
	KNIGHTS AND DAMES
	WAM - Z

	Last updated 09/10/2018


Surname/Title	Forenames	Created	Order	Born	Died	Age


Wamiri	Akapite	31 Dec 1998	KBE (Civ)	1938

Wand	John William Charles Bishop of London 1945-1955. PC 1945	9 Jun 1955	KCVO	25 Jan 1885	16 Aug 1977	92

Wankaner, Maharaja of	Amarsinghji Banesinhji	1911	KCIE	4 Jan 1879	28 Jun 1954	75
"	"	1 Jan 1936	KCSI

Wanless	Derek	23 Feb 2005	Kt Bach	29 Sep 1947	22 May 2012	64

Wanless	William James	5 Mar 1928	Kt Bach	1865	Mar 1933	67

Wansbrough-Jones	Owen Haddon	1 Jan 1955	KBE (Civ)	25 Mar 1905	10 Mar 1982	76

Wanstall	Charles Gray	18 Oct 1974	Kt Bach	17 Feb 1912	17 Oct 1999	87

Wantage, Baron	see "Loyd-Lindsay"

Wapshare	Richard	1 Jan 1920	KCIE	1 Jan 1860	23 Dec 1932	72

Warburg	Oscar Emanuel	5 Feb 1926	Kt Bach	6 Feb 1876	1 Jul 1937	61

Warburg	Siegmund George	15 Nov 1966	Kt Bach	30 Sep 1902	18 Oct 1982	80

Warburton	Anne Marion	18 May 1979	DCVO	8 Jun 1927	4 Jun 2015	87

Warburton	Arabella Susan	4 Aug 2016	DBE (Civ)

Warburton	Robert	21 May 1898	KCIE	11 Jul 1842	22 Apr 1899	56

Warby	Mark David John	4 Nov 2014	Kt Bach	10 Oct 1958

Ward	Adolphus William	11 Jun 1913	Kt Bach	2 Dec 1837	19 Jun 1924	86

Ward	Alan Hylton Lord Justice of Appeal 1995- 2013. PC 1995	29 Nov 1988	Kt Bach	15 Feb 1938

Ward	(Alfred) Dudley	1 Jan 1953	KBE (Mil)	27 Jan 1905	28 Dec 1991	86
"	"	13 Jun 1957	KCB (Mil)
"	"	1 Jan 1959	GCB (Mil)

Ward	Arthur Hugh	16 Jun 1979	KBE (Civ)	25 Mar 1906	1 Nov 1993	87

Ward	Ashley Skelton	11 Feb 1958	Kt Bach	8 Oct 1877	26 Mar 1959	81

Ward	Aubrey Ernest	23 Nov 1967	Kt Bach	17 Apr 1899	14 Jun 1987	88

Ward	Deighton Harcourt Lisle Governor General of Barbados 1976-1984	17 Nov 1976	GCMG	16 May 1909	9 Jan 1984	74
"	"	1 Nov 1977	GCVO

Ward	Edward Willis Duncan, later [1914] 1st baronet	29 Nov 1900	KCB (Mil)	17 Dec 1853	11 Sep 1928	74
"	"	1 Jul 1907	KCVO
"	"	1 Jan 1919	GBE (Civ)

Ward	Edward Wolstenholme	24 May 1879	KCMG	17 Aug 1823	5 Feb 1890	66

Ward	Erskine Rueul la Tourette	Jul 1980	KA		1981

Ward	(Frederik) Gordon Roy	31 May 2012	Kt Bach

Ward	Henry George MP for St. Albans 1832-1837 and Sheffield 1837-1849. Governor of Ceylon 1855-1860 and Madras 1860	25 Jun 1849	GCMG	27 Feb 1797	2 Aug 1860	63

Ward	Irene Mary Bewick, later [1975] Baroness Ward of North Tyneside [L]. MP for Wallsend 1931-1945 and Tynemouth 1950-1974. CH 1973	9 Jun 1955	DBE (Civ)	23 Feb 1895	26 Apr 1980	85

Ward	John	24 Jul 1906	Kt Bach		8 Nov 1908

Ward	John Chappell	11 May 1937	KBE (Civ)	28 Dec 1877	10 Oct 1942	64

Ward	John Devereux MP for Poole 1979-1997	9 Dec 1997	Kt Bach	8 Mar 1925	26 Jun 2010	85

Ward	John Guthrie	31 May 1956	KCMG	3 Mar 1909	12 Jan 1991	81

Ward	John Hubert	1 Jan 1917	KCVO	20 Mar 1870	2 Dec 1938	68

Ward	John MacQueen	3 Jul 2003	Kt Bach	1 Aug 1940

Ward	Joseph George, later [1911] 1st baronet. PC 1907	23 May 1901	KCMG	26 Apr 1856	8 Jul 1930	74
"	"	1 Jan 1930	GCMG

