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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, 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.

WHITFIELD, JOHN, brother of William Whitfield (qv); bapt. 27 Sep 1660; adm.; KS 1676; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 May 1680, aged 18, Somerset Scholar; BA 1 Feb 1683/4; MA 1688; Fellow, Merton Coll. 1684; adm. Inner Temple 1680; edited Musae Anglicanae; the Greek Grammar which he used at school was obtained by a later OW (Elizabethan vii, 37-8); d. 10 Aug 1694.

Whitelegge, David Sherbrooke, son of Maurice Horsley Whitelegge, asst. sec. Home Office, and Sybil Eleanor Sherbrooke, d. of Rev. Samuel John Sherbrooke Banks, Rector of Trimley St Martin, Suffolk, hon. Canon of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich; b. 11 Aug. 1928; adm. Sept. 1941 (KS); left July 1946; Ch. Ch. Oxf., elected 1947, matric. 1949, BA 1952, MA 1956; Colonial Admin. Service (later HM Overseas Civil Service); Malaya 1952, Hong Kong 1959; retd. as Commissioner for Census and Statistics 1978, OBE Jan. 1978; Internat. Statistics Inst. 1978-84; d. 6 May 2010.

Whitelegge, Adrian Bruce, son of Christopher Horsley Whitelegge, solicitor to GWR, and Geraldine, d. of William Wallace Bruce of Kensington; b. 30 Nov. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (A); left July 1941; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1942, BA MA 1949; RAF 1943-6; adm. solicitor Nov. 1950, practised in London; McKenna and Co. 1948-85; retd.; m. 19 Oct. 1963 Day McAusland, singer, d. of Stuart Douglas McAusland; d. 18 Dec. 2011.

WHITEHORNE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627; BA 1630/1; MA 1634.

WHITEHEAD, GEORGE THOMAS, son of John Whitehead, London; b.; adm. 21 Jan 1766; KS (aged 14) 1770; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1774, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1774, scholar 5 May 1775, matr. 1775; ordained deacon (Norwich, lit. dim. from London) 2 Aug 1778. [Note Rev. George Whitehead, Great Berkhampsted, Herts., d. 1780].