Jun 1795 ; served in France 1793 ; MP Caernarvonshire 1790-1826, Beaumaris from 1826 ; succ. father as 9th baronet 19 Aug 1794 ; m. 11 Jun 1799 Anne, second dau. of Rev.Edward Hughes, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire ; d. at Nice 1 Dec 1830.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. 8 Jul 1778.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT GRIFFITH, son of Sir Robert Williams, Bart. (qv) ; b. 27 Jun 1809 ; adm. 1 Oct 1821 ; Ensign, 21st Foot 3 Oct 1826 ; Lieut., 6 Sep 1831 ; Capt., 24 Apr 1835 ; 24th Foot 11 Dec 1835 ; retd. 1841 ; m.1833 Mary Anne, second dau. of Piers Geale, Dublin, Ireland, Crown Solicitor, Home Circuit (I) ; d. 13 Apr 1865.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT THESIGER WATKIN, see WATKIN-WILLIAMS, ROBERT THESIGER.
WILLIAMS (or WYLLIAMS), ROGER, son of William Williams, St.Nicolas, Glamorgan ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston three years (J.E.B.Mayor & R.F.Scott, Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., i, 10) ; Min.Can.1630 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f.137) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 28 Apr 1632, aged 15 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 8 May 1639.
WILLIAMS, SIR ROLAND LOMAX BOWDLER VAUGHAN, son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv) ; b. 31 Dec 1837 ; adm. 27 Jan 1851 ; QS 1852 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1856, matr. 15 May 1856, Westminster Student 1856-65 ; BA 1860 ; MA 1863 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Jan 1861, called to bar 17 Nov 1864, Bencher 1886, Treasurer 1912 ; South-Eastern Circuit ; QC 1889 ; Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division, High Court 13 Feb 1890 – Nov 1897, Lord Justice of Appeal 2 Nov 1897 – Apr 1914, retd. ; knighted 30 Jun 1890 ; Privy Counsellor 26 Nov 1897 ; Chairman, Royal Commission on Disestablishment of Welsh Church 1906 ; author, The Law and Practice of Bankruptcy, 1870 (many subsequent editions) ; edited several editions of his father’s Treatise on theLaw of Executors and Administrators ; Vice-President, Elizabethan Club 1905-12, President 1912-5 ; Busby Trustee 20 May 1890 ; m. 28 Sep 1865 Laura Susanna, youngest dau. of Edmund Lomax, Netley Park, Surrey ; d. 8 Dec 1916. ODNB.
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND, son of Col.Thomas Williams, member of Assembly, Antigua, West Indies, and Mary, dau. of Edward Byam, Antigua, physician ; bapt. St.John’s, Antigua 18 Jul 1707 ; adm. Oct 1721 ; in under school lists 1723 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 May 1726 ; [apparently “a physician”] ; d. in New York, North America 1738 (will dated 18 Feb 1736, proved 16 Mar 1738/9).
WILLIAMS, SAMUEL CHARLES EVAN, only son of John Williams (adm.1811, qv) ; b. 29 May 1842 ; adm. Jan 1855 (G) ; QS (Capt.) 1857 ; left 1859 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 May 1861 ; BA 1864 ; MA 1877 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 13 Nov 1866 ; JP Radnorshire, High Sheriff 1880 ; MP (Liberal) Radnor District 1880-4 ; Vice-Chairman, Radnor County Council ; one of founders of National Liberal Club 1882 ; Roman Catholic convert 1894 ; m. 26 Feb 1867 Mary Caroline, dau. of Rev.Henry William Robinson Luttman-Johnson (formerly Michell), West Dean, Sussex ; d. 2 Mar 1926.
WILLIAMS, SEYMOUR YEATS, second son of Philip Penry Williams (qv) ; b. 31 Mar 1844 ; adm. 22 Jan 1858 ; QS 1859 ; left 1 May 1863 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 Jun 1863 ; BA 1867 ; MA 1873 ; ordained deacon 1869, priest 1870 (both Hereford) ; Curate, Caynham, Shropshire 1869-73, Greet, Shropshire 1873-4 ; d. unm. 1 Feb 1919.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, eldest son of Edward Williams, Westminster, and Judith — ; bapt. 2 Jan 1639/40 ; at school under Busby ; an undated petition by his widowed mother for a Lord’s scholarship for her son, “of 13 yeares of age, who is now a scoller in the scoole of Westminster”, is preserved in the Chapter Muniments (Chapter Muniments 43103).
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, eldest son of Reginald Williams, Stoke juxta Nayland, Suffolk, and his second wife Sarah, sister of Sir Thomas Dyke, Bart. (qv) ; bapt.Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk 28 Nov 1670 (IGI) ; at school under Busby (J.E.B.Mayor and R.F.Scott, Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., ii, 117) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 16 Jul 1689, aged “past 17” ; of Tendring Hall, Stoke juxta Nayland, Suffolk ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, Bart., MP, Ketton, Suffolk ; d. 30 Mar 1718
WILLIAMS, THOMAS FRANCIS FORD, youngest son of Rev.Thomas Williams, Vicar of Northop, Flintshire, and Mary Louisa, only child of Rev.Henry Jones, Vicar of Northop, Flintshire ; b. 1 Aug 1859 ; adm. 30 May 1872 (G) ; QS 1874 ; left May 1878 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1878 ; BA 1884 ; MA 1887 ; ordained deacon 1887, priest 1888 (both St.Albans) ; Curate, St.John’s, Stratford, Essex 1887-9, Saffron Walden, Essex 1889-95 ; Vicar of All Saints, Forest Gate, Essex 1895-1901 ; Rector of King’s Cliffe, Northants 1901-5 ; Rector of Silsoe, Beds., 1905-16 ; m. 19 Sep 1889 Mary Rosamond, second dau. of Thomas Lewis, Bryn Edwin, Flintshire ; d. 6 May 1922.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS LOCKYER, eldest son of George Thomas Williams, Lymington House, Somerset, barrister, and Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Smith MP, Putney Hill, Surrey ; b. 31 Jan 1823 ; adm. 7 Jun 1836 ; KS 1837 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1841, adm.pens. 21 May 1841, matr.Mich.1841 ; BA 1846 ; Assistant Master, Cheltenham Coll. 1847-9 ; ordained deacon 1847, priest 1848 (both Gloucester) ; Curate, Tetbury, Gloucs., 1847-9 ; Perpetual Curate of Porthleven, Cornwall 1851-89 ; m. 21 Jun 1847 Emma Sarah, dau. of Frederick Rushbrook, Cambridge ; d. 2 Apr 1919.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS PEERS, elder son of Owen Williams (qv) ; b. 27 Mar 1795 ; adm. 11 May 1808 (Glover) ; left 1812 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1813 ; MP Great Marlow 1820-68 ; Lieut.-Col., Royal Anglesey Militia ; DL JP Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Anglesey ; m. 27 Aug 1835 Emily, youngest dau. of Anthony Bacon, Elcott, Berks. ; d. 8 Sep 1875.
WILLIAMS, WALTER ; b. ; adm. 6 Oct 1769.
WILLIAMS, WALTER VERE VAUGHAN, son of Sir Edward Vaughan Williams (qv) ; b. 23 Sep 1839 ; adm. 22 Nov 1852 ; QS 1854 ; left 1858 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1858 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1863 ; migr. to Inner Temple 15 Jan 1868, called to bar 27 Jan 1868 ; Northern Circuit ; joint author with H.H.Creed of Handicraftsmen and Capitalists, 1867, and author or joint author of legal textbooks ; [unm. in 1881] ; d. 2 Feb 1890.
WILLIAMS, WATKIN HERBERT, second son of Sir Hugh Williams, Bart., Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, and Henrietta Charlotte, only dau. of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm.1784, qv) ; b. 20 Aug 1845 ; adm. 21 Jan 1858 (G) ; Min.Can.1860 ; left Whitsun 1863 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1864 ; BA 1870 ; MA 1871 ; DD 1899 ; ordained deacon 1870, priest 1871 (both St.Asaph) ; Curate, Rhos-Llanerchrugog, Denbighshire 1870-2 ; Vicar of Bodelwyddan, Flintshire 1872-92 ; Archdeacon and Prebendary of St.Asaph 1889-92 ; Dean of St.Asaph 1892-8 ; consecrated Bishop of Bangor 2 Feb 1899 – res Nov 1924 ; Busby Trustee 27 May 1902 ; President, Elizabethan Club 1915-20 ; m. 30 Apr 1879 Alice, youngest dau. of Gen.Henry Monckton ; d. 19 Nov 1944.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, brother of John Williams (at school under Busby, qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1639 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1642, matr.1642, scholar 1647 ; BA 1647/8 ; MA 1657 ; Lic.Med.1657 (incorp. Oxford 1657) ; Head Master, Beaumaris Free School (in 1652, 1655) ; ordained ; Rector of Llandegfan with Beaumaris, Anglesey 3 Sep 1660 ; Rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire 1663-78 ; Rector of St.George, Denbighshire, from 1668 ; Vicar of Northop, Flintshire 1669/70- Sep 1672 ; Vicar of Abergele, Denbighshire, from Sep 1672 ; Proctor in Convocation for diocese of Bangor 1673-9 ; Vicar of Rhuddlan, Flintshire 1678-84 ; Prebendary of St.Asaph Jan 1678/9 – Oct 1681 [check] ; his manuscript poetical commonplace book was lot 450 in a Sotheby’s sale of 25 Jul 1978, and is now in the National Library of Wales ; m. Myddanwy, widow of John Lloyd, Plas Llandegfan, Anglesey, and dau. of William Wynn Jones, Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey ; d. before 28 Jun 1684. [also Rector, Llansadwrn, Anglesey 4 May 1668 ; Llangurig, Montgomeryshire ; Bodfari, Flintshire 1672-81 [check]]
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1717/8 ; in under school list 1723.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1718 ; left 1719.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1725 ; in school list 1728.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1727 ; left 1733.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, son of Roger Williams, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1729 ; KS 1730.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1747/8 ; in school list 1754.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM EDWARD WYNN, eldest son of David Williams MP, Castle Dendraeth, Merioneth, and Anne Louisa Loveday, only dau. of William Williams, Pennarthuchaf, Merioneth, barrister ; b. 20 Jul 1842 ; adm. 7 Jun 1855 (G) ; Min.Can.1857 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. Apr 1861, matr. Easter 1861 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 2 Nov 1866, called to bar 7 Jun 1869 ; disinherited by father ; committed suicide at Marysville, California, USA, unm. 10 Feb 1876.
WILLIAMS-BULKELEY, SIR RICHARD BULKELEY, BART., eldest son of Sir Robert Williams, Bart. (qv) ; b. 23 Sep 1801 ; adm. 20 Feb 1815 ; left 10 Apr 1819 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Nov 1820 ; assumed additional surname of Bulkeley 3 Jun 1826, having inherited the estates of his father’s older step-brother, Thomas James Warren- Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (I) (qv) ; succ.father as 10thbaronet 1 Dec 1830 ; MP (Whig/Liberal) Beaumaris 8 Feb 1831-2, Anglesey 1832-7, Flint 1841-7, Anglesey 1847-68 ; Lord Lieut., Caernarvonshire 7 Mar 1851 – 14 Sep 1866 ; High Sheriff, Anglesey 1870 ; a well-known sportsman ; m.1st, 27 May 1828 his cousin Hon.Charlotte Mary Hughes, eldest dau. of William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben ; m.2nd, 20 Aug 1832 Maria Frances, only dau. of Sir Thomas Stanley-Massey-Stanley, Bart. ; d. 28 Aug 1875.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, ARTHUR WATKIN, eldest son of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm.1832, qv) ; b. 2 Jun 1856 ; adm. 12 Jun 1868 (G) ; QS 1870 ; left (with Triplett) 1874 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 May 1874 ; BA 1879 ; adm.Inner Temple 16 Nov 1878, called to bar 26 Jan 1882 ; Assistant Private Secretary to Viscount Cross, Secretary of State for India ; DL Montgomeryshire, JP Montgomeryshire 1897, High Sheriff 1901 ; Busby Trustee 17 May 1892 – May 1929 ; m. 23 Jul 1892 Alice Mary, eldest dau. of Hon.George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam MP, Milton, Peterborough, Northants ; d. 27 Jan 1946.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, CHARLES WATKIN, brother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm.1784, qv) ; b. 9 Oct 1775 ; adm. 23 Mar 1784 ; actor in Town Boy play King John Dec 1789 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Dec 1791, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1791 – void 23 Jun 1805 ; BA 1795 ; MA 1798 ; DCL 1810 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1795, called to bar 26 Nov 1798, Bencher 30 Jan 1835 ; MP Old Sarum 29 Jul 1797 – Mar 1799, Montgomeryshire from 14 Mar 1799 (“father” of the House of Commons from 1846) ; Under-Secretary, Home Office 19 Feb 1806 – Oct 1807 ; defeated by Manners-Sutton in contest for the Speakership 2 Jun 1817 ; he had entered politics as a member of the parliamentary group that followed his uncle Lord Grenville, and when the Grenvillites separated themselves from their Whig allies in 1818-9 he sought to form a third party in the House of Commons, but thereafter acted with the Tories, except for a brief period in 1830-1 when he held office in Earl Grey’s incoming Whig government ; Privy Councillor 17 Jan 1822 ; President, Board of Control 8 Feb 1822 – Feb 1828 ; Secretary at War Nov 1830 – Apr 1831, also member Board of Control ; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster 26 Dec 1834 – Apr 1835 ; Chairman, Montgomeryshire Quarter Sessions ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1805 ; President, Royal Asiatic Society 1823-41 ; FRS 24 May 1827 ; FSA ; while at school Wynn assisted Robert Southey (qv) and Grosvenor Charles Bedford (qv) in the production of The Flagellant Mar – Apr 1792 ; remained an intimate friend of Southey, to whom he made an allowance for some years ; took a keen interest in the School, and offered an Indian Writership for competition among the boys in 1826 and 1829 ; Busby Trustee 15 Jun 1829 ; author, An Argument upon the Jurisdiction of the House of Commons to commit in Cases of Breach of Privilege, 1810 ; m. 9 Apr 1806 Mary, eldest dau. of Sir Foster Cunliffe, Bart., Acton Park, Wrexham, Denbighshire ; d. 2 Sep 1850. ODNB.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, CHARLES WATKIN, son of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm.1784, qv) ; b. 4 Oct 1822 ; adm. 18 Jun 1832 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1839, Canoneer Student 1839-53 ; BA 1843 ; MA 1845 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 6 Apr 1843, called to bar 6 May 1846 ; North Wales Circuit ; Revising Barrister ; Recorder of Oswestry 1880 ; MP (Cons) Montgomeryshire Jul 1862-80 ; DL JP Montgomeryshire ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1871 ; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1874 ; m. 18 Aug 1853 Lady Annora Charlotte Pierrepont, youngest dau. of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers ; d. 25 Apr 1896.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, HERBERT WATKIN, son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm.1784, qv) ; b. 29 Aug 1822 ; adm. 20 Apr 1833 ; Ensign, 10th Foot 5 Jul 1839 ; Lieut., 24 Sep 1841 ; Capt., 7th Foot 28 Apr 1846 ; Maj., 1 Apr 1853 ; retd. with rank of Lieut.-Col., 9 Jun 1854 ; MP (Cons) Montgomeryshire from Oct 1850 ; m. 26 Jul 1855 Anna, dau. of Edmund Lloyd, Cefn, Denbighshire ; d. 22 Jun 1862.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., elder son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (formerly Williams), Bart. DCL MP, politician and landowner, and his second wife Frances, dau. of George Shakerley, Gwersylt, Denbighshire ; b. 8 Apr 1749 ; succ.father as 4thbaronet 23 Sep 1749 ; in school lists 1764, 1765 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 May 1766 ; DCL 4 Jul 1771 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1768-9 ; MP Shropshire 5 Mar 1772-4, Denbighshire from 1774 ; Lord Lieut., Merioneth, from 10 Jun 1775 ; FRS 17 Jun 1773 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1775 ; m.1st, 13 Apr 1769 Lady Henrietta Somerset, fifth dau. of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (qv) ; m.2nd, 21 Dec 1771 Charlotte, dau. of Right Hon.George Grenville PC MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury ; d. 29 Jul 1789. ODNB.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., eldest son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (in school lists 1764-5, qv) ; b. 26 Oct 1772 ; adm. 23 Mar 1784 ; succ.father as 5th baronet 29 Jul 1789 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1789 ; DCl 4 Jul 1793 ; MP Beaumaris 20 Oct 1794-6, Denbighshire from 1796 ; Lord Lieut., Merioneth from 4 Dec 1793, and of Denbighshire from 4 Apr 1796 ; Col., Royal Denbigh Militia 15 Jan 1797 (still 1820), also Col., Denbighshire Yeomanry ; Col., Ancient British Fencible Cavalry 14 Mar 1794 ; ADC (Welsh Militia) to William IV and Queen Victoria ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1806 ; known as “the Prince of Wales” because of the influence which he possessed in the Principality ; m. 4 Feb 1817 Lady Henrietta Antonia Clive, eldest dau. of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis ; d. 6 Jan 1840.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., eldest son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm.1784, qv) ; b. 22 May 1820 ; adm. 18 Jun 1832 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1837 ; Cornet, 1st Life Guards 19 Jul 1839 ; Lieut., 27 Sep 1842 ; retd. 7 Jul 1843 ; succ.father as 6th Baronet 6 Jan 1840 ; MP (Cons) Denbighshire from 1841 ; ADC (Volunteers) to Queen Victoria 1881 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1883 ; Busby Trustee 20 May 1879 ; used to come to the School on St.David’s Day until the last year of his life to ask for an “Early Play” and to tip all the Welsh boys (and “Monos”) a sovereign each ; m. 28 Apr 1852 his cousin Mary Emily, youngest dau. of Right Hon.Sir Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn PC KCB GCH, diplomat ; d. 9 May 1885.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, WATKIN HENRY, eldest son of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm.1784, qv) ; b. 27 Jun 1816 ; adm. 2 Apr 1827 ; d. 9 Jul 1832.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, WILLIAM WATKIN, brother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (in school lists 1764-5, qv) ; b. ; at school under Markham (J.E.Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, 1914, 19) ; d. at school of smallpox 12 Apr 1759.
WILLIAMSON, — ; b. ; at school 1658-60 (Busby’s Account Book).
WILLIAMSON, — ; b. ; at school 1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
WILLIAMSON, — ; b. ; in school list 1754.
WILLIAMSON, SIR ADAM, only son of Lieut.-Gen.George Williamson, Royal Artillery, and Jane, dau. of Capt.Robert Pedley ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1744 ; Cadet Gunnner, Royal Artillery 1 Jan 1748 ; RMA Woolwich 1750 ; Practitioner Engineer 1 Jan 1753 ; Ensign, 6th Foot 14 Oct 1755 ; Lieut., 5th Foot 25 Sep 1757 ; Engineer Extraordinary and Capt.-Lieut., 4 Jan 1758 ; Capt., 40thFoot 21 Apr 1760 ; Maj., 61st Foot 16 Aug 1770 ; Engineer in Ordinary and Capt., 4 Dec 1770 ; Lieut.-Col. in Army 12 Sep 1775 ; 18thFoot 9 Dec 1775 ; Col., 15 Feb 1782 ; Major-Gen., 28 Apr 1790 ; Col., 47th Foot 16 Jul 1790 – Mar 1794, 72nd Foot (Highlanders) from 19 Mar 1794 ; Lieut.-Gen., 26 Jan 1797 ; nominated KB 18 Nov 1794, invested 21 Apr 1795 ; served in Braddock’s expedition to Virginia 1755, wounded at battle of Du Quesne ; took part in Canadian campaign during Seven Years’ War, being wounded at Montmorency during siege of Quebec Aug 1759 ; accompanied expedition to West Indies 1761-3 ; present at battle of Bunkers Hill Jun 1775 ; Deputy Adjutant-Gen., Forces in South Britain 23 Dec 1778 ; Lieut.-Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica 1790 – Oct 1794 ; established British protectorate at St. Domingo Sep 1793 ; appointed Governor of St.Domingo 24 Oct 1794, but owing to losses caused by yellow fever and desultory fighting was compelled to evacuate the island ; returned to England 1798 ; m. 10 Aug 1771 (IGI) Anne, dau. of Thomas Jones, Comptroller of Artillery, Woolwich ; d. from effects of a fall 21 Oct 1798. ODNB.
WILLIAMSON, CAESAR, son of Francis Williamson, Lincoln’s Inn Grange, and Susan, dau. of John Hunt LLD, advocate, Court of Arches ; bapt. 15 Jun 1609 ; adm. ; KS in 1625 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1627, adm.scholar 1628, matr.Mich.1627 ; BA 1631/2 ; MA 1635 ; BD Oxford 1642 ; MA Dublin 1659 ; DD Dublin 1661 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1633 – c.1642, Tutor 1635-8 ; a petition from Williamson against Mr.Auditor Povey, a Middlesex JP who had unjustly committed him on suspicion of felony, appears CSP Dom 1635, 284-5 ; ordained priest 20 Dec 1640 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Wappenham, Northants, 13 Jan 1640/1 ; Prebendary of York 12 Aug 1641 – c. Feb 1662/3 ; joined Royalist army and was present at battle of Edgehill 23 Oct 1642 ; sequestered from his benefices and went to Ireland in 1646 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll., Dublin 1654 (still 1660) ; Public Orator, Dublin Univ. ; Rector of Ardstraw, co.Tyrone 15 Feb 1660/1-2 ; Prebendary of St.Patrick’s, Dublin, 16 Feb 1660/1- Jul 1663 ; Rector of Dromiskin and of Kilsaramn, co.Louth, from 1666 ; Dean of Cashel from 1671 ; d. 29 Nov 1675.
WILLIAMSON, EDMOND, brother of Talbot Williamson (qv) ; b. ; adm. Jan 1722/3 ; in under school list 1725 ; KS (aged 13) 1727 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1732, adm.pens. 15 Jun 1732, scholar 20 Apr 1733, matr.1732 ; BA 1735/6 ; MA 1765 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1740, priest 28 Sep 1740 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Milbrook, Beds., from 29 Sep 1740 ; Domestic Chaplain to Dowager Viscountess Torrington 28 Feb 1746/7, to George, Earl of Pomfret 4 Oct 1764 ; Rector of Lolworth, Cambs., from 7 Nov 1764 ; m.1st, 2 Jun 1742 (IGI) Catherine Gregory, dau. of Simon Taylor, Woburn, Beds. ; m.2nd, 15 Oct 1760 (IGI) Mary, dau. of Rev.Thomas Tipping, Vicar of Stagsden, Beds. ; d. 15 Nov 1775.
WILLIAMSON, EDMOND, only son of Edmond Williamson (adm.1722/3, qv), and his second wife ; bapt. Millbrook, Beds. 5 Aug 1761 ; adm. 16 Feb 1773 ; in school lists 1775 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 4 Jun 1778, matr.Mich.1780 ; BA 1782 ; MA 1786 ; ordained deacon 20 Feb 1785 (Lincoln), priest 18 Dec 1785 (Ely) ; Rector of Lolworth, Cambs., from 14 Jan 1786 ; Rector of Campton with Shefford, Beds., from 16 Aug 1790 ; Rector of Aspley Guise, Beds., 7 Jun 1790 – Apr 1796 ; m. 4 Feb 1793 Phoebe, younger dau. of Rev.Richard Bisse Riland, Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks. ; d. 13 Jan 1839, aged 62.
WILLIAMSON, FERDINAND THOMAS, eldest son of Rev.Thomas Williamson, Rector of Stoke Damerel, Devon, and Mary Anne — (IGI) ; bapt. St.Luke, Chelsea 25 Jun 1797 (IGI) ; adm.Midsummer 1810 ; left 1813 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 22 Jun 1813, matr. Mich.1813 ; Ensign, 45th Foot 16 May 1816 ; Lieut., 73rd Foot 3 Feb 1820 ; Capt., 18 Sep 1823 ; half-pay 21 May 1829 ; m. 16 Jul 1827 Frances Caroline, dau. of Sir John Murray, Bart. (qv) ; d. at Florence 10 Dec 1834, aged 37.
WILLIAMSON, FRANCIS, son of Sir Francis Williamson, Kt, Isleworth, Middlesex, Serjeant-at-Arms, and Martha, dau. of Edmund Morgan, Lambeth, Surrey ; b. ; at school under Busby (J.Peile, Biog.Reg. of Christ’s Coll., i, 480 ) ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 19 Apr 1642, aged 15 ; adm.Inner Temple 3 Feb 1642/3 ; d. 1654 [check].
WILLIAMSON, JOHN, son of John Williamson, Colinette Road, Putney, Surrey, “income from house property’ (1881 Census), and Ann Salmon, dau. of William Nye, Worcester Park, Surrey ; b. 17 Dec 1867 ; adm. 16 Jun 1881 (R) ; left Dec 1884 ; St.Bartholomew’s Hospital ; LRCP 1892 ; MB London 1893 ; MD 1895 ; medical practitioner at Epsom, Surrey ; Medical Officer of Health, Epsom, from 1901 ; m. 20 Oct 1906 Dorothy, dau. of William Heaton Jacob, Sinclair Gardens, West Kensington, [Legacy Duty Office, Somerset House ?] ; d. 29 Jun 1932.
WILLIAMSON, SIR JOSEPH, second son of Rev.Joseph Williamson, Vicar of Bridekirk, Cumberland, and Agnes Bowman ; bapt. Bridekirk, Cumberland 4 Aug 1633 ; St.Bees GS ; went to London as clerk and part-time amanuensis to Richard Tolson MP, who obtained his admission to Westminster School ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 16) 1650 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, bateller, matr. 18 Nov 1650 ; BA 2 Feb 1653/4 ; MA 1657 (incorp. Cambridge 1659) ; DCL 1674 ; tutor to Richard Lowther and others in France 1655-8 ; Fellow, Queen’s Coll. 1657- Dec 1678 ; Under-Secretary, Secretary of State’s Office Jul 1660 – Sep 1674 ; Keeper of State Papers from 31 Dec 1661 ; Secretary to Sir Henry Bennet (afterwards 1st Earl of Arlington) (qv) 1662 ; adm. and called to bar, Middle Temple 25 Nov 1664 ; editor, The London Gazette, of which the first number was published 5 Feb 1666 ; Extra Clerk, Privy Council 9 May 1666-72, Clerk of the Council in Ordinary 24 Jan 1671/2 – res by 16 Sep 1674 ; MP Thetford 22 Oct 1669 – Mar 1681, 17 Jun 1685-7, Rochester from 1690 ; knighted 24 Jan 1671/2 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 1 Mar 1671/2 ; one of the three plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Cologne 1673-4 ; Secretary of State Sep 1674 – Feb 1678/9 ; Privy Councillor 11 Sep 1674 ; a Lord of the Admiralty 29 Sep 1674 – Feb 1678/9 ; refused to allow Daniel Skinner (qv) to publish Milton’s Latin State Letters and the treatise De Doctrina Christina, 1676 ; committed to the Tower of London by the House of Commons for passing commissions in favour of certain recusants, but promptly released by the King 1678 ; out of favour at Court between 1679 and 1691 ; Privy Councillor (I) 1680-5 and from 1694 ; MP (I) Co.Clare 1692-5, Portarlington 1695, Limerick City 1695-9 ; reappointed to Privy Council 21 Nov 1696 ; Joint Plenipotentiary at Congress of Nimeguen 1697 ; Envoy at the Hague 1697-9 ; FRS 20 May 1663 (one of the original Fellows), President 30 Nov 1677 – 30 Nov 1680 ; Master, Clothworkers’ Co. 1676 ; Recorder of Thetford 1682 ; an industrious and methodical man of affairs ; befriended Dr.Lancelot Addison, who named his son Joseph after him ; a great benefactor to Queen’s Coll.Oxford ; m. 12 Feb 1678/9 Catherine, Baroness Clifton, widow of Henry O’Brien , Lord O’Brien PC (I) MP (son of 7th Earl of Thomond), and dau. of Lord George Stuart, Seigneur D’Aubigny, officer in Royalist Army ; d. 3 Oct 1701. Buried in Duke of Richmond’s vault, Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
WILLIAMSON, JOSEPH TAYLOR, son of William Williamson, Savannah, Georgia, North America, and Westminster, and Sophia Christina, dau. of Herman Hopkey, Bromley, Middlesex, linen and calico printer ; b. 13 Sep 1739 ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1750 ; KS 1754 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1759, adm.pens. 14 Jun 1759, matr.Mich.1759, scholar 2 May 1760 ; 8th Wrangler and Senior Chancellor’s Medallist 1763 ; BA 1763 ; MA 1771 ; ordained deacon 25 Jan 1764, priest 18 Mar 1764 (both Winchester) ; Vicar of St.Dunstan in the West, London 14 Jul 1764–1805 ; Chaplain to John Wilkes when Lord Mayor of London 1774 ; Rector of Thakeham, Sussex, from 12 Jun 1805 ; a good scholar, bon viveur and member of the Beefsteak Club ; m. ; d. 4 Nov 1807.