Ward	Leslie	6 Feb 1918	Kt Bach	21 Nov 1851	15 May 1922	70

Ward	(Lisle) Austin	25 May 2007	Kt Bach	14 Nov 1935

Ward	Philip John Newling	27 Oct 1976	KCVO	10 Jul 1924	6 Jan 2003	78

Ward	Richard Erskine	1 Jan 1971	KCB (Mil)	15 Oct 1917	11 Aug 1989	71
"	"	1 Jan 1976	GBE (Mil)

Ward	Terence George	2 Dec 1971	Kt Bach	16 Jan 1906	30 Sep 1991	85

Ward	Thomas Robert John	5 Jun 1920	Kt Bach	1863	27 Jan 1944	80

Ward	Timothy James	31 May 1996	Kt Bach

Ward	Walter	10 Feb 1959	Kt Bach	1899	22 Apr 1959	59

Ward	William	27 Jun 1900	Kt Bach	2 Jun 1841	28 Dec 1927	86
"	"	24 Jun 1910	KCMG

Ward	William Erskine Governor of Assam 1885-1887 and 1891-1896	20 May 1896	KCSI	4 Feb 1838	24 Dec 1916	78

Ward	William Humble, 3rd Earl of Dudley. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1902-1905. Governor General of Australia 1908-1911. PC 1902	11 Aug 1903	GCVO	25 May 1867	29 Jun 1932	65
"	"	2 Jun 1908	GCMG
"	"	10 Oct 1911	GCB (Civ)

Wardale	Geoffrey Charles	16 Jun 1979	KCB (Civ)	29 Nov 1919	18 Dec 2017	98

Warde	Edward Charles	2 Jun 1869	KCB (Mil)	13 Nov 1810	10 Jun 1884	73

Warde	Francis	24 May 1873	KCB (Mil)	Dec 1790	4 May 1879	88

Wardlaw-Milne	John Sydney MP for Kidderminster 1922-1945	3 Jun 1932	KBE (Civ)	1879	11 Jul 1967	88

Wardle	Thomas	3 Feb 1897	Kt Bach	26 Jan 1831	3 Jan 1909	77

Wardle	Thomas Edward Jewell	12 Dec 1970	Kt Bach	18 Aug 1912	11 Feb 1997	84

Wardrop	(John) Oliver	30 Dec 1922	KBE (Civ)	10 Oct 1864	19 Oct 1948	84

Wardrop	Alexander Ernest	3 Jun 1930	KCB (Mil)	15 Sep 1872	22 Jun 1961	88
"	"	23 Jun 1936	GCB (Mil)

Ware	Fabian Arthur Goulstone	23 Feb 1920	KBE (Mil)	1869	28 Apr 1949	79
"	"	13 May 1922	KCVO

Ware	Frank	9 Mar 1946	Kt Bach	22 Feb 1886	6 Dec 1968	82

Ware	Henry Gabriel	3 Jun 1972	KCB (Civ)	23 Jul 1912	12 Oct 1989	77

Waring	(Arthur) Bertram	9 Feb 1960	Kt Bach	12 Jun 1893	2 Mar 1974	80

Waring	Douglas Tremayne	26 Mar 1957	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1904	5 Mar 1980	75

Waring	Henry John	12 Jan 1891	Kt Bach	1817	26 Oct 1903	86

Waring	Holburt Jacob, later [1935] 1st baronet	12 Feb 1925	Kt Bach	3 Oct 1866	10 Feb 1953	86

Wark	Ian William	18 Jul 1969	Kt Bach	8 May 1899	20 Apr 1985	85

Warne-Browne	Thomas Arthur	1 Jan 1951	KBE (Mil)	1898	13 Oct 1962	64

Warner	Arthur George	15 Nov 1956	Kt Bach	31 Jul 1899	3 Apr 1966	66
"	"	2 Jun 1962	KBE (Civ)

Warner	Christopher Frederick Ashton	7 Jun 1951	KCMG	17 Jan 1895	13 Jan 1957	61
"	"	2 Jan 1956	GBE (Civ)

Warner	Edward Redston	12 Jun 1965	KCMG	23 Mar 1911	8 Feb 2002	90

Warner	Frank	1 Jan 1918	KBE	13 Sep 1862	23 Jan 1930	67

Warner	Frederick Archibald [Fred]	3 Jun 1972	KCMG	2 May 1918	30 Sep 1995	77
"	"	7 May 1975	GCVO

Warner	Frederick Edward	19 Mar 1968	Kt Bach	31 Mar 1910	3 Jul 2010	100

Warner	George Frederic	23 Feb 1911	Kt Bach	7 Apr 1845	17 Jan 1936	90

Warner	George Redston	14 Dec 1934	KCVO	18 Jul 1879	23 Jun 1978	98

Warner	Gerald Chierici	17 Jun 1995	KCMG	27 Sep 1931

Warner	Jean-Pierre Frank Eugene	20 May 1981	Kt Bach	24 Sep 1924	1 Feb 2005	80

Warner	Joseph Henry	2 Dec 1892	Kt Bach	1836	5 Jul 1897	61

Warner	Lionel Ashton Piers	19 Feb 1936	Kt Bach	30 Apr 1875	22 Nov 1953	78

Warner	Marina Sarah	31 Dec 2014	DBE (Civ)	9 Nov 1946

Warner	Pelham Francis	11 Jun 1937	Kt Bach	2 Oct 1873	30 Jan 1963	89

Warnock	Geoffrey James	25 Mar 1986	Kt Bach	16 Aug 1923	8 Oct 1995	72

Warnock	Helen Mary, later [1985] Baroness Warnock [L]. CH 2016	31 Dec 1983	DBE (Civ)	14 Apr 1924

