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WALCOT, JOHN, brother of Charles Walcot (adm. 1748, qv); bapt. 20 Nov 1740; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1749 (Grant's); Post Office Agent for the Packets at Dover and Yarmouth c. 1762-98; Accountant-General, Post Office 1766-70; m. 1st, Eliza, widow of Capt. Charles Coleby, Royal Navy; m. 2nd, 25 Sep 1805 Isabella Douglas, widow [or Jemima, dau. of Adm. Sir James Douglas, Bart., Royal Navy : check]; d. 1819. [perhaps John Walcot, will proved PCC 27 Jul 1820]

Waley, Guy Felix, only son of John Felix Waley, of London, barrister-at-law, by Ethel Esther, daughter of Daniel Schloss, of London; b. May 10, 1897; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (G); K.S. (non­-resident) 1911; Mure Scholar 1914; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1915, but did not matric.; 2nd Lieut. 11th Batt. Royal Warwicks Regt. Oct. 4, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; served in France and was severely wounded at Arras April 1917; Military Intelligence Dept. Sept. 1918; discharged on account of his wounds March 1919; in the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Sept. 1919; m. Nov. 7, 1923, Anne Elizabeth, only daughter of Henry Newton Dickson, C.B.E., D.Sc., of Reading, Berks; d. Sept. 20, 1959.

Walker, Ian Patrick Goold, son of Maj. George Goold Walker DSO MC FSA, secretary HAC, and Lilian Sophie, d. of F. C. P. Clarke of St Helier, Jersey; b. 15 Feb. 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (G); left Apr. 1932; film industry; Northants Yeomanry Dec. 1940, transf. Queen's Bays (Capt.), served El Alamein; d. 6 July 1945 of wounds received in Italy Oct. 1944.

Ian Patrick Goold Walker was born at Kensington, London on the 15th of February 1914 the only son of Major George Goold Walker DSO, MC, FSA, Secretary of the Honourable Artillery Company, and Lilian Sophie (nee Grant) Walker of 29, Westbourne Terrace in London and of L’Etacq, Jersey in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1927 to April 1932. On leaving school he entered the film industry and he enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1939, serving with their anti aircraft battery.
He attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry on the 7th of December 1940. He was attached to the Queen’s Bays and served with them in the North African campaign from El Alamein to Tunis. He was selected for a Staff training course but refused the offer as his Regiment was under orders to move to Italy.
He was wounded on the 13th October 1944 during the fighting for the Gothic Line and died from his injuries nine months later.
He is commemorated on the Coveney Roll of Honour.
He is buried at Almorah Cemetery, St Helier Grave 22/13F.

Walters, Alan Hubert, son of Lieut.-Col. Hubert de Lancey Walters, C.M.G., D.S.O., R.A., of Chelsea, by Gwendolen, daughter of J. P. Morgan, of Llandyssil, N. Wales; b. Oct. 11, 1898; adm. April 26, 1912 (G); left Dec. 1913.

Walters, Hubert Algernon, son of Lieut.-Col. Robert Francis Waltcrs, of Ealing; b. May 14, 1898; adm. Jan. 18, 1912 (G); left Dec. 1913; joined the Royal Exchange Assurance 1914; represented the Royal Exchange Assnce. Co. in various countries in Europe till 1933; asst. general manager 1948; general manager 1954-61; chairman of the London Salvage Corps 1958-60, and the British Insurance Assoc. 1959-61; director of several assurance compames; F.R.H.S. and F.Z.S.; retired Sept. 1961; m. 1921, Mary Josephine Robertson.

Warburg, Fredric John, only son of John Cimon Warburg, of Paddington, by Violet Amelia, daughter of Edward Ferdinand Sichel; b. Nov. 27, 1898; adm. April 26, 1912 (G); exhibitioner 1912; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1917; B.A. 1923, M.A. 1926; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. Oct. 1, 1917; served in Belgium and France until demob. in Feb. 1919; an apprentice with Geo. Routledge and Sons, Ltd., publishers, Oct. 1922, a managing director 1929-35; managing director and chairman of Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., publishers, since 1936; director of Heinemann Group Ltd., 1961; author of An Occupation for Gentlemen (1959) an autobiography; m. 1st . July 5, 1922, May Nellie, second daughter of H. Holt, of London; 2nd Pamela, eldest daughter of Frederic de Bayou, of Paris; d. 25 May 1981.

Ward, Aidan Crawley Pulleine, son of Rev. Arthur Easton Stanley Ward DD, Rector of Duloe, Cornwall, and Marianne, d. of Rt Rev. John James Pulleine DD, Bishop Suffragan of Rich­mond, Yorks; b. 11 May 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (G); left Apr. 1928; Keble Coll. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 193 7, MA 1939; ord. deacon 1937, priest 1938 (Durham); Curate St Aidan West Hartlepool 1937; Chaplain RNVR 1942-6; Vicar of Craghead, Co. Durham, 1947; Rector of Louth with Welton-le-Wold 1952, Witheall 1952-4; Prebendary and Canon of Welton Brinkhall in Lincoln Cathedral 1960, Canon Emeritus 1973; Vicar of Witham-on-the-Hill 1969-73, St Margaret's High Bentham, Lancaster, 1973-9; m. 9 Oct. 1943 Kathleen Dora, d. of Sir Francis James Wylie, Oxford Sec. to the Rhodes Trustees; d. 28 Jan. 1979.

WARD, HERBERT GEORGE, second son of David Ward, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor, and Sarah W. --- (IGI); b. 10 Sep 1865; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (G); left Aug 1883; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 22 Jun 1887; South-Eastern Circuit; Secretary, Hunstanton Golf Club; d. from the result of an accident at Hunstanton, Norfolk 15 Feb 1910.

Waterfield, William Hugh Herschel, son of William Francis Herschel Waterfield (qv); b. 25 Feb. 1916; adm. Sept. 1933 (A), (G) Jan. 1934; left July 1934; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1935; a journalist in S. Africa; m. 3 Aug. 1946 Gerda Pauline, d. of Charles Algar of Pinelands, Cape Town; d. 5 Sept. 1967.

WATKINS, FREDERICK, second son of Rev. Henry Watkins, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks., and Frances Mary, eldest dau. of Freeman Bower, Killerby Hall, Yorks., attorney; b. 1 Apr 1808; adm. 18 Sep 1821 (G); left Christmas 1822; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge; BA 1830; MA 1833; BD 1840; Fellow, Emmanuel Coll. 1838-47; ordained deacon (St. David’s) 4 Sep 1834, priest 1837; HM Inspector of Schools 1841-73; Rector of Long Marston, Yorks., from 1873; Archdeacon and Prebendary of York 1874-84; Examining Chaplain to Archbishop of York 1877; m. 1st, 5 Aug 1847 Amelia, eldest dau. of Rev. George Millett, Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 17 Sep 1873 Fanny, dau. of William Chambers, Hafod, Cardiganshire; d. 6 Feb 1888.