WILLIAMSON, NEVILLE ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1745/6 ; left 1746 ; Ensign, 20th Foot 26 Dec 1750 ; 82nd Foot (Invalids) 19 Apr 1755 ; latterly in Capt.Graham’s Independent Co of Invalids ; d. in Guernsey Apr 1777.
WILLIAMSON, PERCY, brother of John Williamson (adm.1881, qv) ; b. 12 Jun 1871 ; adm. 31 May 1883 (R) ; exhibitioner 1884 ; QS 1885 ; Capt. of the School 1889 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1890, Westminster exhibitioner (with Triplett) ; BA 1895 ; Clerk, Inland Revenue 1 Apr 1895-1909, Assistant Secretary 1909-16 ; Special Commissioner of Income Tax 14 Jun 1916-35 ; m. 12 Nov 1904 Florence Mary, dau. of Herbert Benjamin Gammon, Gipsy Hill, Kent, builder and contractor ; d. 28 Jan 1958.
WILLIAMSON, RICHARD, second son of Edmond Williamson (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 25 Nov 1802 ; adm. 7 Jun 1814 ; left 1819 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 16 Jun 1820, matr.Mich.1821, scholar 1823 ; 9th Wrangler and 5th Classic 1825 ; Second Chancellor’s Classical medal 1825 ; 1st Members Prize (Bachelors) 1827 ; BA 1825 ; MA 1828 ; DD 1835 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1827 ; adm. Inner Temple 16 Nov 1827 ; ordained deacon 3 Aug 1828, priest 14 Jun 1829 (both Ely) ; Head Master of the School 22 Sep 1828 – Aug 1846 ; Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., 1843-50 ; Vicar of Pershore, Worcs., from 1850 ; Hon.Canon, Worcester 1851 ; author, Eunuchus Palliatus, 1839 ; m. 4 Jan 1833 Anne, sister of John Edward Gray (qv) ; d. 11 Sep 1865.
WILLIAMSON, TALBOT, eldest son of Edmond Williamson, Husborn Crawley, Beds., and his second wife Christian, dau. of Jonathan Stanyforth, Firbeck Hall, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1722/3 ; in under school list 1725 ; Corpus Christi Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1727 ; adm.Inner Temple 1 Dec 1724, called to bar 29 Jun 1734, tenant chambers there 26 May 1736 ; Gentleman Usher to Princess Amelia (occurs as such 1755) ; a ledger with entries relating to the school expenses of Talbot Williamson and his brother Edmond was formerly in the possession of Mrs Frances Atkinson, Clare College Lodge, Cambridge, a niece of William Williamson (adm.1814, qv) ; m. 1752 Christian Gilbert (only sister of Thomas Gilbert, died 1758) ; d. 15 Jun 1765.
WILLIAMSON, VICTOR ALEXANDER, fourth son of Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart., MP, and Hon.Anne Elizabeth Liddell, third dau. of Thomas Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth ; b. 28 Jun 1838 ; adm. 7 Feb 1848 ; QS 1853 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1857, matr. 4 Jun 1857, Westminster Student 1857-71 ; BA 1860 ; MA 1864 ; adm.Inner Temple 17 Jan 1861, called to bar 17 Nov 1865 ; Northern Circuit ; a Commissioner for inquiring into the condition of Indian labourers in Mauritius 1872-3 ; Chairman of Commission for settling titles to land, Fiji, and member, Executive and Legislative Councils, Fiji 1879-82 ; CMG 24 May 1882 ; Secretary to Parliamentary Commission on London Board of Works 1888 ; Hon.Commissioner in Lunacy 11 Dec 1893 ; DL co.Durham 1864 ; Busby Trustee 17 Jun 1890 ; d. unm. 16 Sep 1924.
WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM, third son of Sir William Williamson, Bart., High Sheriff, co.Durham, and his first wife Elizabeth, youngest dau. of John Hedworth, Harraton, co.Durham ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1719/20 ; left 1720 ; re-adm. (aged 13) Feb 1722/3 ; KS 1724 ; left 1727 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 20 Feb 1728/9 ; BA 1732 ; MA 1736 ; BD and DD 1747 ; Fellow, Merton Coll. ; Proctor 1746 ; ordained deacon 16 Oct 1743, priest 27 Oct 1745 (both Durham) ; Rector of Whickham, co.Durham, from 1 Apr 1748 ; JP co.Durham ; m. 9 Oct 1750 Frances, widow of John Barras, and dau. of Richard Hendry, Durham ; d. 23 Aug 1763.
WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM, son of Ralph Williamson, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, and Elizabeth Parke (IGI) ; bapt.Berwick upon Tweed 8 Aug 1721 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Sep 1728 ; left 1733 ; Lincoln Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Dec 1738 ; BA 1742. [Kin to Eliab Harvey (adm.1724, qv)].
WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM, third son of Edmond Williamson (adm.1773, qv) ; b. 10 Jan 1804 ; adm. 7 Jun 1814 ; left Nov 1819 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 15 Jun 1820, but did not reside ; migrated to Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Sep 1820, matr.Mich.1821, scholar Jan 1822 ; 2ndWrangler, 2nd cl.Classics and 2nd Smith’s Prize 1825 ; BA 1825 ; MA 1828 ; BD 1843 ; Fellow, Clare Coll. 1827-50 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 10 Jun 1825, called to bar 17 May 1830 ; equity draftsman and conveyancer ; after practising at the bar in London, returned to Cambridge as Fellow and Tutor, Clare Coll. 1839-50 ; ordained deacon 27 Jun 1841 (Lichfield), priest 5 Jun 1842 (Ely) ; Rector of Datchworth, Herts., from 1849 ; m. 9 Apr 1850 Jane Hutchinson, second dau. of William Fergusson MD FRCP (Ed), Inspector-Gen. of Military Hospitals ; d. 17 Dec 1875.
WILLIS, see also WILLES.
WILLIS, — ; b. ; in under school list 1715.
WILLIS, — ; b. ; in under school list 1732, school lists 1733-7.
WILLIS, — ; b. ; adm.Michaelmas 1806 ; left 1810.
WILLIS, BROWNE, son of Thomas Willis, Bletchley, Bucks., and Alice, eldest dau. of Robert Browne, Frampton, Dorset ; b. 14 Sep 1682 ; at school under Knipe (Lipscomb, Buckinghamshire iv, 12 ; he “came to school … when Thomas Sprat was Captain”, i.e. in 1696, “staying three years” ) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Mar 1699/1700 ; MA 1720 ; DCL 1749 ; adm.Inner Temple 10 Feb 1699/1700 ; MP Buckingham 3 Dec 1705-8 ; an industrious and learned antiquary ; FSA 1717 (a founding member) ; author of published histories of various English and Welsh cathedrals, also of Notitia Parliamentaria, 1715, and other works ; m. 1707 Katharine, only child of Daniel Eliot, Port Eliot, Cornwall ; d. 5 Feb 1760. ODNB.
WILLIS, CALEB, of Devon ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1585, matr. 22 Apr 1586, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1598 ; BA 1589 ; MA 1592 ; first Professor of Rhetoric, Gresham Coll., London 1598 ; d. 1598/9 (will proved Chancellor’s Court, Oxford 23 Mar 1598/9).
WILLIS, HENRY, third son of Browne Willis (qv) ; bapt. Whaddon, Bucks. 10 Feb 1712/3 ; adm. (aged 16) May 1729 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jul 1731, Canoneer Student 15 Aug 1732-43, Faculty Student from 18 Mar 1743 ; BA 1735 ; MA 3 Feb 1737/8 ; MB 1741 ; m. 1743 Catherine, dau. of Rev.Richard Gregory, Rector of Willersey and Dumbleton, Gloucs. ; buried Bridgwater, Somerset 5 May 1746.
WILLIS, JOHN, son of Philirenes Willis, London [apothecary ?] ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1764 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1768, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1768, aged 17, scholar 21 Apr 1769, matr. Easter 1770 ; ordained deacon 25 Apr 1773 (Peterborough), priest 3 Mar 1776 (Lincoln, lit.dim. from London). [will of Philirenes Willis, Bloomsbury, gentleman, proved PCC 18 Mar 1783]
WILLIS, JUSTICE ; b. ; adm. 3 Apr 1771. [evidently kin to Justice Willis, St.Margaret, Westminster, gentleman, bapt. St.Giles in the Fields 28 Sep 1720 ; musician, trumpet and kettledrum ; drum major, 2nd Foot Guards ; Solicitor to 2nd Foot Guards from 12 Apr 1765 ; m. 13 Apr 1738 Mary Foot ; d. 19 Mar 1772 ; father of Justice Willis, jun., Solicitor to 2nd Foot Guards 20 Mar 1772 – death 24 Jun 1792, but Justice Willis jun. would have been too old to have been admitted to Westminster School on 3 Apr 1771]
WILLIS, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1706 ; left 1708.
WILLIS, ROBERT DARLING, fifth son of Rev.Francis Willis MD, Greatford, Lincs., a specialist practitioner in mental derangement who treated George III during his first attack of madness, and his first wife Mary, youngest dau. of Rev.John Curtois, Rector of Branston, Lincs. ; b. 18 May 1761 (IGI) ; adm. 26 Jan 1775 (Jones/Clapham ?) ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 21 Jan 1778, aged 17, scholar 29 Sep 1778 – 29 Sep 1783, Tancred Student, matr.Lent 1780 ; MB 1783 ; MD 1789 ; Junior Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll., from 29 Sep 1790 ; as a medical practitioner he specialised in mental derangement, attending George III during his second and final attacks of madness ; FRCP 1 Oct 1798, Censor 1800, 1809 ; author, Philosophical Sketches of the Principles ofSociety and Government, 2nd edn., 1796 ; d. unm. 23 May 1821.
WILLIS, THOMAS, eldest son of Browne Willis (qv) ; b. 27 Dec 1710 ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (sixth form) (but already at Westminster by 4 Sep 1727) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1729, aged 19 ; of North Stoneham, Hampshire ; m.1st, 3 Sep 1735 Anne, dau. of John Hulme, Hulme, Lancs. ; m.2nd, 4 Feb 1747/8 Frances, dau. of John Robinson, Cranesley, Northants ; d. 18 Jun 1756.
WILLIS, VALENTINE, second son of Thomas Willis, Ashe, Hampshire, barrister, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and Bencher Inner Temple, and his second wife Mary, widow of Thomas Barker, Grove House, Chiswick, Middlesex, barrister and Bencher Middle Temple, and dau. of Valentine Saunders, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1648 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 Aug 1648 ; adm.Inner Temple 26 Nov 1646, called to bar 24 Nov 1653 ; de iure Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 1656 (under reversionary grant of 2 Mar 1640/1), but not adm. as Clerk of the Commonwealth until 10 Feb 1660 ; Clerk of the Crown in Chancery Apr – 30 Jun 1660 ; of Ashe, Hampshire.
WILLIS, THOMAS ALEXANDER, son of Henry Norton Willis FSA, Kensington Palace, Middlesex, Second Clerk of the Household and Coroner of the Verge, Treasurer to Princess Charlotte, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Joseph Butler, Prebendary of St.Paul’s and Rector of St.Peter’s, Shadwell ; b. ; in school list 1795 and sixth form list 1796 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. Jun 1796, matr.Mich.1796, scholar 1798 ; BA 1802 ; MA 1805 ; ordained deacon 21 Mar 1802, priest 25 Sep 1803 (both Winchester) ; Chaplain to Prince of Wales 4 Jun 1802 ; Chaplain, EICS Bengal 1811 (still 1822), stationed at Cawnpore ; returned to England ; buried Worcester 4 Sep 1827, aged 50.
WILLIS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1731/2 ; left 1734.
WILLOCK, NICHOLAS ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576 ; evidently Nicholas Willock, Leics., gent., Broadgates Hall, Oxford, matr. c.1581, aged 20 ; BA from Christ Church, Oxford 5 Feb 1583/4.
WILLOTT, see also WYLLOTT.
WILLOTT, HENRY, see STANHOPE, HENRY.
[WILLOUGHBY, — ; b. ; at school in early 1740s, left by 22 Oct 1745 (Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (qv) to Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (qv), letter of that date, printed A.M.W.Stirling, The Hothams, ii, 17). But name may have been misread by her]
WILLOUGHBY, DOBSON HENRY ; b. ; adm. ; in school lists 1801, 1803 ; d. 13 Jan 1851, aged 61, then of Cunningham Place, St.Johns Wood Road, Middlesex. [Dobson Willoughby, Belsize, Hampstead, Middlesex, who was practising as a solicitor at 13 Cliffords Inn, Law List 1822 and was dead by 1833, is likely to have been his father ; his mother’s name would therefore have been Sarah Hudson]
WILLOUGHBY, HON. HENRY, youngest son of Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton FRS, Wollaton, Notts., and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Richard Rothwell, Bart., MP, Ewerby and Stapleford, Lincs. (for the identification of the Westminster-educated Henry Willoughby as Lord Middleton’s son see O’Day, Cassandra Brydges, Duchess of Chandos 1670-1735, 2007, 387, n.6) ; b. 3 Jul 1706 ; adm. (aged 8) Nov 1715 ; in under school list 1720 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 15 Apr 1724 ; d. unm. 3 Dec 1738 (M.I.Tong, Shropshire).
WILLOUGHBY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; QS in Jun 1569 ; a Latin letter dated 26 Jun 1569, addressed by him to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and asking him for his influence “that he may speed to Oxford next Westminster School Election”, is preserved among the Lansdowne MSS (xii.4) in the British Library ; perhaps therefore Thomas (sic) Willoughby who was elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1569, Westminster Student to May 1571.
WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, JOHN, 6TH BARON, see PEYTO-VERNEY, JOHN, 6th BARON WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE.
WILLOUGHBY, THOMAS, see WILLOUGHBY, JOHN.
WILLS, see also WILLES and WILLIS.
WILLS, — ; b. ; in school lists 1745-7.
WILLS, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1744 ; left 1747. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, Thomas Wills, adm.same month]
WILLS, GEORGE FRANCIS, see WELLS, GEORGE FRANCIS.
WILLS, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1744 ; left 1748. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, Edward Wills, adm.same month].
WILLS, WILLIAM PERCY COGAN, only son of William Wills, Uxbridge, Middlesex, solicitor, and Julia, dau. of Richard Smith, Wolverhampton, Staffs. ; b. 26 Jul 1861 ; adm. 27 May 1875 ; left Aug 1878 ; adm.solicitor Nov 1883 ; practised in Uxbridge, Middlesex ; m.1st, 15 Jan 1890 Ellen Eliza, only dau. of Henry Charman, Uxbridge, Middlesex ; m.2nd, 27 Oct 1920 Louisa, widow of William Mansfield Gardiner, Uxbridge, Middlesex, solicitor, and dau. of — Hartshorn ; d. 12 Jan 1925.
WILLSHEN, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 13 Sep 1784. [perhaps m. at St.Martin in the Fields 19 Apr 1807 Jane Taylor (IGI)] [perhaps John Willshen, only son of Daniel Willshen, Long Acre, London, goldbeater, adm. Grays Inn 31 Jan 1800] [therefore son of Daniel Willshen, and Mary Axtell (they m. 9 Feb 1768 ?] [Daniel Willshen was of Pinner Green Lodge, Middlesex ?] [presumably John Willshen, d. at Finchley 26 Jun 1821, aged 49 ; attorney, Salisbury Street, Strand, London]
WILLSON, see also WILSON.
WILLSON, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715-8.
WILLSON, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Mar 1714/5 ; in under school list 1716.
WILLSON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) May 1722 ; in under school list 1725.
WILLSON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1741 ; left 1743.
WILMOT, see also WYLLMOT.
WILMOT, CHARLES FOLEY, eldest son of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Osmaston Hall, Derbs., and his second wife Marianne, dau. of Charles Howard, Pipe Grange, Staffs. ; b. 1796 ; adm. Midsummer 1811 ; left 1813 ; Attaché, British Embassy at Washington 1820 (still 1826) , and St.Petersburg (to 1830) ; Secretary, British Legation to Swiss Cantons 16 Nov 1830 ; Secretary, British Legation, Tuscany 28 Mar 1837 (still 1838) ; a prominent figure in London society ; d. unm. 23 Mar 1852.
WILMOT, SIR (JOHN) EARDLEY, second son of Robert Wilmot, Osmaston, Derbs., and Ursula, dau. of Sir Samuel Marow, Bart., Berkswell Hall, Warwicks. ; b. 16 Aug 1709 ; adm. Jan 1723/4, having previously been at Derby School and Lichfield Grammar School ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 13 Feb 1726/7, matr. 1727 ; adm.Inner Temple 6 Dec 1728, called to bar 26 Jun 1732, tenant chambers there 11 Feb 1731/2 ; practised in common law courts ; refused silk 1753 ; retired to Derby with the intention of confining himself to local practice 1754 ; knighted 3 Feb 1755 ; Puisne Justice of the King’s Bench and Serjeant-at-Law 11 Feb 1755 – Aug 1766 ; a Commissioner of the Great Seal 19 Nov 1756 – 20 Jun 1757 ; Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 20 Aug 1766 – 26 Jan 1771 ; Privy Councillor 10 Sep 1766 ; took part in judicial business of the Privy Council to 1782 ; refused the post of Lord Chancellor on two occasions in 1770 ; FSA 16 May 1745 ; his Notes of Opinions and Judgments delivered in different Courts were edited by his son John Eardley-Wilmot (qv), 1802 ; m. 3 Apr 1743 Sarah, dau. of Thomas Rivett, Mayor of Derby ; d. 5 Feb 1792. ODNB.
WILMOT, JOHN EARDLEY (at school under Markham), see EARDLEY-WILMOT, JOHN.
WILMOT, PAUL, brother of Richard James Wilmot (qv) ; b. 10 Aug 1811 ; adm. 2 May 1821 ; adm.Middle Temple 9 Mar 1836, called to bar 3 May 1839 ; Home Circuit ; special pleader ; m.1st, 9 Jul 1840 Sophia, youngest dau. of Rev.Thomas Willis DD, Rector of St.George’s, Bloomsbury ; m.2nd, 18 Oct 1849 Elizabeth Jessie, sister of John Benjamin Lee (qv) ; d. 17 Mar 1879.
WILMOT, RICHARD JAMES, second son of Edward Coke Wilmot, Grays Inn, London, barrister, and Ann Maria, third dau. of Col.James Rann, Ladywood, Warwickshire, Birmingham Fencible Regiment ; b. 3 Jun 1809 ; adm. 2 May 1821 ; a surgeon, resident in King Street, Covent Garden, London ; d. 13 Jan 1866. [note Richard James Wilmot, m. 25 Jun 1846 Elizabeth Lambourn]
WILMOT, WILLIAM, son of William Wilmot (or Willmott), Abingdon, Berks., and Elizabeth — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Nicholas, Abingdon, Berks. 28 Oct 1649 (IGI) ; adm. ; KS 1664 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jul 1666, aged 17, Westminster Student 17 Jan 1667 – void 1670.
WILSHER, FRANCIS, son of George Wilsher, Herts. ; b. ; at school (aged 14) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050).
WILSON, see also WILLSON.
WILSON, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner in 1565 (tutor, Mr.Robert Allett) ; QS in 1569 (Chapter Muniments 54006, 54012-8).
WILSON, — ; b. ; adm,1656 (school lists 1656, last three quarters).
WILSON, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1717, 1719.
WILSON, — ; b. ; in school lists Feb 1727/8, 1729.
WILSON, — ; b. ; in school list 1745.
WILSON, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764, 1765.
WILSON, ANTHONY, only son of Richard Wilson, Louth, Ireland, and his second wife Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Anthony Walsh, Ardagh, co.Armagh, Ireland ; nephew of Very Rev.William Pratt, Dean of Cloyne ; b. 10 May 1748 ; adm. ; KS 1761 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1765, matr. 7 Jun 1765, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1765 ; BA 1769 ; adm.Middle Temple 6 Apr 1768 ; d. unm. at Dublin, Ireland Oct 1771.
WILSON, ANTHONY GODFREY, son of Anthony Wilson, Chepstow Villas, Bayswater, manager, Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., and Elizabeth Anne, second dau. of Rev. Daniel Race Godfrey DD, Headmaster of Grosvenor College, Bath, Somerset ; b. 19 Dec 1861 ; adm. 25 Sep 1873 (G) ; left Dec 1876 ; adm.solicitor Jun 1885 ; practised at Wisbech, Cambs., to 1890 ; emigrated to USA ; resident Sussex, New Jersey, USA, in 1920 (US Census 1920), and Monmouth, New Jersey, in 1930 (US Census 1930) ; m. 4 Dec 1895 Eloise B., dau. of Christopher B.Van Sickle, Newton, Sussex, New Jersey, USA, farmer.
WILSON, ARCHDALE, son of John Wilson, Kingsthorpe, Leics., and King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Mayor of Lynn, and Anne, dau. of Thomas Archdale, Stanhope, Norfolk ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1742 ; left 1747 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 18 Jun 1747, matr.1747 ; adm.Middle Temple 25 Feb 1744/5 and Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1752 ; of King’s Lynn, Norfolk ; drowned at sea in loss of HMS Prince George 11 Apr 1758, on which he was travelling as a passenger to Italy.
WILSON, ARTHUR CHARLES, eldest son of James Arthur Wilson (qv) ; b. 20 mar 1826 ; adm. 18 Sep 1837 ; left May 1839 ; went to King’s Coll.London ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1844, Canoneer Student 1845-54 ; BA 1848 ; MA 1851 ; BD 1866 ; ordained deacon 1849, priest 1850 (both Oxford) ; Fellow, Lancing Coll. 1850-69 ; Second Master, Lancing Coll. 1851-60 [check date] ; Master, Chigwell GS, Essex 1868-70 ; Head Master, Basingstoke GS, Hampshire 1870-3 ; Rector of Dunston, Lincs., 1873-6 ; Vicar of Nocton, Lincs., from 7 Jul 1876 ; m. 27 Jun 1854 Mary Henrietta, third dau. of Sir Robert Alexander Chermside KCH MD FRCP, Physician to British Embassy, Paris ; d. 30 Oct 1880.
WILSON, SIR BELFORD HINTON, son of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv) ; b. 1804 ; adm. 23 Sep 1814 ; left Christmas 1818 ; served in Colombian Army ; ADC to Gen.Bolivar 1823-30 ; HM Consul-General, Peru 18 Apr 1832 ; Chargé d’Affaires, Bolivia 18 Nov 1837-42, Venezuela 30 Nov 1842-52 ; KCB 23 Dec 1852 ; m.1st, 27 Aug 1842 Louisa, only child of Gen.Bayly Wallis ; m.2nd, 10 Oct 1849 Catherine, youngest dau. of Rev.Herbert Randolph, Rector of Letcombe Bassett, Berks. ; d. 27 Dec 1858. ODNB.
WILSON, BERNARD, son of Bernard Wilson, Newark, Notts., hosier, and Anne Tenison ; bapt. Newark 20 Aug 1689 (IGI) ; adm. ; QS 1704 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1709, adm.pens. 23 Jun 1709, scholar 22 Apr 1710, matr.1709 ; BA 1712/3 ; MA 1719 ; DD 1737 ; ordained deacon 16 Mar 1711/2 (London), priest 26 Feb 1715/6 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Firsby, Lincs., 27 Feb 1715/6 – May 1719 ; Vicar of Great Steeping, Lincs., 27 Feb 1715/6 – May 1719 ; Vicar of Newark, Notts., from 17 Apr 1719 ; Rector of Winthorpe, Notts., from 18 Nov 1719 ; Domestic Chaplain to Archibald, Earl of Islay (occurs 1719) ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 13 May 1727, Lichfield from 11 Jun 1730, and of Worcester from 13 Oct 1735 ; adm.Middle Temple 14 Mar 1736/7 ; Master of St.Leonard’s Hospital, Newark, from 8 Dec 1722 ; amassed a large fortune and became a miser in his later years ; left a large legacy to Mrs.Thrale ; translated the first twenty-six books of De Thou’s Historia sui Temporis, 1729-30 ; m. 27 Dec 1748 Elizabeth Bradford, Claypole, near Nottingham ; d. 30 Apr 1772. ODNB.
WILSON, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 21 Jan 1778.
WILSON, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 23 Sep 1796 (Clapham) ; in school list 1797, third form list 1800.
WILSON, CHARLES THOMAS, son of William Wilson, London, Army Pay Office ; b. 15 Aug 1836 ; adm. 3 Feb 1848 (G) ; QS 1850 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1854, adm.pens. 29 May 1854, but did not reside ; Ensign, 4th Foot 19 Jan 1855 ; Lieut., 27 Jul 1855 ; Capt., 18 Sep 1860 ; retd. Nov 1870 ; served in Crimean War ; Bursar, Exeter Coll.Oxford, from 1882 ; Secretary to Council, Radley Coll., from 1891 ; [unm. in 1881] ; d. 26 Jan 1892.
WILSON, CHRISTOPHER, son of Christopher Wilson, London ; b. ; in school lists 1780, 1781 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1782, aged 18, matr.Mich.1783, scholar 1785 ; BA 1787. [Perhaps Christopher Wilson, son of Christopher Wilson and Ann — , bapt.St.Martin, Ludgate 20 Oct 1763 (IGI)]
WILSON, FRANCIS ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1726/7 ; in school list 1731.
WILSON, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1742 ; left 1745.
WILSON, HENRY LEWIS, son of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv) ; b. 26 Apr 1803 (IGI) ; adm. 14 Jan 1812 ; left Christmas 1816 ; not mentioned in father’s will, 1847.
