POVEY, RICHARD; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1641; KS 1642, still 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114).
POWELL, JAMES, son of Arthur Powell, Carshalton, Surrey; bapt. Carshalton, Surrey 24 Aug 1678 (IGI, sic); adm.; KS 1694; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1699, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1699, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1700, matr. 1699/1700; BA 1702/3.
WARREN, RICHARD, second son of Richard Warren MD FRS, Physician in Ordinary to George III, and Elizabeth, only dau. of Peter Shaw MD, Physician in Ordinary to George I and II; b. 1 Jan 1763; adm. 17 Sep 1773; KS 1777; had a narrow escape from drowning in the Thames 5 May 1778 (his companions Phoenix Felton (qv) and Robert Whitworth (qv) were drowned); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Oct 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 – void 13 May 1785; adm. Middle Temple 10 Aug 1782; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 10 Mar 1783; Lieut. and Capt., 16 Sep 1791; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 19 Dec 1795; ret. 24 May 1800; Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Prince of Wales 27 Aug 1790; m. 25 Mar 1800 Jane, dau. of Thomas Maitland, Lyndhurst, Hampshire; d. 11 Mar 1820.
WARREN, THOMAS, son of John Warren (KS 1744, qv); b. 29 Sep 1769; at Rugby Sch. adm. 1781; adm. 13 Mar 1783; KS 1783; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – void 8 Oct 1806 (expiry year of grace as V. Tolpuddle from 15 Oct 1805); BA 1791; MA 1794; ordained; Vicar of Great Torrington, Devon 1 Oct 1798-1805; Vicar of Tolpuddle, Dorset, from 30 Sep 1805; m. Jane, dau. of John Powell, American Loyalist; d. 11 Nov 1851.
WASHER, THOMAS, son of Thomas Washer, London, and Catherine, third dau. of Sir Robert Bolles, Bart.; b.; adm.; KS 1696; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1700, matr. 25 Jun 1700, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1700 – void 27 Jan 1714 (expiry year of grace as V. Snodland from 31 Aug 1713, sic); Vicar of Snodland, Kent, from 1712 [check]; d. 1748 (will proved PCC 27 Jul 1748).
WATERFIELD, HARRY WINGFIELD, eldest son of Edward Waterfield (qv); b. 29 Dec 1864; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (D), exhibitioner; QS 1879; Capt. of the School Sep 1882-3; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1883 (with Triplett), adm. sub-sizar 5 Oct 1883, matr. 1883; BA 1886; MA 1890; Assistant Master, Bradfield Coll. 1888-96; ordained deacon 1900, priest 1901 (both Rochester); Curate, Mortlake, Surrey 1900-2; head Master, Temple Grove Sch., East Sheen, Surrey (later at Eastbourne, Sussex) 1902-35, Chaplain 1935-45; Chaplain, Bayham Abbey, Sussex, from 1945; m. 30 Jul 1896 Maria Winifred, youngest dau. of Rev. George Armitage, Vicar of St. Luke’s, Gloucester; d. 16 Mar 1951.
WATERFIELD, WILLIAM, eldest son of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv); b. 14 Aug 1832; adm. 26 Jan 1843; QS (Capt. ) 1846; Capt. of the School 1849; left 1850; at Haileybury Coll. 1850-2; Writer, EICS Bengal 1852; arrived in India 19 Nov 1852; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Twenty-Four Parganas 1854; Assistant to Superintendent of Survey, Western Div., 1856; Accountant-Gen., North-West Provinces 1864-77; Comptroller-Gen., 1877-80; ret. 5 Sep 1881; an interesting account of his early impressions of Westminster and its precincts appears in Elizabethan, vols. vii and viii; joint founder in 1906, with his brother Sir Henry Waterfield (qv), of a fund for providing a prize for Latin and Greek prose composition; m. 1st, 2 Jun 1864 his cousin Louisa Benthall, younger dau. of James Gay, Highgate, Middlesex; m. 2nd, 2 Jan 1885 Rose Matilda, seventh dau. of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Bart., KCH FRS, Master of the Mint; d. 24 Jan 1907.
WATERS, RANDLE JACKSON, son of Randle Jackson Waters (adm. 1812, qv); b. 19 Mar 1835; adm. 3 Jun 1847; QS 1850; left 1854; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Jun 1854; BA 1858; ordained 1860; Curate, South Milton, Devon 1865, subsequently Northolt, Middlesex and St. Stephen’s, Walthamstow, Essex. [not in 1881 Census or Crockford 1890]
WATERS, THOMAS, son of Randle Jackson Waters (adm. 1812, qv); b. 11 Dec 1839; adm. 22 Jun 1848; QS 1854; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1858, matr. 27 May 1858, Westminster Student 1858-73; one of the last three Westminster Students of Christ Church elected under the old system; BA 1862; MA 1865; ordained deacon 1863, priest 1864 (both Oxford); Curate, Shippon, Berks., 1863, Abingdon, Berks., 1863-4; Vicar of Maiden Bradley, Wilts., 1864-72; Vicar of Thornbury, Gloucs., 1872-85; Vicar of Staverton, Northants., 9 Dec 1885-1904; m. 29 Aug 1872 Barbara Bass, younger dau. of Samuel Vessey, Halton Manor, Lincs.; d. 18 Feb 1909.
WATHEN, GEORGE, only son of Samuel Wathen, Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate, London, and Dorking, Surrey, surgeon, and his second wife Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Sydenham Malthus, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, director South Sea Company; b.; adm. 2 Jun 1774; KS 1776; Ensign, 39th Foot 19 Nov 1778; Lieut., 13 Oct 1780; Capt., 14th Foot 6 Apr 1785; half-pay 1791; Brevet Maj., 17 Feb 1795; ret. 23 Feb 1791 [check]; present at siege of Gibraltar 1782; a well-known amateur actor, acting in comedy with Richard, 7th Earl of Barrymore, in private theatricals at Wargrave, Berks., and in London 1789-92; joint manager with Lord Barrymore of the Richmond Theatre 1792; a professional actor at Drury Lane 1795-1803, when he is said to have rejoined the army; a Military Knight of Windsor from 1840; m. Marianne ---; d. 21 Apr 1849, aged 87.