Warr	Charles Laing	2 Jan 1950	KCVO	24 Jul 1892	14 Jun 1969	76
"	"	1 Jan 1967	GCVO

Warr	George Godfrey	24 Oct 1939	Kt Bach	9 Jun 1882	18 Dec 1943	61

Warrack	James Howard	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	1855	30 Oct 1926	71

Warre	Henry James	29 May 1886	KCB (Mil)	1819	3 Apr 1898	78

Warre	William	5 Jun 1839	Kt Bach	15 Apr 1784	26 Jul 1853	69

Warren	Alfred Haman MP for Edmonton 1918-1922	26 Jun 1918	Kt Bach	6 Feb 1856	1 Aug 1927	71

Warren	Alfred Henry [Freddie]	16 Nov 1976	Kt Bach	19 Dec 1915	8 May 1990	74

Warren	Arthur Frederick	28 Jun 1907	KCB (Mil)	29 Jul 1830	18 Jul 1913	82

Warren	Charles	19 Apr 1865	KCB (Mil)	1799	27 Oct 1866	67

Warren	Charles	24 May 1883	KCMG	7 Feb 1840	21 Jan 1927	86
"	"	14 Oct 1885	GCMG
"	"	7 Jan 1888	KCB (Civ)

Warren	David Alexander	31 Dec 2011	KCMG	11 Aug 1952

Warren	Edward Emerton	13 Jun 1959	KBE (Civ)	26 Aug 1895	8 Sep 1983	88
"	"	1 Jan 1969	KCMG

Warren	Frederick Miles	31 Dec 1984	KBE (Civ)	10 May 1929

Warren	(Harold) Brian Seymour	24 Jul 1974	Kt Bach	19 Dec 1914	18 Aug 1996	81

Warren	(Henry William) Hugh	31 Jul 1951	Kt Bach	30 Jun 1891	18 Jun 1961	69

Warren	Kenneth Robin MP for Hastings 1970-1983 and Hastings and Rye 1983-1992	22 Mar 1994	Kt Bach	15 Aug 1926

Warren	Mortimer Langton	7 Jul 1959	Kt Bach	27 Oct 1903	18 Feb 1972	68

Warren	Nicholas Roger	11 Oct 2005	Kt Bach	20 May 1949

Warren	Norcot Hastings Yeeles	21 Feb 1917	Kt Bach	1864	23 Apr 1947	82
"	"	2 Jan 1922	KCIE

Warren	Pelham Laird	26 Jun 1902	KCMG	22 Aug 1845	21 Nov 1923	78

Warren	Samuel	18 Apr 1839	KCB (Mil)	9 Jan 1769	15 Oct 1839	70

Warren	(Thomas) Herbert	13 Nov 1914	KCVO	21 Oct 1853	9 Jun 1930	76

Warren	Victor Dunn	14 Feb 1951	Kt Bach	21 May 1903	3 Mar 1953	49

Warrender	George John Scott, 7th baronet	12 Jul 1911	KCVO	31 Jul 1860	8 Jan 1917	56
"	"	3 Jun 1913	KCB (Mil)

Warrington	Thomas Rolls, later [1926] 1st Baron Warrington of Clyffe. Lord Justice of Appeal 1915-1926. PC 1915	7 Jun 1904	Kt Bach	29 May 1851	26 Oct 1937	86

Warter	Philip Allan	15 Feb 1944	Kt Bach	31 Dec 1903	14 Apr 1971	67

Warwick	Catherine Lilian	30 Dec 2017	DBE (Civ)	Aug 1952

Warwick	Norman Richard Combe	2 Jan 1950	KCVO	5 Oct 1892	17 Sep 1962	69

Wass	Douglas William Gretton	1 Jan 1975	KCB (Civ)	15 Apr 1923	4 Jan 2017	93
"	"	31 Dec 1979	GCB (Civ)

Waterer	(Robert) Bernard	8 Feb 1955	Kt Bach	12 Feb 1891	3 Nov 1971	80

Waterfall	Charles Francis	12 Mar 1946	Kt Bach	24 Feb 1888	23 Oct 1954	66

Waterfield	(Alexander) Percival	4 Jul 1944	Kt Bach	16 May 1888	2 Jun 1965	77
"	"	7 Jun 1951	KBE (Civ)

Waterfield	Henry	3 Jul 1893	KCSI	30 Jun 1837	5 Jul 1913	76
"	"	26 Jun 1902	GCIE

Waterford, Marchioness of	see "Beresford"