WILSON, JAMES ARTHUR, son of James Wilson, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, surgeon and teacher of anatomy, and —, dau. of John Clarke, Wellingborough, Northants, surgeon ; b.1795 ; in school list 1801 ; KS 1808 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1812, matr. 9 May 1812, Westminster Student 1812-7, Faculty Student 1817-24 ; 1st cl.Classics and 1st cl.Mathematics 1815 ; BA 1815 ; MA 1818 ; MB 1819 ; MD 1823 ; Radcliffe Travelling Fellow 1821 ; practised medicine initially in Paris, but returned to England in 1829 ; FRCP 28 Mar 1825, Censor 1828, 1851, Harveian Orator 1850 ; Physician to St.George’s Hospital 1829-57, Consulting Physician from 1857 ; author, On Spasm, Languor, Palsy, and other Disorders termed Nervous, of the Muscular System, 1843 ; m.1st, 29 Apr 1824 Jessie Janet Shedden, dau. of James Scrimgeour, London, stockbroker ; m.2nd, 22 Jun 1871 Eleanor, second dau. of Hon. and Rev.Littleton Powys, Rector of Titchmarsh, Northants ; d. 29 Dec 1882. ODNB.
WILSON, JAMES HUMPHREY WILSON, second son of James Wilson, Torquay, Devon ; b. 11 Jul 1856 (birth registered Newton Abbot, Devon) ; adm. 6 Nov 1871 (G) ; left Dec 1873 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1876 ; BA 1881 ; of Shona, Ayr ; m. 30 Jul 1890 Katherine Campbell, second dau. of John Gordon MacMillan, Dereel, Ayr ; d. 18 Sep 1912.
WILSON, JOHN, of Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1602, matr. 5 Nov 1602, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1612 ; BA 1606 ; MA 1609 ; DD 1619 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 2 Feb 1612/3 ; a joint patent of the Head Mastership of the School was granted to Richard Ireland (qv) and himself 25 Jan 1609/10 ; on Ireland’s escape to France a few months later he became Head Master ; a joint patent of the Head Mastership was granted to him and to Lambert Osbaldeston (qv) 7 Dec 1621, Osbaldeston succeeding him as Head Master in 1622 ; ordained ; Rector of Bedale, Yorks., from 8 Aug 1621 ; Vicar of Burneston, Yorks., 1 Jul 1622 – Sep 1634 ; Prebendary of Westminster Oct 1623 – res 1635, of Ripon 14 Aug 1623 and of Lincoln from 3 Mar 1629/30 ; Dean of Ripon from 1624 ; Master of the Savoy [but this seems to be an error] ; lic. to m. 22 Apr 1616 Johanna, dau. of William Stanlake, King Street, Westminster, grocer ; d. 19 Feb 1634/5.
WILSON, JOHN, son of John Wilson (elected to Oxford 1602, qv) ; b. ; KS 1640 (J.E.B.Mayor and R.F.Scott, Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., i, 61) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 Sep 1641, aged 16, matr.1645 ; BA 1645/6 ; MA 1649 ; adm.Inner Temple 27 Oct 1647, called to bar 27 Nov 1654 ; fought in the Civil War for the King ; d. 24 Sep 1681.
WILSON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) 1719 ; left 1720.
WILSON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1721 ; in under school list 1722.
[WILSON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 23 Jan 1769. [error for Wilton, John]]
WILSON, SIR JOHN, only son of Lieut.-Col.John Wilson, 2nd Tower Hamlets Militia, previously Maj., 28th Foot ; b. ; at school under Vincent (Illustrated London News xxxix, 7 and 81) (ODNB states that he was educated at Harrow School, but he does not feature in its published register) ; perhaps “J.Wilson”, actor in Town Boy play Dec 1789 ; Ensign, 28th Foot 26 Mar 1794 ; Lieut., 12 Aug 1795 ; served in West Indies and was present at the capture of Sta Lucia and St.Vincent 1796 ; subsequently taken prisoner in the West Indies, and on his return home in 1797, after he had been exchanged, was again taken prisoner in the Bristol Channel ; took part in capture of Minorca Nov 1798 ; Capt., Minorca Regt. (or Queen’s German Regt., afterwards 97th Foot), 18 Jan 1799 ; served in expedition to Egypt and was present at battle of Alexandria 21 Mar 1801 ; Maj., 27 May 1802 ; served with 97th Foot in Portugal ; severely wounded at battle of Vimiera 22 Dec 1808 ; returned to England ; Lieut.-Col., Royal York Rangers 22 Dec 1808 ; on his return to the Peninsula in Jan 1809, he joined the Portuguese army as an officer in the Royal Lusitanian Legion, under Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv) ; Chief of Staff to General Silveira, Portuguese Army 1810 ; Governor, Province of Minho 1811 ; joined Wellington’s army Jun 1813, assuming command of an independent Portuguese brigade ; severely wounded before Bayonne 18 Nov 1813 ; knighted 11 May 1814 ; Brevet Col., 4 Jun 1814 ; CB 4 Jun 1815 ; half-pay 25 Dec 1816 ; Major-Gen., 27 May 1825 ; commanded British forces in Ceylon 1830-8 ; Col., 82nd Foot 5 Dec 1836 – May 1841 ; KCB 6 Feb 1837 ; Lieut.-Gen., 28 Jun 1838 ; Col., 11thFoot, from 10 May 1841 ; Gen., 11 Nov 1851 ; d. 22 Jun 1856, aged 76. ODNB.
WILSON, MAJOR WILLIAM, eldest son of Benjamin Wilson FRS, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Serjeant-Painter to George III, and Jane Hetherington ; b. ; adm. 16 Jun 1783 ; in school list 1786 ; perhaps “Wilson”, actor in Town Boy play Dec 1789 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 13 Feb 1793 ; of Bedford ; Paymaster, 89th Foot 1 Nov 1800 ; Paymaster, 54th Foot, half-pay (at 13 Aug 1803) ; Paymaster, Recruiting District 13 Aug 1803 ; m. 3 Nov 1800 Sophia Thompson ; dead by 1826.
WILSON, PHILIP, fourth son of Thomas Wilson, Tobago, West Indies, plantation owner, and Martha — ; b. ; adm. Christmas 1809 ; KS (aged 13) 1810 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1814, adm.pens. 21 May 1814, but did not reside ; migr. to Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 Apr 1816 ; BA 1820 ; MA 1823 ; adm. Middle Temple 28 Jan 1815 ; ordained deacon 1820 (Llandaff, lit.dim. from Bristol), priest 17 Jun 1821 (London) ; Curate, Exton, Somerset 8 Sep 1825 ; d. at Carhampton, Somerset 23 Jun 1847, aged 52.
WILSON, RICHARD, second son of Joshua Wilson, Pontefract, Yorks., attorney and Alderman, and Anne, dau. of William Clifton, Houghton, Yorks. ; b. 18 May 1732 ; adm. Feb 1745/6 ; left 1750 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 Jun 1749, scholar 11 May 1750, matr.1750 ; adm.Inner Temple 1 Aug 1752 ; migr. to Gray’s Inn 24 Jan 1753, called to bar 20 May 1757, Bencher 9 Feb 1770 ; inherited Crofton Hall estate, near Wakefield, Yorks., on death of his father in 1778 ; d.unm. 17 Sep 1794.
WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS, brother of Major William Wilson (qv) ; b. 17 Aug 1777 ; adm. 19 Apr 1786 ; left 1788 ; at Winchester Coll. 1789-91 ; Cornet, 15th Light Dragoons 24 Apr 1794 ; Lieut., 30 Oct 1794 ; Capt., 21 Sep 1796 ; Maj., Hompesch’s Mounted Riflemen 28 Jun 1800 ; Lieut.-Col., 27 Feb 1802 ; half-pay Oct 1802 ; 19th Light Dragoons Aug 1804 ; 20th Light Dragoons 7 Mar 1805 ; Brevet Col. and ADC to King 25 Aug 1810 ; Lieut.-Col., 22nd Light Dragoons 10 Dec 1812 ; Major-Gen., 4 Jun 1813 ; served in Flanders 1794-5 ; one of the eight officers commanding the two squadrons of the 15th Light Dragoons which participated in the rout of a much superior French force at Villers-en-Cauchies 24 Apr 1794, preventing the capture of the Emperor Francis II by the French ; for this brilliant action Wilson and the other officers were presented with a commemporative gold medal in 1798 by the Emperor, who also conferred on them in 1800 the Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa ; George III permitted them to accept this order on 2 Jun 1801, with the rank of Baron of the Holy Roman Empire and knighthood attached ; served at the Helder 1799, in Egypt 1801 and at the Cape of Good Hope 1806 ; present at battle of Eylau 1807 ; commanded Royal Lusitanian Legion in Portugal 1808-9, receiving rank of Brigadier-Gen. in Portuguese army ; accompanied Sir Robert Liston to Constantinope in 1812, with local rank of Brigadier-Gen. in British army ; British Commissioner with the Russian Army in 1812-3, taking part in the battles of Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Kulm and Kranpen ; British Commissioner with Austrian Army in Germany and Italy 1813-4, serving at Leipzig, Vicenza, Verona and Valaggio ; assisted in escape of Comte de Lavalette from Paris and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment 24 Apr 1816 ; MP Southwark 1818-31 ; dismissed from British army 15 Sep 1821 for attempting to prevent bloodshed during the disturbance at Queen Caroline’s funeral on the previous day ; went to Spain in 1823 to take part in the war there ; reinstated in Army with rank of Lieut.-Gen. on accession of William IV in 1830 (with seniority as from 27 May 1825) ; although he had entered the House of Commons as a member of the Radical wing of the Whig party, he refused to vote for the Reform Bill of 1831, which he regarded as “the initiatory measure of a republican form of government”, and retired from active political life ; Col., 15th Light Dragoons, from 29 Dec 1835 ; Gen., 23 Nov 1841 ; Governor and Commander in Chief, Gibraltar 4 Oct 1843 – Nov 1848 ; although the recipient of a number of distinctions from the Allied Sovereigns, he was never honoured by his own ; author, The History of theBritish Expedition to Egypt, 1802, and other works ; m. at Gretna Green 7 Jul 1797, and at St.George’s, Hanover Square, London 10 Mar 1798 Jemima, dau. of Lieut.-Col. William Belford, Harbledown, Kent, 5th Garrison Battalion ; d. 9 May 1849. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
WILSON, SAMUEL, son of Very Rev.Thomas Wilson DD, Dean of Worcester, and Dorothy, dau. of Robert Banister ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576 (as Wilsone) ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1580, adm.scholar 1581 ; BA 1584/5.
WILSON, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Wilson, Shrewsbury, Shropshire ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1666 ; KS 1668 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1670, matr. 1 Jul 1670, aged 19, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1670 – void 1678 ; BA 1674 ; MA 1677 ; ordained ; Vicar of Oswestry, Shropshire 1690-4 ; according to the autobiography of William Taswell (adm.1660, qv), Wilson owed his election to Oxford to “the recommendation of the Earl of Montgomery his godfather”, and was “Rector of a church in Ireland”.
WILSON, THOMAS, younger son of Rev. William Wilson DD, Canon of Windsor and Prebendary of Rochester, and Prebendary and Chancellor of St.Paul’s, and Isabel, dau. of John Woodhall and niece of Most Rev.Edmund Grindall DD, Archbishop of Canterbury ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1607, matr. 10 Jun 1608, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1617 ; BA 1611 ; MA 1614 (incorp.Cambridge 1615) ; BD 8 Mar 1621/2 ; DD Cambridge c.1625 (incorp.Oxford 12 Aug 1645) ; ordained ; Domestic Chaplain to Bishop of London in 1621-3 ; Rector of Paglesham, Essex 30 Mar 1625 – Oct 1626 ; Rector of Wimbish, Essex 17 Jun 1625 (still 1640) ; Rector of Debden, Essex 22 Dec 1629 (still 1640) ; Rector of Fulbourn St.Vigers, Cambs., 28 Nov 1626 – sequestered 1645 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 24 Dec 1623, of Westminster from 10 Jan 1625/6 and of Lincoln from 30 Dec 1631 ; Proctor in Convocation for chapter of Westminster Abbey 1640-1 ; dispossessed of his preferments during the Civil War ; m. Ann, widow of Rev. John Hills DD, Rector of Fulbourne St.Vigers, Cambs., Master of St.Catherine’s Coll.Cambridge, and dau. of Clement Heigham, Wickhambrook, Suffolk ; dead by May 1653 (will dated 9 Sep 1652, proved PCC 13 May 1653).
WILSON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1669 (Chapter Muniments 33700-2).
WILSON, THOMAS, son of Thomas Wilson, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, and Mary — ; b. 12 Mar 1751 ; in school lists 1764 ; KS 1766 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1770, adm.pens. 14 Jun 1770, aged 19, scholar 26 Apr 1771, matr. Lent 1771 ; BA 1774 ; MA 1777 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1774 (Ely), priest 11 Jun 1775 (Peterborough, lit. dim. from Winchester) ; Curate, Abinger, Surrey 1775 ; Head Master, Kingston upon Thames GS from 1797 ; Assistant Chaplain, Hampton Court Palace ; d. 16 May 1842.
WILSON, TIMOTHY, son of Robert Wilson, Oxfordshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1658 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1662, adm.pens. 27 Jun 1662, scholar 1663, matr.1662.
WILSON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1723/4 ; in school list 1728.
WILSON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Sep 1734 ; left 1743.
WILSON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1744 ; left 1746.
WILSON, WILLIAM, brother of Richard Wilson (qv) ; b. 28 Feb 1734 ; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1749/50 ; left 1750 ; adm.Inner Temple 1 Aug 1752 ; migrated to Gray’s Inn 24 Jan 1753, called to bar 9 Jun 1758 ; practised at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Recorder of Berwick upon Tweed from 1772 ; m. Jan 1770 Mary, eldest dau. of Christopher Scott, Aldbrough in Holderness, Yorks, Mayor of Hull ; d. 9 May 1792 (will proved PCC 26 Jun 1792).
WILSON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Feb 1750/1.
WILSON, WILLIAM CORBETT, son of William Wilson, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk ; b. ; adm. 4 May 1778 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Jun 1783, aged 19, scholar 5 May 1786, matr. Mich.1783 ; BA 1787 ; MA 1795 ; ordained deacon 8 Jul 1787 (Canterbury, lit.dim. from London), priest Dec 1787 (London) ; Domestic Chaplain to Prince of Wales 1790 ; Rector of Little Woolstone, Beds., 17 Nov 1794 – May 1796 ; Vicar of Bozeat with Strixton, Northants 14 Jul 1795-1825 ; Vicar of Wormleighton, Warwicks., 10 May 1796 – Feb 1798 ; Vicar of Hardwick Priors, Warwickshire, from 10 May 1796 ; m. 2 Apr 1794 Catharina, dau. of Thomas Harrison, Wolverton Place, Bucks. ; d. 17 May 1837.
WILSON, WILLIAM FREDERICK PLATOFF, son of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv) ; b. 4 Oct 1813 ; adm. 25 Sep 1827 ; Ensign, 32nd Foot 19 Feb 1829 ; 26th Foot, 15 Jun 1830 ; Lieut., 39th Foot 5 May 1832 ; 23rd Foot 28 May 1833 ; signed Play Protest 1847 ; living at Liverpool at death ; d. 15 Aug 1864.
WILSON, WILLIAM HENRY CHARLES, second son of Edward Thomas Wilson PhD, Headmaster, Collegiate School, Brixton, Surrey, and of Middle Temple, barrister, and Catherine Avery ; b. 29 Jul 1852 ; adm. 28 Jan 1867 ; left Aug 1870 ; London Univ. ; adm.Middle Temple 2 Nov 1871, called to bar 6 Jun 1874 ; North-Eastern Circuit ; subsequently member, London Stock Exchange ; m. 27 Apr 1877 Ada Caroline, only dau. of Charles Joseph Corbett, Thames Ditton, Surrey, landowner ; d. 14 May 1910.
WILSON-FOX, FRANCIS SYLVANUS WOLLASTON, youngest son of Wilson Fox MD FRS FRCP, Physician Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, and Emily Anne, dau. of Capt.Wellesley Doyle, Army officer ; b. 7 Jul 1866 ; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (G) ; left Dec 1879 ; assumed additional surname of Wilson ; University Coll.London ; Capt., 1st Volunteer Battalion, Gloucestershire Regt. ; served in Matabele, Mashona and Boer Wars ; Native Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia ; transferred to Ministry of Labour 1918 ; head of Disabled Men’s Dept. and Controller, SW Division, to retirement 1926 ; m. 17 Apr 1912, Edith Augusta Llewellyn, dau. of Edward Llewellyn Thomas, Walton in Gordano, Somerset ; d. 29 Dec 1933.
WILTON, EARLS OF, see EGERTON.
WILTON, JAMES, VISCOUNT, see BRYDGES, JAMES, 3rd DUKE OF CHANDOS.
WILTON, JOHN, brother of (William) Joseph Wilton (qv) ; b. ; adm. 23 Jan 1769 ; left 1773 (see also The World 17 Jul 1787, 3, and Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6, noting his presence at OWW dinner at Calcutta c. Jul – Oct 1784) ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1776 ; arrived in India 27 Jun 1776 ; Examiner in Secretary’s Office, Board of Revenue 1777 ; Assistant, Murshidabad 1778 ; Junior Merchant 1785 ; Commissary, Chandernagore, and Senior Merchant 1787 ; Sheriff of Calcutta 1788 ; Commercial Resident, Keerpoy 1790, Dacca 1802 ; Opium Agent, Bihar 1803 ; known in India as “Beau” Wilton ; res. in India 29 Nov 1812 ; d. in London 8 Jan 1835, in 80thyear.
WILTON, PAUL HENZELL, son of (William) Joseph Wilton (qv) ; bapt. St.Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne 26 Jul 1792 (IGI) ; adm.Mich.1806 ; KS (aged 14) 1807 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1811, adm.pens. 25 May 1811, matr.Mich.1811, scholar 1812 ; BA 1818 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1817, priest 20 Dec 1818 (London) ; Curate, Holmpton, Yorks., 1823 ; Vicar of Welwick, Yorks., 20 Jan 1832-45 ; Vicar of Owthorne, Yorks., from 1845 ; m. 17 Dec 1822 (IGI) Jane, dau. of George King, Bristol ; d. 28 Jan 1887.
WILTON, (WILLIAM) JOSEPH, son of Joseph Wilton RA, sculptor, Keeper of the Royal Academy, and Frances Lucas, St.Botolph, Bishopsgate, “reputed daughter of Lord Orford” ; bapt.St.Martin in the Fields 17 Jan 1760 (IGI) ; adm. 25 Jun 1776 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Dec 1776, aged 15 ; BA 1782 ; MA 1788 ; adm.Inner Temple 12 Jun 1776 (when described as father’s only son (sic)) ; ordained priest 3 Jun 1787 (Oxford) ; clergyman in Scottish Episcopalian church ; Minister of Haddington, East Lothian (in 1795) ; later living in London ; m. 17 Feb 1789 Mary, only dau. of Paul Henzell, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, glass manufacturer ; d. 14 Dec 1844.
WILTSHIRE, ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Wiltshire, Bloomsbury, Middlesex ; b. London 17 Apr 1805 ; adm. 26 Jun 1820 ; left 1821 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 18 Jan 1827 ; adm.solicitor ; practised in Queen Victoria Street, London ; living in Lambeth, Surrey 1881 (1881 Census) ; m.1st, 1 Mar 1845 Sarah Elizabeth, elder dau. of Caractacus William Philipps, Camberwell, Kent, surveyor ; m.2nd, 27 Apr 1872 Matilda Jane (his housekeeper), dau. of James Oliver ; d. 14 Sep 1889. [mother probably Mary —]
WIMBUSH, JOHN EWART BARNES, son of Barnes Wimbush, Finchley, Middlesex, horse dealer, and Margaret Morgan, dau. of James Simon Ewart, Fortis Green, Hornsey, Middlesex ; b. 23 Oct 1867 ; adm. 26 Mar 1881 (G) ; left May 1884 ; Chairman, Wimbush & Co Ltd, motor manufacturers, London ; m. 1 May 1895 Maud Mary, only dau. of Isaac Lea Stokes, Nether Street, North Finchley, Middlesex, ironmonger ; d. 30 Oct 1942.
WIMSEHURST (or WIMSHURST or WINCHURST), JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1564 (tutor, Mr.Randall) ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1571, Westminster Student 14 Mar 1571/2-86 ; BA 1574 ; MA 1578 ; buried St.Stephen’s, Walbrook, London 17 Mar 1588/9. [godson of John Hudson, citizen and grocer, London, and mentioned in will of Rev.Alexander Wimsehurst, Rector of Tillington, Sussex, and Prebendary of Salisbury ; also a legatee under will of John Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury]
WINANS, ROSS REVILLON, son of Thomas De Kay Winans, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, locomotive manufacturer, and Celeste, dau. of Georges Revillon, St.Petersburg, Russia ; b. 8 Jun 1850 ; adm. 13 Apr 1866 ((G) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Apr 1869, matr.Mich.1869 ; of Baltimore, Maryland, USA ; m.1st, 10 Jan 1872 Mary Greenway, dau. of Henry Ludlam, Richmond, Virginia, merchant and banker ; m.2nd, at Paris, France, 22 May 1879 Neva, youngest dau. of George William Whistler, Baltimore, USA, civil engineer ; d. 25 Apr 1912.
WINANS, WILLIAM GEORGE, brother of Ross Revillon Winans (qv) ; b. 2 Mar 1852 ; adm. 26 Feb 1867 (G) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 14 Jul 1870, matr.Mich.1870 ; buried Baltimore, Maryland, USA 9 Dec 1871.
WINCHILSEA AND NOTTINGHAM, EARLS OF, see FINCH and FINCH-HATTON.
WINCKWORTH, LEWIS HERBERT, eldest son of Lewis Winckworth, Abingdon Street, Westminster, solicitor, and Fanny Marcia, only dau. of William Henry Powell MD, Fareham, Hampshire ; b. 13 Mar 1864 ; adm. 27 Jan 1879 (G) ; left Aug 1881 ; adm.solicitor Jul 1887 ; practised in London ; m. 10 Jul 1894 Ruthella Theodora, elder dau. of Rev.Herbert Clementi-Smith, Holland Park Avenue, Kensington, Middlesex, Chaplain to the Mercers’ Co. ; d. 31 Jan 1940.
WINCKWORTH, WADHAM BRUCE, brother of Lewis Herbert Winckworth (qv) ; b. 22 Nov 1868 ; adm. 31 May 1883 (G) ; left Aug 1886 ; Westminster Hospital ; MRCS and LRCP 1893 ; practised at Taunton, Somerset ; m. 30 Apr 1908 Dorothy Frances, eldest dau. of Edwin Hellard, Stogumber, Somerset, solicitor ; d. 20 Feb 1948.
WINCOMB, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1717/8.
WINDHAM, see also WYNDHAM.
WINDHAM, COULEY, only son of Couley Windham, Leatherhead, Surrey, Clerk in Annuity Office, Exchequer, and Mary Sanderson, St.Margaret’s, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1716 ; in under school list 1717 ; living 1743. [wills of two individuals of this name, both of Leatherhead, Surrey, gentleman, proved PCC 3 Jun 1743, and 22 Oct 1743 (first of these was this individual’s father)]
WINDHAM, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Sep 1717.
WINDSOR, HON.DIXIE, second son of Thomas Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth PC, and his second wife Ursula, youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Widdrington, Kt MP, Sherburn Grange, Northumberland, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1688 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1691, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1691, aged 17, scholar 8 Apr 1692, matr.1691 ; 7th in “ordo” 1694/5 ; BA 1694/5 ; MA 1698 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1697, Major Fellow 6 May 1698 – c.1706 ; MP Cambridge University 1705-27 ; Storekeeper of the Ordnance Office 28 Jun 1712 – Mar 1717 ; Busby Trustee 8 Mar 1711/2 ; m. Dorothy, sister of Bertram Stote (qv) ; d. 20 Oct 1743.
WINE, WILLIAM, see BOLD, WILLIAM.
WINFIELD, see also WINGFIELD.
WINFIELD, — ; b. ; in school list 1795.
WINFIELD, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 6 Feb 1786 ; in school list Dec 1788 (as Wingfield).
WINGFIELD, CHARLES, son of Rowland Wingfield (qv) ; b. 24 Aug 1770 ; adm. 14 Jan 1780 ; in school lists 1786 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Nov 1787, matr.Mich.1787, readm. 29 Apr 1794 ; BA 1796 ; MA 1799 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1789 ; ordained deacon 4 Sep 1796, priest 28 May 1797 (both Lichfield) ; Vicar of Llanllwchairn, Montgomeryshire, from 25 Jul 1799 ; m. 27 Jan 1829 Emma, fourth dau. of Richard Jenkins, Bicton, Shropshire ; d. 1 May 1850.
WINGFIELD, SIR CHARLES JOHN, fifth son of William Wingfield KC MP (afterwards Wingfield-Baker), Orsett Hall, Essex, barrister, Master in Chancery, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Mills MP, Bisterne, Hampshire ; half-brother of George Digby Wingfield-Digby (qv) ; b. 15 Apr 1820 ; adm. 26 May 1834 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1837-9 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1839 ; arrived in India 29 Mar 1840 ; Assistant to Magistrate and Commissioner, Delhi 1841 ; Assistant Commissioner, Delhi 1843-5 ; Joint Magistrate, Muzaffarnagar 1845-50 ; Commissioner, Oudh 1856 ; Chief Commissioner, Oudh 1859-66 ; retired 1866 ; MP (Liberal) Gravesend 1868-74 ; CB 18 May 1860 ; KCSI 25 May 1866 ; d. unm. 27 Jan 1892.
WINGFIELD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, son of John Wingfield (adm.1770, qv) ; b. 22 Dec 1818 ; adm. 9 Sep 1831 (G) ; adm.Gray’s Inn 21 Apr 1835, called to bar 18 Nov 1840 ; d. 14 May 1844.
WINGFIELD, GEORGE DIGBY, see WINGFIELD-DIGBY, GEORGE DIGBY.
WINGFIELD, HENRY COLSELL, son of James Wingfield (qv) ; b. 10 Aug 1805 ; adm. 22 Apr 1816 ; articled to his father 2 Feb 1821 ; adm.attorney, King’s Bench 1 May 1826 ; practised in Great Marlborough Street, London ; founder of Wingfield Sculls (amateur sculling championship) 1830 ; emigrated to Prince Edward Island ; farmed at Picton, South Marysburgh, Ontario, Canada, to 1861 ; m. 9 Oct 1828 (divorced 1842) Jane Nicholls ; drowned off Newfoundland on board SS Canadian on journey to England, 4 Jun 1861.
WINGFIELD, JAMES, brother of William Wingfield (qv) ; b. 14 Feb 1767 ; adm. 2 Apr 1777 ; in school lists 1781 ; articled to solicitor 9 May 1782 ; adm.attorney 26 Nov 1787 ; practised in Great Marlborough Street, London (still in Law List 1822) ; m. 15 Jan 1803 (IGI) Margareta Falwasser ; d. 19 Mar 1828.
