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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 (Preston's); left 1744; buried Woolley, Yorks., 2 May 1746, unm.

WENTWORTH, GODFREY, brother of William Wentworth (adm. 1738, qv); b. 25 Apr 1730; adm. May 1739 (Preston's); left 1746; buried Woolley, Yorks. , 20 Aug 1757, unm.

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, 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, ---; b.; in school list 1797.

Wenniger, Mace Louis Maillette de Buy, son of William Frederick Maillette de Buy Wenniger, of Djasinga, Java, and Wilda Maurine Carpenter; b. 22 Jan. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left July 1940; Reading Sch. of Art; Univ. of Chicago, IL, USA, MS 1951 (Urban Planning); dir. of zoning, Boston Redevelopment Authority, USA; proprietor (with his wife) Wenniger Graphics, Rockport, MA, USA, 1971-; painter, draughtsman and sculptor; m. 1st, Margaret Hindman; 2nd, 1963 Mary Ann Sigmund Miller; d. 17 Nov. 2015.

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 (Hawkins'); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Feb 1760; MA 1762; DCL 7 Jul 1773; succ. father as 7th Viscount 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. , 1765; BCL 1771; DCL 1780; Keeper of Archives, Oxford Univ. , from 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, 8 Apr 1796. DNB.

WENKAM, ---; b.; in school list 1754.

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 Goodwyn; 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).