Waterhouse	Ellis Kirkham	16 Jul 1975	Kt Bach	16 Feb 1905	7 Sep 1985	80

Waterhouse	Herbert Furnivall	13 Jun 1917	Kt Bach	1864	23 May 1931	66

Waterhouse	Nicholas Edwin	1 Jan 1920	KBE (Civ)	24 Aug 1877	28 Dec 1964	87

Waterhouse	Rachel Elizabeth	30 Dec 1989	DBE (Civ)	2 Jan 1923

Waterhouse	Ronald Dockray	25 May 1923	KCB (Civ)	28 Dec 1878	28 Nov 1942	63

Waterhouse	Ronald Gough	3 Mar 1978	Kt Bach	8 May 1926	8 May 2011	85
"	"	31 Dec 2001	GBE (Civ)

Waterlow	Ernest Albert	24 Oct 1902	Kt Bach	24 May 1850	25 Oct 1919	69

Waterlow	Sydney Hedley, later [1873] 1st baronet. MP for Dumfries 1868-1869, Maidstone 1874-1880 and Gravesend 1880-1885	3 Aug 1867	Kt Bach	1 Nov 1822	3 Aug 1906	83
"	"	9 Nov 1902	KCVO

Waterlow	Sydney Philip Perigal	3 Jun 1935	KCMG	22 Oct 1878	4 Dec 1944	66

Waterlow	William Alfred, later [1930] 1st baronet	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	23 Apr 1871	6 Jul 1931	60

Waterman	Ewen McIntyre	22 Nov 1963	Kt Bach	22 Dec 1901	23 Oct 1982	80

Waterman	Fanny	31 Dec 2004	DBE (Civ)	22 Mar 1920

Waters	Arnold Horace Santo VC For information regarding his award of the VC, see the note at the foot of this page	6 Jul 1954	Kt Bach	23 Sep 1886	22 Jan 1981	94

Waters	(Charles) John	11 Jun 1988	KCB (Mil)	2 Sep 1935
"	"	31 Dec 1994	GCB (Mil)

Waters	David Mark Rylance	19 Apr 2017	Kt Bach	18 Jan 1960

Waters	George Alexander	4 Jul 1944	Kt Bach	28 Jul 1880	15 Dec 1967	87

Waters	Harry George	12 Feb 1925	Kt Bach	1868	19 Dec 1946	78

Waters	(Thomas) Neil Morris	11 Oct 1995	Kt Bach	10 Apr 1931	7 Jun 2018	87

Waterstone	Timothy John Stuart	9 Jun 2018	Kt Bach	30 May 1939

Waterworth	Alan William	30 Dec 2006	KCVO	22 Sep 1931	18 Feb 2016	84

Wates	Christopher Stephen	21 Mar 1989	Kt Bach	25 Dec 1939

Wates	Ronald Wallace	2 Dec 1975	Kt Bach	4 Jun 1907	25 Jan 1986	78

Wathen	Charles	29 Jan 1889	Kt Bach	1832	14 Feb 1893	60

Watherston	David Charles	2 Jan 1956	KBE (Civ)	26 Feb 1907	16 Jan 1977	69

Watkin	Edward William, later [1880] 1st baronet MP for Great Yarmouth 1857, Stockport 1864-1868 and Hythe 1874-1895	29 Aug 1868	Kt Bach	26 Sep 1819	14 Apr 1901	81

Watkin	Herbert George	12 Nov 1964	Kt Bach	1898	20 Aug 1966	68

Watkin Williams	Peter	16 Jul 1963	Kt Bach	8 Jul 1911	26 Mar 1996	84

Watkins	Caroline Leigh	31 Dec 2016	DBE (Civ)

Watkins	Metford	28 Jan 1947	Kt Bach	22 Apr 1900	27 Nov 1950	50

Watkins	Percy Emerson	6 Mar 1930	Kt Bach	Dec 1871	5 May 1946	74

Watkins	Tasker VC Lord Justice of Appeal 1980-1993. PC 1980 For information regarding the award of his VC, see the note at the foot of the page recording his membership of the Privy Council	3 Jun 1971	Kt Bach	18 Nov 1918	9 Sep 2007	88
"	"	30 Dec 1989	GBE (Civ)

Watkinson	Angela Eileen MP for Upminster 2001-2010 and Hornchurch & Upminster 2010-2017	29 Dec 2012	DBE (Civ)	18 Nov 1941

Watkinson	(George) Laurence	9 Jun 1949	KBE (Civ)	29 Jan 1896	23 Mar 1974	78

Watkis	Henry Bulckley Burlton	3 Jun 1915	KCB (Mil)	4 Jun 1860	5 May 1931	70

Watlington	Henry William	23 Feb 1933	Kt Bach	8 Jun 1866	14 Dec 1942	76

Watney	Frank Dormay	23 Jun 1936	KCVO	25 Jan 1870	16 Jul 1965	95

Watney	John	30 Jun 1900	Kt Bach	27 Jan 1834	25 Mar 1923	89

Watson	Alfred Henry	23 Feb 1933	Kt Bach	1874	1 Mar 1967	92

Watson	Alfred William	13 Jan 1915	Kt Bach	11 Mar 1870	7 May 1936	66
"	"	5 Jun 1920	KCB (Civ)

