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WOLSELEY, SIR CHARLES, BART., second son of Sir William Wolseley, Bart., and Charlotte Barbara, dau. of Zachary Chambers, Wimbledon, Surrey; b. 20 Jul 1769; adm. 19 Jan 1780; in school lists 1786; Grand Tour (France); present at taking of the Bastille 14 Jul 1789; succ. father as 7th baronet 5 Aug 1817; an original member of the Union of Parliamentary Reform and of the Hampden Club; chairman of a great demonstration at Sandy Brow, Stockport, Cheshire Jun 1819; arrested for his speech on that occasion, and in Apr 1820 was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for sedition and conspiracy; withdrew from politics c. 1826; Roman Catholic convert 1837; m. 1st, 13 Dec 1794 Mary, dau. of Hon. Thomas Clifford, Tixall, Staffs.; m. 2nd, 2 Jul 1812 Anne, youngest dau. of Anthony Wright, Wealdside, Essex; d. 3 Oct 1846. DNB.

WOLRIDGE, STEPHEN; b.; adm. (aged 14) May 1715.

Wollheim, Richard Arthur, son of Eric Wollheim, theatrical impresario, of Walton-on-Thames, and Constance Mary, d. of Col. William Henry Baker, vintner; b. 5 May 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (KS); left July 1941; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1941, BA 1948, (1st class hons History 1946, PPE 1948), MA 1949; Roy. lnniskilling Fusiliers 1943-5 (Lieut.); asst lecturer in Philosophy Univ. Coll. Lond. 1949-51, lecturer 1951-60, Reader 1960-3, Grote Prof. of Philosophy of Mind and Logic 1963-82; Prof. of Philosophy Columbia Univ. New York 1982-4; visiting Prof. of Philos­ophy Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1985-; Prof. of Philosophy and the Humanities Univ. of California, Davis, 1989-; FBA 1972; Fellow American Academy of Arts & Sciences 1986; author of Freud 1971, On Art and the Mind 1972, The Thread of Life 1984, Painting as an Art 1987; also edited works by F. H. Bradley; m. 1st 15 Aug. 1950 Anne Barbara Denise, formerly wife of Theodore Philip Toynbee, d. of Lieut.-Col. George Powell, Grenadier Guards; 2nd 1969 Mary Day, d. of Robert S. Lanier of New York; d. 4 Nov. 2003.

Wolferstan, John, son of Harold Littleton Wolferstan, solicitor, of Plymouth, and Fanny Bridgman of Tavistock; b. 16 Mar. 1906; adm. Apr. 1921 (A); left Dec. 1923; emigrated to Can­ada; Fellow Canadian Bankers' Assn 1934; RCAF 1939-45 (Sqdn Ldr); an accountant in Van­couver 1946-64; Anglican Theolog. Coll. Univ. of Brit. Columbia, ordained 1960, retd 197 4; m. 15 Nov. 1937 Louise Davidson, d. of William R. Brown, grain merchant, of Vancouver; d. 11 Apr. 1993.

WOGAN, WILLIAM, younger son of Rev. Ethelred Wogan, Rector of Gumfreston and Vicar of Penally, Pembrokeshire; b.; adm.; KS 1694; remained a year longer than usual in College at the wish of Dean Sprat to transcribe for the press the first four books of Clarendon’s History; Capt. of the School 1699-1700; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1700, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1700, scholar 2 May 1701, but did not matr.; London Secretary to Edward Southwell, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1703-7, 1713-4 (cf. CSP Dom 1703-4, 27, where he is referred to as “Ongan”); [perhaps Gentleman of the Privy Chamber under Queen Anne]; entered army and for some years stationed in Dublin; subsequently resident for some thirty years at Ealing, Middlesex; a man of great piety, who corresponded with Whitefield and Wesley, and was on intimate terms with many of the evangelical leaders of his time; author, Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England, 1753, and other religious works; m. 7 Dec 1718 Catherine, dau. of Charles Stanhope, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts.; ; d. 24 Jan 1758. DNB.

WODEHOUSE, THOMAS, brother of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (qv); b. 1 Feb 1747; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1781); Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1763; Fellow, All Souls Coll. Oxford 1766; BCL 1774; DCL 1780; [perhaps Grand Tour (Italy) 1770-2, although he was presumably in England in May 1771]; adm. Middle Temple 25 Nov 1763, called to bar 31 May 1771; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; m. 12 Sep 1782 Sarah, dau. of Pryse Campbell MP, Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire; d. 1805.

WODEHOUSE, HON. PHILIP, son of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (qv); b. 16 Jul 1773; adm. 3 Feb 1786; Lieut., Royal Navy 6 Jan 1794; Cdr., 8 Aug 1795; Post Capt., 23 Dec 1796; Rear-Adm., 12 Aug 1819; Vice-Adm., 22 Jul 1830; m. 7 May 1814 Mary Hay, dau. of Charles Cameron, Governor of the Bahamas; d. 21 Jan 1838.

WODEHOUSE, PHILIP, brother of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (qv); b. 27 Apr 1745; at school under Markham (Admissions to Emmanuel Coll. Camb. ); Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Sep 1762, fellow commoner 24 Dec 1766; BA 1767; MA 1778; ordained deacon (Norwich) 25 Mar 1769, priest (Chester, lit. dim. from Norwich) 19 May 1769; Rector of Barnham Broom, Norfolk, from 1769; Rector of Hingham, Norfolk, from 1777; Prebendary of Norwich from May 1778; m. 29 Jul 1775 Apollonia, dau. of John Nourse, Wood Eaton, Oxfordshire; d. 14 Feb 1811.