Wood (or Woodd), George, fl. 1790
WOOD (or WOODD), GEORGE; b.; at school 1790, 1791. [possibly brother of Henry Wood (d) and Robert Wood (d), qv)] [Evidently George Woodd, son of George Woodd, and Sarah ---, bapt. Leybourne, Kent 15 Aug 1778 (IGI)]
WOMBWELL, JOHN, son of George Wombwell, Consul at Alicante, subsequently of Crutched Friars, London, and Anne, dau. of John Nottingham, Friern Barnet, Middlesex; b. 14 Aug 1748; at school under Markham; Writer, EICS Bengal 22 Nov 1775; arrived in India 27 Jun 1776; Superintendent, Saltpetre Manufacture, Dinajpur 1777, Saltpetre and Opium, Purnea 1778; Paymaster, Nawab of Oudh’s troops under British officers 1779; Junior Merchant and Accountant, Lucknow 1782; Senior Merchant 1788; one of donors of Warren Hastings cup; d. unm. 21 Dec 1795.
WOLTON, JOHN, son of John Wolton, Wigan, Lancs. , and Isabella, dau. of John Nowell, and sister of Alexander Nowell, Head Master of the School; b. ; adm. ; KS 18 Jan 1549/50 (Acts of Chapter i, 279); left 1553; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, adm. student 26 Oct 1553; BA 1555; BD and DD 2 Jun 1579; ordained deacon 25 Apr 1560, aged 25, priest 4 Jun 1560; Prebendary of Exeter and of St. Paul’s 1560 [check]; Rector of Sampford Peveril, Devon 15 Aug 1561; Rector of Spraxton, Somerset 1563; Vicar of Braunton, Devon 4 May 1570; Rector of Kenn, Devon 15 Oct 1573; Rector of Lezant, Cornwall 1584; Rector of Haccombe, Devon 20 Oct 1585; first Warden, Manchester Collegiate Church 28 Jul 1578; consecrated Bishop of Exeter 2 Aug 1579; author, The Christian Manuell, 1576, and other works; m. twice; d. 13 Mar 1593/4. DNB.
WOLSTON, THOMAS, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv); bapt. 17 Feb 1798; adm. 3 Jun 1806; left 1814; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Jun 1814, aged 17 1/2, scholar 29 Sep 1815 – 25 Mar 1821; BA 1819; ordained deacon 11 Jul 1824, priest 1825 (both Exeter); held curacies in Devon 1824-40; Chaplain, St. Thomas’s Union, Exeter, Devon 1857-82; succeeded father as Lord of the Manor of Tor Bryan, near Newton Abbot, Devon; m. 19 Jun 1827 Mary Ann Houlditch, St. Leonard, Exeter; d. 21 Nov 1885.
Wolston, Richard Walter, 1799-1883
WOLSTON, RICHARD WALTER, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv); b. 1799; adm. 15 Jan 1808; adm. attorney Mich. 1825 and notary public 1833; practised at Brixham, Devon, to 1856; living at Blackler, Wolston Green, Devon, in 1863; d. 1883.
WOLSTON, AUGUSTUS, second son of John Wolston, Great Smith Street, Westminster, and Tornewton, Devon, and Catharine, dau. of Roger Prideaux, West Alvington, Devon; b.; adm.; left 1811; adm. attorney 1817; practised at Furnival’s Inn, London; d. unm. 16 Mar 1861.
WOLSTON, ALEXANDER, brother of Augustus Wolston (qv); b.; adm. 12 Feb 1810; an attorney; practising at Eton, Bucks., in 1830-4.
Wolstenholme, James Benjamin Wallace, 1895-1918
Wolstenholme, James Benjamin Wallace, elder son of James Wolstenholme, of Stanmore, Middlesex, by Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of T. B. Gossling, of Accrington, Lancs; b. March 25, 1895; adm. April 30, 1908 (A); left July 1909; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles April 1913; Lieut. Railway Transport Officer Sept. 27, 1915; transferred to R.F.C. Aug. 1917; killed accidentally while flying at Doncaster, Yorks, Aug. 20, 1918.
WOLSELEY, ROBERT, brother of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart. (qv); b. 3 Aug 1770; adm. 19 Jan 1780; ordained; m. 7 Feb 1805 Marianne, dau. of George Watson Hand (qv); d. 1 Sep 1815 (will proved PCC 27 Jan 1816, he of Ockbrook, Derbs. ).
WOLSELEY, HENRY, brother of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart. (qv); b. 16 Aug 1771; adm. 19 Jan 1780; Ensign, 18th Foot 6 Jun 1788; Lieut., 3 Jun 1791; retd. 28 Oct 1793; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1798, aged 26; m. 2 Dec 1793 Charlotte, only dau. of Maj. John Delap Halliday, 79th Foot, Leasowes, Shropshire; d. 1836 (will proved PCC 1 Sep 1836, he of Peel Heath, Middlesex).