WENTWORTH, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1562. [Perhaps = William Wentford, Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens., scholar 1562, matr. 1562; BA 1565/6; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1566 – c. 1567]

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.

WESLEY, CHARLES, brother of Samuel Wesley (qv); b. 18 Dec 1707; adm. Apr 1716; KS 1721; Capt. of the School 1725; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1726, matr. 13 Jun 1726, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1726 – void by marriage 5 May 1749, Tutor 1732-3; acquired the nickname “Methodist” while at university; BA 1730; MA 12 Mar 1732/3; ordained deacon (Oxford), priest (London) Oct 1735; Secretary to James Oglethorpe, Governor of Georgia 1736-8 (but was only in Georgia to Jul 1736); became “converted” 21 May 1738; settled at Bristol and made evangelistic journeys through the country 1739-56; removed to Bath 1761 and to London 1771; preached at the City Road Chapel; called by Robert Southey (qv) “the sweet singer of Methodism”; composed some 6500 hymns; his poetical works, together with those of his brother John, were published in thirteen volumes 1868-72; m. 8 Apr 1749 Sarah, third dau. of Marmaduke Gwynne, Garth, Llanlleonfel, Breconshire; d. 29 Mar 1788. Tablet to him and his brother John erected in Westminster Abbey 1871. DNB.

WESLEY, SAMUEL, eldest son of Rev. Samuel Wesley LLD, Rector of Epworth, Lincs., and Susanna, youngest dau. of Rev. Samuel Annesley, Vicar of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, London, afterwards a Nonconformist minister; b. 10 Feb 1690/1; adm. 1704; BB 1705; QS 1707; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1711, matr. 9 Jun 1711, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1711 – void 1723; BA 1715; MA 1718; an Usher at the School 1713-33; ordained; helped to promote the first Infirmary at Westminster (the origin of both Westminster and St. George’s Hospitals); passed over for post of Under Master on Nicholl’s promotion to the Head Mastership in May 1733; Head Master, Blundell’s Sch., Tiverton, from 1733; author, Poems on Several Occasions, 1736, and other poems; m. by 1724 Ursula, dau. of Rev. Samuel Berry, Vicar of Watton, Norfolk (and proprietor of a boarding house for Westminster boys); d. 6 Nov 1739. DNB.

WEST, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).

West, Alun David Herbert, son of Charles Frederick Marling West LDS, dental surgeon, and Elizabeth Margaret, d. of David Davies of Lampeter, Cards.; b. 22 Oct. 1917; adm. Sept. 1931 (A); left Dec. 1934; Univ. of Wales, BSc (1st class hons Agriculture); an agricultural chemist Kingsley Sch. Vancouver BC; d. July 1954.

WEST, CHARLES FRANCIS LUTTRELL, son of Rev. Charles West, Head Master, Northampton GS; b. Horley, Oxfordshire 5 Jul 1828; adm. 6 Jan 1844 (G); rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1845, 30 Jul 1846; left 1847; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge; 32nd Wrangler 1851; BA 1851; MA 1854; ordained deacon 1851, priest 1852 (both Peterborough); Curate, All Saints, Northampton, and All Saints, Stamford, Lincs.; Rector of Shenley, Bucks., 1866-77; living in Wandsworth, Surrey 1881 (1881 Census); m. 27 Oct 1873 Ellen Matilda, only dau. of Wenman Langham Woodford, Upton, Northants; d. 25 Feb 1892.

West, Charles John Murray, son of the Rev. Arthur George Bainbridge West, Rector of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London, by Annie Elise Florence, daughter of George Edwardes, of Little Ness, Salop; b. Aug. 31, 1903; adm. June 5, 1918 (R); left Dec. 1918; readm. May 2, 1919; left Dec. 1920; a numismatist and plastic engineer; m. 1927 Doreen Mary, daughter of Major Harry Ernest Chapman, C.B.E., The Border Regt., Chief Constable of Kent; d. Oct. 29, 1947.

WEST, CHARLES, son of Charles West, Westminster, chemist; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1714; KS 1715; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1719, adm. pens. 28 May 1719, scholar 29 Apr 1720, matr. 1720; BA 1722/3; MA 1726; MD 1728; medical practitioner at Great Stanmore, Middlesex; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, lic. 19 Oct 1748 [check date] Mary Astley, Great Stanmore, Middlesex; m. 3rd, 6 Feb 1748/9 Susanna Derby, St. Mary Woolnoth, London, widow.

West, Gordon Estcourt, brother of Richard Goy West (q.v.); b. Nov. 7, 1899; adm. April 28, 1910 (H); left Dec. 1917; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Grenadier Guards June 26, 1918.