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WOLSTON, RICHARD WALTER, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv); b. 1799; adm. 15 Jan 1808; adm. attorney Mich. 1825 and notary public 1833; practised at Brixham, Devon, to 1856; living at Blackler, Wolston Green, Devon, in 1863; d. 1883.

WOLSTON, AUGUSTUS, second son of John Wolston, Great Smith Street, Westminster, and Tornewton, Devon, and Catharine, dau. of Roger Prideaux, West Alvington, Devon; b.; adm.; left 1811; adm. attorney 1817; practised at Furnival’s Inn, London; d. unm. 16 Mar 1861.

WOLSTON, ALEXANDER, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv); b.; adm. 12 Feb 1810; an attorney; practising at Eton, Bucks., in 1830-4.

Wolstenholme, James Benjamin Wallace, elder son of James Wolstenholme, of Stanmore, Middlesex, by Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of T. B. Gossling, of Accrington, Lancs; b. March 25, 1895; adm. April 30, 1908 (A); left July 1909; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles April 1913; Lieut. Railway Transport Officer Sept. 27, 1915; transferred to R.F.C. Aug. 1917; killed accidentally while flying at Doncaster, Yorks, Aug. 20, 1918.

WOLSELEY, ROBERT, brother of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart. (qv); b. 3 Aug 1770; adm. 19 Jan 1780; ordained; m. 7 Feb 1805 Marianne, dau. of George Watson Hand (qv); d. 1 Sep 1815 (will proved PCC 27 Jan 1816, he of Ockbrook, Derbs. ).

WOLSELEY, HENRY, brother of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart. (qv); b. 16 Aug 1771; adm. 19 Jan 1780; Ensign, 18th Foot 6 Jun 1788; Lieut., 3 Jun 1791; retd. 28 Oct 1793; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1798, aged 26; m. 2 Dec 1793 Charlotte, only dau. of Maj. John Delap Halliday, 79th Foot, Leasowes, Shropshire; d. 1836 (will proved PCC 1 Sep 1836, he of Peel Heath, Middlesex).

WOLSELEY, SIR CHARLES, BART., second son of Sir William Wolseley, Bart., and Charlotte Barbara, dau. of Zachary Chambers, Wimbledon, Surrey; b. 20 Jul 1769; adm. 19 Jan 1780; in school lists 1786; Grand Tour (France); present at taking of the Bastille 14 Jul 1789; succ. father as 7th baronet 5 Aug 1817; an original member of the Union of Parliamentary Reform and of the Hampden Club; chairman of a great demonstration at Sandy Brow, Stockport, Cheshire Jun 1819; arrested for his speech on that occasion, and in Apr 1820 was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for sedition and conspiracy; withdrew from politics c. 1826; Roman Catholic convert 1837; m. 1st, 13 Dec 1794 Mary, dau. of Hon. Thomas Clifford, Tixall, Staffs.; m. 2nd, 2 Jul 1812 Anne, youngest dau. of Anthony Wright, Wealdside, Essex; d. 3 Oct 1846. DNB.

WOLRIDGE, STEPHEN; b.; adm. (aged 14) May 1715.

Wollheim, Richard Arthur, son of Eric Wollheim, theatrical impresario, of Walton-on-Thames, and Constance Mary, d. of Col. William Henry Baker, vintner; b. 5 May 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (KS); left July 1941; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1941, BA 1948, (1st class hons History 1946, PPE 1948), MA 1949; Roy. lnniskilling Fusiliers 1943-5 (Lieut.); asst lecturer in Philosophy Univ. Coll. Lond. 1949-51, lecturer 1951-60, Reader 1960-3, Grote Prof. of Philosophy of Mind and Logic 1963-82; Prof. of Philosophy Columbia Univ. New York 1982-4; visiting Prof. of Philos­ophy Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1985-; Prof. of Philosophy and the Humanities Univ. of California, Davis, 1989-; FBA 1972; Fellow American Academy of Arts & Sciences 1986; author of Freud 1971, On Art and the Mind 1972, The Thread of Life 1984, Painting as an Art 1987; also edited works by F. H. Bradley; m. 1st 15 Aug. 1950 Anne Barbara Denise, formerly wife of Theodore Philip Toynbee, d. of Lieut.-Col. George Powell, Grenadier Guards; 2nd 1969 Mary Day, d. of Robert S. Lanier of New York; d. 4 Nov. 2003.

Wolferstan, John, son of Harold Littleton Wolferstan, solicitor, of Plymouth, and Fanny Bridgman of Tavistock; b. 16 Mar. 1906; adm. Apr. 1921 (A); left Dec. 1923; emigrated to Can­ada; Fellow Canadian Bankers' Assn 1934; RCAF 1939-45 (Sqdn Ldr); an accountant in Van­couver 1946-64; Anglican Theolog. Coll. Univ. of Brit. Columbia, ordained 1960, retd 197 4; m. 15 Nov. 1937 Louise Davidson, d. of William R. Brown, grain merchant, of Vancouver; d. 11 Apr. 1993.