WIGAN, JOHN, son of William Wigan (qv); bapt. 31 Jan 1694/5; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1710; got into serious trouble with George Tollet (qv), the Under Master, but at the intercession of Bishop Trelawny was “admitted again” by the Dean (Atterbury, Correspondence, ii, 6); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1714, matr. 15 Jun 1714, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1714 – May 1727, Faculty Student 25 May 1727 – void by marriage 25 Apr 1739; BA 6 Feb 1718/9; MA 22 Mar 1720/1; MB and MD 1727; travelling tutor on European Continent with Stephen Fox 1723-5 (in Italy 1724-5); Principal, New Inn Hall, Oxford 3 Oct 1726 – summer 1732; FRCP 12 Apr 1732; Physician to Westminster Hospital 1733-7; went to Jamaica as Physician and Secretary to Edward Trelawny (qv), Governor of Jamaica, 1738; translated Longinus, De Curandis Febribus Continuis Liber, 1718, edited Aretaeus, 1723, and edited the collected works of John Freind (qv), 1732; m. 1739 Mary, widow of Philip Wheeler, Jamaica, and dau. of John Doace, Jamaica, planter; d. in Jamaica 5 Dec 1739. DNB.
WIGAN, GEORGE, son of William Wigan (qv); bapt. 6 Sep 1692; adm.; QS 1707; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1711, matr. 9 Jun 1711, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1711 – void 1727, Tutor 1716-24, Librarian 1722; ordained; Rector of Old Swinford, Worcs.; Rector of Ashbury, Berks., from 1722 [check date]; d. 11 Nov 1776.
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.