Watson	Arthur	10 Jul 1924	Kt Bach	18 Sep 1873	13 Apr 1954	80

Watson	Arthur Egerton	12 Jul 1949	Kt Bach	1882	8 May 1967	84

Watson	Bertrand	10 Feb 1942	Kt Bach	16 May 1878	16 Feb 1948	69

Watson	Bruce Dunstan	24 Jul 1985	Kt Bach	1 Aug 1928	1 Nov 2008	80

Watson	Charles Cuningham	3 Jun 1929	KCIE	1874	24 Feb 1934	59

Watson	Charles Moore	30 Jun 1905	KCMG	10 Jul 1844	15 Mar 1916	71

Watson	Daril Gerrard	14 Jun 1945	KCB (Mil)	17 Oct 1888	1 Jul 1967	78
"	"	12 Jun 1947	GCB (Mil)

Watson	David	1 Jan 1918	KCB (Mil)	7 Feb 1871	19 Feb 1922	51

Watson	David John	8 Dec 1998	Kt Bach	22 Mar 1949	8 Feb 2015	65

Watson	Duncan	17 Feb 1927	Kt Bach	1873	27 Sep 1959	86

Watson	Duncan Amos	9 Dec 1993	Kt Bach	10 May 1926	21 Apr 2015	88

Watson	Francis	18 Aug 1919	Kt Bach	1864	27 Aug 1947	83

Watson	Francis John Bagott	1 Jan 1973	KCVO	24 Aug 1907	27 Sep 1992	85

Watson	Frank Pears	2 Jan 1933	KCMG	13 Sep 1878	13 Feb 1941	62

Watson	George Willes	30 May 1891	KCB (Mil)	5 Apr 1827	26 Apr 1897	70

Watson	Graham Robert MEP for South West England 1994-2014	20 Oct 2011	Kt Bach	23 Mar 1956

Watson	Harry Davis	3 Jun 1919	KBE (Mil)	18 Jul 1866	7 May 1945	78

Watson	Henry Edmund	8 Mar 1886	Kt Bach	1815	17 Feb 1901	85

Watson	(Henry) Keith	23 Oct 1968	Kt Bach	22 Aug 1900	13 Jan 1973	72

Watson	Hugh	12 Feb 1957	Kt Bach	4 May 1897	16 Oct 1966	69

Watson	Hugh Dudley Richards	2 Jan 1928	KCB (Mil)	20 Apr 1872	22 May 1954	82

Watson	Hugh Wesley Allen	24 Feb 1931	Kt Bach	1875	25 May 1953	77

Watson	James	5 Jul 1839	KCB (Mil)	1772	12 Aug 1862	90

Watson	James	2 Mar 1874	Kt Bach	1800	14 Aug 1889	88

Watson	James Anderson Scott	12 Jul 1949	Kt Bach	16 Nov 1889	5 Aug 1966	76

Watson	(James) Angus	13 Feb 1945	Kt Bach	15 Jan 1874	31 Jan 1961	87

Watson	John VC For information regarding his award of the VC, see the note at the foot of this page	29 May 1886	KCB (Mil)	6 Sep 1829	23 Jan 1919	89
"	"	26 Jun 1902	GCB (Mil)

Watson	John Ballingall Forbes	16 Feb 1939	Kt Bach	10 Oct 1879	25 Aug 1952	72
"	"	1 Jan 1947	KCMG

Watson	John Charles	25 Nov 1931	Kt Bach	9 Jul 1883	8 Feb 1944	60

Watson	John Mathewson	22 Jun 1932	Kt Bach	1871	14 Feb 1942	70

Watson	Logie Pirie	26 Jun 1918	Kt Bach	1864	19 Feb 1933	68

Watson	Malcolm	10 Jul 1924	Kt Bach	24 Aug 1873	28 Dec 1955	82

Watson	(Noel) Duncan	10 Jun 1967	KCMG	16 Dec 1915	8 Jul 1999	83

Watson	Patrick Heron	18 Jul 1903	Kt Bach	5 Jan 1832	21 Dec 1907	75

Watson	Philip Alexander	12 Jun 1976	KBE (Mil)	7 Oct 1919	8 Dec 2009	90

Watson	(Robert) Dymock	1 Jan 1959	KCB (Mil)	5 Apr 1904	3 Feb 1988	83

Watson	Robert Tony	31 May 2012	Kt Bach	21 Mar 1948

Watson	Ronald Matthew	1997	Kt Bach	24 May 1945

Watson	Stephen John	21 May 1969	Kt Bach	24 Mar 1898	25 Jun 1976	78

Watson	William	2 Aug 1897	Kt Bach	28 Apr 1842	10 Mar 1918	75

Watson	William	13 Jun 1917	Kt Bach	2 Aug 1858	11 Aug 1935	77

Watson	William	26 Jun 1962	Kt Bach	23 Nov 1902	10 Jan 1984	81

Watson	William Henry MP for Kinsale 1841-1847 and Hull 1854-1856	28 Nov 1856	Kt Bach	1 Jul 1796	13 Mar 1860	63