WINGFIELD, JOHN, second son of Robert Wingfield MP, Upton, Northants., and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Cecil MP, Little Burghley, Northants., Yeoman of the Wardrobe, and sister of William Cecil, 1stBaron Burghley KG, Lord Treasurer ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1578, adm.scholar 1579, adm.Mich.1578 ; of Tickencote, Rutland ; Feodary, Lincolnshire 1594-1600, 1609-14 ; MP Peterborough 1597, Stamford 1621, Grantham 1626 ; m.1st, by 1593, Elizabeth, dau. of Paul Gresham, Tickencote, Rutland ; m.2nd, Margaret, widow of John Blythe, Denton, Lincs., and dau. of Robert Thorold, Hough on the Hill, Lincs. ; buried Tickencote, Rutland 29 Jul 1626.
WINGFIELD, JOHN, brother of William Wingfield (qv) ; b. 2 Feb 1760 [check] ; adm. 5 Feb 1770 ; KS (aged 13) 1773 ; Capt. of the School 1777 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1778, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1778, scholar 23 Apr 1779, matr.1780 ; BA 1782 ; MA 1785 ; BD 1794 ; DD 1799 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1783, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1785 ; an Usher at the School 1781-8, Under Master 1788-1802, Head Master 13 Sep – Dec 1802 ; ordained deacon 26 Dec 1786, priest 29 May 1787 (both Rochester) ; Prebendary of Worcester from 27 Jan 1803 ; Perpetual Curate of Putney, Surrey Jan – Dec 1804 ; Vicar of Kempsey, Worcs., 27 Nov 1804-15 ; Rector of Easton, Hampshire 29 Nov 1804 ; Prebendary of York from 27 Sep 1812 ; Rector of Whitbourne, Herefs., from 14 Sep 1815 ; Vicar of Bromsgrove, Worcs., from 27 Oct 1815 ; m. 8 Sep 1803 Mary, eldest dau. of Rev.Thomas James DD, Head Master, Rugby Sch. ; d. 9 Dec 1825.
WINGFIELD, JOHN, eldest son of Rowland Wingfield (qv) ; b. 18 Jul 1769 ; adm. 14 Jan 1780 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Nov 1787 ; BA 1793 ; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 18 Nov 1788 ; Lieut., 26 Feb 1793 ; Capt., 1 Mar 1794 ; Maj., 2 Mar 1794 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 3 May 1796 ; retd. 28 Apr 1808 ; DL JP Shropshire, High Sheriff 1814 ; m. 17 Oct 1811 Mary Anne, only dau. of Rev.John Rocke, Rector of Clungunford, Shropshire ; d. 31 Aug 1862.
WINGFIELD, JOHN DIGBY, see WINGFIELD-DIGBY, JOHN DIGBY.
WINGFIELD, JOHN HOPE, eldest son of John Wingfield (adm.1770, qv) ; b. 11 Nov 1810 ; adm. 27 Jun 1821 (G) ; Ensign, 15thFoot 17 May 1831 ; Lieut., 4 Oct 1833 ; Capt., 18 Jan 1839 ; Maj., 11 Nov 1851 ; Lieut.-Col., 19 Feb 1858 ; Col., East Yorks. Regt., 28 Jun 1862 ; Major-Gen., 28 Jun 1868 ; Lieut.-Gen., 19 May 1880 ; retd. 1 Jul 1881, with hon.rank of Gen. ; Col., East Yorkshire Regt., from 30 Sep 1889 ; d. unm. 3 Feb 1890.
WINGFIELD, ROWLAND, elder son of Borlase Wingfield, Preston, Shropshire, and Ellen, dau. of John Hill and sister of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., MP ; b. ; adm.Shrewsbury Sch. 1737 ; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1742/3 ; left 1746 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1746 ; adm.Inner Temple 31 Oct 1749 (delivered up bond 22 Apr 1755) ; of Onslow, Shropshire ; High Sheriff, Shropshire 1753 ; m. 23 Jun 1764 Mary, sister of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (qv) ; d. 10 Aug 1818.
WINGFIELD, WILLIAM, son of James Wingfield, Brewer Street, London, hatter [and his second wife Adriana Shield ?]; b. ; adm. 11 Feb 1768 ; KS (aged 12) 1771 ; an attorney ; practised in John Street, Golden Square, Westminster, to 1812 ; d. 9 Jul 1825.
WINGFIELD, WILLIAM FREDERICK, second son of John Wingfield (adm.1770, qv) ; b. 1 Feb 1814 ; adm. 16 Jun 1825 (G) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Nov 1831 ; BA 1835 ; MA 1838 ; ordained deacon 8 Oct 1837, priest 21 Oct 1838 (both Canterbury) ; Curate, St.Peter’s, Isle of Thanet 1837, St.Mark’s, North Audley Street, London 1843 ; Vicar of Bleasdon, Lancs., 1844-5 ; Roman Catholic convert 1845 ; MD Pisa ; [became a barrister ? : check] ; lived in Balkans for many years ; author, A Tour in Dalmatia, Albania and Montenegro, 1859 ; m. 2 Nov 1844 Charlotte, second dau. of Sir George Nicholls, Kt, Hyde Park Street, London, Secretary to Poor Law Commission ; d. 2 Aug 1874.
WINGFIELD-DIGBY, GEORGE DIGBY, eldest son of William Wingfield KC MP (afterwards Wingfield-Baker), Orsett Hall, Essex, barrister, Master in Chancery, and his first wife Lady Charlotte Mary Digby, dau. of Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby (qv) ; b. 1 Jun 1797 ; adm. 13 Jun 1808 ; in school list 1813 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Apr 1815, aged 17 ; BA 1819 ; adm.Inner Temple 28 Jan 1814, called to bar 10 Jul 1821 ; assumed additional surname of Digby 2 Jul 1856, on inheriting the Sherborne Castle and Coleshill estates of his uncle Edward Digby, 2nd Earl Digby (qv) ; High Sheriff, Dorset 1860 ; m. 26 May 1824 Lucy Mabella, eldest dau. of Edward Berkeley Portman MP, Bryanston, Dorset ; d. 7 May 1883.
WINGFIELD-DIGBY, JOHN DIGBY, brother of George Digby Wingfield-Digby (qv) ; b. 11 Mar 1799 ; adm. 30 May 1809 ; in school list Oct 1814 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 Mar 1817 ; BA 1820 ; MA 1824 ; ordained deacon 25 May 1823 (Chester, lit.dim. from Bristol), priest 21 Mar 1824 (Lincoln, lit.dim. from Bristol) ; Prebendary of Kildare and Rector of Geashill, King’s Co., 1824-48 ; Vicar of Coleshill, Warwicks., 1848-74 ; assumed additional surname of Digby 2 Jul 1856 ; m. 20 Apr 1826 Ann Eliza, eldest dau. of Sir John Wyldbore Smith, Bart., Down House, Dorset ; d. 24 Jan 1878.
WINNE, see WYNNE.
WINNINGTON, EDWARD, brother of Francis Winnington (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1716/7 ; in under school list 1721 (probably left 1721) ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1724 ; m. 16 Nov 1726 Sophia Boote, Wantage, Berks. ; dead by 1752.
WINNINGTON, FRANCIS, elder son of Francis Winnington MP, Broadway, Worcs., and Anne, dau. of Thomas Jackson, London ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1716/7 ; in under school list 1718 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 Mar 1721 ; adm.Middle Temple 27 Nov 1722, called to bar 9 Feb 1727/8 ; Solicitor to Admiralty 6 Apr 1733-47 ; MP Droitwich 9 Dec 1747-54 ; m. 9 Aug 1731 (IGI) Susannah Courtenay, Upton Pyne, Devon (IGI). [will of Susanna Winnington, widow, All Hallows, London Wall, proved PCC 31 Dec 1766]
WINNINGTON, THOMAS, second son of Salwey Winnington MP, and Anne, second dau. of Thomas Foley MP, Great Witley, Worcs., ironmaster and landowner ; b. 31 Dec 1696 ; at school under Freind (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1728/9) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Apr 1713 ; adm.Middle Temple 2 Dec 1714 ; MP Droitwich 31 Jan 1725/6-41, Worcester from 1741 ; a Lord of the Admiralty May 1730 – May 1736 ; a Lord of the Treasury 1736-41 ; Cofferer of the Household 25 Apr 1741 – Dec 1743 ; Privy Councillor 27 Apr 1741 ; Paymaster-Gen. of the Forces from 24 Dec 1743 ; declined Chancellorship of the Exchequer and leadership of House of Commons 1746 ; m. 6 Aug 1719 Love, dau. of Sir James Reade, Bart., Brocket Hall, Herts. ; d. 23 Apr 1746. ODNB.
WINNINGTON-INGRAM, EDWARD, second son of Rev.Edward Winnington-Ingram, Prebendary of Worcester, and Jane, sister of Arthur Cyril Phipps Onslow (qv) ; b. 17 Oct 1814 ; adm. 1 Feb 1826 (G) ; KS 1829 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1833, adm.pens. 4 Jun 1833, scholar 1834, matr.1833 ; coxed the third Trinity boat in 1835 when it became Head of the River ; BA 1837 ; MA 1841 ; ordained deacon 1837, priest 1839 (both Hereford) ; Rector of Harvington, Worcs., 1839-44 ; Rector of Stanford on Teme, Worcs., from 26 Dec 1844 ; Rector of Ribbesford, Worcs., 1847-76 ; m. 16 Dec 1847 Maria Louisa, dau. of Right Rev.Henry Pepys DD, Bishop of Worcester ; d. 30 Apr 1891.
WINPENNY, — ; b. ; in school list 1797.
WINSLOW, LYTTLETON FRANCIS FORBES, son of Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow MB MRCP DCL, Burwood Place, Hyde Park, London, and his first wife Florence Jessie, dau. of James Michell Winn MD MRCP MRCS LSA, Harley Street, London ; b. 16 Apr 1872 ; adm. 26 Jan 1883 (R) ; left 1884 ; Charing Cross Hospital ; LSA 1896 ; Lieut., RAMC 27 Jul 1899 ; Capt., 27 Jul 1902 ; Maj., 27 Jul 1911 ; Lieut.-Col., 1 Mar 1915 ; retd. 2 Aug 1919 ; served in South African War 1899-1901 and in 1914-8 War, serving in France and Belgium ; m. 30 Jul 1902 Mary, only dau. of Maj.J.L.Shearman, Royal Irish Fusiliers ; d. 2 Dec 1933.
WINSTANLEY, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).
WINSTANLEY, ARCHIE JAMES, brother of Howard Percy Winstanley (qv) ; b. 3 Nov 1866 ; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (G) ; left Aug 1883 ; a tea broker (to 1899) ; living in Bedford, Bedfordshire, at death ; d. 20 Dec 1960.
WINSTANLEY, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev.George Winstanley (or Wynstanley), Rector of Shenley, Bucks., and Alice, dau. of George Deyes ; b. 17 Jan 1606 (IGI) ; at school under Osbaldeston (J.Peile, Biog.Reg. of Christ’s Coll., i, 372) ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 Apr 1625, matr.1626 ; BA 1629/30 ; ordained ; Rector of Souldrop, Beds., 15 Mar 1629/30 [or 1630/1 ?] (when a deacon) – 1656 (successor instituted 19 Nov 1656).
WINSTANLEY, HOWARD PERCY, eldest son of Howard Winstanley, Woburn Square, London, auctioneer, and Kate, dau. of John Skilbreck ; b. 21 Aug 1865 ; adm. 25 Jan 1878 (G) ; left Dec 1881 ; a stockbroker ; member, London Stock Exchange, from 1896 ; d. 16 Jan 1932.
WINSTANLEY, THOMAS RALPH, son of Rev.Thomas Winstanley, Rector of St.Dunstan in the East, London, and Prebendary of Westminster, and Silvia, widow of Col.John Brathwaite, and dau. of — Cole ; half-brother of Sir John Brathwaite, Bart. (qv) ; b. 30 Aug 1748 ; adm. ; Min.Can.1760 ; KS (Capt.) 1761 ; Capt. of the School 1765 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1766, adm.pens. 28 May 1766, scholar 15 May 1767, matr.1767 ; when Capt. of the School he was presented by George Colman (adm.1741, qv) with a copy of Colman’s translation of the Eunuchus, dedicated to the King’s Scholars, and Winstanley’s acknowledgement of the gift in Latin verse is printed Memoirs of the Colman Family, i, 554-5 ; d. 21 May 1769. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey (monument).
WINSTANLY, — ; b. ; adm. 4 Mar 1655 ; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book) ; in school lists 1656.
WINTER, see also WYNTER.
WINTER, — ; b. ; adm. 3 Feb 1766.
WINTER, ARTHUR HENRY, brother of William Winter (adm.1857, qv) ; b. 4 Dec 1844 ; adm. 26 Jan 1858 ; QS 1859 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1863, adm.pens. 11 Jun 1863, matr.Mich.1863 ; BA 1867 ; MA 1873 ; played cricket for Cambridge 1865-7, for Gentlemen v.Players 1866, and for Middlesex 1866-7 ; ordained deacon 1871, priest 1872 (both Lichfield) ; Curate, Worfield, Shropshire 1871-3, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire 1873-5, Cholderton, Wilts., 1875 ; Vicar of Weedon Beck, Northants 1875-82 ; Rector of Gransden Parva, Cambs., 1882-99 ; Rector of Papworth Everard, Cambs., 1899-1902 ; m. 26 Jul 1871 Barbara Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Cornelius Farnworth Broadbent, Vicar of Worfield, Shropshire ; d. 31 Dec 1937.
WINTER, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. 11 May 1772 ; left Dec 1774.
WINTER, NATHANIEL ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar, matr. Easter 1623 ; BA 1627/8 ; MA 1633 ; lit.dim. from Bishop of London for ordination 7 Jun 1637, then resident at Rickmansworth, Herts., described as MA.
WINTER, THOMAS, see WINTOUR, THOMAS.
WINTER, WILLIAM (in school lists Feb 1727/8, 1729), see VINTER, WILLIAM.
WINTER, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Nov 1746 ; left 1747.
WINTER, WILLIAM, son of William Esdaile Winter, Meads Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, solicitor, and Frances Anne, dau. of William Jameson, Fen Court, London ; b. 24 Apr 1843 ; adm. 24 Sep 1857 (R) ; left Whitsun 1862 (with Dean Thomas) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Dec 1861, matr.Mich.1862 ; BA 1866 ; adm.solicitor Easter 1869 ; practised in London, firm Winter & Co., Bedford Row ; m. 12 Sep 1871 Jessie Maria, sister of Sir Francis Aubrey De Vere Williams Maclean (qv) ; killed while climbing in the Alps, near Meiringen, Switzerland 22 Aug 1905.
WINTERINGHAM, CHRISTOPHER ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1669 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1672, adm.pens. 4 Jun 1672, scholar 1673, matr.1675/6 ; 2nd in “ordo” 1675/6 ; BA 1675/6 ; MA 1679 ; an Usher at the School ; Chief Clerk, Ordnance Office, Tower of London, (by Nov 1685) to Dec 1686 ; Joint Accountant General (I) from 19 Jan 1686/7 ; buried St.Peter and St.Kevin, Dublin, Ireland 30 Jan 1687/8.
WINTLE, ROBERT, son of Rev.Thomas Wintle, Rector of Brightwell, Berks., and Mary, dau. of R.Baker ; b. ; adm. 9 Jun 1784 ; KS (aged 14) 1786 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1790, matr. 9 Jun 1790, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1790 – void 17 Dec 1798 (expiry year of grace as R.Culham from 6 Dec 1797) ; BA 1794 ; MA 1797 ; BD 1805 ; ordained deacon 19 Jul 1795, priest 25 Sep 1796 (both Salisbury) ; Rector of Culham, Oxfordshire, from 1 Dec 1797 ; Rector of Compton Beauchamp, Berks., from 18 May 1803 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 11 Jun 1805 ; Preacher, South Lambeth Chapel 1807 ; m. 1798 Margaretta Maria, dau. of James Morrell, Oxford, and sister of Deacon Morrell (probably – Morrell, at school in 1790, qv) ; d. 24 Aug 1848.
WINTOUR, THOMAS, son of Forth Winter, Middle Temple, London, and Ovenden, Sundridge, Kent, attorney, and Anne, only dau. of Thomas Fitzgerald (Min.Can.1709, qv) ; b. ; adm. 3 Feb 1766 ; at school 1770 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Feb 1772, aged 18, Canoneer Student 8 Jul 1772 – void 26 May 1785 (expiry year of grace as R.Westwell) ; BA 1775 ; MA 1779 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1773 ; ordained deacon 21 Nov 1779, priest 29 Oct 1780 (both Oxford) ; Domestic Chaplain to George, Baron Onslow 10 Jun 1780 ; Curate, Drayton, Oxfordshire 1782, Cowley, Oxfordshire 1783 ; Rector of Westwell, Oxfordshire, from 25 May 1784 ; altered the spelling of his surname about 1778 ; edited his grandfather Thomas Fitzgerald’s Poems on several Occasions, 1781 ; m. 6 Jan 1785 Elizabeth, widow of Rev.Charles Hall DD, Dean of Bocking, Essex, mother of Charles Henry Hall (qv), and dau. of Robert Carsan, Vauxhall Place, Lambeth, Surrey, surgeon ; d. 10 Jun 1786, aged 33.
WIRGMAN, — , probably son of Gabriel Wirgman, Denmark Street, Soho, jeweller, and Mary, dau. of James Upjohn, Clerkenwell, watchmaker ; b. ; at school 1790 or 1791.
WISDOM, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 27 Apr 1774.
WISE, see WYSE.
WISEMAN, see also WYSEMAN.
WISEMAN, SIR WILLIAM, BART., son of John Wiseman, Middle Temple, barrister, and Penelope — ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1733/4 ; left 1740 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1740/1 ; Ensign, 2ndFoot Guards 12 Sep 1745 ; Lieut. and Capt., 5 Apr 1748 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 30 Jan 1759 ; Brevet Col., 25 May 1772 ; succ. uncle as 5th baronet 3 Jun 1751 ; d. 25 May 1774.
WISHALL (or WHISHALL), DAVID, son of Jonathan Whishall, St.Paul, Covent Garden, tailor, and Sarah — (IGI) ; bapt. St.Paul, Covent Garden 13 Dec 1711 ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1722 ; in under school list 1725. [will David Wishall, St.Paul, Covent Garden, gentleman, proved PCC 2 May 1734]
WITHAM, GILBERT, elder son of Cuthbert Witham, Garforth, Yorks., and his first wife Anne, dau. of Thomas Hemsworth, Great Purston, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1630, adm.scholar 1631, matr. Easter 1631 ; BA 1634/5 ; MA 1638 ; ordained ; Curate, Garforth, Yorks., 1641 ; Rector of Garforth, Yorks., from 26 Mar 1643/4 ; a keen botanist ; m. 1 Aug 1643 Sarah, dau. of John Taylor, Newland [check county] ; buried 15 Dec 1684.
WITHERED, — ; b. ; at school 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).
WITHERS, BENJAMIN PRICE, son of Benjamin Price Withers, Westbury, Bucks., and Anne Warren (alias Fox), (illegitimate ?) dau. of John Borlace Warren, Stapleford, Notts. ; bapt. Westbury, Bucks.,1 Oct 1768 ; adm. 23 Jul 1781 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 Jan 1786, aged 17 ; m. 24 Mar 1790 Susanna, youngest dau. of William Buckle, The Mythe and Chaceley, Gloucs. ; buried Westbury, Bucks., 10 Oct 1800.
WITHERS, HARTLEY, fourth son of Henry Hartley Withers, Granendale, Lancs., stockbroker, and Jane Livingston, dau. of Matthew Dobson Lowndes, Liverpool, solicitor ; b. 15 Jul 1867 ; adm. 16 Jun 1881 ; QS 1881 ; Capt. of the School 1885 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1886, matr. 15 Oct 1886 ; 1st cl.Classics (Mods) 1888, 3rd cl.Lit.Hum.1890 ; BA 1890 ; MA Cambridge 1938 ; Assistant Master, Clifton Coll. 1890 ; Stock Exchange clerk 1891-3 ; entered City office of The Times 1894, City Editor 1906-10 ; City Editor, Morning Post 1910-1 ; with Seligman Brothers 1911-5 ; Director of Financial Enquiries, Treasury 1915-6 ; Editor, The Economist 1916-21, and of Financial Supplement, The Saturday Review 1921-3 ; director, Allied Investors’ Trusts ; author, The Meaning of Money, 1909, and other works ; m. 1st, 8 Aug 1896 Letitia, widow of Henry Harrison, Holywood House, Holywood, co.Down, Ireland, mother of Henry Harrison (adm.1881, qv), and dau. of Robert James Tennent MP, Rush Park, Belfast, Ireland ; m.2nd, 1921 Alice, youngest dau. of J.R.Elliott ; d. 21 Mar 1950. ODNB.
WITHERS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 31 Oct 1787 ; at school 1789.
WITHY, HENRY, son of Robert Withy (qv), and his second wife ; b. 10 May 1800 ; adm. 15 Jan 1810 ; left 11 Dec 1818 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 May 1818, Postmaster 1819-22 ; BA 1822 ; MA 1824 ; ordained priest 4 Apr 1825 (Lichfield) ; held several curacies ; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Huddersfield, Yorks., 4 Nov 1830-4, when he resigned on grounds of health ; m.1st, Aug 1825 Emily, dau. of James Mangles MP, Woodbridge, Stoke by Guildford, Surrey ; m.2nd, 26 Mar 1829 Christian Dottin, fourth dau. of Sir John Gay Alleyne, Bart. (qv), and his second wife ; d. 25 Mar 1837.
WITHY, ROBERT, fourth son of Robert Withy, Buckingham Street, Strand, stockbroker, formerly book and print seller, and his first wife Mary, dau. of William Johnson, Rotherhithe, Surrey ; b. 20 Jun 1768 ; adm. 21 Jun 1779 ; adm.Inner Temple 17 Jun 1784 ; adm.solicitor ; practised in Craven Street, Strand, London ; of Broad Oak, Brenchley, Kent ; m.1st, 12 Aug 1788 Sarah Busby, stepdaughter of Richard Burton, Moore Place, Lambeth, Surrey ; m.2nd, 1 Dec 1795 Anne, third dau. of Charles Fourdrinier, Westminster, stationer and print publisher ; d. 30 May 1844.
WITNEY, see also WYTNEY.
WITNEY, — ; b. ; adm. Apr (?) 1720 ; in under school list 1720 ; left Mich.1720.
WITTER, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
WODEHOUSE, EDMOND HENRY, seventh son of Rev.Thomas Wodehouse, Rector of Norton, Kent, and Prebendary of Wells, and Anne, sister of Walker King (qv) ; grandson of Thomas Wodehouse (qv) ; b. 17 Feb 1837 ; adm. 17 Jun 1850 (R) ; QS 1851 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1855, matr. 7 Jun 1855, Westminster Student 1855-64 ; 1st cl.Classics (Mods) 1857, 2nd cl.Lit.Hum.1859 ; BA 1859 ; MA 1862 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 25 Jan 1860, called to bar 26 Jan 1863 ; Inspector of Poor Law Schools 1863-71 ; Local Government Board Inspector 1871-86 ; Chief General Inspector and Assistant Secretary, Local Government Board 1886-91 ; a Commissioner of Inland Revenue 1891-1902 ; CB 1 Jan 1897 ; JP Buckinghamshire 1906 ; m. 26 May 1864 his cousin Louisa Clara, fourth dau. of Rev.Nathaniel Wodehouse, Vicar of Dulverton, Somerset ; d. 27 Mar 1923.
WODEHOUSE, FREDERIC WILLIAM, eldest son of Lieut.-Col.Charles Wodehouse CIE, Indian Staff Corps (previously Bombay Army and EICS Bombay), Kolhapur, India, and Jemima, dau. of George Forbes, Spring Hill, Aberdeen ; b. 7 Apr 1867 ; adm. 23 Sep 1880 (H) ; left Apr 1884 ; RMC Sandhurst 1885 ; Lieut., South Staffordshire Regt., 30 Jan 1886 ; Lancashire Fusiliers 22 Dec 1886 ; Indian Staff Corps 17 Jun 1887 ; Capt., 30 Jan 1897 ; Maj., 30 Jan 1904 ; Lieut.-Col., 30 Jan 1912 ; retd. 7 Apr 1922 ; served in Chin-Lushai expedition 1889-90 ; Political Agent, Cutch 1903, Kathiawar 1904, Kolhapur and South Mahratta country 1908-22 ; CIE 14 Jun 1912 ; m. 1st, 5 Apr 1893 Mary Helen, eldest dau. of George Nugent Reynolds Lambert MICE, Bombay Civil Service, Superintending Engineer, Sind ; m.2nd, 30 Jan 1940 Hilary Mary, only dau. of William Henry Pell, Holme House, Notts. ; d. 16 Jan 1961.
WODEHOUSE, JOHN, 1st BARON WODEHOUSE, son of Sir Armine Wodehouse, Bart., MP, and Letitia, eldest dau. of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart., MP ; b. 4 Apr 1741 ; adm.Oct 1748 ; Min.Can.1754 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Feb 1758 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1763-4 ; Col.East Norfolk Militia 7 Jun 1774, with rank of Col. in Army 2 Jul 1779 (and 14 Mar 1794) ; succ. as 6th baronet 2 May 1777 ;.of Kimberley, Norfolk ; MP Norfolk 1784 – 26 Oct 1797 ; created Baron Wodehouse 26 Oct 1797 ; m. 30 Mar 1769 Sophia, only dau. of Hon.Charles Berkeley, Bruton Abbey, Somerset ; d. 29 May 1834.
WODEHOUSE, JOHN, 2nd BARON WODEHOUSE, eldest son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (qv) ; b. 11 Jan 1770 ; adm. 3 Feb 1783 ; in school lists 1786 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1787 ; MP Great Bedwin 1796-1802, Marlborough 1818-26 ; Lord Lieut., Norfolk, from 1 Nov 1821 ; succ.father as 2nd Baron Wodehouse 29 May 1834 ; Col., East Norfolk Militia 14 Jul 1798 (still 1820) ; m. 18 Nov 1796 Charlotte Laura, only dau. of John Norris, Witton Park, Norfolk ; d. 29 May 1846.
WODEHOUSE, PHILIP, brother of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (qv) ; b. 27 Apr 1745 ; at school under Markham (Admissions to Emmanuel Coll.Camb.) ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 16 Sep 1762, matr.Mich.1762, fellow commoner 24 Dec 1766 ; BA 1767 ; MA 1778 ; ordained deacon 25 Mar 1769 (Norwich), priest 19 May 1769 (Chester, lit.dim. from Norwich) ; Rector of Barnham Broom, Norfolk, from 9 Jun 1769 ; Rector of Hingham, Norfolk, from 6 Dec 1777 ; Prebendary of Norwich from May 1778 ; m. 29 Jul 1775 Apollonia, dau. of John Nourse, Wood Eaton, Oxfordshire ; d. 14 Feb 1811.
WODEHOUSE, HON.PHILIP, son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (qv) ; b. 16 Jul 1773 ; adm. 3 Feb 1786 ; Lieut., Royal Navy 6 Jan 1794 ; Cdr., 8 Aug 1795 ; Post Capt., 23 Dec 1796 ; Rear-Adm., 12 Aug 1819 ; Vice-Adm., 22 Jul 1830 ; m. 7 May 1814 Mary Hay, dau. of Charles Cameron, Governor of the Bahamas ; d. 21 Jan 1838.
