VINCENT, SIR MATHIAS, brother of Thomas Vincent (elected to Oxford 1647, qv); b.; adm. 1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters); an undated petition by his mother Sarah to the Governors for a scholarship for Mathias, one of her two youngest children “now schollers at Westminster Schoole”, is in the Chapter Muniments (no. 43101); apprenticed to merchant, London; later Factor at Surat for EI Company; made a large fortune and returned to England; knighted 20 Mar 1684/5; MP Lostwithiel from 1685; Alderman, Aldgate Ward, City of London, from 30 Apr 1686; m.; d. c. May 1687 (will proved PCC 15 Jun 1687).
VINCENT, RICHARD, third son of Rev. George Vincent, Rector of Sheepy, Leics. (southern mediety), and Elizabeth, dau. of William Haly, Harborough, Leics.; bapt. Sheepy Magna, Leics., 21 Feb 1692 (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1713, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1713, aged 19, scholar 9 Apr 1714, matr. 1714; 1st in “ordo” 1716/7; BA 1716/7; MA 1720; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1719, Major Fellow 11 Jul 1720; ordained deacon 13 Mar 1719/20, priest 31 May 1724 (both London); Rector of Church Langton, Leics.; Rector of Castlecaulfield, co. Tyrone; Rector of Donaghmore, co. Tyrone; m. Ann Thomas; d. 1774.
VINCENT, RICHARD, son of John Vincent, Hampstead, Middlesex, brewer, and Sarah, eldest dau. of Richard Cowper, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1730; left 1736; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Apr 1736; adm. Inner Temple year 1735-6, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; of Castle Yard, Highgate, Middlesex; d. 7 Jan 1776 [Whitmore] (will proved PCC 9 Jan 1776, he of Inner Temple).
VITRACK, JAMES, son of James Vitrack, Greek Street, Soho, London, surgeon; bapt. 28 Oct 1716; adm. (aged 13) Dec 1729; left 1730; apprenticed to John Stevens, barber-surgeon, 4 Jan 1731. {Perhaps James Vitrack who m. at St. Anne, Soho, Westminster 13 Dec 1757 Jane Keeffe (IGI)]
WACE, HERBERT, ninth son of Rev. Richard Henry Wace, Wadhurst, Sussex, Anglican clergyman, and Euliela, dau. of Charles Gray; b. 31 Dec 1851; adm. 26 May 1864 (James'); QS 1866; left May 1870; Writer, Ceylon Civil Service 1873; Assistant Collector of Customs, Trincomalee 1876; Assistant Government Agent, Madura 1886; Government Agent, Ratnapura 1891; Second Assistant to Colonial Secretary 1889; Commissioner of Requests, Colombo 1890; member, Ceylon Legislative Council; Government Agent, Central Provinces Jan 1900; CMG 9 Nov 1903; m. 5 Aug 1879 Mabel Frances, dau. of Edward Henry Blyth; d. at Colombo, Ceylon 28 May 1906.
WADD, WILLIAM, only son of William Wadd, Basinghall Street, London, Surgeon Extraordinary to George IV, and Caroline, only dau. of John Mackenzie, Upper Guildford Street, London; b. 23 Nov 1807; adm. 14 Sep 1818; left Christmas 1822; drowned off Mauritius 7 Mar 1828.
WADDILOVE, THOMAS DARLEY, eldest son of Robert Darley Waddilove (qv); bapt. Topcliffe, Yorks., 4 Feb 1782 (IGI); adm. 2 Feb 1795 (Clapham); in school list 1795; KS 1796; d. at school 2 Mar 1799, aged 17.
WADE, ---; b.; in school list 1742.
WADE, ---; b.; adm. 1 Jun 1766.
Wade, Philip Vernon, brother of John Roland Wade (q.v.); b. March 26, 1902; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (H); left July 1919; farmed at Leask, Saskatchewan, Canada; joined the staff of the askat ccn i:ar:er as a reporter, later asst. editor; served in Great War II as Capt., Canadian Forces; m. Jan. 12, 1926, Edith McKay, of Silver Grove, Saskatchewan.