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GB-2014-WSA-17808 · Person · fl. 1781

WEATHERELL, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 2 Jun 1779; left Midsummer 1781.

GB-2014-WSA-01840 · Person · 1813-1871

WEARE, THOMAS WILLIAM, elder son of Col. Thomas Weare KH, Hampton House, Hereford, ADC to Queen Victoria, 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.

GB-2014-WSA-17807 · Person · 1825-1898

WEARE, SIR HENRY EDWIN, brother of Thomas William Weare (qv); b. 27 Aug 1825; adm. 3 Jul 1837 (Benthall's); 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 [check]; m. 16 Jul 1850 Charlotte Georgiana, only dau. of Rev. Charles Oxenden, Rector of Barham, Kent; d. 31 Dec 1898.

GB-2014-WSA-17806 · Person · 1859-1921

WEARE, EDWIN THOMAS CLINTON, only son of Thomas William Weare (qv), and his first wife; b. 12 Feb 1859; adm. 16 Jun 1870 (James'); left May 1874; Non-Coll., Oxford, matr. 10 May 1879; of Hampton House, Hereford; d. 15 Oct 1921.

Wbittow, Anthony, 1876-1940
GB-2014-WSA-17805 · Person · 1876-1940

Whittow, Anthony, son of William Summers Whittow, of Porton, Wilts, by Louisa Fowles; b. March 28, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (H); migrated up Rigaud's, Jan. 1895; left July 1896; a merchant at Colombo, Ceylon; m. June 4, 1910, Lillias Baird, third daughter of Richard Walter Tweedie, of Linden Gardens, Bayswater, London; d. Sept. 8, 1940.

Wayte, John, ca. 1718-?
GB-2014-WSA-17804 · Person · ca. 1718-?

WAYTE, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1727; in under school list 1729.

Waverley, John, fl. ca. 1625
GB-2014-WSA-17803 · Person · fl. ca. 1625

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.

GB-2014-WSA-17802 · Person · 1934-2016

Watts-Tobin, Richard John, son of Oscar Watts-Tobin MRCS LRCP, gen. med. practitioner, of Fulham, and Ethel Watts FCA, d. of John Watts, police officer; b. 17 Mar. 1934; adm. Sept. 1946 (R), (KS) Sept. 1948; left July 1952; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1952 (open schol. 1951), matric. 1954, BA 1957 (1st class hons Math. Trip. Pt 1, Wrangler Pt 2), res. student 1957, Rouse Ball student 1960, MA PhD 1961; Mullard res. Fellow Selwyn Coll. Camb. 1961; MRC scientific staff 1961-; Fellow Churchill Coll. Camb. 1964; lecturer in Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Lancaster 1967, sen. lecturer 1977-96; MInstP; author of papers on superconductivity theory and theory of electroactive polymers; m. 1963 Mary Elizabeth Ann Watts-Tobin MB BCh, med. practitioner, sister of Martin Lewin Blake Pritchard (qv); d. 26 Apr 2016.

Watts, William, ca. 1646-?
GB-2014-WSA-17801 · Person · ca. 1646-?

WATTS, WILLIAM, son of Ven. William Watts DD, Rector of St. Alban’s, Wood Street, London, and Archdeacon of Wells, and Dorothy, dau. of Judith Vaughan, widow, Canterbury, Kent; 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.