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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.

Wickham, Claud Edmund George, son of Edmund Karl Hans Wichmann of Lübeck, Germany (who assumed the name of Wickham 1921), and Fanny Handasyd, d. of John James Hopkins, dep. man. SE & Chatham Rly, of Ramsgate; b. 13 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H), KS Sept. 1926; left July 1928; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1935; FO (Med.) RAF Sept. 1936; SMO Advanced Air HQ. Western Desert 1941, despatches June 1942; CO Mobile Field Hosps 1943; DGMS Air Min. 1944-8; Wing Cdr RAF July 1947, Group Capt. July 1957; DPH (Edin.) 1952; Commandant RAF Med. Training Estab. 1952-5; dep. PMO Flving Training and ME Commands 1957-61; CO RAF Central Med. Estab. 1961, RAF Hosp. Uxbridge 1963; m. 14 May 1942 Patricia Mary, d. of Harry Woolley, artist, of Brede, Sussex; d. in a road accident 7 Oct. 1975.

Wiggett, Edward Lyde, son of William Wiggett, of Kensington; b. June 15, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1895.

Wilkins, Claude Gilbert, brother of Trevor Hamilton Wilkins (q.v.); b. June 4, 1883; adm. April 23, 1896 (H); left April 1899; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. Beds Regt. Sept. 5, 1916; Lieut. March 5, 1918.

Wilkins, Geoffrey, brother of Trevor Hamilton Wilkins (q.v.); b. Nov. 21, 1884; adm. Jan. 20, 1898 (H); left Dec. 1900; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles Sept. 2, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers May 22, 1915; m. Oct. 10, 1914, Letitia Gertrude, daughter of Daniel Hill, of Twickenham; d. Oct. 5, 1915, of wounds received in action Oct. 3, at Loos, in France.

Wilkins, Trevor Hamilton, eldest son of Gilbert Hamilton Wilkins, F.R.C.S., of Brixton, Surrey, by Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Duckham, of Crowcombe, Somerset; b. May 6, 1880; adm. April 28, 1892 (H); left Dec. 1897; St. Thomas's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1905; practised in London; served in Great War I; temp. Lieut. R.A.M.C. Sept. 21, 1914; Capt. Sept. 21, 1915, attached 8th Northumberland Fusiliers; wounded at Suvla Bay Oct. 26, 1915.

Wilkinson, Gordon Frederick Noble, brother of Robert Pelham Wilkinson (q.v.); b. Sept. 20, 1892; adm. May 4, 1906 (H); lejt July 1909; enlisted in 10th Batt. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. K.O.Y.L.I. June 13, 1916; killed in action at Fricourt July 2, 1916; unm.

Wilkinson, John Ross, son of W. F. Wilkinson of Wallington, Surrey; b. 31 Mar. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (H); left Apr. 1924; d.

Wilkinson, Sir Robert Pelham, son of Robert Daniel Wilkinson, of Croydon, Surrey, by Kate, daughter of William Barton Ford, of Croydon; b. Oct. 1, 1883; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (H); left May 1901; a member of the London Stock Exchange 1906; Master of the Needleworkers Company 1927; deputy chairman of the London Stock Exchange 1936-46; member of the Departmental Committee on Fixed Trusts 1936, and on Share-Pushing 1936; member of the Cohen Committee on Company Law 1943; knighted 1946; president of the Elizabethan Club 1953-5; author of Wilkinson's Tea Share Manual (1924); m. Sept. 17, 1910, Phyllis Marion, daughter of John Charles Barnard, of Kensington; d. May 24, 1962.