WODEHOUSE, THOMAS, brother of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (qv) ; b. 1 Feb 1747 ; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1781) ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1763 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll.Oxford 1766-82 ; BCL 1774 ; DCL 1780 ; [perhaps Grand Tour (Italy) 1770-2, although he was presumably in England in May 1771] ; adm.Middle Temple 25 Nov 1763, called to bar 31 May 1771 ; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ; of Sennowe Lodge, Dereham, Norfolk ; m. 12 Sep 1782 Sarah, dau. of Pryse Campbell MP, Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire ; d. 1805.
WOGAN, WILLIAM, younger son of Rev.Ethelred Wogan, Rector of Gumfreston and Vicar of Penally, Pembrokeshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1694 ; remained a year longer than usual in College at the wish of Dean Sprat to transcribe for the press the first four books of Clarendon’s History ; Capt. of the School 1699-1700 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1700, adm.pens. 5 Jun 1700, scholar 2 May 1701, but did not matr. ; London Secretary to Edward Southwell, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1703-7, 1713-4 (cf. CSP Dom 1703-4, 27, where he is referred to as “Ongan”) ; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber (occurs Chamberlayne 1710, then the most junior of the Gentlemen) ; entered army and for some years stationed in Dublin ; subsequently resident for some thirty years at Ealing, Middlesex ; a man of great piety, who corresponded with Whitefield and Wesley, and was on intimate terms with many of the evangelical leaders of his time ; author, Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England, 1753, and other religious works ; m. 7 Dec 1718 Catherine, dau. of Charles Stanhope, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts. ; d. 24 Jan 1758. ODNB.
WOLF, ISAAC, see COLFE, ISAAC
WOLRIDGE, STEPHEN ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) May 1715.
WOLSELEY, SIR CHARLES, BART., second son of Sir William Wolseley, Bart., Wolseley Hall, Staffs., and Charlotte Barbara, dau. of Zachary Chambers, Wimbledon, Surrey, Deputy Surveyor of Crown Lands ; b. 20 Jul 1769 ; adm. 19 Jan 1780 ; in school lists 1786 ; Grand Tour (France) ; present at taking of the Bastille 14 Jul 1789 ; detained at Spa during Napoleonic War, escaping 28 Dec 1803 ; succ. father as 7th baronet 5 Aug 1817 ; an original member of the Union of Parliamentary Reform and of the Hampden Club ; chairman of a great demonstration at Sandy Brow, Stockport, Cheshire Jun 1819 ; arrested for his speech on that occasion, and in Apr 1820 was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for sedition and conspiracy ; withdrew from politics c.1826 ; Roman Catholic convert 1837 ; m.1st, 13 Dec 1794 Mary, dau. of Hon.Thomas Clifford, Tixall, Staffs. ; m.2nd, 2 Jul 1812 Anne, youngest dau. of Anthony Wright, Wealdside, Essex ; d. 3 Oct 1846. ODNB.
WOLSELEY, HENRY, brother of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart. (qv) ; b. 16 Aug 1771 ; adm. 19 Jan 1780 ; Ensign, 18th Foot 6 Jun 1788 ; Lieut., 3 Jun 1791 ; retd. 28 Oct 1793 ; St.Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1798, aged 26 ; detained in France 1804 ; m. 2 Dec 1793 Charlotte, only dau. of Maj. John Delap Halliday, 79th Foot, Leasowes, Shropshire ; d. 1836 (will proved PCC 1 Sep 1836, he of Peel Heath, Middlesex).
WOLSELEY, ROBERT, brother of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart. (qv) ; b. 3 Aug 1770 ; adm. 19 Jan 1780 ; adm. Inner Temple 15 Jun 1789 ; ordained deacon 27 Jun 1813, priest 19 Dec 1813 (both Norwich) ; Curate, Brailsford, Derbs., 1814 ; m. 7 Feb 1805 Marianne, only dau. of George Watson Hand (qv) ; d. 1 Sep 1815 (will proved PCC 27 Jan 1816, he of Ockbrook, Derbs.).
WOLSTON, ALEXANDER, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv) ; b. ; adm. 12 Feb 1810 ; an attorney ; practising at Eton, Bucks., in 1830-4 ; d. 15 May 1835.
WOLSTON, AUGUSTUS, second son of John Wolston, Great Smith Street, Westminster, and Tornewton House, Torbryan, Devon, and Catharine, dau. of Roger Prideaux, West Alvington, Devon ; b. ; adm. ; left 1811 ; adm.attorney 1817 ; practised at Furnival’s Inn, London ; d. unm. 16 Mar 1861.
WOLSTON, RICHARD WALTER, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv) ; b. 1799 ; adm. 15 Jan 1808 ; adm.attorney Mich.1825 and notary public 1833 ; practised at Brixham, Devon, to 1856 ; living at Blackler, Wolston Green, Devon, in 1863 ; financed the construction of the Torbay and Brixham Railway 1868 ; m. 11 Aug 1825 Maria Murly ; d. 1883 (death registered Axbridge second quarter 1883, aged 83).
WOLSTON, THOMAS, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv) ; bapt. 17 Feb 1798 ; adm. 3 Jun 1806 ; left 1814 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 Jun 1814, aged 17 1/2, scholar 29 Sep 1815 – 25 Mar 1821, matr.Mich.1815 ; BA 1819 ; ordained deacon 11 Jul 1824, priest 30 Oct 1825 (both Exeter) ; held curacies in Devon 1824-40 ; Chaplain, St.Thomas’s Union, Exeter, Devon 1857-82 ; succeeded father as Lord of the Manor of Torbryan, near Newton Abbot, Devon ; m. 19 Jun 1827 Mary Ann, dau. of Rev.Richard Houlditch, Ottery St Mary, Devon, schoolmaster and Church of England clergyman ; d. 21 Nov 1885.
WOLTON, JOHN, son of John Wolton, Wigan, Lancs., and Isabella, dau. of John Nowell, and sister of Alexander Nowell, Head Master of the School ; b. ; adm. ; KS 18 Jan 1549/50 (Acts of Chapter i, 279, on nomination of Bishop of Rochester) ; left by Oct 1553 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, adm.student 26 Oct 1553 ; BA 1555 ; BD and DD 2 Jun 1579 ; ordained deacon 25 Apr 1560, aged 23, priest 4 Jun 1560 (both London) ; a protege of Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London ; Rector of Spaxton, Somerset 22 Jul 1563 (as Welton) ; Chaplain to Bishop of Bath and Wells ; Rector of Sampford Peverell, Devon 15 Aug 1565 (new incumbent Sep 1571) ; Prebendary of Exeter 22 Mar 1566 [1565/6 or 1566/7 ?] (as Woolton) ; Vicar of Braunton, Devon 4 May 1570 ; Rector of Whimple, Devon 20 May 1572 (new incumbent Sep 1580) ; Rector of Farringdon, Devon, 1571 – 13 Mar 1573 [1572/3 or 1573/4 ?] ; Rector of Kenn, Devon 15 Oct 1573 (described as BD) (no longer 1583) ; first Warden, Manchester Collegiate Church 28 Jul 1578 – Aug 1579 ; consecrated Bishop of Exeter 2 Aug 1579 ; Rector of Hemyock, Devon 9 May 1581 – Dec 1581 ; Rector of Haccombe, Devon, from 20 Oct 1581 ; Rector of Lezant, Cornwall, from 2 Oct 1583 ; author, The Christian Manuell, 1576, and other works ; m. twice (his first wife was “the daughter of Protector Somerset’s purveyor of household provisions” , who had subsequently been ordained as a clergyman and who was beneficed outside the Exeter diocese) ; [perhaps m. at St.Petrock, Exeter 3 Feb 1591 Elizabeth Lavermore (IGI), and perhaps John Walton [sic] who m. at Kenn, Devon 17 Apr 1581 Joan Kenwood (IGI)] ; d. 13 Mar 1593/4. ODNB.
WOLVERTON, GEORGE, 1st BARON, see GLYN, GEORGE CARR, 1st BARON WOLVERTON.
WOMBWELL, JOHN, son of George Wombwell, Consul at Alicante, subsequently of Crutched Friars, London, merchant, and Anne, dau. of John Nottingham, Friern Barnet, Middlesex ; b. 14 Aug 1748 ; at school under Markham (letter from Jeremy Bentham (qv) to his father, 20 Dec 1758, allowing inference that Wombwell boarded with Mrs Morel) ; Writer, EICS Bengal 22 Nov 1775 ; arrived in India 27 Jun 1776 ; Superintendent, Saltpetre Manufacture, Dinajpur 1777, Saltpetre and Opium, Purnea 1778 ; Paymaster, Nawab of Oudh’s troops under British officers 1779 ; Junior Merchant and Accountant, Lucknow 1782 ; Senior Merchant 1788 ; one of donors of Warren Hastings cup ; d.unm. 21 Dec 1795.
WOOD, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1663.
WOOD, — ; b. ; in school list Dec 1788 ; at school 1789, 1790.
WOOD, CHARLES JAMES, son of William Wood, Richmond Buildings, Dean Street, Soho, London, Solicitor to parish of Lambeth, and Hannah — (IGI) ; b. 12 Sep 1807 ; adm. 28 Jan 1822 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Oct 1825, matr. Mich.1826 ; BA 1830 ; MA 1834 ; adm.solicitor 1834 ; practised with father in Dean Street, Soho, London, firm Wood, Wood and Fraser ; m. 18 Jul 1839 Hannah Maria, youngest dau. of Robert Smith, Kingston, Surrey ; d. 11 Mar 1850.
WOOD, CYRIL WILLIAM, son of Rev.William Wood BD, Vicar of Fulham, Middlesex, and Prebendary of St.Paul’s (previously Canoneer Student and Senior Censor, Christ Church, Oxford), and Charlotte, second dau. of Joseph Attersoll, Fulham, Middlesex, corn merchant ; b. 29 Jul 1816 ; adm. 9 Jun 1828 ; living in Canada as young man ; University Coll.Durham ; BA 1842 ; MA 1845 ; Fellow ; ordained deacon 1844, priest 1846 ; Curate, Finmere, Oxfordshire 1846-52, Fritwell, Oxfordshire 1852 ; Warden, St.Thomas’s Coll., Colombo, Ceylon 1852 ; Vicar of Atwick, Yorks., 1854-67 ; Rector of Stogursey, Somerset, from 1867 ; m. 18 Feb 1851 Eleanor, dau. of Rev.William Jocelyn Palmer, Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, and sister of Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne PC, Lord Chancellor ; d. 19 May 1870.
WOOD, FREDERICK WILLIAM, seventh son of John Wood, Melton, Suffolk, solicitor, and Mary Anne, dau. of Simon Baker, Ipswich, Suffolk ; b. 20 Aug 1810 ; adm. 19 Nov 1825 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 15 Jan 1829, matr.Mich.1829 ; BA 1833 ; adm.Inner Temple 2 Feb 1830, called to bar 16 Nov 1838 ; Northern Circuit ; living in St.Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, in 1881 (1881 Census) ; m. 12 Apr 1864 Maria Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Thomas Carter, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool, Lancs. ; d. 27 Jul 1884.
WOOD (or WOODD), GEORGE ; b. ; at school 1790, 1791. [possibly brother of Henry Wood (d) and Robert Wood(d), qv)] [Evidently George Woodd, son of George Woodd, and Sarah (Foreman ?), bapt.Leybourne, Kent 15 Aug 1778 (IGI)] [George Woodd and Sarah Foreman m. at Bexley, Kent 2 May 1775 ; George Woodd (senior) d. at Ipswich, Suffolk 8 Dec 1798] [maybe Ensign, Oxfordshire Militia 29 Oct 1798]
WOOD, GEORGE EDWARD, younger brother of Charles James Wood (qv) (IGI) ; b. 13 Jan 1809 ; adm. 13 Jan 1823 ; buried St.Mary, Lambeth 8 Apr 1830.
WOOD, GEORGE EDWARD WILMOT, son of Rev.James Suttell Wood, Woodhall Yorks., Rector of Cranfield, Beds., and Mary Elizabeth Catharine, dau. of Robert Darvall ; b. 24 Aug 1806 ; adm. 31 May 1820 ; KS 1821 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1825, adm.pens. 3 Jun 1825, scholar 1826, matr. Mich.1825 ; MB 1831 ; LM 1834 ; MD 1836 ; FRCP 1837 ; practised at Winchester, Hampshire ; m. 25 Apr 1839 Henrietta Frances, sister of William Philip Pinckney (qv) ; d. at St.Germain, France 9 Sep 1864.
WOOD, GRANVILLE HAMILTON, brother of Cyril William Wood (qv) ; b. 24 Jan 1818 ; adm. 9 Jun 1828 ; Royal Naval Coll.Portsmouth ; entered Royal Navy 21 Jun 1832 ; Lieut., 17 Aug 1841 ; Cdr., 14 Jan 1846 ; retd. 1855 ; Roman Catholic convert 1850 ; became a Jesuit and ordained priest (RC) as Francis Granville Wood ; d. at Valetta, Malta 18 Apr 1856.
WOOD, HENRY ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1793-5 (Chapter Muniments). [Perhaps brother or close kin to Robert Wood, BB same dates]. [perhaps “Woodd, senior” in John Smith’s cash book] [Evidently Henry Woodd, son of George Woodd, and Sarah —, bapt.Leybourne, Kent 14 Feb 1782 (IGI)] [note Henry Woodd, Lieut. 85th Foot ; 17th Foot 24 Jul 1804 ; Capt. ; d. at Berhampore, Bengal, India 1 Oct 1815]
WOOD, HENRY ORME, only son of Lieut.-Col.Samuel Wood CB, Hoddesdon, Herts., EICS Bengal, and Ann Cox ; b. 17 Jan 1815 ; adm. 13 Jun 1827 (G) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Nov 1832, matr. Mich.1833 ; BA 1837 ; MA 1840 ; adm.Inner Temple 6 May 1837 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841 (both London) ; Curate, Laindon, Essex ; resident in Guernsey by 1850 ; d. in Guernsey 18 Apr 1864.
WOOD, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Nov 1733.
WOOD, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1719 ; in under school list 1721.
WOOD, JOHN, only son of John Wood FRS FRCS LSA, Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, surgeon, and Emma, widow of Rev.John Henry Knox, Curate of St Margaret Pattens, London, and dau. of Thomas Ware, Manor House, Mare Street, Hackney, Middlesex ; b. 28 Dec 1867 ; adm. 23 Sep 1880 (R) ; left May 1884 ; King’s Coll.Hospital ; MRCS ; LRCP 1893 ; medical practitioner at Walmer, Kent ; m. 28 Mar 1895 Jessie, dau. of Edwin Hibbard, Newport, Monmouthshire, brewer ; d. 3 Sep 1961.
WOOD, JOHN RYLE, son of Samuel Wood, Prestbury, Cheshire, and Sarah, dau. of John Ryle, Macclesfield, silk manufacturer ; b. 5 Jun 1806 ; adm. 14 Sep 1818 ; Head Toen Boy in Oct 1822 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1824 ; BA 1827 ; MA 1828 ; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1839-44 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 12 Dec 1825 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1829 (Ely), priest 19 Dec 1830 (Chichester) ; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Cambridge 1832, William IV 3 Jan – Jun 1837, and to Queen Adelaide 20 Jun 1837 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria from 20 Jun 1837 ; Deputy Clerk of the Closet c.1837 – c.1838 ; Prebendary of Worcester from 23 Oct 1841 ; Vicar of St.John’s, Worcester 1841-81 ; Master of St.Oswald’s Hospital, Worcester, from 1872 ; Proctor in Convocation for Dean and Chapter of Worcester 1874, 1880 ; m. 7 Nov 1843 Marianne Elizabeth, sister of Edward Winnington-Ingram (qv) ; d. 16 Nov 1886.
WOOD, LAWRENCE, eldest son of Richard Wood, St.James, Clerkenwell, London, and Margaret — (IGI) ; b. 11 Dec 1701 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1718/9 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 23 May 1720, matr.1720 ; adm. Inner Temple 1 Sep 1721.
WOOD, RICHARD ; b. ; in under school lists 1715, 1716 ; his commonplace book, now in Bodleian Library, Oxford, records that he had three narrow escapes from drowning in the Thames in 1717, and that in 1718, while playing at “tagg” with William Berners (at school 1718, qv), he fell off the garden wall ; lived chiefly in London and Bath ; living 1791.
WOOD, RICHARD, third son of John Wood, Hollin Hall, Ripon, Yorks., barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Frances, widow of Thomas Ingram, Barrowby, Garforth, Yorks., and dau. of John Nicholson MD, West Herrington, co.Durham ; b. 25 Aug 1712 ; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1723 ; in school list 1728 ; articled as Clerk in Exchequer 1728 (?) ; Sworn Clerk 1737 (still 1774), Second Secondary (occurs 1780-3) and First Secondary, King’s Remembrancer’s Office, Exchequer ; m. 13 Jun 1745 Elizabeth, second dau. of Hutton Perkins, Mill Hill, Middlesex, Secretary to Earl of Hardwicke when Lord Chancellor ; d. 24 Sep 1797.
WOOD, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Wood (adm.1723, qv) ; b. 17 Mar 1745/6 ; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1791) ; articled as Clerk in Exchequer 1762, resigned 1773 ; of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire ; DL JP Yorkshire West Riding ; m. 3 May 1774 Delia, only dau. of Capt.Thomas Schaak, 4th Foot, Askham Bryan, Yorks. ; d. 8 Dec 1815, aged 71.
WOOD, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1793-5 (Chapter Muniments). [Perhaps brother or close kin to Henry Wood, BB same dates] [Name spelled Woodd in John Smith’s cash book] [Evidently Robert Woodd, son of George Woodd, and Sarah —, bapt.Leybourne, Kent 2 Jun 1780 (IGI)] [perhaps Robert Woodd who m. at St.Martin in the Fields 31 Dec 1803 Sophia Letitia Pinkerton (IGI)] [perhaps Robert Woodd, b. 17 Apr 1780, entered Royal Navy 1793 (sic), Lieut., 31 Jan 1800, Cdr. 24 Jul 1844, death registered St.George, Hanover Square second quarter 1847] [perhaps living Cheshunt, Hunts., 1841 (1841 Census), aged 60]
WOOD, THOMAS, son of Thomas Wood, Hackney, Middlesex, Clerk of the Spicery to James I, and Susan Cranmer ; bapt. St.John, Hackney 22 Jul 1607 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1627, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1627 – still 1638, matr.1627 ; BA 1631 ; MA 1634 (incorp.Cambridge 1638) ; BD 1641 ; DD 13 Mar 1641/2 ; ordained deacon 15 Jun 1635, priest 20 Dec 1635 (both Oxford) ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I 1635 ; Rector of Whickham, co.Durham 2 Jul 1635 – Jul 1671 (ejected 4 Jun 1651, but restored 1660) ; Prebendary of Durham from 10 Dec 1660 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II 1660-71 ; Dean of Lichfield Feb 1663/4 – May 1671 ; consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 2 Jul 1671 ; neglected his duties and lived in a mean way at Hackney ; suspended by Archbishop Sancroft between 1684 and 1687 for refusing to return to his diocese ; a benefactor to Christ Church, Oxford ; m. 1666 Grace, dau. of Sir James Clavering, Bart. MP, Axwell House, Northumberland ; d. 18 Apr 1692. ODNB.
WOOD, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1727 ; in under school list 1729. [note Thomas Wood, second son of Edward Wood, Littleton, Middlesex, adm. Inner Temple 12 Feb 1729]
WOOD, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1748/9.
WOOD, THOMAS LETT, brother of Charles James Wood (qv) ; b. 26 Feb 1821 ; adm. 16 Jan 1834 ; KS 1835 ; left 1839 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Jul 1839, matr.Mich.1839 ; BA 1843 ; MA 1846 ; adm.Inner Temple 14 May 1841, called to bar 13 Jun 1851 ; special pleader 1846-51 ; Attorney-Gen., Vancouver Island 1864-6 ; Solicitor-Gen., British Columbia 1866-7 ; member Legislative Council, British Columbia 1866-70 ; Chief Justice of Bermuda 1872-7 ; Puisne Judge, Straits Settlements 1877-92 ; m. 10 Oct 1859 Fanny, widow of George Leggatt, Guildford, Surrey, and dau. of James Laurence, Earnley, Sussex ; d. 14 Sep 1909.
WOOD, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1738/9 ; left 1744.
WOOD, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 15 Jan 1766.
WOOD, WILLIAM ; b. 5 Apr 1808 ; adm. 20 Sep 1821.
WOOD, WILLIAM, son of William Wood, Wakefield, Yorks. ; bapt. Rothwell, Yorks., 18 Mar 1761 ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1776 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1780, adm.pens. 24 May 1780, scholar 5 May 1781, matr.Mich.1781 ; BA 1784 ; MA 1792 ; ordained deacon 1784 (Gloucester, lit.dim. from York), priest 16 Oct 1785 (York) ; Vicar of St.John’s, Wakefield, Yorks., from 1805 ; of Woodthorpe House, Sandal, Yorks. ; DL JP Yorkshire West Riding ; d. 15 Jun 1825.
WOOD, WILLIAM HENRY ; b. ; adm. 14 Apr 1774. [perhaps same individual as William Wood (KS 1776, qv)]
WOOD, WILLOUGHBY ; b. ; adm. 12 Feb 1781 ; left Aug 1785. [presumably Willoughby John Wood, son of Willoughby Wood, Thoresby, Lincs., Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George III, and Elizabeth, only surviving dau. of Sir John Thorold, Bart., MP ; bapt. South Thoresby, Lincs., 19 Feb 1767 (IGI) ; d. Apr 1786, aged 18]
WOODBRIDGE, DUDLEY, son of Dudley Woodbridge, Barbados, West Indies, Judge Advocate of Barbados, also Agent for South Sea Company in Barbados, and Jane, widow of — Willey ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1717 ; in under school list 1718 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 20 Feb 1722/3 ; adm.Middle Temple 29 Jan 1717/8, called to bar 6 Feb 1729/30 ; ordained deacon 13 Sep 1741 (St Davids), priest 20 Sep 1741 (London); licensed as minister for Barbados by Bishop of London 21 Sep 1741 ; Rector of St.Philip, Barbados (at death) ; Rector of St.James, Hole Town, Barbados 21 Apr 1742 ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 18 Apr 1747 ; m.1st, 17 Aug 1736 Ann, widow of Joseph Dottin, Barbados, and dau. of — Jordan ; m.2nd, Ruth, dau. of Hon.Simon Lambert, Barbados ; d. 1748 (will dated 15 Mar 1747/8, dead by 23 Dec 1748).
WOODCOCK, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 18 Feb 1811.
WOODCOCK, ELBOROUGH, eldest son of John Woodcock (adm.1786, qv) ; b. 4 Feb 1801 ; adm. 14 Nov 1810 ; left 1813 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1818 ; BA 1822 ; MA 1825 ; ordained ; Curate, Britford, Wilts., 1824 ; Vicar of Chardstock, Dorset 3 Feb 1830 – Jan 1834, resigned ; Rector of St.Lawrence, Winchester, Hampshire 19 Oct 1840-57 ; Prebendary of Winchester 11 Nov 1840 ; m. 16 Dec 1822 Sophia Dorothea Frederica Wilhelmina Charlotte, dau. of Sir John Stuart, Bart., Allanbank, Berwickshire ; d. 28 Oct 1877.
WOODCOCK, JOHN, son of Francis Woodcock, Harwood, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1681 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1685, adm.pens. 18 Jun 1685, aged 18, scholar 1685, matr.1685/6 ; migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. [but note Francis Woodcocke or Woodcock, Great Horwood (sic), Bucks., gentleman, will proved PCC 28 Apr 1683]
WOODCOCK, JOHN, second son of Elborough Woodcock, Lincoln’s Inn, Middlesex, solicitor, and Anne, dau. of Henry Palmer, Wanlip Hall, Leics. ; b. 1775 ; adm. 31 Jan 1786 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1795 ; Secretary of Bankrupts to Lord Chancellor from 1798 ; m. 19 Dec 1798 Hon.Amelia Hotham, dau. of Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham (I) (qv) ; d. 8 Mar 1813.
WOODCOCK, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1735 ; left 1738.
WOODFALL, CHARLES, brother of George Douglas Woodfall (qv) ; b. 12 May 1804 ; adm. 23 Jan 1811 ; left 19 Jul 1816 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1820 ; Ensign, 47th Native Infantry 13 Feb 1821 ; Lieut., 10 Aug 1824 ; Brevet Capt., 13 Feb 1826 ; Capt., 8 Oct 1839 ; Brevet Maj., 9 Nov 1846 ; Lieut.-Col., 20 Jun 1854 ; retd. 31 Jan 1866 ; Col., 15 May 1866 ; m.1st, 3 Sep 1844 Mary Anne, dau. of Rev.William Henry Lynch, Rector of Clarendon, Jamaica ; m.2nd, 23 Mar 1852 Rhoda Maria, dau. of Rev.Edward Markham Wellan, Rector of Oving, Bucks. ; m.3rd, 18 Apr 1854 Ann, dau. of Charles Hale ; d. 2 Feb 1867.
WOODFALL, GEORGE DOUGLAS, eldest son of George Woodfall FSA, Dean’s Yard, Westminster, stationer, printer of the Letters of Junius, and Mary Ann Brown, Buckingham Street, Westminster ; b. 28 Nov 1799 ; adm. 26 Mar 1810 ; left Christmas 1818 ; d. 9 May 1822. Buried West Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
WOODFALL, HENRY DICK, brother of George Douglas Woodfall (qv) ; bapt.St.Faith’s under St.Paul’s, London 6 Jun 1801 (IGI) ; adm. 26 Mar 1810 ; left 17 Jul 1817 ; printer and publisher, firm George Woodfall & Son, Angel Court, Snow Hill, London ; d. at Nice 13 Apr 1869, aged 69.
WOODFALL, JAMES, brother of George Douglas Woodfall (qv) ; b. 2 Jul 1802 ; adm. 26 Mar 1810 ; left Christmas 1816 ; Cadet, EI Coll.Addiscombe 24 Jan 1817 ; res. 6 Mar 1817 ; d. at Algiers Mar 1826.
WOODFALL, JOHN WARD, brother of George Douglas Woodfall (qv) ; b. 7 Dec 1811 ; adm. 1 Oct 1819 ; KS (Capt.) 1825 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1829, adm.pens. 6 Jun 1829, matr.Mich.1829, scholar 1830 ; BA 1835 ; MA 1839 ; MRCP 1840 ; FRCP 1854 ; Assistant Physician to Westminster Hospital ; medical practitioner in Davies Street, Berkeley Square, London, and at Maidstone, Kent ; JP Kent 1862 ; m. 29 Jan 1845 Jane, eldest dau. of Colin Douglas, Mains, Dumbartonshire ; d. 22 Mar 1867.
WOODFORD, EMPEROR JOHN ALEXANDER, third son of Lieut.-Col.John Woodford, 1st Foot Guards, and his first wife Lucy, dau. of William Emperor, Brooke, Norfolk ; b. ; adm. 26 Jan 1776 ; Cornet, 10th Dragoons 27 Dec 1778 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 3 Apr 1779 ; Lieut. and Capt., 24 Jun 1782 ; Capt., 17th Foot 20 Jul 1791 ; retd. 29 Jun 1793 ; Chief Inspector and Commissary-Gen. of Musters and Accounts to Foreign Corps 1 Aug 1794 – Aug 1795 ; First Clerk, Foreign Department, War Office 1796-1801, and concurrently private secretary to Right Hon. William Windham PC MP, Secretary of State for War ; friend and protégé of Edmund Burke ; one of the trustees named in the famous will of Peter Thellusson (d.1798), his uncle by marriage, which led to the passing of the Act of 39 and 40 Geo.III 3, c.98 ; d. in France 1816.
