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Waterfield, Horace Clare, son of Sir Henry Waterfield (q.v.), by his first wife; b. April 1, 1876; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (R); left April 1894; Brown Scholar, Royal Agricultural Coll. Cirencester 1894; Gold Medallist 1896; a land agent in England, and Canada where he had an apple ranch at Nakusp, British Columbia; Lieut. British Columbia Regt. Canadian In­fantry Oct. 25, 1916; went out to the western front May 1917; m. June 25, 1906, Margaret Elspeth, daughter of Col. Edward William Creswell, R.E.; d. at Etaples May 5, 1918, of wounds received in action April 26, 1918.

Waterfield, Ottiwell, only son of Richard Waterfield (q.v.); b. July 25, 1902; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (R); left 1920; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1920; B.A. 1923; m. Dec. 1, 1927, Evelyn, younger daughter of William Augustus Kerin; Education Officer, Nigeria, 1926; retired 1958.

Waterfield, Philip Gay, son of William Waterfield (q.v.), by his first wife; b. July 31, 1872; adm. April 29, 1886 (R); left July 1890; Edin. Univ.; m. June 7, 1911, Violet Mary, youngest daughter of Brigade Surgeon Lieut.-Col. John Martin Coates, I.M.S.; d. June 12, 1954.

Waterfield, Richard, eldest son of Sir Henry Waterfield (q.v.), by his first wife; b. Dec. 14, 1874; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (R); Q.S. Jan. 17, 1889; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1893, matric. Oct. 1893; B.A. 1897; enrolled list Indian Finance Dept. 1897; Deputy Accountant-Gen. Punjab 1913, Bengal 1915; officiating accountant, Bombay, 1920; Deputy Auditor-Gen. United Provinces Jan. 1922; retired Sept. 7, 1924; served in Great War I in Military Accountant's Dept. Poona, and Financial Adviser to Inspector-Gen. South Persia Rifles, Shiraz; m. 1st Oct. 9, 1901, Isabella Kathleen Dudley, daughter of Charles Leonard Jackson White; 2nd Jan. 3, 1945, Elsie Smith; d. Dec. 2, 1959.

Watkins, Harrison Wills, son of T. Wills Watkins, of Hampstead, by Ethel Harrison Clark, of Falmouth; b. April 17, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (R); left July 1917; R.M.A. Woolwich 1917; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. Sept. 20, 1918; retired as Lieut. July 31, 1924; a citriculturist at Whittier, California; m. Aug. 28, 1923, Elizabeth, daughter of John Thornton Francis Baeyertz, of Whittier; d. June 1974.

Watts-Tobin, Richard John, son of Oscar Watts-Tobin MRCS LRCP, gen. med. practitioner, of Fulham, and Ethel Watts FCA, d. of John Watts, police officer; b. 17 Mar. 1934; adm. Sept. 1946 (R), (KS) Sept. 1948; left July 1952; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1952 (open schol. 1951), matric. 1954, BA 1957 (1st class hons Math. Trip. Pt 1, Wrangler Pt 2), res. student 1957, Rouse Ball student 1960, MA PhD 1961; Mullard res. Fellow Selwyn Coll. Camb. 1961; MRC scientific staff 1961-; Fellow Churchill Coll. Camb. 1964; lecturer in Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Lancaster 1967, sen. lecturer 1977-96; MInstP; author of papers on superconductivity theory and theory of electroactive polymers; m. 1963 Mary Elizabeth Ann Watts-Tobin MB BCh, med. practitioner, sister of Martin Lewin Blake Pritchard (qv); d. 26 Apr 2016.

Wells, William Thomas, son of William Thomas Wells, professional boxer known as "Bombar­dier" Billy Wells and Ellen Kilroy; b. 9 Feb. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (R); left Oct. 1930.

Wenniger, Mace Louis Maillette de Buy, son of William Frederick Maillette de Buy Wenniger, of Djasinga, Java, and Wilda Maurine Carpenter; b. 22 Jan. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left July 1940; Reading Sch. of Art; Univ. of Chicago, IL, USA, MS 1951 (Urban Planning); dir. of zoning, Boston Redevelopment Authority, USA; proprietor (with his wife) Wenniger Graphics, Rockport, MA, USA, 1971-; painter, draughtsman and sculptor; m. 1st, Margaret Hindman; 2nd, 1963 Mary Ann Sigmund Miller; d. 17 Nov. 2015.

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, Maury William, son of Marie West of London; b. 17 June 1923; adm. May 1937 (R); left July 1939; d. 22 July 1982.