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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. 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; [perhaps 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 1702; Envoy Extraordinary to Russia 2 Sep 1704 – May 1710; Ambassador to Vienna 1711; British Plenipotentiary at Congress at Baden 30 Apr 1714; Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin 1716-7, 1719-22; Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague 1718; created Baron Whitworth (I) 9 Jan 1720/1; one of British plenipotentiaries at Congress of Cambrai Feb 1721/2; 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. Magdalena Jacoba, Comtesse de Vaulgremont; d. 23 Oct 1725. Buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

WHITWICK, ---; b.; adm.; left 1656 (school lists 1656, first three quarters).

Whittow, Richard, brother of Anthony Whittow (q.v.); b. Oct. 8, 1881; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (R); left April 1899; temp. Lieut. R.G.A. Aug. 29, 1917; served in France 1917-9; mentioned in despatches; m. Dec. 19rn, Eirene Frances Stewart, daughter of Richard Walter Tweedie, of Bayswater; d. Dec. 29, 1953.

Whittow, John Martin Summers, son of Thomas Whittow MICE, of Acton, Middx, and Phyllis Isabel, d. of Rev. Reginald Popham Luscombe, Vice-Principal Gloucester Theological Coll.; nephew of Anthony Whittow (qv); b. 30 Aug. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (KS); left July 1928; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1928, BA 1931, MA 1937; a chartered accountant, ACA 1934, FCA 1949; practised at Haverhill and Cambridge; RM in WW2 (Lieut.); m. 20 Feb. 1954 Mrs Joan Inkson, d. of Irad Robinson of Reading; d. 20 Feb. 1968.

Whitton, John Newton Goldsmith, son of N. C. Whitton; b. 18 Feb. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (G); left Mar. 1929; d. 1958.

Whitton, Donald Frank, son of Frank Johnson Whitton, baker, of Lincoln, and Daisy Mary, d. of William English, schoolmaster, of Fleet, Lincs; b. 13 Mar. 1931; adm. Sept. 1944 (KS); left July 1949; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1949, BA 1952 (1st class hons Mod. Lang. ), Dixon schol. 1953, MA BLitt 1956; Laming Travelling Fellow The Queen’s Coll., Oxf. 1954; lecturer Lincoln Coll., Oxf. 1955, Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French) 1957-93, Embling Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages 1993-5, Supernumary Fellow from 1995; d. 11 Sept. 2005.

WHITTLE, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1742/3.

Whittington, Richard George, son of Francis Edwin Whittington of Harrow Weald and Edith Emma, d. of John William George Perkins of East Cowes, I. of Wight; b. 5 Jan. 1923; adm. Sept. 1938 (B); left July 1940; RAC in WW2 (Capt. ); EMI 1947-57; area export sales man. James A. Jopling & Co. Sunderland 1957-8; European man. Mercury Record Productions Inc. Chicago, IL, USA 1958; m. 3 July 1948 Marian Hassall, d. of Reginald Owen Hassall Law MC, of Arle, Cheltenham, Gloucs; d. 1 Jan. 2002.

Whittet, John Alexander, son of Alexander Willis Whittet, seed crusher, of Weybridge, Surrey, and Dorothy Frances, sister of Richard William Foxlee (qv); b. 6 Feb. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (H); left July 1933; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936, MA 1945; RAFVR 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), DFC (Berlin) Feb. 1944, bar to DFC June 1944; chairman A. Whittet & Co. Ltd, general commodity traders and publishers; m. 14 Sept. 1940 Mary Ethel Thackara, d. of Ernest Albert Edney of Horndean, Herts.; d. 9 Jan. 2007.

Whittard, Courtenay Lancelot, brother of Algernon Charles Evelyn Whittard (q.v.); b. Sept. 18, 1887; adm. May 4, 1899 (R); left July 1906; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; d. June 16, 1923.