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Silversmith active between 1833-1863.

WHITING, BEVERLEY, son of Henry Whiting, Virginia, North America, and Anne, dau. of Peter Beverley, Gloucester Co., Virginia; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1720; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1722; adm. Middle Temple 8 Sep 1722; Burgess for Gloucester Co. from 1744; a godfather of George Washington, the first President of the USA; m. 1st, 22 Aug 1733 Mary Skaife, King’s and Queen’s Co., Virginia; m. 2nd, Elizabeth ---; d. Mar 1755.

WHITGIFT, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1589, adm. scholar 1590, matr. Mich. 1589.

WHITFORD, DAVID, brother of Adam Whitford (qv); b. 1626; adm. ; KS 1640 (CSP Dom 1639-40, 567, for warrant dated 21 Mar 1639/40 commanding the Electors to admit him to “the next scholar’s place that shall be void”); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1642, matr. [check], Westminster Student; BA 1647; MA 14 Jan 1660/1; enrolled with brother in Royalist garrison of Oxford; deprived of Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors 1648; attached himself to Charles II; wounded and taken prisoner at battle of Worcester 3 Sep 1651; an Usher in James Sherley’s Sch. at Whitefriars; adm. Inner Temple Nov 1658; reinstated in Studentship 1660, and granted dispensation to retain it though disabled by the custom of the college (CSP Dom 1660-1, 432); held Studentship until death; a tutor at Christ Church; ordained; Chaplain to Lord George Douglas’s Regt. of Foot, 26 Jul 1666; officiated as Minister to Scottish Regt. in France 1672; Rector of Middleton Tyas, Yorks. , from 1673; an excellent scholar; author, Musaei, Moschi et Bionis quae extant omnia, quibus accessere quaedam selectiora Theocriti Eidyllia, 1655; d. 26 Oct 1674. Buried South Transept, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

WHITFORD, ADAM, third son of Right Rev. Walter Whitford, Bishop of Brechin, and Anne, fourth dau. of Sir John Carmichael; b.; adm.; KS in 1640; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1641, matr. 10 Dec 1641, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1646; served in Royalist garrison of Oxford; buried South Transept, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 10 Feb 1646/7, having been killed during siege of city. DNB.

WHITFIELD, WILLIAM, son of Rev. John Whitfield, Rector of Bugbrooke, Northants, and Alice, dau. of Rev. William Burkitt DD, Vicar of Guilsborough, Northants; bapt. 1 Jul 1658; adm.; KS 1673; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1677, matr. 4 Dec 1677, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1677 – void 1692, Tutor 1685-6; BA 1681; MA 1684; DD Lambeth 23 Jul 1716; adm. Inner Temple 1679; ordained; Rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London 5 Dec 1691-1713; Rector of Ewhurst, Surrey 27 Jan 1692/3-1715; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 16 Jan 1694/5 and of Canterbury from 4 Feb 1708/9; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne (in 1708); Vicar of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, London, from 5 Oct 1714; m. Catherine --- (IGI); d. 4 Mar 1716/7.

WHITFIELD, WILLIAM LANCASTER; son of John Whitfield, and Mary --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 21 Jan 1781 (IGI); adm. 16 Jan 1792; in school list 1795; still at school Dec 1795; a merchant in Jamaica; member, Jamaica House of Assembly; d. 17 Oct 1824, in 45th year (sic).

WHITFIELD, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1745 (Hart's).

WHITFIELD, JOHN, son of Joseph Whitfield, Newbury, Berks.; b.; adm. (aged 11) Mar 1738/9 (Russel's); KS 1744; left 1746.

WHITFIELD, JOHN, son of William Whitfield (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s Ludgate, London 7 Jun 1705 (IGI); adm.; in under school list 1715; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1717; KS 1718; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 4 Apr 1743 (expiry year of grace as R. Bideford from 24 Apr 1742), Tutor 1733-40, Junior Censor 1735, Senior Censor 1736-8; BA 1726; MA 1728/9; Professor of Poetry, Oxford Univ. 1738-41; Proctor 1739; ordained priest (Winchester) 19 Sep 1730; tutor and chaplain to Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv); Rector of Bideford, Devon, from 1741/2; possessed a ready wit and a knack of writing epigrams; buried Bideford, Devon 25 Apr 1783.