WADDON, NATHANIEL, son of John Waddon MP, Plymouth, Devon, and Prudence, dau. of Thomas Fownes, Mayor of Plymouth; bapt. 11 Dec 1633; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1650; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1652, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1652, scholar 1652, but did not matr.; buried Morwenstow, Cornwall 4 Mar 1663/4.

WADE, WILLIAM, son of Maj. William Wade, officer of Dragoons in Cromwellian Army, and ---, dau. of Rev. Henry Stonestreet, Rector of South Heighton, Sussex; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1686; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1690, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1690, aged 18, scholar 24 May 1691, matr. 1690; 6th in “ordo” 1693/4; BA 1693/4; MA 1697; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1696, Major Fellow 23 Apr 1697 – c. 1714, Tutor 1700-1; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley 1710; ordained; Canon of Windsor from 10 Feb 1719/20; m. Frances ---; d. 6 Feb 1732/3.

WAGENER, PETER, son of Henry Wagener, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS 1694; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1698, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1698, aged 17, scholar 28 Apr 1699, matr. 1698; BA 1701/2; MA 1710; ordained deacon 25 Oct 1702, priest 28 Oct 1702 (both London); went to America as minister to Maryland Jan 1702/3; beneficed in Virginia 1705; Rector of Stisted, Essex, from 6 Jan 1707/8; m. 16 Dec 1708 Mary Elizabeth Paurings (or Baurings ?), St. Clement Danes, London; buried Stisted, Essex 25 Sep 1742.

WAKLEY, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Henry Wakley FRCS, Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London, surgeon and editor of The Lancet, and Harriette Anne, third dau. of Francis Radford Blake, Rickmansworth, Herts.; b. 10 Jul 1851; adm. 31 Jan 1865 (James'); QS 1866; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1870, matr. Mich. 1870; St. Thomas’s Hospital; a serious bicycle accident interrupted his medical studies for some six years; LRCP 1883; entered the office of The Lancet as assistant to his uncle James Wakley, its then editor; Joint Editor of the Lancet with his father 1886-1907, sole Editor from 1907; m. 8 Aug 1903 Gladys Muriel, dau. of Norman Barron; d. 5 Mar 1909. DNB.

WALKER, SAMUEL EDMUND, son of Edmund Walker, London, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, and Esther Walker, Kirkheaton, Yorks. (IGI); b. 22 Jun 1810; adm. 26 Mar 1818; KS 1823; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1827, adm. pens. 29 May 1827, scholar 1828; BA 1831; Crosse Scholar 1833; MA 1834; BD 1841; DD 1846; ordained deacon 2 Aug 1835, priest 31 Jul 1836 (both York); Rector of St. Colomb Major, Cornwall, from 1841; became involved in significant speculative land deals in the Notting Hill district of Kensington, where his father had owned property, and their failure resulted in the sequestration of his living; m.; d. 16 Mar 1869.

WALL, BARTHOLOMEW, eldest son of James Wall, Stratford Langthorne, West Ham, Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1747; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1751 – res 16 Nov 1756; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1748.

WALL, GEORGE, son of Rev. George Wall, Gloucester [presumably Vicar of Hempsted, Gloucs. ]; b.; adm.; KS 1661; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1663, matr. 3 Jul 1663, aged 18, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1663; BA; MA [check dates of degrees, none assigned him in Foster]; ordained (implication from letter of Prideaux to Ellis, 8 Nov 1675); travelling in France with John Locke (qv) 1675-7; death in London “a little before” noted by Anthony Wood in diary entry of 28 Jan 1680/1 (Life and Times of Anthony Wood, ii, 514) (will proved PCC 7 Apr 1681).

WALL, JOHN, son of “genteel parents” in the City of London; b. 1588; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1604, matr. 23 Nov 1604, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1624; BA 1608; MA 1611; BD 1618; DD 1623; ordained; Rector of St. Aldates, Oxford 1617; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from May 1632; Vicar of Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 1637; Prebendary of Salisbury from 5 Nov 1644; ejected from his Canonry of Christ Church by the Parliamentary Visitors “for his high contempt and denyall of authoritie of Parliament”, 12 Apr 1648, but restored on his submission, 25 Sep 1648; in a letter to the Committee dated 24 Jul 1650 the Visitors report that Wall had resigned one of his two livings and that they have been “credibly informed of his affection to Parliament” (Burrows, 183, 298); a quaint preacher and learned patristic divine; d. unm. 20 Oct 1666. DNB.

WALLER, WILLIAM, only son of William Waller (adm. 1738/9, qv); b. 23 Jan 1757; adm. 13 Feb 1766; KS (aged 14) 1771; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1775, matr. 14 Jun 1775, but resigned Westminster Studentship 18 Dec 1775 before being adm.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Nov 1780; m. 8 Feb 1790 (IGI) Marcella Araminta Mitchell. [Wife probably dau. of Thomas Mitchell (IGI)] [wife’s will proved as widow PCC 11 Aug 1836]

WALLER, WILLIAM, son of Charles Waller, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister; b.; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1738/9 (Watts'); KS 1744; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1748, adm. pens. 13 Jun 1748, scholar 14 Apr 1749, matr. 1748; BA 1752; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Jul 1748, called to bar 20 Nov 1754, Bencher 14 Dec 1782; Commissioner, Stamp Office 1776-83; one of Warren Hastings’s attorneys or trustees in England; of Chesterton, Hunts.; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Eldred Lancelot Lee, Coton Hall, Alveley, Shropshire, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn; d. 13 Dec 1786. [mother perhaps Elizabeth Waldron (IGI)]