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WARMESTRY, GERVASE, second son of William Warmestry, Principal Registrar, Diocese of Worcester, and Cicely, dau. of Thomas Smith, Cuerdley, Lancs.; b. 1604; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1621, matr. 24 Jul 1624, Westminster Student to 1636/40; BA 1625; MA 1628; adm. Middle Temple 18 Nov 1628; Principal Registrar, Dioces of Worcester (in succession to father); a Latin poet; author Virescit Vulnere Virtus, England’s Wound and Cure, 1628; also contributed a Latin poem to Camdeni Insignia, 1624; m. Isabella, eldest dau. of Sir William Leigh, Longborough, Gloucs.; d. 28 Apr 1641. DNB.

WARING, SAMUEL; b.; adm. 12 May 1778; in school lists 1781. [note Samuel Wareing, son of Robert Wareing, Standish, Lancs., Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1787, aged 16, BA 1787]

WARING, ROBERT, son of Edmund Waring, The Lea, Staffs., and Mary, dau. of Richard Broughton, Owlbury, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire; b.; adm.; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1630, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 1642); BA 1634; MA 1637; bore arms for Royalist side during siege of Oxford; Proctor 1647; Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford Univ., 2 Aug 1647; took an active part in resisting Parliamentary Visitors and ordered into custody, but escaped by flight; “adjudged guilty of high contempt, and denyall of authority of Parliament”, and ordered to be removed as Proctor and Camden Professor 14 Sep 1648 (Burrows, 185-6); retired to Apley, Shropshire; travelled with Sir William Whitmore in France; a Latin and English poet; author, Amoris Effigies, 1648, and other works; d. unm. 10 May 1658. DNB.

WARING, JOHN; b.; adm. 12 May 1778; in school lists 1781. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, Samuel Waring, adm. same day]

WARHAM, ---; b.; in school list Oct 1774.

Ware, Timothy Richard, son of Brig. Richard Fenwick Ware MC, Durham LI, of Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Evereld Margaret, d. of Francis Edgcumbe Edwardes, asst. master Harrow Sch.; b. 11 Sept. 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (KS); left July 1952; Magdalen Coll. Oxf., matric. 1952 (demy), BA 1956 (1st class hons Litt. Hum. ), BA 1958 (Theology), MA 1959, DPhil 1966; Spalding lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies, Univ. of Oxf. 1966-2001; ord. priest (Greek Orthodox) 1966, Archimandrite 1967; member (as Father Kallistos) of the monastic brotherhood of St John the Theologian, Patmos, 1966-2022; Fellow Pembroke Coll. Oxf. 1970-2002; titular Bishop of Diokleia and asst. Bishop in the Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain 1982-2022; delegate, Internat. Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church 2006-16; Orthodox co-chmn. Internat. Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue 2007-16; Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism, 2017; author, The Orthodox Church 1963, Eustratios Argenti: a Study of The Greek Church under Turkish Rule 1964, The Orthodox Way 1979, The Inner Kingdom 2000; Festschrifts: Abba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West, ed. John Behr et al. 2003, Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth, ed. Andreas Andreopoulos and Graham Speake 2016; d. 24 August 2022.

WARDROP, JAMES MAITLAND, second son of James Wardrop MD FRCS, Charles Street, St. James’s, London, Surgeon in Ordinary to George IV, and Margaret Willett, formerly wife of Cdr. John Burn, Royal Navy, and dau. of Col. George Dalrymple, North Berwick, Haddingtonshire; b. 16 Mar 1824; adm. 24 Apr 1835; of firm Reid and Wardrop, architects, Edinburgh; an able architect in the Scottish Baronial style; m. 28 Sep 1853 Anna Maria, youngest dau. of James Dundas of Dundas, Linlithgowshire; d. 27 Jun 1882.

WARDMAN, NICHOLSON, son of John Wardman, Fetter Lane, London, and Elizabeth Nicholson, Petworth, Sussex; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 16 Dec 1718; adm. (aged 14) Jul 1733. [father probably brewer, St. James, Westminster, will PCC 16 Feb 1753]

Ward-Jackson, Adrian Alexander, son of William Alexander Ward-Jackson, journalist and writer, of Kensington, and Catherine Elizabeth, d. of Col. Henry Freame Trew, Commissioner of Police, of Cape Town, South Africa; b. 6 June 1950; adm. Jan. 1964 (L); left Dec. 1968; an art dealer, consult. and collector; fine art expert Christie’s 1971-2; dir. P. & d. Colnaghi Co. Ltd. 1972-5; chmn. and dir. Adrian Ward-Jackson Ltd. 1975-91; chmn. Ballet Rambert 1985-90, Arts Council dance panel 1990-1; Governor Roy. Ballet 1985-90; dir. Roy. Opera House Trust Ltd. 1987-91; dep. chmn. Aids Crisis Trust 1986-91; vice-chmn. Contemporary Arts Soc. 1988-91; CBE Jan. 1991; d. 23 Aug. 1991.

Warden, William McEndrick (also known as Ken), son of Archibald Adam Warden, M.D., of Paris, by Rachel, eldest daughter of John Gray MacKendrick, F. R. S., Emeritus Professor, Glasgow Univ.; b. Sept. 3, 1903; adm. Jan. 14, 1915 (R); left July 1915; went to Malaya 1927; dir. Moine Compte & Co. Ltd, Union Building, Singapore; Lance-Corp. 12745 1 SSVF Armoured Car Section; POW Singapore to Thailand; Singapore Bridge Playing champion; taught French in ‘Changi University’; his wife and son, John, were evacuated to Calcutta on the Wosang; returned to Singapore 1946; married; d. in Greater London 1983.