WHITFIELD, JOHN, brother of William Whitfield (qv); bapt. 27 Sep 1660; adm.; KS 1676; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 May 1680, aged 18, Somerset Scholar; BA 1 Feb 1683/4; MA 1688; Fellow, Merton Coll. 1684; adm. Inner Temple 1680; edited Musae Anglicanae; the Greek Grammar which he used at school was obtained by a later OW (Elizabethan vii, 37-8); d. 10 Aug 1694.

Whitelegge, David Sherbrooke, son of Maurice Horsley Whitelegge, asst. sec. Home Office, and Sybil Eleanor Sherbrooke, d. of Rev. Samuel John Sherbrooke Banks, Rector of Trimley St Martin, Suffolk, hon. Canon of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich; b. 11 Aug. 1928; adm. Sept. 1941 (KS); left July 1946; Ch. Ch. Oxf., elected 1947, matric. 1949, BA 1952, MA 1956; Colonial Admin. Service (later HM Overseas Civil Service); Malaya 1952, Hong Kong 1959; retd. as Commissioner for Census and Statistics 1978, OBE Jan. 1978; Internat. Statistics Inst. 1978-84; d. 6 May 2010.

WHITEHORNE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627; BA 1630/1; MA 1634.

WHITEHEAD, GEORGE THOMAS, son of John Whitehead, London; b.; adm. 21 Jan 1766; KS (aged 14) 1770; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1774, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1774, scholar 5 May 1775, matr. 1775; ordained deacon (Norwich, lit. dim. from London) 2 Aug 1778. [Note Rev. George Whitehead, Great Berkhampsted, Herts., d. 1780].

WHITEHEAD, FRANCIS, second son of John Whitehead, Inverness Terrace, London, and Eastham, Worcs., barrister, and Jane Philippa Baskerville, youngest dau. of Hugh Hovell Farmar, Dunsinane, co. Wexford, Ireland; b. 18 Jul 1856; adm. 1 Feb 1869 (James'); QS Nov 1871; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1875, adm. pens. 25 May 1875; BA 1879; MA 1882; ordained deacon 1879, priest 1880 (Salisbury); Curate, Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts., 1879-82; held other curacies; Rector of Pembridge, Herefs., from 23 Jan 1889; m. 19 Apr 1893 Ellen Frances Webb, dau. of Brigade-Surgeon Henry Atkins, Bombay Medical Service, previously EICS Bombay; d. 27 Jan 1913.

WHITEHEAD, ARTHUR CROXALL, brother of Francis Whitehead (qv); b. 4 Feb 1862; adm. 31 Mar 1875 (James'); QS 1876; left Christmas 1879; adm. solicitor Feb 1886; practised in London; d. 7 May 1935.

WHITEHALL, ROBERT, second son of Rev. Robert Whitehall, Rector of Addington, Bucks., and his first wife; bapt. 18 Mar 1625; adm.; KS 1639; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1643, Westminster Student; BA 1647; ejected from his Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission 7 Jul 1648; afterwards submitted; Fellow of Merton Coll. from 1651, Sub-Warden in 1671; MA 1652; when “Terrae Filius” in 1655 he derided the Puritan discipline under which the University was then governed; MB 7 Sep 1657 (by letters from Richard Cromwell, Chancellor of the University); allowed leave of absence in 1657 to give instruction at Trinity Coll. Dublin (Brodrick, Memorials of Merton, 106); licensed to practice medicine 21 Jun 1665; Wood describes him as “no better than a meer poetaster, and time serving poet”, who made “divers sallies into the practice of physic” (Ath. Oxon., iv, 177); author Technepolemogamia, or the Marriage of Arms and Art, and other minor poems; d. 8 Jul 1685. DNB.

WHITEHALL, JAMES, of Warwickshire; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1602, matr. 5 Nov 1602, aged 15, Westminster Student to 1621; BA 1606; MA 1609; had leave of absence for five years granted him in 1616 to go beyond the seas with Sir Walter Raleigh on the Orinoco expedition which returned to England in 1618; ordained; imprisoned for preaching Judaism at Christ Church, but escaped to Ireland, where he held a benefice at Ferns 1623; again imprisoned in the New Prison, Clerkenwell, Middlesex 1624.

WHITEFOOT, PHINEAS, son of Rev. Thomas Whitefoot, Worcs.; bapt. St. Swithin, Worcester 22 Jul 1640 (IGI); adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student 10 Feb 1661/2 – expelled for drunkenness 22 Mar 1664/5.

WHITE, WILLIAM, son of Kenelm White, Middlesex, and Mary ---; bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate Aug 1632 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1648; KS 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, Westminster Student, subscribed 7 Nov 1655.