WOODGATE, THOMAS ; b. 24 Nov 1813 ; adm. 23 Sep 1822 (G) ; name up School 1826 ; still at school 11 Jul 1827, when in an internal school cricket match he beat the opposing team “off his own bat”. [probably Thomas Woodgate, third son of Francis Woodgate, Underriver, Seal, Kent, and Martha, dau. of Thomas Ponton, Nizells, Kent ; b. Seal, Kent 1813 (aged 67 in 1881) ; entered Royal Navy 13 Mar 1828, Lieut., 18 Oct 1839, Cdr. 23 Dec 1842, Capt. 1 Jul 1864, retd. ; still in Navy List 1877 ; living Ardgay House, Box, Wilts., in 1881 (1881 Census) ; m. 11 Sep 1845 Louisa Hay, dau. of Lieut. Mathew Walker, Royal Navy ; d. 8 May 1894]
WOODHOUSE, CLAUDE HENRY CHALONER, son of Thomas James Woodhouse MD FRCS, High Street, Fulham, Middlesex, surgeon, and Florence, youngest dau. of Capt.Edward Hore Chawner, 4thDragoon Guards ; b. 19 Dec 1869 ; adm. 22 Sep 1882 (H) ; left Aug 1885 ; went to Univ.Coll.Sch. ; London Univ. ; BSc 1890 ; City and Guilds Institute, scholar ; an electrical engineer ; AMIEE ; with Siemens Bros & Co, Woolwich ; partner, Woodhouse and Baillie, Riviera (an Italian electrical company), from 1896 ; of Villa Agincourt, Bordighera, Italy (at death) ; d. 22 Jun 1934.
WOODHOUSE, WALTER MANSELL, eldest son of Thomas Walter Woodhouse AMICE, Holland Villas Road, Kensington, civil engineer, and Fanny Lydia, dau. of Joseph Mansell, Red Lion Square, London, printer and stationer ; b. 19 Jul 1870 ; adm. 27 Sep 1881 (G) ; left Apr 1888 ; St.George’s Hospital ; MRCS and LRCP 1894 ; medical practitioner at Wantage, Berks. ; m. 10 Aug 1897 Helene Augusta Wilhelmine Ernestine Ferdinando Witzell, Munich, Germany, governess to children of Earl of Jersey ; d. from injuries in a motor-car accident 3 May 1912.
WOODLEY, FRANCIS WILLIAM, eldest son of Francis George Woodley, Leades House, Aghinagh, co.Cork, and Elizabeth, only dau. of Rev.James [or Jones ?] Ridge, Rector of Caher, co.Cork ; b. 27 Feb 1850 ; adm. 27 May 1864 (G) ; left Christmas 1865 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin ; of Leades House, Aghinagh, co.Cork ; DL JP co.Cork, High Sheriff 1893 ; m. 3 Jan 1873 Jane, dau. of Richard Nason, Newtown, co.Cork ; d. 22 May 1905.
WOODMAN, THOMAS BARTHOLOMEW, only son of John Woodman, Cleveland Row, St.James’s, London, Steward to Duke of Bridgewater, and Ann, only sister of Warren Hastings (qv) ; b. ; adm. 13 Feb 1767 ; KS (aged 12) 1772 ; Capt. of the School 1776 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1777, adm.pens. 28 May 1777, matr.Mich.1777, scholar 15 May 1778 ; BA 1781 ; MA 1784 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 20 Nov 1779 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1796, priest 26 Dec 1796 (both Bristol, lit.dim. from York) ; Vicar of Ivinghoe, Bucks., 30 Dec 1796 -1803 ; Rector of Wingrave, Bucks., 20 May 1803 – Jul 1804 ; Prebendary of York from 21 Jul 1807 ; Rector of Daylesford, Worcs., from 8 Nov 1814 ; Vicar of Brackley, Northants, from 13 Feb 1815 [or from Dec 1803 ?] ; Chaplain to Duke of Clarence (the future William IV) (by 1801) ; m. 22 Jul 1811 Louise, second dau. of Baron von Chapuset, Stuttgart, Germany ; d. 30 May 1825.
WOODMANSTON, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. 14 Jun 1779.
WOODROFF, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1718/9 ; in under school list 1722. [Perhaps William Woodroff(e), Chiswick, Middlesex, gentleman, d. 18 Aug 1768, will PCC 25 Aug 1768 ; b. c.1707 ; son of John Woodroffe and Grace, dau. of Thomas Plukenett].
WOODROFFE, BENJAMIN, son of Rev.Timothy Woodroffe, Rector of Kingsland, Herefs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Sylvester, Burford, Oxfordshire ; bapt. 29 Apr 1638 ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 23 Jul 1656, Westminster Student, Tutor ; BA 1659 ; MA 1662 (incorp.Cambridge 1664) ; BD and DD 14 Jan 1672/3 ; ordained ; Chaplain to Duke of York at naval battle of Southwold Bay ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 17 Dec 1672, Sub-Dean 1674 ; Vicar of Shrivenham, Berks., 20 May 1675 – May 1676 ; Rector of St.Bartholomew, Royal Exchange, London, from 19 Aug 1676 ; Prebendary of Lichfield from 21 Sep 1678 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II and James II 29 Mar 1679 – c. Dec 1688 ; Proctor in Convocation for diocese of Oxford 1679, 1685 ; nominated Dean of Christ Church by James II 8 Dec 1688, but never installed ; Principal of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, from 15 Aug 1692 ; founded a Greek college at Oxford 1697 ; fell into debt owing to losses through litigation ; confined in the Fleet Prison 1708-9, and canonry sequestered ; FRS 30 May 1668 ; author, Somnium Navale, 1673 (Latin poem on battle of Southwold Bay), and other works ; lic. to m. 1st, 15 Nov 1676 Dorothy, dau. of Sir James Stonhouse, Bart. ; m.2nd, Mary, dau. of Thomas Marbury, Marbury, Cheshire ; d. 14 Aug 1711. ODNB.
WOODS, PETER ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1664 ; buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey 16 Sep 1668.
WOODWARD, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1745 ; left 1748.
WOODWARD, THOMAS, elder son of Thomas Woodward, Charwelton, Northants, and Mary, dau. of Richard Astwell, London, citizen and merchant taylor ; b. 30 Jul 1670 ; adm. ; KS 1685 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1687, matr. 15 Jul 1687, aged 17, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1687 – void 1706 ; admonished for neglect of duties and college exercises, and “remarkable non proficiency in learning” 15 Mar 1693 ; BA 1691 ; MA 1694 ; adm.Inner Temple 18 Apr 1689, called to bar 22 Jun 1697 ; d. 6 Apr 1717.
WOOLHOUSE, JOHN THOMAS, son of Thomas Woolhouse, Halstead, Essex, oculist, Page of the Presence to Charles II and James II ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1681 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1684, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1684, aged 18, scholar 1 May 1685, matr.1684 ; BA 1686/7 ; a Roman Catholic convert ; Groom of the Privy Chamber to James II in exile c.1688 – still Nov 1698 (see his letter to Matthew Prior (qv), 16 Nov 1698, HMC Bath III, 290-1) ; studied ophthalmology at European universities ; became an oculist, practising for many years in Paris ; FRS 2 Nov 1721 ; d. in London Jan 1733/4 (will proved PCC 12 Jan 1733/4, of St.Martin’s in the Fields). ODNB.
WOOLLCOMBE, HENRY, son of Rev.Henry Woollcombe, Rector of Ashbury, Devon, and Jane Frances, dau. of Rear-Adm.Sir Thomas Louis, Bart. ; b. 26 Mar 1813 ; adm. 18 Jan 1826 ; KS (Capt.) 1827 ; Capt. of the School 1830 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1831, matr. 21 May 1831, Westminster Student ; 1st cl.Classics and 2nd cl.Mathematics 1834 ; Johnson Theological Scholar 1835 ; BA 1834 ; MA 1837 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 16 Apr 1836 ; ordained deacon 10 Jun 1838, priest 26 May 1839 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Sheepwash and Highampton, Devon 1838-44 ; Prebendary of Exeter 8 Dec 1843 ; Rector of Kingsteignton, Devon 1844-58 ; Vicar of Heavitree, Devon 1858-69 ; Canon Residentiary of Exeter 1861 ; Archdeacon of Barnstaple Oct 1865 ; m. 14 May 1846 his cousin Jaquete Elizabeth, dau. of Capt.Charles Belfield Louis, Royal Navy ; d. 4 Jun 1885.
WOOLLERY, — ; b. ; in school list 1754.
WOOLLERY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jul 1749 (as Woolery). [probably from Jamaica]
WOOTON, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1734 ; left 1743.
WORCESTER, MARQUIS OF, see SOMERSET, HENRY, 6th DUKE OF BEAUFORT.
WORDSWORTH, GEORGE, only son of Charles Favell Forth Wordsworth QC, Inner Temple, London, and his second wife Georgiana, dau. of Joseph Wood, Westminster, and Park House, Hayes, Middlesex, brewer ; b. Westminster 21 Mar 1837 ; adm. 11 Feb
1850 ; employee of Jardine Matheson & Co from 1859 ; d. at Hong Kong 17 Apr 1864, aged 27.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM JOHN, son of John Cawood Wordsworth FRCS, Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, and Mary Anne, eldest dau. of William Chasseaud, Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey ; b. 27 Apr 1857 ; adm. 30 May 1872 ; left Dec 1876 ; St.Bartholomew’s Hospital ; LRCP 1887 ; medical practitioner at Mansfield, Notts. (still in Medical Directory 1899) ; m. 18 Jun 1895 Nellie Mary, dau. of Charles Horatio Job, Putney, Surrey, merchant. [perhaps William J.Wordsworth, death registered Spilsby, Lincs., third quarter 1928, aged 71]
WORKMAN, CAESAR, son of William Workman, and Susanna — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 10 Mar 1731 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1744/5. [note William Workman, Castle Yard, Holborn, attorney, d. 3 Sep 1746, aged 57 (will proved PCC 11 Sep 1746)]
WORKMAN, JOHN, brother of Caesar Workman (qv) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 15 Feb 1733 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1744/5.
WORLY, — ; b. ; at school 1658 (Busby’s Account Book]. [= Wyrly]
WORLY, HUMPHRY, see WYRLEY-BIRCH, HUMPHREY.
WORRALL, see also WORRELL.
WORRALL, — ; b. ; adm. 19 Feb 1768 ; left Midsummer 1771.
WORRALL, FRANCIS, son of Rev.Francis Worrall, Vicar of Faversham, Kent ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1675 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1678, matr. 4 Feb 1678/9, aged 19, Westminster Student from 26 Dec 1678 ; d. 4 Jun 1679. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
WORRALL, HENRY LECHMERE, brother of Samuel Worrall (qv) ; bapt. 20 Nov 1798 ; adm. 29 Mar 1813 ; Ensign, 6th Foot 22 Jun 1815 ; half-pay 25 Feb 1816 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1818 ; Cornet, 16 Aug 1819 ; Lieut., 1st Native Cavalry 29 May 1822 ; Capt., 26 Jun 1826 ; Maj., 12 Jan 1834 ; Lieut.-Col., 4thNative Cavalry 21 Nov 1838 ; Col., 10th Native Light Cavalry 21 Oct 1852 ; Major-Gen., 28 Nov 1854 ; Lieut.-Gen., 20 Jun 1862 ; Gen., 30 Mar 1869 ; m.1st, at St.John’s, Calcutta, India 12 Jan 1822 Catharine Barron, widow of Lieut.Robert Bruce, EICS Bengal, and dau. of William Spottiswoode, Glenfernate, Perthshire ; m.2nd, 5 Jun 1871 Ellen, youngest dau. of Charles Clerk ; d. 8 Dec 1872.
WORRALL, SAMUEL, eldest son of Samuel Worrall, Knole Park, Gloucs., barrister, Town Clerk of Bristol, and Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Richard Lechmere, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, American loyalist ; b. ; adm. 14 May 1810 ; left 1813 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1813, matr.Mich.1813 ; BA 1817 ; MA 1826 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Apr [check year] ; d.unm. 29 Oct 1873.
WORRELL, — ; b. ; in school list Apr 1770 [but see Worrall, —, above]
WORSLEY, — ; b. ; in school list 1764 ; left Whitsun 1767. [maybe Thomas Worsley, b.c.1750 ; Grand Tour (in Italy 1771 ?) ; d. unm. 28 May 1774, eldest (but illegitimate) brother of Edward Worsley (qv)]
WORSLEY, EDWARD, son of Thomas Worsley MP, Hovingham Hall, Yorks., Surveyor-Gen., Board of Works, and Elizabeth (previously his mistress), maid at Hovingham Hall, dau. of James Lister ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields, London 5 Mar 1760 (IGI) ; adm. 21 Jan 1771 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 5 Jun 1779, aged 18 ; of Hovingham Hall, Yorks. ; under restraint as a lunatic 1794 onwards ; d. unm. 21 Mar 1830.
WORSLEY, EDWARD CAYLEY, second son of Frederick Cayley Worsley, Roche Mount, co.Cork, and Juliana Agnes Mary, dau. of John Wright ; grandson of George Worsley (qv) ; b. 29 Sep 1854 ; adm. 30 Jan 1867 ; left Aug 1870 ; [perhaps banker’s clerk, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1881 Census] ; Roman Catholic convert ; m. 21 Oct 1886 Agnes Mary, dau. of Marmaduke Charles Salvin, Burn Hall, co.Durham ; d. 26 Apr 1925.
WORSLEY, GEORGE, brother of Edward Worsley (qv) ; b. 15 Nov 1761 ; adm. 21 Jan 1771 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 5 Jun 1779, matr.Mich.1781 ; BA 1783 ; MA 1786 ; ordained deacon 16 Oct 1785 (York), priest 12 Mar 1786 (Gloucester, lit.dim. from York) ; Rector of Stonegrave, Yorks., from 14 Mar 1786 ; Rector of Scawton, Yorks., from 17 Apr 1794 ; Domestic Chaplain to Horatio Walpole, 4thEarl of Orford 12 Apr 1794 ; ; managed family estates from 1794 ; m. 23 Jan 1788 Anne, fourth dau. of Sir Thomas Cayley, Bart. ; d. 4 Feb 1815.
WORSLEY, HENRY GILDART, son of Pennyman Warton Worsley (qv), and his first wife ; b. 12 Feb 1848 ; adm. 23 Jun 1859 (G) ; left Christmas 1862 ; Ensign, King’s Own Borderers 13 Feb 1866 ; Lieut., 8 Dec 1869 ; Capt., 15 Aug 1877 ; ADC to Brig.-Gen.Pakenham ; Maj., 25 Mar 1885 ; retd., hon.rank Lieut.-Col., 17 Feb 1886 ; JP Yorkshire North Riding ; m. 24 Apr 1884 Maria Georgina, eldest dau. of John G.Hyde, Winchester, Hampshire, stockbroker ; d. 1 Oct 1929.
WORSLEY, HENRY THOMAS, son of Ralph Worsley (qv) ; b. ; adm. Christmas 1811 ; left 3 Dec 1816 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Mar 1816, aged 18 ; d. Mar 1819.
WORSLEY, PENNYMAN RALPH, eldest son of Pennyman Warton Worsley (qv), and his first wife ; b. 3 Jul 1842 ; adm. 7 Jun 1855 (G) ; QS 1857 ; left 1861 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 25 May 1861, matr.Mich.1861 ; BA 1865 ; MA 1868 ; ordained deacon 1866, priest 1867 (both Peterborough) ; Curate, Finedon, Northants 1866-8 ; Rector of Stubton, Lincs., 1868-85 ; Rector of Little Ponton, Lincs., from 1885 ; m. 1st, 29 Sep 1868 Sophie Matilda, youngest dau. of Herbert Mackworth (at school under Vincent, qv) ; m.2nd, 12 Sep 1877 Jessie Rose, second dau. of Robert Wilson, Thorndale, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland ; d. 18 Jun 1920.
WORSLEY, PENNYMAN WARTON, son of Ralph Worsley (qv) ; b. 20 Jul 1800 ; adm. 14 Sep 1812 ; left Christmas 1817 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1818 ; migr. to St.Alban Hall, Oxford ; BA 1821 ; MA 1824 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1823, priest 26 Sep 1824 (both Lincoln) ; Prebendary of Ripon 23 Jun 1827, Canon Residentiary 1836-79 ; Rector of Little Ponton, Lincs., from 18 May 1829 ; JP Lincolnshire ; m.1st, 12 Sep 1839 Helen, dau. of Rev.William Potchett, Vicar of Grantham, Lincs. ; m.2nd, 23 Aug 1860 Caroline Susanna, youngest dau. of Lieut.-Col.William Rookes Leedes Serjeantson, Camphill, Yorks., 1st Dragoon Guards ; d. 19 May 1885.
WORSLEY, RALPH, second son of Rev.James Worsley, Rector of Stonegrave, Yorks., and Dorothy, sister of Ralph Pennyman (qv) ; bapt. 7 Jul 1765 ; adm. 3 Feb 1778 ; KS 1779 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1784, adm.pens. 9 Jun 1784, matr.Mich.1784, scholar 8 Apr 1785 ; BA 1788 ; MA 1792 ; ordained deacon 20 Jul 1788, priest 11 Oct 1789 (both York) ; Perpetual Curate of St.Olave’s, York, from 15 Dec 1790 ; Vicar of Skipsey, Yorks., 22 Feb 1791 – May 1791 ; Rector of Little Ponton, Lincs., 8 Jul 1791 – res May 1829 ; Rector of Finchley, Middlesex, from 24 Apr 1794 ; Prebendary of Ripon 11 Sep 1792, Sub-Dean 1801 ; m. 23 Dec 1795 Elizabeth, second dau. of Thomas Gildart, Finchley, Middlesex, merchant ; d. 23 Mar 1848.
WORSLEY, SEPTIMUS, brother of Edward Worsley (qv) ; bapt. 28 Sep 1769 ; adm. 11 Jul 1777 ; left Dec 1780 ; living Jun 1781 ; d. young.
[Russell Barker and Stenning have an entry for Thomas Worsley MP (1711-1778), Hovingham Hall, Yorks., on the basis of a mention of him as having been educated at Westminster School in The World, 31 Mar 1787, but this is a misunderstanding of what is said about him at this particular passage in The World, and Worsley was at Eton 1725-8]
WORTHEN, JOHN, son of Thomas Worthen, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1675 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1681, adm.pens. 17 May 1681, aged 18, scholar 1682. [evidently John Worthen, son of Thomas Worthen, and Sarah —, b. 5 Aug 1663, bapt.St.Martin in the Fields 4 Nov 1675 (sic)]
WORTHINGTON, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jul 1731 ; left 1733.
WORTHINGTON, THOMAS, son of William Worthington, Peckham, Surrey ; b. ; adm. 11 Jul 1774 ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1778 ; left Dec 1780 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Jul 1780.
WORTHINGTON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1735 ; left 1736.
WORTLEY, EDWARD, see MONTAGU, EDWARD WORTLEY (at school under Busby, qv).
WORTLEY, FRANCIS, elder son of Hon.Sidney Wortley MP (formerly Montagu), Wortley, Yorks., and Anne Newcomen, illegitimate dau. of Sir Francis Wortley, Bart. ; nephew of Hon.Oliver Montagu (qv) ; b. ; at school under Busby (Admissions toTrin.Coll.Camb., ii, 587) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 2 Aug 1693, aged 17 ; Grand Tour (at Padua 22 Jan 1696/7) ; MP Huntingdon 14 Dec 1697-1702 ; fought a duel with Hon.Charles Boyle, his fellow MP for Huntingdon, Mar 1701 ; d. unm. Sep 1702.
WORTLEY, THOMAS, son of Robert Wortley, Staffs. ; b. ; adm. ; at school by Jun 1654, aged 16 (WAM 43112) ; KS in 1655 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1656, adm.pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr.Easter 1659 ; BA 1659/60 ; MA 1663.
WRANGHAM, WALTER FRANCIS, eldest son of Digby Cayley Wrangham MP, Serjeant-at-Law, Wilton Crescent, London, and Amelia, second dau. of Walter Ramsden Fawkes (qv) ; b. 15 Sep 1829 ; adm. 30 Sep 1842 (G) ; went to Eton Coll. ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 May 1848 ; BA 1852 ; MA 1855 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1852, called to bar 17 Nov 1859 ; Western Circuit ; of Hotham House, Yorks. ; JP [Yorkshire ?] ; m. 9 Jul 1868 Fanny, only dau. of John Grimston, Neswick Hall, Yorks. ; d. 12 Dec 1893.
WRAY, SIR CECIL, BART., eldest son of Sir John Wray, Bart., and Frances, dau. of Fairfax Norcliffe, Langton, Yorks. ; b. 3 Sep 1734 ; adm. Apr 1745 ; left 1749 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 1749, matr.1749 ; succ. as 13th baronet 26 Jan 1752 ; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 26 Dec 1755 – 20 Dec 1757 ; of Fillingham, Lincs. ; MP East Retford 1768-80, Westminster 12 Jun 1782-4 ; a strenuous opponent of the American War ; denounced the Fox-North coalition, and opposed Fox’s East India Bill ; unsuccessfully contested Westminster against Hood and Fox at the general election of 1784 ; satirised in The Rolliad and caricatured by Rowlandson and Gillray ; m. Esther, dau. of James Summers, Fillingham, Lincs. ; d. 10 Jan 1805. ODNB.
WRAY, JOHN, brother of Sir Cecil Wray, Bart. (qv) ; b. 31 Mar 1736 ; adm. Apr 1745 ; buried Teddington, Middlesex 5 Oct 1748.
WREN, SIR CHRISTOPHER, son of Very Rev.Christopher Wren DD, Dean of Windsor, and Mary, dau. of Robert Cox, Fonthill Abbey, Wilts. ; b. 20 Oct 1632 ; adm. c.1645 ; left c.1646 (his son Stephen Wren, Parentalia, 1750, 181, states that “for some short time before his admission to university he was placed under Dr.Busby at Westminster School”, but by the end of 1646 he had been placed under private tuition by John Scarborough MD) ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, adm.fellow commoner 25 Jun 1649 [or 1650 ?] ; BA 18 Mar 1650/1 ; MA 1653 ; DCL 1661 ; LLD Cambridge 1662 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll.Oxford 1653 – 12 Sep 1661 ; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham Coll., London 1657-61 ; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford Univ. 5 Feb 1660/1- 9 Mar 1673 ; initiated experiments on the cause of the variations of the barometer ; conducted research into anatomy and medical subjects ; drew up the preamble to the first charter of the Royal Society 1660 ; one of the Council named in the second charter of the Royal Society 22 Apr 1663 ; FRS 20 May 1663 (original Fellow) ; one of the three Commissioners named by Charles II in October 1666 to consider rebuilding the city of London after the Great Fire ; Surveyor of the King’s Works Mar 1668/9-1718 ; knighted 20 Nov 1673 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 25 Apr 1676 ; President, Royal Society 30 Nov 1680 – 30 Nov 1682 ; Comptroller of Works, Windsor Castle 1684-1716 ; MP Plympton 1685-7, New Windsor Jan 1688/9 – unseated 14 May 1689, Mar 1689/90 – unseated 17 May 1690, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Nov 1701-2 ; Surveyor of St.Paul’s Cathedral from 1675 ; Surveyor, Greenwich Hospital 1696-1716 ; Surveyor to the Fabric, Westminster Abbey, from 1699 ; architect of St.Paul’s Cathedral, many London city churches and halls of City livery companies, Temple Bar, the Monument, Greenwich Hospital, Chelsea Hospital, the Sheldonian Theatre and Old Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford, and Neville’s Court and the Library, Trinity Coll.Cambridge ; made extensive alterations and additions at Hampton Court, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace and Westminster Abbey ; purchased Wroxall Abbey estate, Warwickshire, for his son 1713 ; m.1st, 27 Dec 1669 Faith, dau. of Sir Thomas Coghill, Kt, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire ; m.2nd, 24 Feb 1676/7 Hon.Jane Fitzwilliam, sister of Hon.Charles Fitzwilliam (qv) ; d. 25 Feb 1722/3. Buried St.Paul’s Cathedral. ODNB.
WREN, CHRISTOPHER, son of Christopher Wren FSA, St.Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, Chief Clerk, King’s Works, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Philip Musard, London, Jeweller to George I ; grandson of Sir Christopher Wren (qv) ; b. 5 Jan 1711 ; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1719 ; left 1728 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1728 ; adm.Inner Temple 9 Feb 1729/30 ; of Wroxall Abbey, Warwickshire ; m. 7 Mar 1737 Mary, dau. of Philip Bartlett, Wooton Wawen, Warwicks. ; d. 25 Jul 1771.
WRENCH, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1805.
WRIGHT, see also WRIGHTE.
WRIGHT, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).
WRIGHT, ALFRED, eldest son of Sir William Wright, Kt, Sigglesthorne Hall, Yorks., Chairman, Hull Dock Company, and his first wife Jane, dau. of William Shaw, Woodfield House, Huddersfield, Yorks. ; b. 3 Apr 1842 ; adm. Jan 1854 ; m. at Durban, Natal, South Africa, 26 Sep 1877 Annie, sister of Frederick Young (qv). [not found in 1881 UK census]
WRIGHT, BERNARD ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1635.
WRIGHT, CHARLES, of Surrey ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1651, adm.pens. 9 May 1651, scholar 1651, matr.Easter 1652 ; 2nd in “ordo” 1654/5 ; BA 1654/5 ; MA 1658 ; DD 1671 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1656 – c.1671, Tutor 1660, Junior Bursar 1665-7 ; Junior Taxor 1661 ; Proctor 1669 ; Professor of Arabic, Cambridge Univ., from 1702 ; ordained ; Curate, Bottisham, Cambs (occurs 1662) ; Vicar of Barrington, Cambs., 27 Nov 1668-9 ; Rector of North Runcton, Norfolk, from 15 Nov 1669 ; m. 23 Feb 1670/1 Ann Eades, Holy Trinity, Cambridge ; d. 13 Nov 1711.
WRIGHT, CHARLES BEAUFOY, third son of Edward John Wright MD MRCS LSA, Clapham, Surrey, and Rose Mary, dau. of Thomas Trew, St.Peter’s, Thanet, Kent ; b. 12 Jul 1863 ; adm. 28 May 1875 (G) ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1882 ; a solicitor, firm Foulkes and Wright, Grays Inn Square, London, to 21 Dec 1893, when partnership dissolved ; of Hookstead, High Halden, Kent ; m.1st, 23 Jan 1900 Kate, domestic servant, dau. of Henry Auker, farmer ; m.2nd, 1927 (marriage registered second quarter 1927) Elizabeth Ann, widow of Capt.Percy Graham Hill, Rifle Brigade, and dau. of George Raworth ; d. 14 Jun 1944.
WRIGHT, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1718/9 ; in under school list 1720.
WRIGHT, FRANCIS ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; failed to obtain election to either university 1616.
