WILCOX, GILES, son of Jonathan Wilcox, Westminster, and Emma --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 1653 (IGI); adm.; KS 1670; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1673, aged 18; BA 1677; ordained; Rector of Alburgh, Norfolk 16 Oct 1680-2; Rector of Bixley, Norfolk 26 Oct 1682-90, when deprived as a non-juror; committed to Newgate Prison 26 Feb 1691/2; still in custody May 1692; released and re-arrested 16 Apr 1696.
WILCOCKS, JOSEPH, only surviving son of Right Rev. Joseph Wilcocks DD, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and Jane, dau. of John Milner, British Consul at Lisbon; b. 4 Jan 1723/4; adm. Sep 1731; KS 1736; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1740, matr. 10 Jun 1740, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1740 – void 26 Jun 1753; BA 1744; MA 1747; lived at Barton, Northants, and afterwards at Lady Place, near Hurley, Berks.; travelled abroad; in Italy and France in 1761-2, his piety and benevolence when at Rome winning him the admiration of Pope Clement XIII, who called him “the blessed heretic”; FSA 17 Feb 1763; prepared four books of Sacred Exercises for the use of the School, published 1759; his Roman Conversations, “compiled for the use of places of education, particularly Westminster School”, written in 1763, were published in 1792-4, 2 vols.; d. unm. 23 Dec 1791. Buried under Consistory Court, Westminster Abbey. DNB (s. v. father).
WIGFALL, THOMAS, youngest son of Daniel Wigfall, Woodfall, Essex, and Renishaw, Derbs., and Dorothy Elmsall, Doncaster, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS 1701; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1705, matr. 21 Jun 1705, aged 20, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1705 – void 1707 (evidently at death, will proved PCC 8 May 1707).
WIGAN, WILLIAM, son of Humphrey Wigan, Gray’s Inn Lane, London, alehouse keeper, and Barbara --- (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 27 Aug 1640 (IGI); adm. ; in school lists 1656, last three quarters; KS 1656, Christmas quarter; gave evidence before the Governors in the Busby and Bagshaw dispute 1657; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 21 Jul 1658, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 1669); BA 22 Mar 1661/2; MA 1664 (incorp. Cambridge 1681); ordained; Chaplain to Humphrey Henchman (qv), Bishop of London; Rector of Wennington, Essex 1671-4; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 12 Mar 1671/2; Vicar of Kensington, Middlesex, from 31 Aug 1672; Rector of Orsett, Essex, from 1675; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Mary by 1691 (Miege 1691)); m. 16 Feb 1687 Mary Sondes, Orsett, Essex; d. 22 Apr 1700.
WIGAN, JOHN, son of William Wigan (qv); bapt. 31 Jan 1694/5; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1710; got into serious trouble with George Tollet (qv), the Under Master, but at the intercession of Bishop Trelawny was “admitted again” by the Dean (Atterbury, Correspondence, ii, 6); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1714, matr. 15 Jun 1714, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1714 – May 1727, Faculty Student 25 May 1727 – void by marriage 25 Apr 1739; BA 6 Feb 1718/9; MA 22 Mar 1720/1; MB and MD 1727; travelling tutor on European Continent with Stephen Fox 1723-5 (in Italy 1724-5); Principal, New Inn Hall, Oxford 3 Oct 1726 – summer 1732; FRCP 12 Apr 1732; Physician to Westminster Hospital 1733-7; went to Jamaica as Physician and Secretary to Edward Trelawny (qv), Governor of Jamaica, 1738; translated Longinus, De Curandis Febribus Continuis Liber, 1718, edited Aretaeus, 1723, and edited the collected works of John Freind (qv), 1732; m. 1739 Mary, widow of Philip Wheeler, Jamaica, and dau. of John Doace, Jamaica, planter; d. in Jamaica 5 Dec 1739. DNB.
WIGAN, GEORGE, son of William Wigan (qv); bapt. 6 Sep 1692; adm.; QS 1707; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1711, matr. 9 Jun 1711, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1711 – void 1727, Tutor 1716-24, Librarian 1722; ordained; Rector of Old Swinford, Worcs.; Rector of Ashbury, Berks., from 1722 [check date]; d. 11 Nov 1776.
WICKLIFFE, JOHN, brother of James Wickliffe (qv); bapt. Petworth, Sussex 1 Nov 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Sep 1735; KS 1740; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1744, adm. pens. 24 May 1744, scholar 3 May 1745, matr. 1744; BA 1747/8; MA 1751; ordained deacon (Chichester) 26 Jul 1748; Curate, Kirdford, Sussex 1748; Rector of Barton in Farbis, Notts. (to death); d. unm. 25 Nov 1792.
WICKHAM, WILLIAM, second son of Edward Wickham, St. Dunstans, Canterbury, Kent, and Elizabeth Williamson, Fordwich, Kent; b.; adm.; QS in 1569; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1572, Westminster Student to 1586; BA 27 Feb 1575/6; MA 1579; BCL (sup. ) 23 Apr 1583; adm. Inner Temple 1582; notary public 1587; of Islington, Middlesex; bequeathed the advowson of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs., to Christ Church, Oxford; m. 1st, Mary Reice, Canterbury, Kent; m. 2nd, Elizabeth Sagewick, York; d. 11 Apr 1624.
WICKHAM, WILLIAM, son of Henry Lewis Wickham (qv); b. 10 Jul 1831; adm. 19 Jan 1844 (Benthall's); QS 1846; left Whitsun 1847; New Inn Hall, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1850; BA 1854; MA 1857; adm. Inner Temple 20 Nov 1854, called to bar 6 Jun 1857; MP (Conservative) East Hampshire from 1892; DL Hampshire, High Sheriff 1888, JP 1866; Vice-Chairman, Hampshire County Council, from 1889; member Society of Dilettanti 1894; Busby Trustee 17 Jun 1884; edited The Correspondence of the Right Hon. William Wickham from 1794, 1870; m. 9 May 1860 Sophia Emma, youngest dau. of Henry Francis Shaw-Lefevre; d. 16 May 1897.
WICKHAM, RICHARD, eldest son of Rev. John Wickham, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and his first wife Martha, dau. of William Hovenden, Canterbury, Kent; nephew of William Wickham (QS 1569, qv); b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1593, matr. 8 Nov 1598 [year must be wrong], aged 17, Westminster Student to 1597; Fellow, All Souls Coll.; adm. Middle Temple 16 Feb 1604/5; d. 10 Mar 1612, in 35th year. Buried, Cowley, Oxford (MI).