WINDSOR, HON. DIXIE, second son of Thomas Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth PC, and his second wife Ursula, youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Widdrington, Kt, Sherburn Grange, Northumberland; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1688; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1691, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1691, aged 17, scholar 8 Apr 1692, matr. 1691; 7th in “ordo” 1694/5; BA 1694/5; MA 1698; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1697, Major Fellow 6 May 1698 – c. 1706; MP Cambridge University 1705-27; Storekeeper of the Ordnance Office 28 Jun 1712 – Mar 1717; Busby Trustee 8 Mar 1711/2; m. Dorothy, sister of Bertram Stote (qv); d. 20 Oct 1743.

WODEHOUSE, JOHN, 1st BARON WODEHOUSE, son of Sir Armine Wodehouse, Bart., MP, and Letitia, eldest dau. of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart., MP; b. 4 Apr 1741; adm. Oct 1748 (Watts'); Min. Can. 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Feb 1758; Grand Tour (Italy) 1763-4; Col. East Norfolk Militia 7 Jun 1774, witth rank of Col. in Army 2 Jul 1779; succ. as 6th baronet 2 May 1777; . of Kimberley, Norfolk; MP Norfolk 1784 – 26 Oct 1797; created Baron Wodehouse 26 Oct 1797; m. 30 Mar 1769 Sophia, only dau. of Hon. Charles Berkeley, Bruton Abbey, Somerset; d. 29 May 1834.

WRAY, SIR CECIL, BART., eldest son of Sir John Wray, Bart., and Frances, dau. of Fairfax Norcliffe, Langton, Yorks.; b. 3 Sep 1734; adm. Apr 1745 (Smalwell's); left 1749; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1749, matr. 1749; succ. as 13th baronet 26 Jan 1752; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 26 Dec 1755 – 20 Dec 1757; of Fillingham, Lincs.; MP East Retford 1768-80, Westminster 12 Jun 1782-4; a strenuous opponent of the American War; denounced the Fox-North coalition, and opposed Fox’s East India Bill; unsuccessfully contested Westminster against Hood and Fox at the general election of 1784; satirised in The Rolliad and caricatured by Rowlandson and Gillray; m. Esther, dau. of James Summers, Fillingham, Lincs.; d. 10 Jan 1805. DNB.

WROTTESLEY, HENRY, son of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv); b. 25 Oct 1772; adm. 31 Jan 1782; KS (Capt. ) 1786; Capt. of the School 1790; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1791, matr. 22 Jun 1791, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1791 – void 25 Jun 1803; BA 1795; MA 1798; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Nov 1793, called to bar 26 Nov 1798; member, Corporation of Cursitors Dec 1794 (still Law List 1822); Commissioner of Bankrupts 1799 (occurs in annual lists 1801 to death); Solicitor, Board of Control Feb 1806 – Aug 1811; MP Brackley from 28 Dec 1810; d. unm. 17 Feb 1825.

WYCHE, SIR CYRIL, second son of Right Hon. Sir Peter Wyche, PC, Kt, English Ambassador at Constantinople, and Jane, dau. of Sir William Meredith, Kt, Wrexham, Denbighshire; b.; a godson of Cyril Loukaris, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, after whom he was named; adm.; KS in 1649; contributed a copy of verses to Lacrimae Musarum, 1649; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1650; BA 17 Feb 1652/3; MA 1655; DCL 1665; LLD Dublin 1692; adm. Gray’s Inn 1 May 1657, called to bar 15 Jun 1670; knighted at The Hague May 1660; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery 28 Jan 1662-75; MP Callington May 1661 – Jan 1678/9, East Grinstead Feb – Mar 1680/1, Saltash 1685-7, Preston 1702-5; Chief Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland 1677-82, and to Henry Sidney, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Sep 1692 – Jul 1693; MP (I) Dublin University 17 Sep 1692 – 26 Jun 1693; Privy Councillor (I) 1692; one of the Lord Justices of Ireland 1693-5; a Commissioner for Irish Forfeitures 1700; FRS 20 May 1663, President 30 Nov 1683 – 30 Nov 1684; lic. to m. 1st, 2 Aug 1663 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Jermyn, Rushbrooke, Suffolk; lic. to m. 2nd, 29 Jul 1684 Susanna, dau. of Sir Herbert Perrott, Kt, MP, Haroldstone, Pembs., and dau. of Sir Francis Norreys, Kt, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire; m. 3rd, 15 May 1692 Mary, eldest dau. of George Evelyn, Wotton, Surrey; d. 29 Dec 1707. DNB.

WYNDHAM, HON. PERCY CHARLES, second son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv); b. 23 Sep 1757; adm. 17 Oct 1765; KS (Capt. ) 1769; Capt. of the School 1773; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1774, but did not matr.; Chancery Registrar, Jamaica 1763 (still 1780); Secretary and Clerk of the Courts, and Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Barbados May 1763 - 1820; MP Chichester 11 Mar 1782-4, Midhurst 1790-6; d. unm. 5 Aug 1833.