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Wogan, William, d. 1758
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d. 1758
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WOGAN, WILLIAM, younger son of Rev. Ethelred Wogan, Rector of Gumfreston and Vicar of Penally, Pembrokeshire; b.; adm.; KS 1694; remained a year longer than usual in College at the wish of Dean Sprat to transcribe for the press the first four books of Clarendon’s History; Capt. of the School 1699-1700; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1700, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1700, scholar 2 May 1701, but did not matr.; London Secretary to Edward Southwell, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1703-7, 1713-4 (cf. CSP Dom 1703-4, 27, where he is referred to as “Ongan”); [perhaps Gentleman of the Privy Chamber under Queen Anne]; entered army and for some years stationed in Dublin; subsequently resident for some thirty years at Ealing, Middlesex; a man of great piety, who corresponded with Whitefield and Wesley, and was on intimate terms with many of the evangelical leaders of his time; author, Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England, 1753, and other religious works; m. 7 Dec 1718 Catherine, dau. of Charles Stanhope, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts.; ; d. 24 Jan 1758. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.