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WEBBE, SAMUEL EGERTON HENRY, son of Samuel Webbe, organist, London and Liverpool, and Diana --- (IGI); b. 28 Feb 1810; adm. 20 Feb 1823 (G); left Christmas 1824; known in adult life as Egerton Webbe; writer on musical subjects and author of sonnets; d. 1840.

Webb, Christopher Cyril, son of J.B. Webb, of Clapham, Surrey; b. March 29, 1902; adm. May 4, 1916 (G); left Dec. 1916.

WEARE, THOMAS WILLIAM, elder son of Col. Thomas Weare KH, Hampton House, Hereford, ADC to Queen Victoria, and Anne, dau. of John Pugh, Gaer, Radnorshire; b. 2 Nov 1813; adm. 16 Jan 1826 (G); KS 1828; rowed v. Eton 12 May 1831; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1832, matr. 7 Jun 1832, Westminster Student; BA 1836; MA 1838; ordained deacon 1839, priest 1840 (both Oxford); Curate, East Sutton, Kent; Under Master of the School 27 Sep 1841 – Aug 1861; Rector of Isfield, Sussex, from 27 Aug 1867; gave evidence before the Public Schools Commission 21 Jun 1862 (Parliamentary Papers 1864, xxi, 402-11); composed the inscription on the Crimean War Memorial, and a number of epilogues and epigrams; author, The Trinummus of Plautus, translated into English Verse by an Old Westminster, 1860; m. 1st, 23 Aug 1853 Louisa Emma Mary, dau. of Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv), and his first wife; m. 2nd. 17 Apr 1866 Henrietta Maria, third dau. of Capt. William Henry Majendie, 1st Foot Guards; d. 24 Feb 1871.

Watt, John Hansard Strahan, brother of James Watt (q.v.); b. Jan. 27, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left Dec. 1893; a publisher's agent, firm, A. P. Watt and Son, Norfolk Street, Strand; m. 1st June 7, 1906, Katherine Dawson, youngest daughter of John Hume, of Glasgow; 2nd Feb. 27, 1934, Gertrude Stuart, eldest daughter of John Herbert Whitehorn, of Hampstead; d. Feb. 15, 1960.

WATT, JAMES, eldest son of Alexander Pollock Watt, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, literary agent, and Bertha, dau. of John Strahan, Tain, Perthshire; b. 12 Mar 1867; adm. 27 May 1880 (G), exhibitioner; QS 1881; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1885 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 2 Oct 1885, matr. 1885; BA 1888; MA 1892; Assistant Master, Bradfield Coll. 1890-1903; Second Master, Royal Naval Coll., Osborne (later at Dartmouth), from 1903; MVO 2 Aug 1910; bequeathed to the School his portrait as a QS by John Pettie RA; d. 8 May 1929.

Watson-Gandy, Anthony Blethyn, son of Maj. Donald Paul Watson-Gandy MC, Rov. Scots Greys, of Heaves, Westmorland, and Annie Vere, d. of James Gandy Gandy (formerly Brandreth) JP, of Heaves; b. 29 June 1919; adm. May 1933 (G); left July 1938; King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1939; a writer; d. 27 June 1952.

WATSON, JOHN HERBERT, son of William Watson, Hedon, Yorks., solicitor, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Matthews, Hedon, Yorks.; b. 31 Aug 1857; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (G); QS 1872; left May 1876; adm. solicitor Feb 1881; practised at Hedon, Yorks.; emigrated to New Zealand 1885; m. 2 Mar 1882 Jane Binning, eldest dau. of Andrew Usher, Blackford Park, Edinburgh.

Watkins, Guy St. Barbe Sladen, son of Robert Arundel Watkins, of Castle Combe, Wilts, by Mary Ethelred, younger daughter of Douglas Brooke Sladen, of Kensington; b. Nov. 5, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (G); left Dec. 1903; served in Great War I, Capt. R.A.F. May 29, 1918; m. Dorothy Kate, daughter of James Dean Brand.

WATKINS, FREDERICK, second son of Rev. Henry Watkins, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks., and Frances Mary, eldest dau. of Freeman Bower, Killerby Hall, Yorks., attorney; b. 1 Apr 1808; adm. 18 Sep 1821 (G); left Christmas 1822; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge; BA 1830; MA 1833; BD 1840; Fellow, Emmanuel Coll. 1838-47; ordained deacon (St. David’s) 4 Sep 1834, priest 1837; HM Inspector of Schools 1841-73; Rector of Long Marston, Yorks., from 1873; Archdeacon and Prebendary of York 1874-84; Examining Chaplain to Archbishop of York 1877; m. 1st, 5 Aug 1847 Amelia, eldest dau. of Rev. George Millett, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 17 Sep 1873 Fanny, dau. of William Chambers, Hafod, Cardiganshire; d. 6 Feb 1888.

Waterfield, William Hugh Herschel, son of William Francis Herschel Waterfield (qv); b. 25 Feb. 1916; adm. Sept. 1933 (A), (G) Jan. 1934; left July 1934; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1935; a journalist in S. Africa; m. 3 Aug. 1946 Gerda Pauline, d. of Charles Algar of Pinelands, Cape Town; d. 5 Sept. 1967.