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Wallis, Douglas MacGregor, son of Alfred George Wallis, of Streatham, Surrey; b. Sept. 13, 1884; adm. Jan. 20, 1898 (A); left Dec. 1900; enlisted in 28th Batt. London Regt. Aug. 1914; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. K.R.R.C. Nov. 24, 1916; wounded Feb. 6, 1917; on the staff of the Union Discount Co.; d. Kenya Sept. 14, 1948.

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]

Waller, Gordon Trueman Riviere, son of Harold Noel Waller MB BS MRCS LRCP FICS DLO, of Pinner, Middlesex, and Elizabeth Hope Sutherland, d. of Rev. William Fulton DD, Principal Trin. Coll. Glasgow; b. 4 June 1945; adm. Sept. 1958 (L); left July 1963; a singer, songwriter and guitarist; member Peter and Gordon duo, with Peter Asher (qv), to 1968; subsequently in various business employments; m. 1st, Gay Robbins; 2nd, 15 Aug 1998 (div. 2007) Georgiana Steele; 3rd, Mar. 2008 Josenia Couldrey; d. 17 July 2009.

Waller, Daniel Grierson Hardress, son of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Alexander Phillips Waller IA; b. 11 Jan. 1907; adm. Apr. 1921 (R); left Dec. 1924.

WALL, WILLIAM LARTON, son of Rev. John Wall, Rector of Quatt and Wollaston, Shropshire, and Elizabeth, seventh dau. of William Whitmore, Dudmaston, Shropshire, and his first wife; b. 24 May 1806; adm. 9 Apr 1817 (Packharness'); Min. Can. 1821; Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 1826, resided three terms; surgeon, EI Maritime Service 1827-8; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1828; d. at sea on his passage to India 30 Dec 1829.

WALL, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1746 (Watts'); left 1747.

Wall, Philip Errington, son of Henry Augustus Wall of Mitcham, Surrey, and Alice Margery, d. of Augustus Henry Murray Driver of Lapworth, Warks.; b. 15 Feb. 1908; adm. Apr. 1921 (A); left Dec. 1923; City & Guilds Inst., ACGI 1929; C. A. Parsons & Co. and Ransomes & Marles Bearing Co. 1931-9; AMIMechE 1940; tech. asst Min. of Aircraft Production 1939, tech. officer 1940-3; resident tech. officer de Havilland Engine Co. 1944; asst engineer Canadian Internat. Paper Co. Hawkesbury, Ontario, 1947; retd 1971; m. 10 July 1937 Lilian Margaret, d. of Sydney Richard Blackburn of Newcastle-on-Tyne; d. 15 June 1973.

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.