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WHITEHORNE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627; BA 1630/1; MA 1634.

WHITEHEAD, GEORGE THOMAS, son of John Whitehead, London; b.; adm. 21 Jan 1766; KS (aged 14) 1770; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1774, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1774, scholar 5 May 1775, matr. 1775; ordained deacon (Norwich, lit. dim. from London) 2 Aug 1778. [Note Rev. George Whitehead, Great Berkhampsted, Herts., d. 1780].

WHITEHEAD, FRANCIS, second son of John Whitehead, Inverness Terrace, London, and Eastham, Worcs., barrister, and Jane Philippa Baskerville, youngest dau. of Hugh Hovell Farmar, Dunsinane, co. Wexford, Ireland; b. 18 Jul 1856; adm. 1 Feb 1869 (James'); QS Nov 1871; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1875, adm. pens. 25 May 1875; BA 1879; MA 1882; ordained deacon 1879, priest 1880 (Salisbury); Curate, Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts., 1879-82; held other curacies; Rector of Pembridge, Herefs., from 23 Jan 1889; m. 19 Apr 1893 Ellen Frances Webb, dau. of Brigade-Surgeon Henry Atkins, Bombay Medical Service, previously EICS Bombay; d. 27 Jan 1913.

WHITEHEAD, ARTHUR CROXALL, brother of Francis Whitehead (qv); b. 4 Feb 1862; adm. 31 Mar 1875 (James'); QS 1876; left Christmas 1879; adm. solicitor Feb 1886; practised in London; d. 7 May 1935.

WHITEHALL, ROBERT, second son of Rev. Robert Whitehall, Rector of Addington, Bucks., and his first wife; bapt. 18 Mar 1625; adm.; KS 1639; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1643, Westminster Student; BA 1647; ejected from his Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission 7 Jul 1648; afterwards submitted; Fellow of Merton Coll. from 1651, Sub-Warden in 1671; MA 1652; when “Terrae Filius” in 1655 he derided the Puritan discipline under which the University was then governed; MB 7 Sep 1657 (by letters from Richard Cromwell, Chancellor of the University); allowed leave of absence in 1657 to give instruction at Trinity Coll. Dublin (Brodrick, Memorials of Merton, 106); licensed to practice medicine 21 Jun 1665; Wood describes him as “no better than a meer poetaster, and time serving poet”, who made “divers sallies into the practice of physic” (Ath. Oxon., iv, 177); author Technepolemogamia, or the Marriage of Arms and Art, and other minor poems; d. 8 Jul 1685. DNB.

WHITEHALL, JAMES, of Warwickshire; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1602, matr. 5 Nov 1602, aged 15, Westminster Student to 1621; BA 1606; MA 1609; had leave of absence for five years granted him in 1616 to go beyond the seas with Sir Walter Raleigh on the Orinoco expedition which returned to England in 1618; ordained; imprisoned for preaching Judaism at Christ Church, but escaped to Ireland, where he held a benefice at Ferns 1623; again imprisoned in the New Prison, Clerkenwell, Middlesex 1624.

WHITEFOOT, PHINEAS, son of Rev. Thomas Whitefoot, Worcs.; bapt. St. Swithin, Worcester 22 Jul 1640 (IGI); adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student 10 Feb 1661/2 – expelled for drunkenness 22 Mar 1664/5.

WHITE, WILLIAM, son of Kenelm White, Middlesex, and Mary ---; bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate Aug 1632 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1648; KS 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, Westminster Student, subscribed 7 Nov 1655.

WHITE, STEPHEN PRESCOTT, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv); b. 2 Oct 1801; adm. Mich. 1812; KS 1814; his portrait as a KS appears in Ackermann’s Public Schools; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1818, adm. pens. 4 May 1818, scholar 1819; BA 1822; MA 1825; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1819, called to bar 22 May 1827; equity draftsman and conveyancer; Midland and Welsh Circuits; d. unm. 22 Jun 1866.

WHITE, SAMUEL, son of Robert White, Tothill Street, Westminster, and Mary --- (IGI); bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 31 Jul 1676; adm.; KS 1691; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1696, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1696, aged 18, scholar 23 Apr 1697, matr. 1696/7; BA 1699/1700; MA 1703; BD 1710; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1702, Major Fellow Apr 1703; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley 1709/10; ordained; Chaplain to Earl of Portland; author, Commentary on Isaiah, 1709; committed suicide 5 Oct 1716. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.