Watson-Jones	Reginald	10 Jul 1945	Kt Bach	4 Mar 1902	9 Aug 1972	70

Watson-Smyth	Robert Middleton	8 Jul 1922	Kt Bach	7 Oct 1872	5 Sep 1939	66

Watson-Watt	Robert Alexander	7 Jul 1942	Kt Bach	13 Apr 1892	5 Dec 1973	81

Watt	Alan Stewart	9 Aug 1954	Kt Bach	13 Apr 1901	18 Sep 1988	87

Watt	Charles Redmond	23 Oct 2003	KCVO	Jun 1950
"	"	29 Dec 2007	KCB (Mil)

Watt	George	1 Jan 1903	Kt Bach	24 Apr 1851	2 Apr 1930	78

Watt	James	17 Feb 1927	Kt Bach		30 Jun 1935

Watt	James	1 Jan 1975	KBE (Mil)	19 Aug 1914	28 Dec 2009	95

Watt	Katherine Christie	14 Jun 1945	DBE (Civ)	1886	1 Nov 1963	77

Watt	Robert Dickie	8 Aug 1960	Kt Bach	23 Apr 1881	10 Apr 1965	83

Watt	Thomas	1 Jan 1912	KCMG	26 Jan 1857	11 Sep 1947	90

Watt	Thomas	15 Mar 1943	Kt Bach	29 Nov 1882	16 May 1955	72

Wattie	James	27 Oct 1966	Kt Bach	23 Mar 1902	8 Jun 1974	72

Watts	Arthur Desmond	31 Dec 1988	KCMG	14 Nov 1931	16 Nov 2007	76

Watts	Fenwick Shadforth	19 May 1919	Kt Bach	1858	25 Apr 1926	67

Watts	Francis	1 Jan 1917	KCMG	1 Nov 1859	26 Sep 1930	70

Watts	Herbert Edward	1 Jan 1918	KCB (Mil)	14 Feb 1858	15 Oct 1934	76
"	"	3 Jun 1919	KCMG

Watts	Hugh Edmund	12 Jul 1955	Kt Bach	5 Dec 1888	16 Oct 1958	69

Watts	James	30 Jun 1857	Kt Bach	Mar 1804	6 Apr 1878	74

Watts	John Augustus Fitzroy	31 Dec 1999	KCMG	31 May 1923	11 May 2015	91

Watts	John Peter Barry Condliffe	1988	KBE (Mil)	27 Aug 1930	10 Dec 2003	73

Watts	Philip	30 Jun 1905	KCB (Civ)	30 May 1846	15 Mar 1926	79

Watts	Philip Beverley	31 Dec 2002	KCMG	25 Jun 1945

Watts	Roy	15 Dec 1992	Kt Bach	17 Aug 1925	Apr 1993	67

Watts	Thomas	28 Jun 1928	Kt Bach	1 Jul 1868	3 Jun 1951	82

Watts	William	24 Jun 1910	KCB (Civ)	6 Feb 1858	4 Aug 1922	64

Wauchope	Arthur Grenfell	7 Aug 1931	KCB (Mil)	1 Mar 1874	14 Sep 1947	73
"	"	3 Jun 1933	GCMG
"	"	1 Jan 1938	GCB (Mil)

Waugh	(Alexander) Telford	1 Jan 1930	KCMG	22 Oct 1865	7 Jan 1950	84

Waugh	Andrew Scott	10 Dec 1860	Kt Bach	3 Feb 1810	21 Feb 1878	68

Waugh	Arthur Allen	13 Jun 1946	KCIE	25 Jul 1891	12 Jan 1968	76

Wavell	Archibald Percival, later [1947] 1st Earl Wavell. Vicreoy of India 1943-1947. PC 1943	2 Jan 1939	KCB (Mil)	5 May 1883	24 May 1950	67
"	"	4 Mar 1941	GCB (Mil)
"	"	1 Oct 1943	GCIE
"	"	1 Oct 1943	GCSI

Waverley, Viscount	see "Anderson"

Way	Richard George Kitchener	31 Dec 1960	KCB (Civ)	15 Sep 1914	2 Oct 1998	84

Way	Samuel James, 1st baronet. PC 1897	12 Mar 1900	Kt Bach	11 Apr 1836	8 Jan 1916	79

Wayland	William Abraham MP for Canterbury 1927-1945	4 Mar 1920	Kt Bach	1 Sep 1869	15 Jul 1950	80

Wayman	Myers	10 Jul 1945	Kt Bach	29 Nov 1890	11 Sep 1959	68
"	"	1 Jan 1951	KBE (Civ)

