Wernham, Herbert Fuller, son of John Wernham, of Plumstead, Kent; b. Sept. 24, 1879; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1893; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies and a Triplett gratuity) July 1898 (adm. pensr. Sept. 30, 1898); served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. East Lancs Regt. (T.F.); a botanist; d. 1941.

WESTON, ---; b.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

WHEATLEY, THOMAS, son of Zabulon Wheatley, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 16) 1648; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1651, adm. pens. 3 Jun 1651, scholar 1651, matr. Mich. 1651; the sum of £5 was granted to him by the Governors of the School “towards buying of books and releeving him in his greate necessities” 23 Oct 1652.

WHEELOCK, JEFFERY, only son of Anthony Wheelock (qv); b.; adm. 21 Jun 1776; KS (aged 14) 1777; in school list Jul 1779; Cornet, 15th Dragoons 24 Sep 1779; Lieut., 29 Sep 1781; Capt., 28 May 1790; Maj., 93rd Foot 30 Oct 1793; served in Flanders 1793; d. 15 Jan 1794.

WHELER, JOHN, son of John Wheler, Evesham, Worcs.; b.; adm. 21 Jan 1772; KS (aged 13) 1772; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1776, matr. 25 Jun 1776, but resigned from his Westminster Studentship 27 Jan 1777, before being admitted, as he had married his bed maker; 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines 17 Dec 1777; 1st Lieut., 18 Aug 1779; half-pay 1 Sep 1783; tried at Old Bailey 30 Oct 1793 (as John Wheeler) for theft of watch belonging to David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv), from College dormitory at Westminster on 12 Oct; Wheler stated in evidence that he had found the watch in St. James’s Park and was acquitted; a witness stated that he was then in a “deplorable condition”; probably John Wheeler (spelled thus) who was found guilty of bigamy and sentenced to transportation for seven years at the Old Bailey 24 Oct 1798, then aged 38, his first marriage having been to Mary Goodall at St. James’s, Piccadilly, on 5 Dec 1776 (his surname given in register as Wheler), and his second, bigamous, marriage having been to Elizabeth Watkins at St. Bride’s, Fleet Street 22 Apr 1798.

WHITE, JOHN, son of John White, London; b.; adm. 6 Jun 1774; KS (aged 13) 1775; Writer, EICS Bengal 1778; arrived in India 14 Jul 1778; Assistant in Secretary’s Office, General Dept., 1779; Sub-Secretary and Sub-Accountant to Commissioner of Customs 1782; attended OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); Junior Merchant, Deputy Secretary, Public Dept., and Remembrancer in Criminal Courts 1788; Sub-Secretary, Public Dept., and member, Supreme Council 1790; Second Judge of Provincial Court of Appeal and Circuit, Calcutta; res. from EICS 1801 [check]; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. in Bengal, India (IGI) 4 Nov 1784 Matilda Denton.

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.

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].

Wickham, Claud Edmund George, son of Edmund Karl Hans Wichmann of Lübeck, Germany (who assumed the name of Wickham 1921), and Fanny Handasyd, d. of John James Hopkins, dep. man. SE & Chatham Rly, of Ramsgate; b. 13 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H), KS Sept. 1926; left July 1928; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1935; FO (Med.) RAF Sept. 1936; SMO Advanced Air HQ. Western Desert 1941, despatches June 1942; CO Mobile Field Hosps 1943; DGMS Air Min. 1944-8; Wing Cdr RAF July 1947, Group Capt. July 1957; DPH (Edin.) 1952; Commandant RAF Med. Training Estab. 1952-5; dep. PMO Flving Training and ME Commands 1957-61; CO RAF Central Med. Estab. 1961, RAF Hosp. Uxbridge 1963; m. 14 May 1942 Patricia Mary, d. of Harry Woolley, artist, of Brede, Sussex; d. in a road accident 7 Oct. 1975.

WICKHAM, RICHARD, eldest son of Rev. John Wickham, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and his first wife Martha, dau. of William Hovenden, Canterbury, Kent; nephew of William Wickham (QS 1569, qv); b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1593, matr. 8 Nov 1598 [year must be wrong], aged 17, Westminster Student to 1597; Fellow, All Souls Coll.; adm. Middle Temple 16 Feb 1604/5; d. 10 Mar 1612, in 35th year. Buried, Cowley, Oxford (MI).