WELLS, JOSEPH, son of Rev. Joseph Wells, Vicar of Hungerford, Berks., and Sarah --- (IGI); bapt. Hungerford, Berks., 13 Apr 1690 (IGI); adm.; BB in 1703; QS 1706; d. 1708.

WELSTED, LEONARD, eldest son of Leonard Welsted (qv); bapt. 3 Jun 1688; adm.; QS 1703; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1707, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1707, aged 18, but did not matr.; Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office; afterwards Clerk Extraordinary (by 1725) and Clerk in Ordinary (from 1730) to Clerk of Deliveries, Ordnance Office; Commissioner for managing State Lottery May 1731; quarrelled with the poet Alexander Pope, who immortalised him in the Dunciad; translated Longinus on the Sublime, 1712; author, Apple-Pye, 1704, and numerous other poems; m. 1st, Frances, dau. of Henry Purcell, Organist of Westminster Abbey; m. 2nd, 4 Dec 1712 (IGI) Anna Maria, dau., of Col. William Walker, Tankerstown, Queen’s Co., Ireland; d. Aug 1747. DNB.

WELSTED, LEONARD; b.; adm.; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1667, adm. pens. 1 Jul 1667, matr. 1667; BA 1670/1; MA 1674 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1676); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1673 – c. 1687, Tutor 1677-83; ordained deacon 21 May 1676, priest 24 May 1676 (both London); Chaplain to John Dolben (qv), Archbishop of York; Prebendary of York from 30 Dec 1684; Vicar of Abington, Northants 15 Jun 1685-92; Vicar of St. Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, from Jan 1692/3; m. 12 Dec 1686 Anne, second dau. of Thomas Staveley, Leicester, barrister and antiquary; d. 13 Nov 1694.

WENTWORTH, SIR CHARLES MARY, BART., only son of Sir John Wentworth, Bart., DCL, Governor of New Hampshire and Lieut. -Governor of Nova Scotia, American loyalist, and his cousin Frances, widow of Theodore Atkinson, and dau. of Samuel Wentworth, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; b. 18 Jan 1775; adm. 1 Apr 1785; KS 1788; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1792, but went to Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1792; BA 1796; MA 1799; BCL and DCL 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Oct 1795; member of Council, Nova Scotia 1801-5; succ. father as 2nd baronet 8 Apr 1820; d. unm. 10 Apr 1844.

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, 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.