WRIGHT, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1720/1. [Presumably George Wrighte, eldest surviving son of George Wrighte, Gayhurst, Bucks., and Brooksby, Leics., and of Inner Temple, barrister, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Bedford, Doctors’ Commons ; b. c.1706 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 1723/4, matr.1724 ; adm.Inner Temple 6 Feb 1714/5 (as George Wright, father then Master of Bench, Inner Temple) ; MP Leicester from 1727 ; m. 20 Jun 1733 Barbara, dau. of Sir Thomas Clarges, Bart., MP, Aston, Herts. ; d. 27 Jan 1766. This George Wright (e) was adm. same month as Nathan Wrighte (qv), of the Brooksby family].
WRIGHT, HENRY, son of George Wright, Paddington, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1685 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1687, matr. 15 Jul 1687, aged 20, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1687 – void 1713 ; BA 1691 ; MA 1694 ; Assistant Master, Oakham Sch. 1700-2, Head Master from 1702 ; ordained ; Rector of Asfordby, Leics., from 29 Jun 1723 ; m. 10 Jun 1712 Martha, dau. of Rowland Brown, Leesthorpe, Leics. ; dead by 22 Feb 1723/4 [but buried Oakham 29 Aug 1724 ?]
WRIGHT, HENRY, son of Charles Wright, Abingdon Street, Westminster, Chief Clerk, Admiralty, and Mary — ; b. 13 Jul 1768 ; adm. 11 Jan 1779 ; living 1807. [presumably Extra Clerk, Admiralty 27 Oct 1787 – Apr 1800, Junior Clerk 11 Apr 1800 – May 1804, Senior Clerk 3 May 1804 – 30 Jul 1814, retired ; living 1817]
WRIGHT, HERBERT EDWARDS, only son of Robert Wright, Principal of Lancing GS, Sussex, and Anne, dau. of William Buck ; b. 16 Aug 1848 ; adm. 28 Jul 1862 ; QS 1863 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1867 (with Triplett) , adm.pens. 15 Aug 1867, matr.Mich.1867 ; BA 1871 ; MA 1891 ; adm.Inner Temple 30 Jan 1869 ; had a brewery at Maxton, near Dover, Kent, for some years ; brewer-manager with Arnold Perrott & Co, Wickwar, Gloucs., and subsequently with Tennants Brewery, Glasgow ; author, A Handbook for Young Brewers, 1877 ; m. 20 Feb 1873 Jessie Anne, eldest dau. of George Keningdale Cook, Hammersmith, Middlesex ; d. 2 Feb 1907.
WRIGHT, JAMES, son of Robert Wright, Harlesden, Middlesex, High Bailiff, Bloomsbury County Court, and Elizabeth Wrightson, Staines, Middlesex ; nephew of John Wright (adm.1845, qv) ; b. 23 Sep 1867 ; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (G) ; left 1883 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Oct 1885, matr.Mich.1885 ; BA 1888 ; MA 1892 ; adm.solicitor Dec 1892 ; Registrar, Bloomsbury County Court ; Registrar, Brentford and Uxbridge County Courts Dec 1922- ; m. 12 Nov 1899 Dorothy, dau. of John Howard, Harlesden, Middlesex ; d. 19 Feb 1942.
WRIGHT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1731/2.
WRIGHT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 13 Jan 1775.
WRIGHT, JOHN, son of James Wright, Silver Street, Golden Square, London, corn dealer, also of Springwell, Saffron Walden, Essex, and of Harlesden, Middlesex, and Mary — ; b. 28 Mar 1834 ; adm. 16 Jan 1845 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 7 Jul 1852, matr.Mich.1852, Foundress scholar 8 Nov 1853 ; rowed v.Oxford 1854 ; BA 1856 ; MA 1860 ; adm.solicitor Mich.1859 ; Registrar, Bloomsbury County Court, from 1865 ; [unm. in 1881] ; d. 10 Nov 1897.
WRIGHT, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1737 ; left 1740.
WRIGHT, LAWRENCE, son of John Wright, Essex ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1648 ; KS 1650 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1652, adm.pens. 2 Jul 1652 ; 5th in “ordo” 1655/6 ; BA 1655/6 ; MA 1659 ; MD 1666 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1656 – c.1667, Tutor 1660-4. [apparently son of John Wright, Grays Inn, and South Weald, Essex, and Mary — ; d.1667 (IGI)]
WRIGHT, NATHAN (adm. Jan 1720/1), see WRIGHTE, NATHAN.
WRIGHT, NATHAN (or NATHANIEL), son of Matthew Wright, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, keeper of a private mad house, and Ellen — ; bapt. St.Dunstan, Stepney 19 Oct 1718 ; adm. (aged 16) Apr 1734 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1734/5, Yate scholar 17 Dec 1735 ; BA 1738 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1740, priest 28 Feb 1755 (both London) ; Rector of Winchfield, Hampshire from 24 Apr 1755 ; dead by 30 May 1785 when successor appointed. [mother Eleonara Swettingham ? (marriage at St.Martin Outwich 21 Dec 1717, both of St.Stephen, Coleman Street)]
WRIGHT, PEREGRINE ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1739/40 ; left 1747.
WRIGHT, RICHARD, only son of Samuel Townsend Wright, Clover Hill, co.Cork, and Louisa, dau. of John Digby ; b. 24 Jul 1803 ; adm. 6 Jun 1817 ; left 1820 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Mar 1821, matr. Mich.1821 ; BA 1825 ; ordained deacon 18 Jun 1826 (Norwich, lit.dim. from London), priest 15 Mar 1829 (Lincoln) ; Curate, Cranfield, Beds., 1827, North Crawley, Bucks., 1829 ; m. 12 Jul 1826 Charlotte Lewis, eldest dau. of William Wilson.
WRIGHT, ROBERT ; b. ; in under school lists 1719, 1720.
WRIGHT, SAMPSON FIELDING CRESWICKE, only son of Sir Sampson Wright, Kt, Police Magistrate, Bow Street, London, and Sarah Simes (IGI) (“a clear-starcher”) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields, London 28 Aug 1766 (IGI) ; adm. 19 Apr 1773 ; KS (Capt.) 1780 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1784, adm.pens. 9 Jun 1784, matr.Mich.1784, scholar 8 Apr 1785 ; BA 1789 ; MA 1793 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 29 Jul 1783, called to bar 27 Jun 1789 ; d. 26 Apr 1804, aged 37.
WRIGHT, SAMUEL ; b. ; adm. 17 Jul 1780.
WRIGHT, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1715 ; in under school list 1718.
WRIGHT, THOMAS, son of Thomas Wright, Coventry, Warwickshire, and Catherine — (IGI) ; bapt.Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwicks., 18 Jun 1707 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1718 ; Min.Can.1721. [note will Thomas Wright, Coventry, Warwickshire, gentleman, proved PCC 14 Apr 1748]
WRIGHT, THOMAS, son of Joseph Wright, City of London, goldsmith, and nephew of Thomas Wright, Brighouse, Sheffield, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. from Chesterfield Sch., Derbs., (aged 17) Jan 1732/3 ; left 1734 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 22 May 1734, scholar, matr.1735 ; BA 1737/8 ; MA 1741 ; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1740, priest 29 Jun 1740 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Birkin, Yorks., from 23 Jun 1741 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II and III from 11 May 1748 ; friend of Gray, Mason and Whitehead ; m. 22 Feb 1742/3 Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hill, Chipping Wycombe, Bucks. ; d. 28 Mar 1788.
WRIGHT, SIR WILLIAM SHAW, brother of Alfred Wright (qv) ; b. 9 Mar 1843 ; adm. Jan 1854 ; QS 1857 ; rowed v.Eton 3 Aug 1860 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1861 (with Triplett), adm.pens. 25 May 1861, matr.Mich.1861 ; BA 1865 ; MA 1868 ; one of a committee of Cambridge undergraduates who in 1863 drew up the first code of rules for Association Football ; a corn merchant at Hull, Yorks. ; Chairman, Hull and Barnsley Railway Co. ; Chairman, Humber Conservancy Board ; knighted 29 Jul 1914 ; JP Yorkshire North Riding 1913 ; m. 12 Jun 1866 Anna, second dau. of Benjamin Vipan, Sutton, Cambs. ; d. 10 Nov 1914.
WRIGHTE, NATHAN, son of Robert Wrighte, Brooksby, Leics., EICS Fort St.George, Madras, and his first wife Elizabeth Hart ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1720/1 ; adm.Inner Temple 21 Jan 1728/9 ; of Brooksby, Leics. ; m. 24 Oct 1743 (IGI) his cousin Elizabeth, dau. of George Wrighte, Stoke Goldington, Bucks. ; d. 7 Dec 1793.
WRIGHTSON, see BATTIE.
WRIGHTSON, SAMUEL ; b. ; adm. 10 Jan 1774. [will of Samuel Wrightson, Woking, Surrey, gentleman, proved PCC 28 Apr 1830 (his widow died 1840)]
WROTTESLEY, — ; b. ; adm. 22 Jan 1793. [presumably one of the younger sons of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv) : Hugh (born 1782), Charles (born 1783), or Edward (born 1785)]
WROTTESLEY, HON.CHARLES ALEXANDER, second son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (qv) ; b. 20 Oct 1799 ; adm. 22 Jan 1810 ; left 1810 ; Cornet, 16th Light Dragoons (subsequently Lancers) 21 Dec 1815 ; Lieut., 5 Jul 1821 ; Capt., unattached 10 Jun 1825 ; 43rd Foot 19 Sep 1826 ; Maj., unattached 5 Apr 1831 ; 95th Foot 25 Jul 1834 ; 29th Foot 7 Sep 1838 ; Lieut.-Col., 3 Jul 1839 ; half-pay 8 Apr 1842 ; retd. as of 7th Hussars 16 Apr 1847 ; served at siege of Bhurtpore 1825-6 ; d. unm. 24 Feb 1861.
WROTTESLEY, HON.EDWARD BENNET, sixth son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (qv) ; b. 26 Jul 1811 ; adm. 18 Jan 1822 ; KS 1826 ; rowed v.Eton 27 Jul 1829 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1830, adm.pens. 2 Jul 1830, scholar 1831, matr. Mich.1830 ; migr. to New Inn Hall, Oxford, matr. 7 Feb 1833 ; a wine merchant, firm Tanqueray & Co., Pall Mall, London ; DL Staffordshire ; JP Surrey 1863 ; m. 8 Jan 1846 Ellen Charlotte, dau. of George Rush, Elsenham Hall, Essex ; d. 20 Jan 1892.
WROTTESLEY, EDWARD JOHN, only son of Cdr. Edward Wrottesley, Royal Navy, and Anne, dau. of Rev.Thomas Tringham, Chaplain, Royal Navy ; grandson of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv) ; b. 9 Nov 1814 ; adm. 26 May 1826 ; KS 1829 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1833, but went to University Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 May 1833 ; BA 1838 ; MA 1855 ; ordained deacon 1838, priest 1840 (both Chester) ; Curate, Newton Heath, Lancs., 1838-41 ; Perpetual Curate of Tettenhall, Staffs., 1841-62 ; Curate, Totteridge, Herts., 1862-3 ; Vicar of Brewood, Staffs., from 1863 ; Prebendary of Lichfield from 1895 ; m. 8 Apr 1847 Mariana Eugenia, dau. of John Jeffreys, Fynone, Swansea, Glamorgan ; d. 19 Jan 1901.
WROTTESLEY, HENRY, son of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv) ; b. 25 Oct 1772 ; adm. 31 Jan 1782 ; KS (Capt.) 1786 ; Capt. of the School 1790 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1791, matr. 22 Jun 1791, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1791 – void 25 Jun 1803 ; BA 1795 ; MA 1798 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 16 Nov 1793, called to bar 26 Nov 1798 ; Cursitor for Lincoln and Somerset Dec 1794 (still Law List 1822) ; Commissioner of Bankrupts 1799 (occurs in annual lists 1801 to death) ; Solicitor, Board of Control Feb 1806 – Aug 1811 ; MP Brackley from 28 Dec 1810 ; d.unm. 17 Feb 1825.
WROTTESLEY, SIR HUGH, BART., brother of John Wrottesley (qv) ; b. ; succ. his father as 5thbaronet Oct 1726 ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1727 ; in under school list 1729 ; d.1729.
WROTTESLEY, JOHN, eldest son of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart., and Frances, dau. of Hon.John Grey, Enville, Staffs. ; b. 21 Sep 1708 ; adm. Oct 1719 ; in under school list 1721 ; d. Nov 1723.
WROTTESLEY, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Very Rev.Sir Richard Wrottesley, Bart., Dean of Worcester, previously MP, and Lady Mary Leveson Gower, second dau. of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv), and his first wife ; nephew of John Wrottesley (qv) ; b. 22 Dec 1744 ; at school under Markham (“History of the Family of Wrottesley”, in Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vi, NS, pt.ii, 377) ; Page of Honour to George II and III 9 Apr 1759 – Jun 1761 ; Ensign and Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 4 Mar 1761 ; Capt., 85th Foot 12 Apr 1762 ; Equerry to Duke of York, whom he accompanied abroad in 1767 ; Capt.-Lieut. and Lieut.-Col., 1st Foot Guards 10 Nov 1770 ; 3rd Maj., (with rank of Col. in the Army) 23 Apr 1779 ; 2nd Maj., 22 Feb 1781 ; 1st Maj., 18 Mar 1782 ; commanding 1st battn., 1stFoot Guards 1782-5 ; Major-Gen., 20 Nov 1782 ; Col., 45th Foot, from 18 Oct 1784 ; served in American War 1776-8 ; MP Newcastle under Lyme 22 Mar – Jun 1768, Staffordshire from 5 Jul 1768 ; succ.father as 8th baronet 20 Jul 1769 ; DCL Oxford 8 Jul 1773 ; m. 7 Jun 1770 Hon.Frances Courtenay, Maid of Honour to Queen Charlotte, dau. of William Courtenay, 1stViscount Courtenay (qv) ; d. 23 Apr 1787.
WROTTESLEY, JOHN, 1st BARON WROTTESLEY, eldest son of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv) ; b. 25 Oct 1771 ; adm. 31 Jan 1782 ; expelled as one of the ringleaders in the rebellion up School in Dr.Smith’s time (two letters in the Wrottesley MSS giving an account of the rebellion, calendared HMC Report, ii, 48, were destroyed in a fire at Wrottesley Hall 16 Dec 1897) ; succ.father as 9thbaronet 23 Apr 1787 ; Ensign, 35th Foot 24 Sep 1787 ; Lieut., 19th Foot 2 Jun 1790 ; 29th Foot 25 Jun 1790 ; Capt., 16thLight Dragoons 26 Feb 1793 ; Maj., 32nd Foot 28 Apr 1794 ; retd. Aug 1795 ; served in Flanders 1793-5 ; a partner in a banking firm at Wolverhampton, Staffs., c.1816-34 ; MP Lichfield 2 Mar 1799-1806, Staffordshire 23 Jul 1823-32, South Staffordshire 1832-7 ; created Baron Wrottesley 11 Jul 1838 ; initially a supporter of Pitt, but took Whig whip in House of Commons and House of Lords from 1823 onwards ; FSA (by 1831) ; m.1st, 23 Jun 1795 Lady Caroline Bennet, eldest dau. of Charles Bennet, 4thEarl of Tankerville ; m.2nd, 19 May 1819 Julia, widow of Capt.Hon.John Astley Bennet, Royal Navy, and dau. of John Conyers (qv) ; d. 16 Mar 1841. ODNB (s.v.son).
WROTTESLEY, JOHN, 2ND BARON WROTTESLEY, eldest son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (qv), and his first wife ; b. 5 Aug 1798 ; adm. 22 Jan 1810 ; left 29 Jul 1814 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1816 ; 1st cl.Mathematics 1819 ; BA 1819 ; MA 1823 ; DCL 2 Jul 1860 ; Honorary Student, Christ Church 1860 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 19 Nov 1819, called to bar 10 Feb 1823 ; practised as conveyancer and equity draftsman for some nine years ; one of the Boundary Commissioners under the first Reform Bill ; succ.father as 2nd Baron Wrottesley 16 Mar 1841 ; took Whig/Liberal whip in House of Lords ; DL Staffordshire ; one of founders of Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ; founder member, Royal Astronomical Society 1820, Secretary 1831-41, Gold Medallist 1839, President 1841-3 ; FRS 29 Apr 1841, President 30 Nov 1854 – 30 Nov 1858 ; President, British Association 1860 ; compiled various Catalogues of Stars ; contributor to Memoirs and Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society ; m. 28 Jul 1821 Sophia Elizabeth, third dau. of Thomas Giffard, Chillington, Staffs. ; d. 27 Oct 1867. ODNB.
WROTTESLEY, HON.ROBERT, fourth son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (qv) ; b. 2 Jun 1801 ; adm. 25 May 1812 ; left 15 Jun 1818 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1818 ; BA 1822 ; MA 1825 ; ordained deacon 8 Aug 1824, priest 31 Jul 1825 (both Lichfield) ; Perpetual Curate of Tettenhall, Staffs., from 25 Oct 1825 ; Rector of Himley, Staffs., from 30 Nov 1830 ; m. 19 Aug 1828 Georgiana, dau. of Gen.Sir George Pigot, Bart. ; d. 20 Jan 1838.
WROTTESLEY, HON.WALTER, fifth son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley (qv) ; b. 8 Apr 1810 ; adm. 17 Jan 1821 (Stikeman) ; left Bartholomewtide 1827 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1827 ; BA 1831 ; MA 1836 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll.Oxford 1831-43 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 15 Apr 1831, called to bar 29 Jan 1836 ; equity draftsman and conveyancer ; m. 22 Jun 1843 Marianne Lucy, only dau. of Col. Clement Archer, 16th Lancers ; d. 2 May 1872.
WROUGHTON, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Wroughton, Westminster, and Margaret — (IGI) ; b. 30 May 1716 ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1725 ; in school list Feb 1727/8 as “Edvardus” Wroughton ; Min.Can.1730 ; KS 1731 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1735, adm.pens. 6 Jun 1735, scholar 28 May 1736, matr.1735 ; BA 1738/9 ; MA 1755 (incorp.Oxford 8 Jul 1756) ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1739, priest 1 Jun 1740 (both Rochester) ; Curate, St.Nicholas, Deptford, Kent 1739 ; Rector of Halton, Bucks., from 1755 ; Rector of West Wycombe, Bucks., 9 Oct 1755 – Nov 1765 ; Rector of Welbourn, Lincs., from 6 Sep 1765 ; m. 7 Mar 1758 Dorothy, sister of Christopher Musgrave (qv) ; d. 18 Aug 1770.
WYAT, — ; b. ; in under school list 1715 ; left 1715.
WYAT, SIR DUDLEY, son of John Wyat (or Wyott) (IGI) ; bapt.St.Margaret, Westminster 1 Nov 1608 (IGI) ; adm. ; KS in 1625 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1627, adm.pens.1627, scholar 25 Apr 1628, matr.1627 ; BA 1631/2 ; MA 1635 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Oct 1633, Major Fellow 10 Oct 1634-44 ; in attendance on Lord Kensington (son of Earl of Holland) in France Nov 1639 ; given leave of absence from his college to travel in Ireland for seven years 1641, but deprived of Fellowship 1644 ; Commissary of Army which embarked from Chester for Ireland Feb – Apr 1642 ; Lieutenant-Governor, North Wales Jun 1644 – May 1645 ; knighted 4 Jun 1645, when Conmmissary-General in Royalist Army ; joined Queen Henrietta Maria in France in 1646 ; a busy spy and intriguer ; appears subsequently to have gone over to Parliament, for in a letter dated 23 Dec 1647 Oliver Cromwell requested the Master of Trinity to readmit Wyat (Alum.Westmon., 100), although there is no record of his readmission ; emigrated to Virginia 1650, where he d. before 25 Jul 1651 (will dated 29 Mar 1650, proved Jamestown, Virginia 25 Jul 1651). [father perhaps Rev.John Wyat, Rector of St Martin’s, Worcester : Sir Dudley Wyat was granted admin. 5 Mar 1649/50, as “next of kin”, of estate of Cicely, mother of Gervase Warmestry (qv), Principal Registrar, Diocese of Worcester ]
WYATT, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1807.
WYATT, ARTHUR MONTAGU, son of Arthur Wyatt, Mitchell Troy, Monmouthshire, land agent to Duke of Beaufort, and Arabella Montagu, dau. of Rev.William Higginson, Rector of Greatworth, Northants ; b. 11 May 1810 ; adm. 26 Sep 1825 ; left Midsummer 1827 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.sizar 28 May 1839 ; ordained deacon 11 Sep 1833 (St.Davids), priest 25 May 1834 (Lichfield) ; Perpetual Curate of Perry Bar, Birmingham, Warwicks., 14 Jul 1834-47 ; Vicar of Penrhos, Monmouthshire, 1847-66 ; Vicar of Llandenny and Raglan, Monmouthshire, from 1866 ; m. 11 May 1840 Ann Elizabeth, only dau. of William Buck, Gibraltar House, Monmouthshire ; d. 9 Jun 1874.
WYATT, BENJAMIN DEAN, eldest son of James Wyatt RA FSA, architect and Surveyor-General of the King’s Works, and Rachel Lunn, “niece of a medical gentleman” ; b. 14 Mar 1775 ; at school under Vincent (A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain, 1816, 401) ; presumably “Wyatt”, who played Tamerlane in Town Boy play Tamerlane Dec 1791 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Apr 1795 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 9 Oct 1797 ; arrived in India 12 Mar 1798 ; Assistant to Secretary, Political and Military Dept., 27 Mar 1798 ; Assistant to Secretary, Secret Dept., 10 Apr 1798 ; Keeper of Records, Governor-General’s Office 20 Jul 1801 ; resigned in India 18 Feb 1802 ; returned to England 1802 ; Secretary to Right Hon.Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) when Chief Secretary for Ireland 1807-9 ; commenced architectural practice 1809 ; Drury Lane Theatre was rebuilt to his designs in 1811-2 ; Surveyor to Dean and Chapter of Westminster 1813-27 ; designed and erected the Duke of York’s Column 1830-3 ; bankrupt 1833 ; m. 27 Apr 1803 Christiana, dau. of William Stopford, Kensington, Middlesex ; d. 6 May 1855 (will proved PCC 19 Oct 1855). ODNB.
WYATT, GEORGE GEOFFREY, see WYATVILLE, GEORGE GEOFFREY.
WYATT, JOHN, son of John Wyatt FRS FSA, Essex Street, Strand, London, surgeon, and Catherine, dau. of Edward Anderson, Weeford, Staffs. ; bapt. St Anne, Soho 22 Nov 1763 ; adm. 3 Feb 1772 ; in school lists 1781 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 Feb 1781, aged 17 ; BA 1785 ; adm.Inner Temple 15 Nov 1782, called to bar 5 Feb 1790, Bencher 1825, Treasurer 1833 ; equity draftsman ; Welsh Circuit ; Attorney-Gen. for North Wales 5 Jul 1819-30 ; of Harpenden, Herts. ; m. 1st, 15 Sep 1788 Mary Burberow ; m. 2nd, Elizabeth — ; d. 13 Aug 1856.
WYATVILLE, GEORGE GEOFFREY, only son of Sir Jeffrey Wyatt (afterwards Wyatville) Kt RA FRS, Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, architect, and Sophia Powell ; b. ; adm. 7 Jul 1813 ; left 1821 ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 27 Nov 1821, matr.Lent 1822 ; BA 1826 ; MA 1829 ; an artist ; assumed surname of Wyatville in lieu of Wyatt 1824 ; m. 17 Jan 1828 Ann Sisum, dau. of Peter Phillips, Barbados, West Indies ; d. 27 Jan 1833.
WYBARNE (or WYBORNE), JOSEPH, third son of Rev.Percival Wybarne (or Wyborne), Prebendary of Westminster and Rochester ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1598, adm.pens.1598, scholar 1599, matr.1598 ; BA 1602/3 ; MA 1606 ; ordained deacon 31 May 1607 (Lincoln) ; Vicar of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, from 17 Jul 1613 ; author, The New Age of Old Names, 1609, and Machiavellus Comedia ; d. 1615 (by 5 Jul).
WYCHE, SIR CYRIL, second son of Right Hon.Sir Peter Wyche PC Kt, Ambassador at Constantinople, and Jane, dau. of Sir William Meredith, Kt, Stansty, Denbighshire ; b. (Constantinople) ; a godson of Cyril Loukaris, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, after whom he was named ; adm. ; KS in 1649 ; contributed a copy of verses to Lacrimae Musarum, 1649 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1650 ; BA 17 Feb 1652/3 ; MA 1655 ; DCL 1665 ; LLD Dublin 1692 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 1 May 1657, called to bar 15 Jun 1670 ; knighted at The Hague May 1660 ; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery 28 Jan 1662-75 ; MP Callington May 1661 – Jan 1678/9, East Grinstead Feb – Mar 1680/1, Saltash 1685-7, Preston 1702-5 ; Chief Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut.Ireland 1676-85, and to Henry Sidney, Lord Lieut.Ireland, Sep 1692 – Jul 1693 ; MP (I) Dublin University 17 Sep 1692 – 26 Jun 1693 ; Privy Councillor (I) 1676-85 and from 1692 ; one of the Lord Justices of Ireland 1693-5 ; a Commissioner for Irish Forfeitures 1700 ; FRS 20 May 1663, President 30 Nov 1683 – 30 Nov 1684 ; lic.to m.1st, 2 Aug 1663 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Jermyn, Kt MP, Rushbrooke, Suffolk ; lic. to m.2nd, 29 Jul 1684 Susanna, widow of Sir Herbert Perrott, Kt, MP, Haroldstone, Pembrokeshire, and dau. of Sir Francis Norreys, Kt, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire ; m.3rd, 15 May 1692 Mary, eldest dau. of George Evelyn MP, Wotton, Surrey ; d. 29 Dec 1707. ODNB.
WYCHE, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1724 ; in school list Feb 1727/8 ; convicted of assault and robbery, on four separate indictments, at the Old Bailey Sessions Feb 1731 (as George Wych) ; executed at Tyburn 8 Mar 1731. [perhaps bapt.St.Sepulchre, London 13 May 1712, son of George Wych, and Ann —]
WYCHE, JOHN, eldest son of Sir Peter Wyche, Kt FRS, Westminster, British Envoy to Russia, and Isabella, dau. of Sir Robert Bolles, Bart. ; nephew of Sir Cyril Wyche (qv) ; b. 2 Jan 1667/8 ; adm. ; KS 1681 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1684, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1684, scholar 1 May 1685 ; British Resident, The Hanse Towns 1702-9, Envoy Extraordinary there from 1709 ; m. Bethesda, dau. of John Savage ; d. 15 Oct 1713.
WYCHE, JOHN, brother of Magnus Wyche (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1729 ; left 1730 ; d. young.
WYCHE, MAGNUS, elder son of Sir Cyril Wyche, Bart., Envoy to Russia, and Anne, dau. of Magnus Wedderkop, First Minister to Duke of Holstein Gottorf ; grandson of John Wyche (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1729 ; left 1730 ; Corpus Christi Coll.Cambridge 1735 ; Ensign, 10th Foot Feb 1739/40 ; d. unm. Jan 1740/1.
WYCKES, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1 Jun 1554 (Acts of Chapter).
