West, Gordon Estcourt, brother of Richard Goy West (q.v.); b. Nov. 7, 1899; adm. April 28, 1910 (H); left Dec. 1917; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Grenadier Guards June 26, 1918.
WEST, CHARLES, son of Charles West, Westminster, chemist; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1714; KS 1715; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1719, adm. pens. 28 May 1719, scholar 29 Apr 1720, matr. 1720; BA 1722/3; MA 1726; MD 1728; medical practitioner at Great Stanmore, Middlesex; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, lic. 19 Oct 1748 [check date] Mary Astley, Great Stanmore, Middlesex; m. 3rd, 6 Feb 1748/9 Susanna Derby, St. Mary Woolnoth, London, widow.
West, Charles John Murray, 1903-1947
West, Charles John Murray, son of the Rev. Arthur George Bainbridge West, Rector of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London, by Annie Elise Florence, daughter of George Edwardes, of Little Ness, Salop; b. Aug. 31, 1903; adm. June 5, 1918 (R); left Dec. 1918; readm. May 2, 1919; left Dec. 1920; a numismatist and plastic engineer; m. 1927 Doreen Mary, daughter of Major Harry Ernest Chapman, C.B.E., The Border Regt., Chief Constable of Kent; d. Oct. 29, 1947.
West, Charles Francis Luttrell, 1828-1892
WEST, CHARLES FRANCIS LUTTRELL, son of Rev. Charles West, Head Master, Northampton GS; b. Horley, Oxfordshire 5 Jul 1828; adm. 6 Jan 1844 (G); rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1845, 30 Jul 1846; left 1847; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge; 32nd Wrangler 1851; BA 1851; MA 1854; ordained deacon 1851, priest 1852 (both Peterborough); Curate, All Saints, Northampton, and All Saints, Stamford, Lincs.; Rector of Shenley, Bucks., 1866-77; living in Wandsworth, Surrey 1881 (1881 Census); m. 27 Oct 1873 Ellen Matilda, only dau. of Wenman Langham Woodford, Upton, Northants; d. 25 Feb 1892.
West, Alun David Herbert, 1917-1954
West, Alun David Herbert, son of Charles Frederick Marling West LDS, dental surgeon, and Elizabeth Margaret, d. of David Davies of Lampeter, Cards.; b. 22 Oct. 1917; adm. Sept. 1931 (A); left Dec. 1934; Univ. of Wales, BSc (1st class hons Agriculture); an agricultural chemist Kingsley Sch. Vancouver BC; d. July 1954.
WEST, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).
WESLEY, SAMUEL, eldest son of Rev. Samuel Wesley LLD, Rector of Epworth, Lincs., and Susanna, youngest dau. of Rev. Samuel Annesley, Vicar of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, London, afterwards a Nonconformist minister; b. 10 Feb 1690/1; adm. 1704; BB 1705; QS 1707; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1711, matr. 9 Jun 1711, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1711 – void 1723; BA 1715; MA 1718; an Usher at the School 1713-33; ordained; helped to promote the first Infirmary at Westminster (the origin of both Westminster and St. George’s Hospitals); passed over for post of Under Master on Nicholl’s promotion to the Head Mastership in May 1733; Head Master, Blundell’s Sch., Tiverton, from 1733; author, Poems on Several Occasions, 1736, and other poems; m. by 1724 Ursula, dau. of Rev. Samuel Berry, Vicar of Watton, Norfolk (and proprietor of a boarding house for Westminster boys); d. 6 Nov 1739. DNB.