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WICKHAM, HENRY LAMPLUGH, son of Henry Lewis Wickham (qv); b. 19 Feb 1838; adm. 30 May 1850 (Rigaud's); left Bartholomewtide 1854; Ensign, Rifle Brigade 11 May 1855; Lieut., 3 Mar 1857; Capt., 4 Aug 1865; ret. Sep 1872; served in Crimean War; of Wootton Hall, Warwicks.; JP Hampshire 1875, also Worcestershire; Roman Catholic convert 1859; m. 24 Feb 1873 Hon. Theresa Maria Josephine Arundell, widow of Sir Alfred Joseph Doughty-Tichborne, Bart., and dau. of Henry Arundell, 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour; d. 8 Feb 1929.

Wickham, Claud Edmund George, son of Edmund Karl Hans Wichmann of Lübeck, Germany (who assumed the name of Wickham 1921), and Fanny Handasyd, d. of John James Hopkins, dep. man. SE & Chatham Rly, of Ramsgate; b. 13 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H), KS Sept. 1926; left July 1928; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1935; FO (Med.) RAF Sept. 1936; SMO Advanced Air HQ. Western Desert 1941, despatches June 1942; CO Mobile Field Hosps 1943; DGMS Air Min. 1944-8; Wing Cdr RAF July 1947, Group Capt. July 1957; DPH (Edin.) 1952; Commandant RAF Med. Training Estab. 1952-5; dep. PMO Flving Training and ME Commands 1957-61; CO RAF Central Med. Estab. 1961, RAF Hosp. Uxbridge 1963; m. 14 May 1942 Patricia Mary, d. of Harry Woolley, artist, of Brede, Sussex; d. in a road accident 7 Oct. 1975.

WICKETT (or WEKETT), TONG, third son of Rev. William Wekett, Rector of Brancepeth, co. Durham; bapt. Brancepeth, Durham 18 Jul 1735; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1744/5; Ensign, 4th Foot 20 May 1752; Lieut., 23 Mar 1756; Capt. -Lieut., 23 Jul 1762; d. 1763 (will proved PCC 4 May 1765, will made on HMS Danae when Lieut. in Gen. Duroure’s Foot, Guadeloupe).

WIAT, GEORGE; b. ; adm. ; KS 1635.

WHYTE, WILLIAM RICHARD, second son of James Whyte, Denbies, Surrey, and Gertrude Gee (IGI); b. 23 Mar 1776; adm. 19 Jan 1787 (as White); in school list Dec 1788 (as Whyte); KS (aged 15) 1792 (as Whyte); d. at school c. 1794.

WHYTE, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1725; in under school list 1727 (probably left 1727).

Whitworth, William Hervey Allen, son of the Rev. William Allen Whitworth, Vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, by Sarah Louisa, daughter of Edward Elwes; b. Feb. 24, 1887; adm. as (non-resident) Q.S. Sept. 27, 1900 (A); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Junior Samwaies) July 1905, matric. Michaelmas 1905; B.A. 1908; bracketed 1st Senior Optime; asst. master Gresham's School, Holt, 1909-11; Head Mast Pr Govt. High School, Mercara, S. India, 1911-3; asst. master Lancing Coll. 1913; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Dorset Regt. Dec. 11, 1914; transferred to R.F.C. Jan. 1916; Flight-Commander Jan. 7, 1917; served in France until he was wounded near Albert March 3, 1917; Instructor R.A.F. Feb.- Aug. 1918; 250th Squadron Patrol Aug.- Nov. 1918; M.C. Jan. 10, 1917; Head Master of Framlingham College 1929-40; Skipper in Small Vessels Pool, Admiralty, 1939-45; author of Rocks and Tides (1936); m. Aug. 3, 1929, Vanessa Mary, daughter of Alexander van Homrigh, of West Worthing, Sussex; d. June 9, 1960.

WHITWORTH, ROBERT, youngest son of Sir Charles Whitworth (qv); bapt. 16 Oct 1761; adm. 2 Nov 1773; KS 1775; drowned while sailing on river Thames between Lambeth and Vauxhall with Phoenix Felton (qv) and Richard Warren (qv), 5 May 1778, aged 16. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

WHITWORTH, GERARD, brother of Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth (I) (qv); bapt. St. Anne, Soho 16 May 1693 (IGI); at school under Knipe (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , iii, 34); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jan 1710/1, aged 17, scholar 1 May 1713, matr. 1710/1; BA 1714/5; MA 1718; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1717, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1718, Junior Bursar 1721-2; ordained deacon (Ely) 15 Nov 1719; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I; d. 29 Mar 1727.

Whitworth, George Elwes Allen, brother of William Hervey Allen Whitworth (q.v.); b. Feb. 18, 1888; adm. as (non-resident) K.S. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left (with Triplett) July 1906; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; M.A. 1919; Ely Theological Coll. 1910; ordained 1911; Curate of St. John's, Hammersmith, 191 1-3, of St. Andrew's. Bethnal Green, London, 1913-20; Vicar 1920-5; Rector of Radwinter, Essex 1925; Vicar of Gainsborough, Lincs 1936; Prebendary of Lincoln 1936-47; Vicar of Great St. Mary, Cam­bridge, 1947-54; Hon. Canon of Ely 1952; enlisted in R.G.A. May 3, 1918; 2nd Lieut. April 9, 1919; Mayor of Bethnal Green 1922-3; m. Nov. 28, 1925, Phoebe Frances Eiric, second daughter of Sir Francis Henry May, G.C.M.G., sometime Governor of Hong Kong, of Clare Priory, Suffolk; d. 1969.