Wayne	Edward Johnson	22 Jul 1964	Kt Bach	3 Jun 1902	19 Aug 1990	88

Weare	Henry Edwin	30 May 1891	KCB (Mil)	27 Aug 1825	31 Dec 1898	73

Weatherall	David John	17 Mar 1987	Kt Bach	9 Mar 1933
"	"	17 Jun 2017	GBE (Civ)

Weatherall	James Lamb	17 Jun 1989	KBE (Mil)	28 Feb 1936	18 Mar 2018	82
"	"	30 Dec 2000	KCVO

Weatherbe	Robert Linton	30 Jun 1906	Kt Bach	7 Apr 1834	27 Apr 1915	81

Weatherby	Francis	10 Feb 1953	Kt Bach	15 Sep 1885	17 Nov 1969	84

Weatherhead	Arthur Trenham	12 Jul 1960	Kt Bach	19 May 1905	23 Dec 1984	79

Weatherstone	Dennis Charles	16 Jun 1990	KBE (Civ)	29 Nov 1930	13 Jun 2008	77

Weatherstone	Duncan Mackay	26 Oct 1965	Kt Bach	10 May 1898	31 Jan 1972	73

Weatherup	Ronald Eccles PC 2016	26 Oct 2001	Kt Bach

Weaver	Lawrence	1 Jan 1920	KBE (Civ)	2 Jul 1876	9 Jan 1930	53

Weaver	Tobias Rushton [Toby]	4 Dec 1973	Kt Bach	19 Jul 1911	10 Jun 2001	89

Webb	Adrian Leonard	28 Nov 2000	Kt Bach	19 Jul 1943

Webb	(Ambrose) Henry	18 Feb 1941	Kt Bach	13 Aug 1882	19 May 1964	81

Webb	Arthur Lewis	23 Dec 1912	KCMG	27 Oct 1860	15 Mar 1921	60

Webb	(Arthur) Lisle Ambrose	1 Jan 1920	KBE (Civ)	19 Jul 1871	7 Oct 1945	74

Webb	Aston	19 Dec 1904	Kt Bach	22 May 1849	21 Aug 1930	81
"	"	1 Jan 1914	KCVO
"	"	1 Jan 1925	GCVO

Webb	Charles Morgan	10 Jul 1924	Kt Bach	30 Jun 1872	20 Jun 1963	90

Webb	John Sydney	24 May 1889	KCMG	28 Jan 1816	31 Oct 1898	82

Webb	Montagu de Pomeroy	11 Feb 1921	Kt Bach	1869	5 May 1938	68

Webb	Richard	1 Jan 1920	KCMG	1870	20 Jan 1950	79

Webb	Richard James Holden	1 Jan 1974	KBE (Mil)	21 Dec 1919	24 Jan 1990	70

Webb	Stephen John MP for Northavon 1997-2010 and Thornbury and Yate 2010-2015. PC 2014	12 May 2017	Kt Bach	18 Jul 1965

Webb	(Thomas) Clifton	2 Jan 1956	KCMG	8 Mar 1889	6 Feb 1962	72

Webb	Thomas Langley	16 Jul 1975	Kt Bach	25 Apr 1908	20 Jul 2005	97

Webb	William Flood	25 Apr 1942	Kt Bach	21 Jan 1887	11 Aug 1972	85
"	"	10 Jun 1954	KBE (Civ)

Webb-Bowen	Tom Ince	3 Jun 1932	KCB (Mil)	1879	29 Oct 1956	77

Webb-Carter	Evelyn John	4 Aug 2000	KCVO	30 Jan 1946

Webbe	(William) Harold	25 Feb 1937	Kt Bach	30 Sep 1885	22 Apr 1965	79

Webber	Arthur Frederick Clarence	15 Jul 1936	Kt Bach	1873	19 Dec 1952	79

Webber	Robert John	28 Feb 1934	Kt Bach	14 Nov 1884	18 Dec 1962	78

Webber	William James Percival	19 Mar 1968	Kt Bach	11 Sep 1901	12 Apr 1982	80

Webb-Johnson	Alfred Edward, later [1945] 1st baronet and [1948] 1st Baron Webb Johnson	15 Jul 1936	Kt Bach	4 Sep 1880	28 May 1958	77
"	"	11 Jun 1942	KCVO
"	"	1 Jan 1954	GCVO

Weber	Hermann David	14 Jan 1899	Kt Bach	30 Dec 1823	11 Nov 1918	94

Webster	Alan Brunskill	31 Dec 1987	KCVO	1 Jul 1918	3 Sep 2007	89

Webster	Charles Kingsley	1 Jan 1946	KCMG	25 Apr 1886	21 Aug 1961	75

Webster	David Lumsden	9 Feb 1960	Kt Bach	3 Jul 1903	11 May 1971	67
"	"	13 Jun 1970	KCVO

Webster	Francis	23 Feb 1911	Kt Bach	1 Sep 1850	6 Feb 1924	73

Webster	Henry Vassall For information on his death see the note at the foot of this page.	18 May 1843	Kt Bach	1793	19 Apr 1847	53

