WHITAKER, EDWARD WRIGHT, brother of John Ayton Whitaker (qv); b. 1 Jul 1839; adm. 10 Jun 1852 (G); QS 1854; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1858, matr. 27 May 1858, Westminster Student (one of the last three Westminster Students elected under the old system); BA 1863; MA 1865; ordained deacon 1864, priest 1866 (both Oxford); Curate, Croft, Yorks., 1865, Stanton-by-Bridge with Swarkeston, Derbs., 1866-8; Rector of Stanton-by-Bridge with Swarkeston, Derbs., from 1868; m. Cecilia E. ---; d. 22 Apr 1881.
Whitaker, Harold Thomas, second son of John and Harriette Whitaker, of Hampstead, by the daughter of Donald Nicoll, M.P., of Kilburn; b. April 19, 1870; adm. as Q.S. June 12, 1884; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon., July 1889, matric. Oct. 11, 1889; B.A. 1895; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn Nov. 17, 1896; entered Barclay's Bank as a local director at Oxford 1927; director in Paris 1923-34; m. Dec. 1902 Mary Adelina, daughter of George Baird, of St. Petersburg; d. June 5, 1959.
White, Ernest Frederick Anselm Farren, son of William Ernest Crabtree White LLD, solicitor, of Ealing, and Alice, d. of Frederick D'Olbert Bullock, Judge of the High Court Lahore; b. 24 Dec. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (KS); left July 1929; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1929, BA 1933; has assumed the additional Christian name of Anselm; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1937; 2nd Lieut. Rov. Signals (TA) July 1937, transf. Tower Hamlets Rifles July 1938 (Lieut.), reverted Roy. Signals Feb. 1942; d. 1970.
WHITE, FRANCIS, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv); b. 5 May 1803; adm. 17 Sep 1812; KS 1816; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1820, adm. pens. 18 May 1820, scholar 1821; BA 1824; MA 1827; Norrisian Prize 1826; ordained priest (Peterborough) 10 Jun 1827; Curate, Broughton, Northants 1836; d. 13 May 1876.
WHITE, JOHN, brother of Samuel White (qv); bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 16 Nov 1682; adm.; KS 1696; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1700, matr. 25 Jun 1700, aged 17, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1700 – void 1721, Tutor 1705-21, Senior Censor 1712-9; BA 1704; admonished by Christ Church authorities for assault 10 Jan 1707; MA 1707; Proctor 1716; a friend of the Oxford antiquary Thomas Hearne, who mentions the excellence of his sermons; adm. Inner Temple 28 Nov 1700; ordained deacon 23 May 1708, priest 20 Dec 1713 (both Oxford); Rector of Upham, Hampshire 1720 (still 1736).
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.
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.
WHITFIELD, JOHN, son of William Whitfield (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s Ludgate, London 7 Jun 1705 (IGI); adm.; in under school list 1715; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1717; KS 1718; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 4 Apr 1743 (expiry year of grace as R. Bideford from 24 Apr 1742), Tutor 1733-40, Junior Censor 1735, Senior Censor 1736-8; BA 1726; MA 1728/9; Professor of Poetry, Oxford Univ. 1738-41; Proctor 1739; ordained priest (Winchester) 19 Sep 1730; tutor and chaplain to Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv); Rector of Bideford, Devon, from 1741/2; possessed a ready wit and a knack of writing epigrams; buried Bideford, Devon 25 Apr 1783.
WHITFIELD, WILLIAM, son of Rev. John Whitfield, Rector of Bugbrooke, Northants, and Alice, dau. of Rev. William Burkitt DD, Vicar of Guilsborough, Northants; bapt. 1 Jul 1658; adm.; KS 1673; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1677, matr. 4 Dec 1677, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1677 – void 1692, Tutor 1685-6; BA 1681; MA 1684; DD Lambeth 23 Jul 1716; adm. Inner Temple 1679; ordained; Rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London 5 Dec 1691-1713; Rector of Ewhurst, Surrey 27 Jan 1692/3-1715; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 16 Jan 1694/5 and of Canterbury from 4 Feb 1708/9; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne (in 1708); Vicar of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, London, from 5 Oct 1714; m. Catherine --- (IGI); d. 4 Mar 1716/7.
Whittow, John Martin Summers, son of Thomas Whittow MICE, of Acton, Middx, and Phyllis Isabel, d. of Rev. Reginald Popham Luscombe, Vice-Principal Gloucester Theological Coll.; nephew of Anthony Whittow (qv); b. 30 Aug. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (KS); left July 1928; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1928, BA 1931, MA 1937; a chartered accountant, ACA 1934, FCA 1949; practised at Haverhill and Cambridge; RM in WW2 (Lieut.); m. 20 Feb. 1954 Mrs Joan Inkson, d. of Irad Robinson of Reading; d. 20 Feb. 1968.