WYE, ROGER ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1667 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1669, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1669, scholar 1670, matr.1669 ; BA 1672/3 ; MA 1676 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1674 – c.1683 ; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1676, priest 22 Dec 1678 (both London) ; Vicar of Ware, Herts., 13 Mar 1681/2 – Jun 1699 ; Vicar of Wotton, Surrey, from 28 Mar 1699 ; m. Catherine — ; d. 16 Feb 1700/1.
WYKES, see also WYCKES.
WYKES, EDWARD, son of William Wykes ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston (J.Peile, Biog.Reg. of Christ’s Coll.Camb., i, 412) ; Christ Church, Oxford, subscribed 15 Jul 1628 ; migr. to Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 20 Jun 1631, aged 20, matr.1631 ; BA 1631/2 ; MA 1635.
WYLD, see also WILDE and WYLDE.
WYLD, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Wyld (qv) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 21 Oct 1762 (IGI) ; adm. 8 Apr 1774 ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1776 ; left 1780 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 2 Dec 1780 ; BA 1784 ; MA 1787 ; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1786, priest 3 Jun 1787 (both Salisbury) ; Vicar of Chieveley, Berks., from 26 Jun 1789 ; Rector of Hampstead Marshall, Berks., 16 Aug 1806-9 ; Rector of Blunsdon St.Andrew, Wilts., 10 Mar 1809 – Aug 1814 ; Rector of Woodborough, Wilts., 20 May 1814 – Jan 1835 ; m. 26 Nov 1796 Mary Dyonisia, youngest dau. of Lieut.-Col.Thomas Calcraft, 36th Foot ; d. 31 Dec 1836.
WYLD, GEORGE HENEAGE, see WALKER-HENEAGE, GEORGE HENEAGE.
WYLD, JAMES, brother of Thomas Wyld (qv) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 23 Feb 1765 (IGI) ; adm. 16 Jun 1775 ; KS (aged 14) 1779 ; Capt. of the School 1783 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1784, adm.pens. 9 Jun 1784, matr.Mich.1784, scholar 8 Apr 1785 ; BA 1788 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 13 Mar 1784 ; ordained deacon 12 Jun 1814, priest 14 Aug 1814 (both Salisbury) ; Rector of Blunsdon St.Andrew, Wilts., from 15 Aug 1814 ; m. Elizabeth Anne, dau. of John Haverfield, Kew, Surrey, Superintendent of Royal Gardens at Richmond and Kew ; d. 2 Jan 1834.
WYLD, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Wyld, Speenham, near Newbury, Berks., and Diana, widow of Hugh Barker, and dau. of — Moor ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 15 Jul 1760 (IGI) ; adm. 19 Jan 1774 ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1775 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 5 May 1778, matr. Mich.1780 ; LLB 1785 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 3 Jul 1782 ; d. 15 Sep 1789, aged 29.
WYLD, THOMAS JOHN, second son of George Wyld (qv) ; b. 11 Nov 1801 ; adm. 16 Jun 1813 ; in school list Feb 1816 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Mar 1820 ; BA 1823 ; MA 1826 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1824, priest 18 Dec 1825 (both Salisbury) ; Rector of North Wraxall, Wilts., from 3 Aug 1830 ; m.1st, 27 Apr 1836 Maria, dau. of Joseph Neeld, Rockstone House, Hampshire ; m. 2nd, 19 Aug 1858 Sarah, widow of Rev.Howell James, Rector of Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, and dau. of Robert Wells Eyles, Ludgate Street, London, and Croydon, Surrey ; d. 16 Sep 1866.
WYLD, WILLIAM THOMAS, third son of George Wyld (qv) ; b. 5 Jul 1805 ; adm. 13 Jan 1818 (G) ; left Christmas 1823 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Nov 1823 ; BA 1827 ; MA 1831 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1828, priest 11 Oct 1829 (both Salisbury) ; Rector of Blunsdon St.Andrew, Wilts., from 12 Feb 1834 ; Rector of Woodborough, Wilts., from 25 Feb 1835 ; m. 30 Jun 1858 Elizabeth, dau. of Hon. and Rev.Frederick Pleydell-Bouverie, Prebendary of Salisbury and Rector of Pewsey, Wilts. ; d. 18 Mar 1873.
WYLDE, EVERARD WILLIAM, eldest son of William Henry Wylde CMG, Chiswick, Middlesex, Senior Clerk, Foreign Office, and Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Richard Massy ; b. 28 Apr 1847 ; adm. 2 Nov 1860 (G) ; Min.Can.1862 ; left Aug 1864 ; entered Foreign Office as Junior Clerk 25 May 1868 ; Assistant Clerk, 2 Apr 1889 ; acting Secretary of Legation, Brussels 6 Nov 1889 ; British Delegate to Slave Trade Conference, Brussels 6 Nov 1889 ; Senior Clerk 1 Jan 1894 ; retd. 1 Dec 1899 ; CMG 1 Jan 1891 ; m. 10 Sep 1872 Florence Julia, eldest dau. of Rev.Lewis Evans, Head Master Sandbach GS, Cheshire ; d. 2 Apr 1911.
WYLDE, WILLIAM GEORGE COLQUHOUN, brother of Everard William Wylde (qv) ; b. 26 Jul 1849 ; adm. 12 Jun 1863 (G) (as William Wylde) ; left Aug 1864 ; director, Samuel Tyzack & Co., iron and steel manufacturers, Sunderland, co.Durham (resident there in 1891 and 1901) ; [unm. in 1881] ; of The Shrubbery, Burghfield Bridge, Berks., at death ; d. 9 May 1930.
WYLKYNSONE, see also WILKINSON.
WYLKYNSONE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; QS 10 Aug 1553 (Acts of Chapter, surname read as Wylkynson by Knighton).
WYLLIAMS, ROGER, see WILLIAMS, ROGER.
WYLLMOT, see also WILMOT.
WYLLMOT, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1570 (Chapter Muniments).
WYLLOTT, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; left by Jul 1552 (Acts of Chapter).
WYN, see also WINN, WYNN and WYNNE.
WYN, EDMUND ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1723/4 ; in under school list 1727.
WYNDHAM, see also WINDHAM.
WYNDHAM, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1716-21.
WYNDHAM, CHARLES, 2ND EARL OF EGREMONT, son of Right Hon.Sir William Wyndham, Bart., PC MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his first wife Lady Katherine Seymour, dau. of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset KG ; b. 19 Aug 1710 ; adm. Jan 1718/9 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 May 1725 ; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1727-30 ; MP Bridgwater 7 Apr 1735-41, Appleby 1 Jan 1742-7, Taunton 1747 – 7 Feb 1749/50 ; entered politics as a Tory, but became a Whig in the 1740s ; succ.father as 4th baronet 17 Jun 1740, and his maternal uncle, Algernon, 7th Duke of Somerset, as 2nd Earl of Egremont 7 Feb 1749/50 ; inherited the Duke of Somerset’s estates in Sussex and Cumberland ; Lord Lieut., Cumberland 23 Apr 1751 – 13 Dec 1759, Sussex from 15 Jan 1763 ; named one of the Plenipotentiaries for the intended Congress at Augsburg ; Privy Councillor 8 Jul 1761 ; Secretary of State, Southern Dept., from 9 Oct 1761 ; conducted the negotiations with Spain 1761-2 and with France 1762 ; remained in office under the Bute and Grenville governments ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1742 ; Busby Trustee 4 Apr 1754 ; m. 12 Mar 1750/1 Hon.Alice Maria Carpenter, Lady of Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, dau. of George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter (I) FRS MP ; d. 21 Aug 1763. ODNB.
WYNDHAM, HON.CHARLES WILLIAM, third son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv) ; b. 8 Oct 1760 ; adm. 12 May 1767 ; left Midsummer 1775 ; Secretary and Clerk of Enrolments, Jamaica May 1763-1816 ; MP Midhurst 1790 – Jan 1795, New Shoreham 30 May 1795-1802, Sussex 29 Jan 1807-12 ; m. 4 Feb 1801 Lady Anna Barbara Frances Child-Villiers, widow of William Henry Lambton MP, Lambton, Co.Durham, and dau. of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey ; d. 8 Jul 1828.
WYNDHAM, FRANCIS, brother of William Wyndham (adm.1655, qv) ; bapt. Craike, Yorks. 12 Apr 1642 (IGI) ; adm. 21 Oct 1656 (Busby’s Account Book) ; a boarder ; gave evidence before the Governors in the Busby and Bagshaw dispute 1657 ; m.1st, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Mitten, Notts. ; m.2nd, 3 Jul 1682 (IGI) Ellen, dau. of George Pass, Chesterfield, Derbs. ; buried St.Giles in the Fields, London 1687.
WYNDHAM, GEORGE, only son of John Wyndham, Uffords, Cromer, Norfolk, and Elizabeth, younger sister of William Dalton (qv) ; b. ; adm. 10 Nov 1774 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Feb 1780, aged 17 ; of Uffords, Cromer, Norfolk ; m. 10 Oct 1799 (IGI) Marianne, dau. of Philip Bacon, Ipswich, Suffolk, Lieut.-Col., West Suffolk Militia ; d. 1 Jan 1810.
WYNDHAM, GEORGE O’BRIEN, 3RD EARL OF EGREMONT, eldest son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv) ; b. 18 Dec 1751 ; styled Lord Cockermouth to 1763 ; succ.father as 3rd Earl of Egremont 21 Aug 1763 ; in school lists 1764,1767 (Morel ?) ; left Whitsun 1767 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1767 ; acted at first with the Whigs, but took little part in politics and his opinions gradually became more conservative ; member, Board of Agriculture 31 Aug 1793 ; FRS 7 Dec 1797 ; FSA 3 Apr 1800 ; Lord Lieut., Sussex 18 Nov 1819 – 19 Jun 1835 ; a patron of art, and one of the first to appreciate Turner, who was a favoured and constant visitor to Lord Egremont’s country house at Petworth, Sussex ; a successful stockbreeder ; also kept a fine racing stud ; horses of his won the Derby 1782, 1804, 1805, 1807 and 1826, and the Oaks 1788, 1789, 1795, 1800, 1820 ; m. 16 Jul 1801 Elizabeth Iliffe (previously his mistress) ; d. 11 Nov 1837. ODNB.
WYNDHAM, HENRY, brother of William Wyndham (adm.1655, qv) ; bapt. Craike, Yorks. (or St.Martin in the Fields, London ?) (IGI) 7 Aug 1643 ; presumably Wyndham, Christian name not stated, in school list 1656, first quarter.
WYNDHAM, JOHN, brother of William Wyndham (adm.1655, qv) ; bapt. Craike, Yorks. (IGI) 19 May 1649 ; at school in 1661 (Busby’s Account Book).
WYNDHAM, HON.PERCY CHARLES, second son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv) ; b. 23 Sep 1757 ; adm. 17 Oct 1765 ; KS (Capt.) 1769 ; Capt. of the School 1773 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1774, but did not matr. ; Chancery Registrar, Jamaica 1763 (still 1780) ; Secretary and Clerk of the Courts, and Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Barbados May 1763 – 1820 ; MP Chichester 11 Mar 1782-4, Midhurst 1790-6 ; d. unm. 5 Aug 1833.
WYNDHAM, WILLIAM, second son of Francis Wyndham, York and London, merchant, and Elizabeth Sparling, Priors Close, Craike, co.Durham ; b. ; adm. 5 Nov 1655 ; a boarder ; left 1656 ; d. unm. 30 Jan 1661. [perhaps bapt. 6 Sep 1637 Craike, Yorks., son of Francis Windham, but this seems too early]
WYNDHAM, HON.WILLIAM FREDERICK, fourth son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv) ; b. 7 Apr 1763 ; adm. 7 Jun 1774 ; in school list 1775 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 14 Dec 1778 ; Lieut. and Capt., 18 Apr 1781 ; retd. 17 Aug 1784 ; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Tuscany 25 Jan 1794-1807 (but residing at Vienna with exiled Tuscan court 1800-7) ; m. 1st, 21 Jul 1784 (separated 1795) Frances Mary Harford, natural dau. of Frederick Calvert, 7th Baron Baltimore (I) ; m.2nd, after 1822, Julia Konstancia de Smorczewska (previously his mistress), widow of Count Spyterki, “a Polish nobleman”; d. Feb 1828.
WYNN, see also WINN, WYN and WYNNE.
WYNN, — ; b. ; in under school list 1722.
WYNN, ELLIS, son of Maurice Wynn MP, Gwydir, Caernarvonshire, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Richard Bulkeley, Kt, Beaumaris, Anglesey ; b. before 1559 ; at school under Grant (Calendar of Wynn Papers, 429) ; entered household of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ; Gentleman Harbinger, Royal Household, by 1596 ; MP Saltash 1597 ; Clerk of the Petty Bag from 14 Nov 1603 ; m. Ann, dau. of — Gage, Alderman, City of London [check] ; d. 27 Sep 1623. Buried South Aisle of Nave, Westminster Abbey.
WYNN, MAURICE, son of Edward Wynn, Ystrad, Denbighshire, and Blanche, dau. of John Vaughan, Blaen-y-Cwm [check county] ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1624 (Calendar of Wynn Papers, 1240) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.Bishop Williams scholar 15 Nov 1624 ; BA 1628/9 ; a Groom of the Privy Chamber 6 Jun 1660 – surrendered by 23 Oct 1680 ; of Pen-y-bryn, Caernarvonshire ; buried Westminster Abbey 19 Oct 1682.
WYNN, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1722.
WYNNE, — ; b. ; adm.Christmas 1809 ; left 1809.
WYNNE, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1621 [but not adm. Westminster Student ?].
WYNNE, ELLIS, elder son of Robert Wynne, and Mary, dau. of Ellis Cadwallader, Ystumllyn, Caernarvonshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1622, adm.scholar 1623, matr.Mich.1622 ; d. before 1637.
WYNNE, HUMPHREY, brother of Ellis Wynne (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1630, adm.scholar 1631, matr.Easter 1631 ; ordained (lit.dim. from Archbishop of Canterbury for ordination as priest 23 Dec 1637, described as MA) ; Vicar of Oswestry, Shropshire, from 1639 (deprived 1650, but restored 1660) ; m. 30 Nov 1639 Barbara Blodwell ; buried Oswestry, Shropshire 24 Nov 1664.
WYNNE, JOHN, son of Ven.Morgan Wynne DD, Rector of Brasted, Kent, Archdeacon of Lincoln, and Catherine, dau. of Hugh Williams, Wig, Caernarvonshire ; bapt. 3 Feb 1630 ; at school under Busby (J.E.B.Mayor & R.F.Scott, Admissions to St.John’sColl.Camb., i, 82) ; BB ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. Apr 1647, aged 15, Bishop Williams scholar 10 Nov 1647 ; 1st in “ordo” 1652/3.
WYNNE, JOHN, son of Robert Watkin Wynne (qv) ; b. ; at school 1791 (Clapham) (Wynne junior) ; in school list 1795, in sixth form list 1796 ; subsequently a private pupil at Hatton, Warwickshire, of Rev.Samuel Parr, with whose daughter he eloped ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 7 Nov 1797, aged 19 ; BA 1801 ; of Garthmeilio, Denbighshire ; m. 1st, 24 Jul 1797 (after a previous ceremony at Gretna Green) Sarah Ann, dau. of Rev. Samuel Parr LLD, Prebendary of St.Paul’s, schoolmaster and private tutor ; m.2nd, 30 Jan 1821 Ann, dau. of Thomas Fry, Strood, Kent ; d. 19 Dec 1836.
WYNNE, JOHN LLOYD, elder son of John Lloyd Wynne, Coed Coch, Abergele, Denbighshire, and Mary, eldest dau. of John Holland, Teyrden, Denbighshire ; b. 30 Mar 1807 ; adm. 6 Jun 1817 (G) ; left 1823 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1825 ; DL Denbighshire, JP Denbighshire 1838, High Sheriff 1865 ; m. 3 Sep 1833 Mary Anne Frances, dau. of Rev.John Haggitt, Rector of Ditton, Cambs. ; d. 4 Mar 1887.
WYNNE, ROBERT, eldest surviving son of Robert Wynne, Bodysgallen, Caernarvonshire, and Elin, dau. and heiress of Robert Wynne, Plas Mawr, Conway, Caernarvonshire ; b. 9 Jul 1690 ; at school under Knipe (correspondence between Sir John Wynn, Bart., and Duke of Newcastle in 1754, British Library, Add.MSS 32735, ff 345, 388-90) ; [perhaps adm. Inner Temple 3 Mar 1707/8, father’s name given as Roger Wynne, Bodysgallen] ; of Bodysgallen, Caernarvonshire ; Protonotary and Clerk of the Crown, Caernarvonshire, Anglesey and Merioneth, from 1750 ; MP Caernarvon Boroughs 16 Dec 1754-61 ; d. unm. Mar 1762.
WYNNE, ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Watkin Wynne (qv) ; bapt.Whittington, Shropshire 27 May 1777 (IGI) ; adm. ; at school 1791-4 (Clapham) (Wynne senior) ; he or his brother John was probably — Wynn, who played cricket for the School against Charterhouse in 1794 ; d. at school 4 Mar 1795 (death reported “in Deans’ Yard, Westminster”, Oracle and Public Advertiser 6 Mar 1795).
WYNNE, ROBERT WATKIN, only son of Robert Wynne, Llangwm, Denbighshire, and Mary, dau. of Humphrey Roberts, Bryn y Newydd, Caernarvonshire ; bapt. Llangwm 2 Apr 1755 ; adm. 17 Nov 1767 ; in school list 1771 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 May 1773, aged 18 ; of Plas Newydd, Denbighshire, and Garthmeilio, Montgomeryshire ; MP Denbighshire 28 Aug 1789-96 ; Lieut.-Col., Ancient British Fencible Cavalry 14 Mar 1794 ; High Sheriff, Merioneth 1798 ; m. (by 1777) Anne Sobieski, dau. of Thomas Dod, Edge, Cheshire ; d. 2 Mar 1806.
WYNNE, WATKIN, son of Cadwallader Wynne, Voelas, Denbighshire, and Jane, dau. of Edward Griffith, Garn, Merioneth ; b. 30 Mar 1717 ; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1730/1 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1734/5 ; of Voelas, Denbighshire ; High Sheriff, Denbighshire 1755 ; m. 19 Aug 1740 Jane, dau. of Richard Clayton, Lea Hall, Shropshire ; d. 22 Nov 1774.
WYNNE, WILLIAM WATKIN EDWARD, eldest son of William Wynne, Peniarth, Merioneth, and Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Rev.Philip Puleston DD, Vicar of Ruabon, Denbighshire ; b. 23 Dec 1801 ; adm. 27 Sep 1814 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 Mar 1820 ; Junior Clerk, Board of Control (occurs 1830, 1838) ; MP (Conservative) Merioneth 1852-65 ; of Peniarth, Merioneth ; DL JP Merioneth, High Sheriff 1867 ; Constable of Harlech Castle 1874 ; a learned Welsh antiquary ; FSA, re-el 10 Feb 1853 ; compiled Pedigree of the Family of Wynne 1872, and joint author with G.T.Clark of A History of Harlech Castle, 1878 ; m. 8 May 1839 Mary, second dau. of Robert Aglionby Slaney MP, Walford Manor, Shropshire ; d. 9 Jun 1880. ODNB.
WYNTER, DANIEL ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) May 1725 ; in under school list 1725, school list Feb 1727/8 (fifth form).
WYNYARD, AMBROSE LILLY, eldest son of William Wynyard (adm.1741, qv), and his third wife ; b. 23 Apr 1769 ; adm. 22 Jun 1778 ; Ensign, 102nd Foot 29 Jul 1784 ; 20th Foot 25 Jun 1785 ; Lieut., 26 Dec 1787 ; d. 9 Nov 1792.
WYNYARD, EDWARD BUCKLEY, son of William Wynyard (adm.1741, qv), and his third wife ; b. 6 Sep 1788 ; in school lists 1801, 1803 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 17 Dec 1803 ; Lieut. and Capt., 7 Jan 1808 ; Brevet Maj., 21 Jun 1813 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 28 Apr 1814 ; Col., 22 Jul 1830 ; Major-Gen., 23 Nov 1841 ; Col., 58th Foot, from 31 Jan 1851 ; Lieut.-Gen., 11 Nov 1851 ; Gen., 28 Jan 1860 ; served in Sicily 1808-10 ; Military Secretary to Sir Hudson Lowe, Governor of St.Helena 16 May 1816 – Jun 1820 ; commanded HM Forces in Australia 1847-53 ; member, New South Wales Legislative Council Apr 1848 – Feb 1851 ; CB 19 Jul 1838 ; m. 1 Sep 1814 Louisa, second dau. of Joseph Warner, St Vincent, West Indies ; d. 24 Nov 1864. ODNB (s.v.brother).
WYNYARD, GEORGE WEST, son of William Wynyard (adm.1741, qv), and his second wife ; b. 18 May 1762 ; adm. 8 Feb 1773 ; in school list 1775 ; Ensign, 33rd Foot 1 Sep 1777 ; Lieut., 14 Oct 1778 ; Capt.-Lieut. and Capt., 21 Jul 1790 ; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 26 Apr 1793 ; Capt., Independent Co., 6 Nov 1793 ; 31st Light Dragoons 10 Mar 1795 ; Maj., 27th Light Dragoons 25 Dec 1795 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 1 Jan 1801 ; Lieut.-Col., 24th Light Dragoons 22 Jan 1801 ; served in American War, wounded at Guilford 15 Mar 1781 ; m. at Dinapur, Bengal, India 29 May 1797 Catharine Harris ; d. 14 Jun 1809.
WYNYARD, HENRY JOHN, son of William Wynyard (adm.1741, qv), and his second wife ; b. 8 Jun 1761 ; adm. 16 Sep 1775 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 6 Jun 1778 ; Lieut. and Capt., 4 Jun 1781 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 25 Apr 1793 ; Col., 3 May 1796 ; Major-Gen., 29 Apr 1802 ; Lieut.-Gen., 25 Apr 1808 ; Col., 64th Foot 15 Sep 1808 – Apr 1816, 46th Foot from 1 Apr 1816 ; Gen., 12 Aug 1819 ; Page of Honour to Queen Charlotte Apr 1771 – 1778 ; Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to Prince of Wales 23 May 1787 ; served in Flanders 1793-4, Sicily 1806 ; m. 18 Jul 1793 his cousin Lady Matilda West, dau. of John West, 2nd Earl De la Warr, Lieut.-Gen. in the Army ; d. 3 Apr 1838.
WYNYARD, WILLIAM, son of Lieut.-Gen.John Wynyard, and Mary Maxwell ; b. 1732 ; adm. Sep 1741 ; left 1748 ; Ensign, 17th Foot 11 Oct 1748 ; Lieut., 1 Jun 1750 ; Capt.-Lieut., 20 Aug 1751 ; Lieut. and Capt., 3rd Foot Guards 30 Mar 1754 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 26 Sep 1761 ; Maj. and Col., 22 Feb 1775 ; Lieut.-Col., 7 Aug 1777 ; Major-Gen., 19 Feb 1779 ; Col., 20th Foot, from 25 Mar 1782 ; Lieut.-Gen., 28 Sep 1787 ; served in North America ; Gentleman Usher of Privy Chamber to Queen Charlotte from 5 Apr 1771 ; m.1st, Nov 1752 Sophia, sister of Charles Otway (qv) ; m.2nd, 8 Feb 1758 Catherine, dau. of Sir John St.Leger (qv) ; m.3rd, by 1772, Sarah, dau. of Ambrose Lilly, White Notley, Essex, farmer ; d. 23 Jan 1789.
WYNYARD, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Wynyard (adm.1741, qv), and his second wife ; b. 20 Jun 1759 ; adm. 11 Mar 1771 ; left 1771 ; Ensign, 64th Foot 23 Nov 1775 ; Lieut., 12 Jun 1777 ; Capt.-Lieut. and Capt., 74th Foot 3 Mar 1782 ; half-pay 1783 ; Capt., 41st Foot 25 Dec 1787 ; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 15 Oct 1790 ; Brevet Maj., 1 Mar 1794 ; Capt.-Lieut. and Lieut.-Col., 1 Apr 1795 ; Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 23 Jun 1795 ; Brevet Col., 29 Apr 1802 ; Col., Royal West India Rangers 25 Oct 1806 – Nov 1812 [check] ; Major-Gen., 25 Oct 1809 ; Col., 5th Foot, from 7 Nov 1812 ; Lieut.-Gen., 4 Jun 1814 ; Deputy Adjutant-Gen., 9 Jan 1799 – Jun 1814 ; ADC to George III 29 Apr 1802 ; Equerry to George III 31 Jan 1810 – Feb 1812 ; served in America and the West Indies 1776-83, Flanders 1793-5 ; severely wounded at battle of Brandywine ; m. Jane, dau. of John Gladwin, Hubbin, Notts., attorney, Steward to Duke of Portland ; d. 10 Jul 1819.
WYNYARD, WILLIAM CLINTON, son of William Wynyard (adm.1771, qv) ; b. 21 May 1789 ; adm. 6 Oct 1801 ; Page of Honour to George III 8 Mar 1800 – Feb 1804 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 3 Dec 1803 ; Lieut. and Capt., 23 Jul 1807 ; m. 27 Dec 1813 Eliza, dau. of John Sowerby, Putteridge Bury, Herts., warehouseman and insurance broker ; d. 27 Apr 1814.
WYRLEY, see also WORLEY.
WYRLEY (or WYRLEY-BIRCH), HUMPHREY, son of Rev.Peter Birch DD, Prebendary of Westminster, and his third wife Sibyll, youngest dau. of Humphrey Wyrley, Hampstead Hall, Handsworth, Staffs. ; b. 5 Dec 1706 ; assumed surname of Wyrley ; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1715 (as Humphry Worly) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Mar 1722/3 ; adm.Inner Temple 16 Apr 1725, called to bar 6 Jul 1728 ; d.unm. 2 Nov 1747. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey.
WYRLEY (or WYRLEY-BIRCH), JOHN, brother of Humphrey Wyrley (qv) ; b. 31 Oct 1707 ; adm. Oct 1715 ; left 1718 ; assumed surname of Wyrley ; of Hampstead Hall, Handsworth, Staffs. ; High Sheriff, Staffordshire 1749 ; m. 1st, 14 Feb 1736/7 Knightley, dau. of Robert Wroth, Loughton Hall, Essex ; m.2nd, Jul 1771 Jane, third dau. of John Lane, Bentley, Staffs. ; d. 1775 (will proved PCC 29 Dec 1775, as John Wyrley, Handsworth, Staffs.).
WYRLY, — ; b. ; at school 1659 ; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book) (asWorly).
WYRLY, — ; b. ; at school 1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
WYSE, — ; b. ; QS 1569-70 (Chapter Muniments).
WYSE (or WISE), WILLIAM, son of Thomas Wyse MP, Sydenham, Devon, and Hon.Mary Chichester, dau. of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (I) ; b. ; at school in 1649 (Devonshire Association, xii, 141, note) ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Jul 1651.
WYSEMAN, WILLIAM, second son of Edmund Wyseman, Steventon, Berks., and Anna, dau. of William Hawkins, London ; b. ; at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050) ; m. 13 Feb 1597/8 Sarah Crowch, St.Mary Woolchurch, City of London ; will dated 21 Sep 1603, proved 17 Oct 1603.
WYTNEY, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1553 ; left by Feb 1553/4 (Acts of Chapter).