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WIDDRINGTON, HON. ANTHONY, fifth son of William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington, and Mary, dau. of Sir Anthony Thorold, Bart. , Blankney, Lincs. ; bapt. 3 Mar 1641/2; at school under Busby (J. Peile, Biog. Reg. of Christ’s Coll. , i, 593); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 9 Jul 1660, aged 17, matr. 1660; MA 1662; Roman Catholic convert; joined Society of Jesus 1665; sent as penitentiary to Loretto 1674; assigned to French province; at Paris in 1679; d. unm. at Ghent, Flanders 5 May 1682.

WICKLIFFE, JOHN, brother of James Wickliffe (qv); bapt. Petworth, Sussex 1 Nov 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Sep 1735; KS 1740; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1744, adm. pens. 24 May 1744, scholar 3 May 1745, matr. 1744; BA 1747/8; MA 1751; ordained deacon (Chichester) 26 Jul 1748; Curate, Kirdford, Sussex 1748; Rector of Barton in Farbis, Notts. (to death); d. unm. 25 Nov 1792.

WICKLIFFE, JAMES, son of John Wickliffe, Petworth, Sussex, and Sarah --- (IGI); bapt. Petworth, Sussex 26 Apr 1723 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Jan 1734/5; Min. Can. 1739; left 1740; buried Petworth, Sussex 19 Mar 1790.

WICKHAM, WILLIAM, second son of Edward Wickham, St. Dunstans, Canterbury, Kent, and Elizabeth Williamson, Fordwich, Kent; b.; adm.; QS in 1569; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1572, Westminster Student to 1586; BA 27 Feb 1575/6; MA 1579; BCL (sup. ) 23 Apr 1583; adm. Inner Temple 1582; notary public 1587; of Islington, Middlesex; bequeathed the advowson of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs., to Christ Church, Oxford; m. 1st, Mary Reice, Canterbury, Kent; m. 2nd, Elizabeth Sagewick, York; d. 11 Apr 1624.

WICKHAM, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1718; in under school list 1721. [Perhaps adm. Inner Temple year 1725/6].

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, William Giles, son of William Noel Wickham, solicitor, of Alton, Hants, and Edith Mary, d. of Rev. Montagu John Burrows, incumbent of St Peter’s Colombo, Sri Lanka; b. 18 Jan. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (G); left July 1941; and went to Farnham GS; RE 1944-7; a chartered survevor, AAI 1954, ARICS 1960; m. 24 Sept. 1960 Geraldine Mary, d. of Gavin Hamilton Glass of Edinburgh; d. 1 June 1993.

WICKHAM, RICHARD, eldest son of Rev. John Wickham, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and his first wife Martha, dau. of William Hovenden, Canterbury, Kent; nephew of William Wickham (QS 1569, qv); b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1593, matr. 8 Nov 1598 [year must be wrong], aged 17, Westminster Student to 1597; Fellow, All Souls Coll.; adm. Middle Temple 16 Feb 1604/5; d. 10 Mar 1612, in 35th year. Buried, Cowley, Oxford (MI).

WICKHAM, HENRY, son of Ven. Henry Wickham [DD ?], Rector of Bedale, Yorks., and Archdeacon of York [check], and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Browne, Fidlers, Essex; bapt. 16 Sep 1630; adm.; KS 1642; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1647, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1647, scholar 1648, matr. 1647; BA 1650/1; MA 1654 (incorp. Oxford 13 Jul 1669); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1651 – c. 1658; adm. Gray’s Inn 23 Mar 1651/2; Head Master, Ipswich Sch. 1659-64; Rector of Wilby, Suffolk 19 Oct 1662.

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.