Whitlamsmith, Gerard Kime, son of Harry Holland Whitlamsmith, of Brockley, Kent, by Edith Mary, daughter of Albert Allwright, of Lewisham, Kent; b. July 17, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (H); elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. Aug. 1922, matric. Michaelmas 1922; B.A. 1925; an administrative officer, Tanganyika Territory, 1926; asst. District Officer 1928; secretary, Lands and Mines Dept., 1936; District Officer 1938; Chief Secretary 1945; m. Feb. 27, 1929, Dora, eldest daughter of James Hatley.
Whitlamsmith, Laurence Holland, brother of Gerard Kime Whitlamsmith (qv); b. 12 Dec. 1905; adm. Apr. 1920 (H); left July 1924; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1924, BA 1927, LLB 1928; adm. a solicitor Aug. 1930; Divorce Dept of the Law Society; RAFVR in WW2 (Flt Lieut.); d. 1 Oct. 1958.
Whitman, Herbert Edward S., son of Sidney Whitman, of Kensington, by Frances Charlotte, eldest daughter of Capt. Edmund Francis Anstey, 20th Regt.; b. Feb. 15, 1892; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (H); left Dec. 1907.
Whitmore, John Beach, only son of William Beach Whitmore, M.B., of London, by Mary Caroline, only daughter of George Stanbury Pedler, of Knightsbridge. b. June 19, 1882; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (H); exhibitioner 1896; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1901, matric. Michaelmas 1901; B.A. 1904; 2nd Lieut. Queen's Westminster Rifles Dec. 24, 1904; Lieut. May 21, 1906; Capt. July 29, 1914; Major June 1, 1916; served in France and Belgium 1914-8; T.D. July 1919; adm. a solicitor Jan. 1920, practised in London; secretary of the Elizabethan Club 1924-5; a Bushy Trustee 1953; joint editor of the present work; compiler of A Genealogical Guide (1953); the outstanding genealogist of his day; m. July 6, 1929, Edith Diana, youngest daughter of Richard Henry Botham, M.R.C.S., of Skelton-in Cleveland, Yorks; d. Oct. 4, 1957; bequeathed a considerable fortune to the school, subject to certain life interests.
Whitney-Smith, Charles Alexander, son of Edwin Whitney-Smith RBS, sculptor, of Kilburn, and Rachel Pitt; b. 16 Jan. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (H); left July 1931; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1931, capt. OUFC, fenced against Cambridge, BA 1936; Brit. Univs Foil champion 1934, Brit. Junior Epée champion 1936; fenced for England 1936; RNVR 1939-45 (Lieut.), despatches Dec. 1945; HM Foreign Service Lyon, Paris, Marseille; Consul Attaché Rangoon 1953; m. 21 Apr. 1943 Patricia Ann, d. of Edgar Booth of Hythe, Kent; d. 16 Jan. 1984.
Whittard, Algernon Charles Evelyn, son of John Charles Whittard, of Redhill, Surrey; b. March 9, 1885; adm. May 4, 1899 (H); left July 1901; d. at Paris Nov. 3, 1908.
Whittet, John Alexander, son of Alexander Willis Whittet, seed crusher, of Weybridge, Surrey, and Dorothy Frances, sister of Richard William Foxlee (qv); b. 6 Feb. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (H); left July 1933; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936, MA 1945; RAFVR 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), DFC (Berlin) Feb. 1944, bar to DFC June 1944; chairman A. Whittet & Co. Ltd, general commodity traders and publishers; m. 14 Sept. 1940 Mary Ethel Thackara, d. of Ernest Albert Edney of Horndean, Herts.; d. 9 Jan. 2007.
Wickham, Claud Edmund George, son of Edmund Karl Hans Wichmann of Lübeck, Germany (who assumed the name of Wickham 1921), and Fanny Handasyd, d. of John James Hopkins, dep. man. SE & Chatham Rly, of Ramsgate; b. 13 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H), KS Sept. 1926; left July 1928; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1935; FO (Med.) RAF Sept. 1936; SMO Advanced Air HQ. Western Desert 1941, despatches June 1942; CO Mobile Field Hosps 1943; DGMS Air Min. 1944-8; Wing Cdr RAF July 1947, Group Capt. July 1957; DPH (Edin.) 1952; Commandant RAF Med. Training Estab. 1952-5; dep. PMO Flving Training and ME Commands 1957-61; CO RAF Central Med. Estab. 1961, RAF Hosp. Uxbridge 1963; m. 14 May 1942 Patricia Mary, d. of Harry Woolley, artist, of Brede, Sussex; d. in a road accident 7 Oct. 1975.
Wiggett, Edward Lyde, son of William Wiggett, of Kensington; b. June 15, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1895.
Wilcox, Kenneth Theodore Dunbar, only son of the Rev. Alfred George Wilcox, Vicar of St. George's, Battersea, Surrey, temp. Chaplain to the Forces; b. Dec. 24, 1894; adm. May 4, 1905 (H); K.S. 1909; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1913, matric. Michael mas 1913; enlisted in P.S. Batt. Middlesex Regt. Sept. 13, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 8th (Serv.) Batt. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt. Oct. 17, 1914; went out to the western front Oct. 8, 1915; killed in action at Château Lahnkof, near Ypres, Nov. 8, 1915.