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WALLINGTON, NICHOLAS; b.; adm.; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1608, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 15 Feb 1611/2; MA 1614; ordained; Rector of Dumbleton, Gloucs., 1615 [successor 1640 ?]; m.

WALLER, WILLIAM, son of Charles Waller, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister; b.; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1738/9 (Watts'); KS 1744; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1748, adm. pens. 13 Jun 1748, scholar 14 Apr 1749, matr. 1748; BA 1752; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Jul 1748, called to bar 20 Nov 1754, Bencher 14 Dec 1782; Commissioner, Stamp Office 1776-83; one of Warren Hastings’s attorneys or trustees in England; of Chesterton, Hunts.; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Eldred Lancelot Lee, Coton Hall, Alveley, Shropshire, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn; d. 13 Dec 1786. [mother perhaps Elizabeth Waldron (IGI)]

WALLER, WILLIAM, only son of William Waller (adm. 1738/9, qv); b. 23 Jan 1757; adm. 13 Feb 1766; KS (aged 14) 1771; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1775, matr. 14 Jun 1775, but resigned Westminster Studentship 18 Dec 1775 before being adm.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Nov 1780; m. 8 Feb 1790 (IGI) Marcella Araminta Mitchell. [Wife probably dau. of Thomas Mitchell (IGI)] [wife’s will proved as widow PCC 11 Aug 1836]

WALL, JOHN, son of “genteel parents” in the City of London; b. 1588; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1604, matr. 23 Nov 1604, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1624; BA 1608; MA 1611; BD 1618; DD 1623; ordained; Rector of St. Aldates, Oxford 1617; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from May 1632; Vicar of Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 1637; Prebendary of Salisbury from 5 Nov 1644; ejected from his Canonry of Christ Church by the Parliamentary Visitors “for his high contempt and denyall of authoritie of Parliament”, 12 Apr 1648, but restored on his submission, 25 Sep 1648; in a letter to the Committee dated 24 Jul 1650 the Visitors report that Wall had resigned one of his two livings and that they have been “credibly informed of his affection to Parliament” (Burrows, 183, 298); a quaint preacher and learned patristic divine; d. unm. 20 Oct 1666. DNB.

WALL, GEORGE, son of Rev. George Wall, Gloucester [presumably Vicar of Hempsted, Gloucs. ]; b.; adm.; KS 1661; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1663, matr. 3 Jul 1663, aged 18, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1663; BA; MA [check dates of degrees, none assigned him in Foster]; ordained (implication from letter of Prideaux to Ellis, 8 Nov 1675); travelling in France with John Locke (qv) 1675-7; death in London “a little before” noted by Anthony Wood in diary entry of 28 Jan 1680/1 (Life and Times of Anthony Wood, ii, 514) (will proved PCC 7 Apr 1681).

WALL, BARTHOLOMEW, eldest son of James Wall, Stratford Langthorne, West Ham, Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1747; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1751 – res 16 Nov 1756; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1748.

WALKER-HENEAGE, GEORGE HENEAGE, eldest son of George Wyld (qv); b. 17 Jul 1799; adm. 30 May 1809; KS 1812; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1817, matr. 22 May 1817, Westminster Student; assumed surname of Walker-Heneage in lieu of Wyld 20 Aug 1818; BA 1821; MA 1823; MP (Cons) Devizes 1838-57; DL JP Wiltshire, High Sheriff 1829; Chief Proclamator, Court of Common Pleas, and hereditary Chief Usher, Court of Exchequer Nov 1822 – Jun 1852, when post abolished; m. 7 Aug 1824 Harriet Sarah, eldest dau. of William Webber, Binfield Lodge, Berks.; d. 21 Sep 1875.

Walker-Brash, Robert Munro Thorburn, brother of John Douglas Grenville Walker-Brash (qv); b. 15 Nov. 1920; adm. Jan. 1934 (H), KS Sept. 1935; left July 1939; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1939, BA 1942, MA 1946; St Barth. Hosp. Med. Sch., BM 1944; FRCS 1950; consult. surgeon Orpington & Sevenoaks Group 1960, retd 1984; m. 14 June 1946 Eva Frances Jacqueline Waite SRN, d. of Horace Stokes Waite, civil engineer, of Plaxtol, Kent.; d. June 2007

WALKER, SAMUEL EDMUND, son of Edmund Walker, London, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, and Esther Walker, Kirkheaton, Yorks. (IGI); b. 22 Jun 1810; adm. 26 Mar 1818; KS 1823; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1827, adm. pens. 29 May 1827, scholar 1828; BA 1831; Crosse Scholar 1833; MA 1834; BD 1841; DD 1846; ordained deacon 2 Aug 1835, priest 31 Jul 1836 (both York); Rector of St. Colomb Major, Cornwall, from 1841; became involved in significant speculative land deals in the Notting Hill district of Kensington, where his father had owned property, and their failure resulted in the sequestration of his living; m.; d. 16 Mar 1869.

WALKER, HARRY, brother of Arthur Walker (qv); b. 30 Oct 1846; adm. 3 Jun 1858 (James'); QS 1862; cox of eight in races v. Eton 2 Aug 1861, 1 Aug 1862; Hon. Secretary, Elizabethan Club 1864; left Whitsun 1865; d. unm. in Canada 1886.