WELLS (or WELLES), CORNELIUS; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1562, adm. scholar 1565, matr. Mich. 1564; BA 1567/8; MA 1571; BD 1578; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1570 – c. 1578; ordained deacon (Ely) 31 Dec 1569; Vicar of Masham with Kirkby Malzeard, Yorks., 8 Feb 1578; d. 1600.

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.

WEST, JOHNSON, son of Johnson West, St. John’s, Westminster, and Elizabeth ---; b. 4 Jun 1745; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1760; left 1760. [He or his father will PCC 5 Jun 1776, cooper, St. John’s, Westminster]

WEST, RICHARD, son of Thomas West, Hardington, Northants, and his second wife Dorothy, sister of Sir Richard Lane (qv); bapt. 6 Oct 1614; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1629; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1632, matr. 15 Feb 1632/3, Westminster Student; BA 1636; MA 1639 (incorp. Cambridge 1641); DD 1669; ejected from Westminster Studentship 1649 by Parliamentary Visitors; ordained; Rector of Shillingstone, Dorset, from 1649; Prebendary of Wells from 21 Apr 1664; Rector of Durweston, Dorset, from 22 May 1664; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; m. Anne, dau. of Thomas Bettesworth, Winchester, Hampshire; d. 22 May 1690.

WESTON, ANTHONY, of Staffordshire; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1614, Westminster Student (still 1616); migr. to Gloucester Hall, matr. 30 Oct 1618, aged 18; BA 1618; MA 1621; buried St. Thomas, Oxford 10 Jun 1622.

WHITAKER, EDWARD WRIGHT, brother of John Ayton Whitaker (qv); b. 1 Jul 1839; adm. 10 Jun 1852 (G); QS 1854; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1858, matr. 27 May 1858, Westminster Student (one of the last three Westminster Students elected under the old system); BA 1863; MA 1865; ordained deacon 1864, priest 1866 (both Oxford); Curate, Croft, Yorks., 1865, Stanton-by-Bridge with Swarkeston, Derbs., 1866-8; Rector of Stanton-by-Bridge with Swarkeston, Derbs., from 1868; m. Cecilia E. ---; d. 22 Apr 1881.

Whitaker, Harold Thomas, second son of John and Harriette Whitaker, of Hampstead, by the daughter of Donald Nicoll, M.P., of Kilburn; b. April 19, 1870; adm. as Q.S. June 12, 1884; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon., July 1889, matric. Oct. 11, 1889; B.A. 1895; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn Nov. 17, 1896; entered Barclay's Bank as a local director at Oxford 1927; director in Paris 1923-34; m. Dec. 1902 Mary Adelina, daughter of George Baird, of St. Petersburg; d. June 5, 1959.

White, Ernest Frederick Anselm Farren, son of William Ernest Crabtree White LLD, solicitor, of Ealing, and Alice, d. of Frederick D'Olbert Bullock, Judge of the High Court Lahore; b. 24 Dec. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (KS); left July 1929; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1929, BA 1933; has assumed the additional Christian name of Anselm; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1937; 2nd Lieut. Rov. Signals (TA) July 1937, transf. Tower Hamlets Rifles July 1938 (Lieut.), reverted Roy. Signals Feb. 1942; d. 1970.

WHITE, FRANCIS, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv); b. 5 May 1803; adm. 17 Sep 1812; KS 1816; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1820, adm. pens. 18 May 1820, scholar 1821; BA 1824; MA 1827; Norrisian Prize 1826; ordained priest (Peterborough) 10 Jun 1827; Curate, Broughton, Northants 1836; d. 13 May 1876.