WHITE, JOHN, brother of Samuel White (qv); bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 16 Nov 1682; adm.; KS 1696; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1700, matr. 25 Jun 1700, aged 17, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1700 – void 1721, Tutor 1705-21, Senior Censor 1712-9; BA 1704; admonished by Christ Church authorities for assault 10 Jan 1707; MA 1707; Proctor 1716; a friend of the Oxford antiquary Thomas Hearne, who mentions the excellence of his sermons; adm. Inner Temple 28 Nov 1700; ordained deacon 23 May 1708, priest 20 Dec 1713 (both Oxford); Rector of Upham, Hampshire 1720 (still 1736).

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.

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.

WHITFIELD, JOHN, son of William Whitfield (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s Ludgate, London 7 Jun 1705 (IGI); adm.; in under school list 1715; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1717; KS 1718; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 4 Apr 1743 (expiry year of grace as R. Bideford from 24 Apr 1742), Tutor 1733-40, Junior Censor 1735, Senior Censor 1736-8; BA 1726; MA 1728/9; Professor of Poetry, Oxford Univ. 1738-41; Proctor 1739; ordained priest (Winchester) 19 Sep 1730; tutor and chaplain to Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv); Rector of Bideford, Devon, from 1741/2; possessed a ready wit and a knack of writing epigrams; buried Bideford, Devon 25 Apr 1783.

WHITFIELD, WILLIAM, son of Rev. John Whitfield, Rector of Bugbrooke, Northants, and Alice, dau. of Rev. William Burkitt DD, Vicar of Guilsborough, Northants; bapt. 1 Jul 1658; adm.; KS 1673; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1677, matr. 4 Dec 1677, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1677 – void 1692, Tutor 1685-6; BA 1681; MA 1684; DD Lambeth 23 Jul 1716; adm. Inner Temple 1679; ordained; Rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London 5 Dec 1691-1713; Rector of Ewhurst, Surrey 27 Jan 1692/3-1715; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 16 Jan 1694/5 and of Canterbury from 4 Feb 1708/9; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne (in 1708); Vicar of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, London, from 5 Oct 1714; m. Catherine --- (IGI); d. 4 Mar 1716/7.

Whittow, John Martin Summers, son of Thomas Whittow MICE, of Acton, Middx, and Phyllis Isabel, d. of Rev. Reginald Popham Luscombe, Vice-Principal Gloucester Theological Coll.; nephew of Anthony Whittow (qv); b. 30 Aug. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (KS); left July 1928; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1928, BA 1931, MA 1937; a chartered accountant, ACA 1934, FCA 1949; practised at Haverhill and Cambridge; RM in WW2 (Lieut.); m. 20 Feb. 1954 Mrs Joan Inkson, d. of Irad Robinson of Reading; d. 20 Feb. 1968.

WICKLIFFE, JOHN, brother of James Wickliffe (qv); bapt. Petworth, Sussex 1 Nov 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Sep 1735; KS 1740; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1744, adm. pens. 24 May 1744, scholar 3 May 1745, matr. 1744; BA 1747/8; MA 1751; ordained deacon (Chichester) 26 Jul 1748; Curate, Kirdford, Sussex 1748; Rector of Barton in Farbis, Notts. (to death); d. unm. 25 Nov 1792.

WIGFALL, THOMAS, youngest son of Daniel Wigfall, Woodfall, Essex, and Renishaw, Derbs., and Dorothy Elmsall, Doncaster, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS 1701; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1705, matr. 21 Jun 1705, aged 20, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1705 – void 1707 (evidently at death, will proved PCC 8 May 1707).

WILCOX, GILES, son of Jonathan Wilcox, Westminster, and Emma --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 1653 (IGI); adm.; KS 1670; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1673, aged 18; BA 1677; ordained; Rector of Alburgh, Norfolk 16 Oct 1680-2; Rector of Bixley, Norfolk 26 Oct 1682-90, when deprived as a non-juror; committed to Newgate Prison 26 Feb 1691/2; still in custody May 1692; released and re-arrested 16 Apr 1696.