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WILLIAMS, SAMUEL CHARLES EVAN, only son of John Williams (adm. 1811, qv); b. 29 May 1842; adm. Jan 1855 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1857; left 1859; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 May 1861; BA 1864; MA 1877; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Nov 1866; JP Radnorshire, High Sheriff 1880; MP (Liberal) Radnor District 1880-4; Vice-Chairman, Radnor County Council; one of founders of National Liberal Club 1882; Roman Catholic convert 1894; m. 26 Feb 1867 Mary Caroline, dau. of Rev. Henry William Robinson Luttman-Johnson (formerly Michell), West Dean, Sussex; d. 2 Mar 1926.

WILLIAMS, SIR ROBERT, BART., eldest son of Sir Hugh Williams, Bart., MP, and Emma, widow of James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley (I) (qv), and only dau. of Thomas Rowlands, Nant, Caernarvonshire; b. 20 Jul 1764; adm. 12 Sep 1774; went to Harrow Sch.; Grand Tour (Italy) 1786; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 Jun 1782; Lieut. and Capt., 30 Dec 1789; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 4 Oct 1794; retd. 12 Jun 1795; served in France 1793; MP Caernarvonshire 1790-1826, Beaumaris from 1826; succ. father as 9th baronet 19 Aug 1794; m. 11 Jun 1799 Anne, second dau. of Rev. Edward Hughes, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire; d. at Nice 1 Dec 1830.

WILLIAMS, OWEN, eldest son of Thomas Williams MP, Llanidan, Anglesey, solicitor and copper mine proprietor, and Catherine, dau. of John Lloyd, Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, Anglesey; bapt. 19 Jul 1764; adm. 16 Sep 1776; KS (aged 14) 1779; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1782, but was never adm.; MP Great Marlow from 1796; of Temple House, Berks., and Craigydon, Anglesey; m. 18 Jul 1792 Margaret, eldest dau. of Rev. Edward Hughes, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire; d. 23 Feb 1832.

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, 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.

WHITWORTH, FRANCIS, brother of Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth (I) (qv); b. 9 May 1684; adm.; KS 1701; Secretary, Island of Barbados, from 1719; MP Minehead from May 1723; Surveyor-Gen. of HM Woods and Forests, South of the Trent, from 6 Apr 1732; of Leybourne, Kent; m. 2 May 1719 (IGI) Joan Wyndham, Clearwell, Newland, Gloucs.; d. 6 Mar 1741/2.

WHITWORTH, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Francis Whitworth (qv); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 26 Jun 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jun 1730; left 1738; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1738 [check]; MP Minehead 1747-61, Bletchingley 1761-8, Minehead 1768-74, East Looe 14 Oct – Dec 1774, Saltash from 3 Jan 1775; Lieut. -Governor, Gravesend and Tilbury, from Aug 1758; Chairman, Committee of Ways and Means, House of Commons, from May 1768; knighted 19 Aug 1768; FSA 9 Nov 1758; author, A Collection of the Supplies and Ways and Means from the Revolution to the present Time, 1764, and other works; m. 29 May 1749 Martha, eldest dau. of Richard Shelley, Chairman, Board of Stamps; d. 22 Aug 1778. DNB.

WHITWORTH, CHARLES, 1ST BARON WHITWORTH (I), second son of Richard Whitworth, Blowerpipe and Adbaston, Staffs., and Anne, dau. of Rev. Francis Mosley, Rector of Wilmslow, Cheshire; bapt. 14 Oct 1675; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1694, adm. pens. 21 Jun 1694, aged 18, scholar 5 Apr 1695; BA 1699/1700; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1700 – c. 1708 [check]; adm. Middle Temple 30 Oct 1694; [perhaps Clerk, Board of Trade c. 1696 – 11 Mar 1701]; entered diplomatic service under wing of George Stepney (qv); British representative at Diet of Ratisbon, 28 Feb 1702; Envoy Extraordinary to Russia 2 Sep 1704 – May 1710; Ambassador to Vienna 1711; British Plenipotentiary at Congress at Baden 30 Apr 1714; Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin 1716-7, 1719-22; Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague 1718; created Baron Whitworth (I) 9 Jan 1720/1; one of British plenipotentiaries at Congress of Cambrai Feb 1721/2; MP Newport (IOW) from 1722; his Account of Russia as it was in the year 1710 was published by Horace Walpole at his Strawberry Hill press in 1758; m. Magdalena Jacoba, Comtesse de Vaulgremont; d. 23 Oct 1725. Buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

WESTENRA, HON. JOHN CRAVEN, brother of Henry Robert Westenra, 3rd baron Rossmore (I) (qv); b. 31 Mar 1798; at school under Carey (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1844); Ensign and Lieut., 3rd Foot Guards 4 May 1814; Lieut. and Capt., 7 Oct 1824; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 9 Aug 1833; retd. 13 Jan 1843; MP (Whig) King’s Co. 1835-52; m. 1st, 31 Mar 1834 Eleanor Mary, widow of Sir Gilbert East, Bart., and sister of Hylton Jolliffe (qv); m. 2nd, 23 Jul 1842 Ann, dau. of Louis Charles Daubuz, Truro, Cornwall; d. 5 Dec 1874.

WESTENRA, HENRY ROBERT, 3RD BARON ROSSMORE (I), eldest son of Warner Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore (I), and his first wife Mary Anne, second dau. of Charles Walsh, Walsh Park, co. Tipperary; b. 24 Aug 1792; adm. 9 Apr 1804; left 1806; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 4 Jul 1810; MP Co. Monaghan 1818-30, 1831-2, 17 May – 30 Jul 1834, 1835 – 10 Aug 1842; succ. father as 3rd Baron Rossmore (I) 10 Aug 1842; Lord Lieut., Co. Monaghan, from 1843; m. 1st, 25 Jan 1820 Anne Douglas Hamilton, natural dau. of Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton (S) KT; m. 2nd, 19 May 1846 Julia Ellen Josephine, second dau. of Henry Lloyd, Farinrory, co. Tipperary; d. 1 Dec 1860.