WIGGS, ---; b.; in school list 1731; left 1733. [perhaps = Francis Weekes]
Wiggins, Guy William Mark, 1906-1982
Wiggins, Guy William Mark, son of Herbert Wiggins, of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, by Mabel Maud Kathleen, daughter of Mark Anthony Liddle, of Woodford Green, Essex; b. April 27, 1906; adm. May 2, 1917 (R); left July 1923; manager, national sales, Betrofina (Gt. Brit.) Ltd.; m. Nov. 11, 1939, Iris Gordon, daughter of Ernest Liddle, master mariner, of Kobe, Japan; d. 19 July 1982.
Wiggett, Edward Lyde, son of William Wiggett, of Kensington; b. June 15, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1895.
WIGFALL, THOMAS, youngest son of Daniel Wigfall, Woodfall, Essex, and Renishaw, Derbs., 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).
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 1671-4; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 12 Mar 1671/2; Vicar of Kensington, Middlesex, from 31 Aug 1672; Rector of Orsett, Essex, from 1675; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Mary by 1691 (Miege 1691)); m. 16 Feb 1687 Mary Sondes, Orsett, Essex; d. 22 Apr 1700.
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); Principal, New Inn Hall, Oxford 3 Oct 1726 – summer 1732; 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 collected works 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. DNB.
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; ordained; Rector of Old Swinford, Worcs.; Rector of Ashbury, Berks., from 1722 [check date]; d. 11 Nov 1776.
Widmore, Richard, 1680 or 81-1764
Widdrington, Hon. Anthony, 1642-1682
WIDDRINGTON, HON. ANTHONY, fifth son of William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington, and Mary, dau. of Sir Anthony Thorold, Bart. , 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.
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 (Chichester) 26 Jul 1748; Curate, Kirdford, Sussex 1748; Rector of Barton in Farbis, Notts. (to death); d. unm. 25 Nov 1792.