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Wright, Gerald Shuckburgh, brother of Thomas Francis William Wright (q.v.); b. May 28, 1902; adm. April 29, 1915 (H); left April 1916; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. (M.T.); an automobile engineer; Lieut. R.A.S.C. Dec. 18, 1939; served in France 1940, and in Somaliland 1940-2; m. March 14, 1935, Marie Hester, daughter of Charles Sidney Burdett, of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Wright, Francis Blower, son of H. F. Wright, of Chiswick, Middlesex; b. March 25, 1893; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); left Dec. 1909.

Wright, Edward Mounsteven, son of Edward Mounsteven Wright, of Beckenham, Kent, by Charlotte Susan, daughter of Frederick Albert Pullen, of Herne Hill, Surrey; b. Nov. 13, 1899; adm. April 30, 1914 (H); left Dec. 1915; Lieut. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; served in Belgium, France, and Italy; m. Aug. 12, 1924, Cynthia Anne, daughter of Harry Boulcott Bolus, of Chelsea; d. Jan. 29, 1931.

Wraight, Frederick Ernest, son of Ernest Alfred Wraight CIE, Metallurgical Inspector to Govt of India, and Henrietta, d. of Henry Merrett of Wallington, Surrey; b. 15 Aug. 1908; adm. May 1922 (H); left July 1925.

Worthington, Harold, brother of Bond Valentine Thomas Worthington (q.v.); b. Nov. 25, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left July 1906; Yale Univ. 1909; A.B.; an electrical engineer 1915-7; served with the first U.S. Div. of Field Artillery as Lieut. in France in Great War I; director of New York Travel Courses since 1924; m. Feb. 19, 1926, Sada Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Van Schuyver Hoyt, of New York; d. 8 Mar. 1978.

Worthington, Bond Valentine Thomas, son of Thomas Kimber Worthington, of Baltimore, U.S.A., by Mary Grace, daughter of James Carey Thomas, of Baltimore; b. April 3, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (H); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1907, matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; Columbia Univ. New York; LL.B. 1913; Member of the New York Bar Nov. 1913; called to the bar at the Middle Temple May 6, 1925; practises in London; member of the American Mission to the Inter-Ally Council on War Purchases and Finance; m. Oct. 14, 1916, Anne Middleton, daughter of Robert Lawrence Means, of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; d. Dec. 6, 1932.

Woolrych, Austin Herbert, son of Col. Stanley Herbert Cunliffe Woolrych OBE, First Sec. For­eign Office Information Dept, and May Gertrude, d. of Charles Herbert Wood; b. 18 May 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (H); left July 1935; Roy. Tank Regt 1939-46 (Capt.), wounded Western Desert; Pemb. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1949 (1st class hons Mod. History), BLitt MA 1952; lecturer and sen. lecturer in Mod. History Univ. of Leeds 1949-64; Prof. of History Univ. of Lancaster 1964-83, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (971-5; visiting Fellow of All Souls 198-2; Commonwealth visiting Fellow to Univs in Australia and New Zealand 1983; hon. DLitt Lancaster 1986; FBA 1988; author of Battles of the English Civil War 1961, Oliver Cromwell 1964, Commonwealth to Protectorate 1982, England without a King 1649-1660 1983, Soldiers and Statesmen 1987; m. 24 Sept. 1941 Muriel Edith, d. of Walter Henry Rolfe of Aston Clinton, Bucks.; d. 15 Sept. 2004.

Woodwark, Richard Graham, son of Sir Arthur Stanley Woodwark CMG CBE MD FRCP DLJP, consultant physician, and Hilda Mary, d. of Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson DL; b. 11 Apr. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (H); left July 1939; St John's Coll. Camb., matric. 1939, played football against Oxford 1941, BA 1944, MA 1946; RNVR (Sp.) 1941-6 (Lieut.), DSC Jan. 1943; PSO For­eign Office and MOD 1946-55; an electrical engineer, AMIEE 1956, FIEE 1964, CEng 1975; Eve Group 1956, man. dir. 1969-85; Master Turners' Company 1961 and 1972, Clerk 1985-; m. 2 Apr. 1949 Elizabeth Janet, d. of Lieut.-Col. Owen Glendinning OBE, of Chelsea; d. 2001

Woods, Henry Braithwaite, son of Henry Thomas Woods, of Merton, Surrey, solicitor; b. Sept. 5, 1901; adm. Jan. 20, 1916 (H); left April 1919; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Lent 1921.