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TOMLINSON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD MURRAY, BART., eldest son of Thomas Tomlinson, Heysham, Lancs., barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, and Sarah, only child of Rev. Roger Mashiter, Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs.; b. 4 Aug 1838; adm. 29 Jan 1852; QS Mar 1854; left 1855; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1856; BA 1860; MA 1863; adm. Inner Temple 30 Mar 1860, called to bar 26 Jan 1865; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Apr 1878; law reporter in Chancery Division for Incorporated Council; member, Inns of Court Board of Examiners 1877; MP (Conservative) Preston Nov 1882-1906; created baronet 11 Aug 1902; of Heysham House, Morecambe, Lancs.; DL JP Lancashire; Senior Grand Deacon, Grand Lodge (Freemasons), from 1896; first Master, Old Westminster Lodge, which was consecrated 20 Jan 1888; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1896; d. unm. 17 Dec 1912.

TRELAWNY, EDWARD, fourth son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bart. (qv); bapt. 9 Jul 1699; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1713; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1717, matr. 27 Jun 1717, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1717 - vacated 11 Jul 1721, when re-entered as gentleman commoner; adm. Inner Temple 2 Jun 1715; MP West Looe 20 Jan 1724 - Dec 1732; a Commissioner for Victualling 21 Oct 1725 – 9 Mar 1732/3; a Commissioner of Customs, Scotland 1732-7; elected MP for both West and East Looe at general election 1734, but disqualified for sitting for either, as being a Commissioner of Customs; Governor of Jamaica 30 Apr 1738 - Sep 1752; an able and efficient administrator; settled the Maroons; Col., 49th Foot, from 25 Dec 1743; took part in expedition against Cartagena 1742 and in capture of Port Louis, San Domingo 1748; returned to England 1753; m. 1st, 6 Nov 1737 Amoretta, dau. of John Crawford (and “niece to Countess of Dartmouth” (GM)); m. 2nd, 2 Feb 1752 Catherine, widow of Robert Penny, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and dau. of John Douce, Clarendon, Jamaica; d. 16 Jan 1754. DNB. [Perhaps Lieut., 6th Dragoons 1724-6].

RICHARDS, RICHARD, eldest son of Right Hon. Sir Richard Richards, Kt, PC, Coed, Merioneth, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Catharine, dau. of Robert Vaughan Humphreys, Caerynwch, Merioneth; b. 22 Sep 1787; adm. 24 Jan 1801 (Clapham); KS 1802; left Mar 1806; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 May 1806; BA 1810; MA 1812; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 20 Nov 1812; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1817; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 8 Aug 1814-31 (when post abolished); Accountant-General and Master, Court of Exchequer 10 Jul 1820-41; a Master in Chancery from 15 Oct 1841; MP (Cons) Merioneth Jun 1836-52; DL Merioneth; m. 11 Jan 1814 Harriett, elder dau. of Jonathan Dennett, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; d. 27 Nov 1860.

SIBTHORP, HUMPHREY WALDO, second son of Humphrey Sibthorp MD, Lincoln, Professor of Botany, Oxford Univ., and his first wife Sarah, dau. of Isaac Waldo, Streatham, Surrey; nephew of Coningsby Sibthorp (qv); b. 3 Oct 1744; adm.; KS 1756; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 May 1758; BA 1762; MA 1766; DCL 3 Jul 1777; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov 1766, called to bar 30 Jan 1770; MP Boston 2 May 1777-84, Lincoln 9 Apr 1800-6; assumed additional name of Waldo 22 May 1804; of Canwick Hall, near Lincoln; Col., South Lincolnshire Militia, 8 May 1782 (still 1808); m. 23 Jul 1777 Susannah, dau. of Richard Ellison, Sudbrooke Holme, Lincs., banker; d. 25 Apr 1815.

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.

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 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 Wyndham, Clearwell, Newland, Gloucs.; d. 6 Mar 1741/2.

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; 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. DNB.

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.

WYCHE, SIR CYRIL, second son of Right Hon. Sir Peter Wyche, PC, Kt, English Ambassador at Constantinople, and Jane, dau. of Sir William Meredith, Kt, Wrexham, Denbighshire; b.; 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 1677-82, and to Henry Sidney, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Sep 1692 – Jul 1693; MP (I) Dublin University 17 Sep 1692 – 26 Jun 1693; Privy Councillor (I) 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, Rushbrooke, Suffolk; lic. to m. 2nd, 29 Jul 1684 Susanna, dau. of Sir Herbert Perrott, Kt, MP, Haroldstone, Pembs., and dau. of Sir Francis Norreys, Kt, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire; m. 3rd, 15 May 1692 Mary, eldest dau. of George Evelyn, Wotton, Surrey; d. 29 Dec 1707. DNB.

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.