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Whitton, Donald Frank, son of Frank Johnson Whitton, baker, of Lincoln, and Daisy Mary, d. of William English, schoolmaster, of Fleet, Lincs; b. 13 Mar. 1931; adm. Sept. 1944 (KS); left July 1949; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1949, BA 1952 (1st class hons Mod. Lang. ), Dixon schol. 1953, MA BLitt 1956; Laming Travelling Fellow The Queen’s Coll., Oxf. 1954; lecturer Lincoln Coll., Oxf. 1955, Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French) 1957-93, Embling Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages 1993-5, Supernumary Fellow from 1995; d. 11 Sept. 2005.

WHITMORE, JAMES MORRAH, second son of John Whitmore MRCS LSA, Sloane Street, Chelsea, surgeon, and Catherine Anne, dau. of William Beach, Sloane Terrace, Chelsea; b. 5 Jan 1850; adm. 27 Jan 1863; QS 1865; left 1867; adm. solicitor Easter 1873; practised in London, firm Brundrett Whitmore and Randall, King’s Bench Walk, Temple; d. unm. 3 Apr 1925.

WHITMORE, FREDERICK JOHN, brother of James Morrah Whitmore (qv); b. 22 Sep 1852; adm. 26 Jan 1866; QS 1 Oct 1867; left Whitsun 1870; a West India sugar merchant in London from 1872; Master, Haberdashers’ Co. 1924; m. 1 Jun 1878 Mary, dau. of William Andrew Macfarlane, Campden Hill, Kensington; d. 29 Jan 1934.

WHITLOCK, WILLIAM, son of Hierom Whitlock, Wokingham, Berkshire; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1579, matr. 20 Nov 1581, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1590; BA 8 Feb 1582/3; MA 1586; ordained; Prebendary of Wells from 26 Jul 1589; Vicar of Sonning, Berks., from 10 Mar 1592/3; buried Sonning, Berks., 20 Jan 1598/9.

WHITGIFT, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1589, adm. scholar 1590, matr. Mich. 1589.

WHITFORD, DAVID, brother of Adam Whitford (qv); b. 1626; adm. ; KS 1640 (CSP Dom 1639-40, 567, for warrant dated 21 Mar 1639/40 commanding the Electors to admit him to “the next scholar’s place that shall be void”); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1642, matr. [check], Westminster Student; BA 1647; MA 14 Jan 1660/1; enrolled with brother in Royalist garrison of Oxford; deprived of Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors 1648; attached himself to Charles II; wounded and taken prisoner at battle of Worcester 3 Sep 1651; an Usher in James Sherley’s Sch. at Whitefriars; adm. Inner Temple Nov 1658; reinstated in Studentship 1660, and granted dispensation to retain it though disabled by the custom of the college (CSP Dom 1660-1, 432); held Studentship until death; a tutor at Christ Church; ordained; Chaplain to Lord George Douglas’s Regt. of Foot, 26 Jul 1666; officiated as Minister to Scottish Regt. in France 1672; Rector of Middleton Tyas, Yorks. , from 1673; an excellent scholar; author, Musaei, Moschi et Bionis quae extant omnia, quibus accessere quaedam selectiora Theocriti Eidyllia, 1655; d. 26 Oct 1674. Buried South Transept, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

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, 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.