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.
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.
WICKHAM, WILLIAM, second son of Edward Wickham, St. Dunstans, Canterbury, Kent, and Elizabeth Williamson, Fordwich, Kent; b.; adm.; QS in 1569; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1572, Westminster Student to 1586; BA 27 Feb 1575/6; MA 1579; BCL (sup. ) 23 Apr 1583; adm. Inner Temple 1582; notary public 1587; of Islington, Middlesex; bequeathed the advowson of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs., to Christ Church, Oxford; m. 1st, Mary Reice, Canterbury, Kent; m. 2nd, Elizabeth Sagewick, York; d. 11 Apr 1624.
WICKHAM, WILLIAM, son of Henry Lewis Wickham (qv); b. 10 Jul 1831; adm. 19 Jan 1844 (Benthall's); QS 1846; left Whitsun 1847; New Inn Hall, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1850; BA 1854; MA 1857; adm. Inner Temple 20 Nov 1854, called to bar 6 Jun 1857; MP (Conservative) East Hampshire from 1892; DL Hampshire, High Sheriff 1888, JP 1866; Vice-Chairman, Hampshire County Council, from 1889; member Society of Dilettanti 1894; Busby Trustee 17 Jun 1884; edited The Correspondence of the Right Hon. William Wickham from 1794, 1870; m. 9 May 1860 Sophia Emma, youngest dau. of Henry Francis Shaw-Lefevre; d. 16 May 1897.
WICKHAM, RICHARD, eldest son of Rev. John Wickham, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and his first wife Martha, dau. of William Hovenden, Canterbury, Kent; nephew of William Wickham (QS 1569, qv); b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1593, matr. 8 Nov 1598 [year must be wrong], aged 17, Westminster Student to 1597; Fellow, All Souls Coll.; adm. Middle Temple 16 Feb 1604/5; d. 10 Mar 1612, in 35th year. Buried, Cowley, Oxford (MI).
WICKHAM, HENRY, son of Ven. Henry Wickham [DD ?], Rector of Bedale, Yorks., and Archdeacon of York [check], and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Browne, Fidlers, Essex; bapt. 16 Sep 1630; adm.; KS 1642; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1647, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1647, scholar 1648, matr. 1647; BA 1650/1; MA 1654 (incorp. Oxford 13 Jul 1669); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1651 – c. 1658; adm. Gray’s Inn 23 Mar 1651/2; Head Master, Ipswich Sch. 1659-64; Rector of Wilby, Suffolk 19 Oct 1662.
Wickham, Henry Lewis, 1789-1864
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.