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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.

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, 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, 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, Frederick, son of Sir Henry Waterfield (q.v.), by his first wife; b. Dec. 27, 1879; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (R); Q.S. Jan. 23, 1893; Captain of the School 1897; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1898, matric. Michaelmas 1898; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1900; 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1902; B.A. 1902; I.C.S. (Bengal) 1902; arrived in India Nov. 30, 1903; Asst. Com­missioner, Punjab; m. Oct. 27, 1905, Barbara, only child of John Pritt Gardner, of Rugeley, Staffs.; d. at Pau, France, July 1940.

Warden, William McEndrick (also known as Ken), son of Archibald Adam Warden, M.D., of Paris, by Rachel, eldest daughter of John Gray MacKendrick, F. R. S., Emeritus Professor, Glasgow Univ.; b. Sept. 3, 1903; adm. Jan. 14, 1915 (R); left July 1915; went to Malaya 1927; dir. Moine Compte & Co. Ltd, Union Building, Singapore; Lance-Corp. 12745 1 SSVF Armoured Car Section; POW Singapore to Thailand; Singapore Bridge Playing champion; taught French in ‘Changi University’; his wife and son, John, were evacuated to Calcutta on the Wosang; returned to Singapore 1946; married; d. in Greater London 1983.

Ward, Sir Melvill Willis, son of Col. Sir Edward Willis Duncan Ward, Bart., K.C.B., of Pimlico, by Florence Caroline, daughter of Henry Minchin Simons, of South Kensington; b. May 25, 1885; adm. April 23, 1896 (R); left Dec. 1896; Midshipman R.N. May 30, 1901; Sub-Lieut. July 30, 1904; resigned Oct. 19, 1906; re-employed during Great War I and promoted Cdr. 1918; retired 1919; re-employed in Great War II as Lieut.-Cdr.; Cdr. May 8, 1946; D.S.C.; succeeded his brother as 3rd Baronet July 21, 1930; m. 1st Dec. 30, 1907, Alice Sophia, daughter of William Cobbett; 2nd Sept. 14, 1944, Helena Glorney, daughter of Isaac Guggenheim, of New York; d. 1973.

WALWYN, JAMES HARFORD, son of Richard Henry Walwyn, Clifton, Somerset, and Laura Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Sanders, Exeter, Devon; b. 1 Feb 1838; adm. 7 Jun 1850 (Rigaud's); Min. Can. 1852; Ensign, Royal Welch Fusiliers 25 Jul 1855; Lieut., 30 Mar 1858; Capt., 6 Feb 1863; Maj., 21 Jun 1880; Lieut. -Col., 10 Apr 1885; retd., with hon. rank Col., 8 Sep 1886; Mayor Monmouth 1898; JP Monmouthshire; m. 25 Apr 1872 Laura Frances, fourth dau. of Thomas Onesiphorus Tyndall, The Fort, Bristol; d. 24 Oct 1921.

Walmsley, Braid Alaric Ridgway Fraser, son of Geoffrey Lionel Walmsley, journalist, and Dorothea Margaret, man. ed. Encounter magazine, d. of George Fraser Beck of Carlisle, Cumberland; b. 1 May 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (R); left Dec. 1963; d. 1 Feb. 1965.

Wallis, Neville, son of Ferdinand Hammans Wallis LDS and Margaret Wallis; b. 21 Nov. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (R); left July 1934; RIASC in WW2 (Lieut.); m. 20 Mar. 1945 Margaret Rose­mary, d. of C. Y. Woollard of Swaffham Prior, Cambs.; d. Feb. 1997.