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WICKHAM, HENRY, son of Ven. Henry Wickham [DD ?], Rector of Bedale, Yorks., and Archdeacon of York [check], and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Browne, Fidlers, Essex; bapt. 16 Sep 1630; adm.; KS 1642; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1647, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1647, scholar 1648, matr. 1647; BA 1650/1; MA 1654 (incorp. Oxford 13 Jul 1669); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1651 – c. 1658; adm. Gray’s Inn 23 Mar 1651/2; Head Master, Ipswich Sch. 1659-64; Rector of Wilby, Suffolk 19 Oct 1662.

WICKHAM, HENRY LEWIS, only son of Right Hon. William Wickham PC DCL MP, Bingley, Yorkshire, politician and administrator, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Eléonore Madeleine, dau. of Louis Bertrand, Professor of Mathematics, Geneva Univ.; b. 19 May 1789; adm. 29 Mar 1799; in school list 1801; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student; BA 1811; MA 1813; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 Apr 1811, called to bar 13 may 1817; Receiver-Gen., Gibraltar; Private Secretary to Viscount Althorp MP when Chancellor of the Exchequer Dec 1830 – Jun 1833; a Commissioner of Excise Dept. Inquiry 1833; a Commissioner for the French Claims 1838; Chairman, Board of Stamps and Taxes 1838-48; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1846; joint author with his cousin John Antony Cramer (qv) of Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps; m. 19 Jun 1830 Lucy, youngest dau. of William Markham (adm. 1767, qv); d. 27 Oct 1864. DNB.

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.

WIAT, GEORGE; b. ; adm. ; KS 1635.

WHYTE, WILLIAM RICHARD, second son of James Whyte, Denbies, Surrey, and Gertrude Gee (IGI); b. 23 Mar 1776; adm. 19 Jan 1787 (as White); in school list Dec 1788 (as Whyte); KS (aged 15) 1792 (as Whyte); d. at school c. 1794.

WHITWORTH, ROBERT, youngest son of Sir Charles Whitworth (qv); bapt. 16 Oct 1761; adm. 2 Nov 1773; KS 1775; drowned while sailing on river Thames between Lambeth and Vauxhall with Phoenix Felton (qv) and Richard Warren (qv), 5 May 1778, aged 16. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

Whitworth, George Elwes Allen, brother of William Hervey Allen Whitworth (q.v.); b. Feb. 18, 1888; adm. as (non-resident) K.S. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left (with Triplett) July 1906; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; M.A. 1919; Ely Theological Coll. 1910; ordained 1911; Curate of St. John's, Hammersmith, 191 1-3, of St. Andrew's. Bethnal Green, London, 1913-20; Vicar 1920-5; Rector of Radwinter, Essex 1925; Vicar of Gainsborough, Lincs 1936; Prebendary of Lincoln 1936-47; Vicar of Great St. Mary, Cam­bridge, 1947-54; Hon. Canon of Ely 1952; enlisted in R.G.A. May 3, 1918; 2nd Lieut. April 9, 1919; Mayor of Bethnal Green 1922-3; m. Nov. 28, 1925, Phoebe Frances Eiric, second daughter of Sir Francis Henry May, G.C.M.G., sometime Governor of Hong Kong, of Clare Priory, Suffolk; d. 1969.

WHITWORTH, FRANCIS, brother of Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth (I) (qv); b. 9 May 1684; adm.; KS 1701; Secretary, Island of Barbados, from 1719; MP Minehead from May 1723; Surveyor-Gen. of HM Woods and Forests, South of the Trent, from 6 Apr 1732; of Leybourne, Kent; m. 2 May 1719 (IGI) Joan Wyndham, Clearwell, Newland, Gloucs.; d. 6 Mar 1741/2.

WHITWORTH, CHARLES, 1ST BARON WHITWORTH (I), second son of Richard Whitworth, Blowerpipe and Adbaston, Staffs., and Anne, dau. of Rev. Francis Mosley, Rector of Wilmslow, Cheshire; bapt. 14 Oct 1675; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1694, adm. pens. 21 Jun 1694, aged 18, scholar 5 Apr 1695; BA 1699/1700; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1700 – c. 1708 [check]; adm. Middle Temple 30 Oct 1694; [perhaps Clerk, Board of Trade c. 1696 – 11 Mar 1701]; entered diplomatic service under wing of George Stepney (qv); British representative at Diet of Ratisbon, 28 Feb 1702; Envoy Extraordinary to Russia 2 Sep 1704 – May 1710; Ambassador to Vienna 1711; British Plenipotentiary at Congress at Baden 30 Apr 1714; Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin 1716-7, 1719-22; Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague 1718; created Baron Whitworth (I) 9 Jan 1720/1; one of British plenipotentiaries at Congress of Cambrai Feb 1721/2; MP Newport (IOW) from 1722; his Account of Russia as it was in the year 1710 was published by Horace Walpole at his Strawberry Hill press in 1758; m. Magdalena Jacoba, Comtesse de Vaulgremont; d. 23 Oct 1725. Buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

Whittow, John Martin Summers, son of Thomas Whittow MICE, of Acton, Middx, and Phyllis Isabel, d. of Rev. Reginald Popham Luscombe, Vice-Principal Gloucester Theological Coll.; nephew of Anthony Whittow (qv); b. 30 Aug. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (KS); left July 1928; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1928, BA 1931, MA 1937; a chartered accountant, ACA 1934, FCA 1949; practised at Haverhill and Cambridge; RM in WW2 (Lieut.); m. 20 Feb. 1954 Mrs Joan Inkson, d. of Irad Robinson of Reading; d. 20 Feb. 1968.