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Williams, Sir Edward Vaughan, d. 1875

  • GB-2014-WSA-019605
  • Person
  • d. 1875

WILLIAMS, SIR EDWARD VAUGHAN, brother of Charles Williams (left 1811, qv); b. ; at Winchester Coll. 1808-11; adm. Christmas 1811; KS (Capt. ) 1812; probably the editor of The World at Westminster, a school periodical which appeared from 28 Nov 1815 to 20 May 1816; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1816, adm. pens. 27 May 1816, aged 18, scholar 1817; BA 1820; MA 1823; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jun 1818, called to bar 17 Jun 1823; initially joined Oxford Circuit, later on South Wales and Chester Circuits; Serjeant-at-Law 27 Oct 1846; Puisne Justice, Court of Common Pleas 3 Nov 1846 – end of Hilary Term 1865, when he retired [check date]; knighted 4 Feb 1847; Privy Councillor 9 Mar 1865; member, Judicial Committee, Privy Council; a fine scholar, learned lawyer and excellent judge; Busby Trustee 26 May 1854; author, Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators, 1832, and other works; m. 5 Sep 1826 Jane Margaret, eighth dau. of Walter Bagot (adm. 1739/40, qv); d. 2 Nov 1875. DNB.

Williams, Holland, 1641-1680

  • GB-2014-WSA-019601
  • Person
  • 1641-1680

WILLIAMS, HOLLAND, son of William Williams, Caernarvonshire, and his first wife Margaret, dau. of William Holland, Conway, Caernarvonshire; b. 21 Aug 1641; adm. ; KS 1658 (Chapter Muniments 43060); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Jul 1659; adm. Inner Temple Nov 1658, called to bar 1668; m. Jane, dau. of Edward Edwards, Llwyndu, Merionethshire; d. 1 Jan 1680.

Williams, Francis, fl. 1629

  • GB-2014-WSA-019600
  • Person
  • fl. 1629

WILLIAMS, FRANCIS, son of Right Rev. Griffith Williams DD, Bishop of Ossory, Dean of Bangor and Prebendary of Westminster; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224).

Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1889-1977

  • GB-2014-WSA-01960
  • Person
  • 1889-1977

Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian; brother of Harold Douglas Adrian (q.v.); b. Nov. 30, 1889; adm. Sept. 24, 1903; K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 22, 1904 (G); elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1908, scholar 1908, fellow Oct. 9, 1913; St class Nat. Science Trip., part 1, 1910, part 2 (Physiology), 1911; B.A. 1911; M.A. 1915; M.B. and B.C. 1915; M. D. 1919; represented Camb. in the Inter-University Foils Competition 1912; joint Coutts Trotter student 1912; Walsingham Gold Medal for Physiology 1912; Gedge Prize 1914; Rolleston Memorial Prize 1916; Horton-Smith Prize 1919; Lecturer at Trin. Coll. 1919; University Lecturer in Advanced Physiology 1920; was a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, M.R.C.P. (London), 1916; F.R.S. 1923; F.R.C.P. 1924; a Governor of the School March 1926; Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society 1929-37; Nobel Prize 1932; Hon. D.Sc. Oxon. 1936; various degrees later from British and foreign universities; Professor of Physiology, Cambridge, 1937-51; Master of Trinity Coll. Camb. since 1951; Vice-Chancellor 1957-59; first Chancellor of Univ. of Leicester 1958; Copley Medal of the Royal Soc. 1946; Foreign Secretary of the Royal Soc. 1946-50, and President 1950-55; President of the British Association 1954; President, Royal Society of Medicine, 1960-62; O.M. June 11, 1942; created Baron Adrian 1955; a Busby Trustee 1949; elected a Trustee of the Rockefeller Institute 1962; temp. Lieut. R.A.M.C. Jan. 1, 1916, Capt. Jan. 1, 1917-19; m. June 14, 1923, Hester Agnes, daughter of Hume Chancellor Pinsent, of Boar's Hill, Oxford; d. 4 Aug. 1977.

Willett, Herbert Burrows, 1870-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-019596
  • Person
  • 1870-?

WILLETT, HERBERT BURROWS, eldest son of Alfred Willett FRCS, Wimpole Street, London, and Rose Ellen, only dau. of Sir George Burrows, Bart. , MD FRS, President, Royal College of Physicians; nephew of Frederic Willett (qv); b. 25 Apr 1870; adm. 26 Jan 1883 (J); left Jul 1888; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1888; played hockey v. Cambridge 1890, 1891; BA 1891; adm. solicitor May 1895; practised in London; JP Sussex; m. 19 Apr 1900 Isobel, dau. of James Matthews Duncan, Brook Street, Hanover Square, London.

Wigan, William, 1640-1700

  • GB-2014-WSA-019592
  • Person
  • 1640-1700

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.

Wiat, George, fl. 1635

  • GB-2014-WSA-019590
  • Person
  • fl. 1635

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

Adler, Robert Paul, 1908-1986

  • GB-2014-WSA-01959
  • Person
  • 1908-1986

Adler, Robert Paul, brother of Alan Louis Adler (qv); b. 11 Oct. 1908; adm. May 1922 (G); left July 1926; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1926, BA 1929; RAFVR 1939-45 (Sqdn Ldr); a manufacturer; m. 26 Aug. 1939 Anne Kyle, d. of John Wilson of Armadale, West Lothian; d. 16 Dec. 1986.

Whitford, David, 1626-1674

  • GB-2014-WSA-019588
  • Person
  • 1626-1674

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.

Westby, John, 1613-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-019585
  • Person
  • 1613-?

WESTBY, JOHN, son of Titus Westby, York; bapt. 6 Jun 1613 St. Gregory by St. Paul, London (IGI); adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224).

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