Webster	Hugh Calthrop	16 Feb 1939	Kt Bach	6 Aug 1869	14 Apr 1941	71

Webster	John Morrison	14 Jun 1986	KCB (Mil)	3 Nov 1932

Webster	Mary Louise (May Whitty)	1 Jan 1918	DBE	19 Jun 1865	29 May 1948	82

Webster	Peter Edlin	16 May 1980	Kt Bach	16 Feb 1924	10 Apr 2009	85

Webster	Richard Everard, later [1900] 1st baronet and [1913] Viscount Alverstone. MP for Launceston 1885 and Isle of Wight 1885-1900. Attorney General 1885, 1886-1892 and 1895-1900. Master of the Rolls 1900. Lord Chief Justice 1900-1913. PC 1900	9 Jul 1885	Kt Bach	22 Dec 1842	15 Dec 1915	72
"	"	7 Dec 1893	GCMG

Webster	Richard James	2 Dec 1971	Kt Bach	15 Jul 1913	17 Jan 1986	72

Webster	Robert Joseph	22 Nov 1963	Kt Bach	10 Jun 1891	4 Aug 1981	90

Webster	(Thomas) Lonsdale	3 Jun 1922	KCB (Civ)	1 Jul 1868	7 Oct 1930	62

Wedderburn	Ernest Maclagan	7 Jul 1942	Kt Bach	3 Feb 1884	3 Jun 1958	74

Wedderburn	Maxwell Maclagan	1 Jan 1941	KBE (Civ)	25 Mar 1883	30 Jun 1953	70

Wedderspoon	Thomas Adam	8 Feb 1955	Kt Bach	4 Aug 1904	6 Dec 1987	83

Wedega	Alice	12 Jun 1982	DBE (Civ)	20 Aug 1905	3 Dec 1987	82

Wedgwood	(Cicely) Veronica OM 1969	8 Jun 1968	DBE (Civ)	20 Jul 1910	9 Mar 1997	86

Wedgwood	Ivy Evelyn Annie	10 Jun 1967	DBE (Civ)	18 Oct 1896	24 Jul 1975	78

Wedgwood	Ralph Lewis, later [1942] 1st baronet	10 Jul 1924	Kt Bach	2 Mar 1874	5 Sep 1956	82

Wedmore	Frederick	6 Mar 1912	Kt Bach	9 Jul 1844	25 Feb 1921	76

Weedon	Colin Winterbotham	1 Jan 1952	KBE (Mil)	2 Jul 1901	16 Feb 1975	73

Weedon	Henry	26 Jun 1908	Kt Bach	16 Mar 1859	27 Mar 1921	62

Weekes	Everton de Courcy	17 Jun 1995	KCMG	26 Feb 1925

Weeks	Hugh Thomas	22 Nov 1966	Kt Bach	27 Apr 1904	13 Jul 1992	88

Weeks	Ronald Morce, later [1956] 1st Baron Weeks	2 Jun 1943	KCB (Mil)	13 Nov 1890	19 Aug 1960	69

Wei Yuk	Boshan	18 Feb 1919	Kt Bach	1849	by 1928

Weidenfeld	Arthur George, later [1976] Baron Weidenfeld [L]	2 Dec 1969	Kt Bach	13 Sep 1919	20 Jan 2016	96
"	"	31 Dec 2010	GBE (Civ)

Weigall	(William Ernest George) Archibald, later [1938] 1st baronet. MP for Horncastle 1911-1920. Governor of South Australia 1920-1922	27 Feb 1920	KCMG	8 Dec 1874	3 Jun 1952	77

Weightman	Hugh For information on his death, see the note at the foot of this page	20 Jul 1948	Kt Bach	29 Nov 1898	28 Oct 1949	50

Weinberg	Mark Aubrey	17 Mar 1987	Kt Bach	9 Aug 1931

Weinstock	Arnold, later [1980] Baron Weinstock [L]	24 Nov 1970	Kt Bach	29 Jul 1924	23 Jul 2002	77

Weipers	William Lee	22 Mar 1966	Kt Bach	21 Jan 1904	15 Dec 1990	86

Weir	Cecil McAlpine	9 Jun 1938	KBE (Civ)	5 Jul 1890	30 Oct 1960	70
"	"	5 Jun 1952	KCMG

Weir	George Alexander	4 Jun 1934	KCB (Mil)	1 Dec 1876	15 Nov 1951	74

Weir	Gillian Constance	30 Dec 1995	DBE (Civ)	17 Jan 1941

Weir	John	1 Jan 1932	KCVO	19 Oct 1879	17 Apr 1971	91
"	"	8 Jun 1939	GCVO

Weir	John Charles	10 Jul 1935	Kt Bach	14 Mar 1872	17 Feb 1936	63

Weir	Michael Scott	31 Dec 1979	KCMG	28 Jan 1925	22 Jun 2006	81

Weir	Norman William McDonald	10 Jun 1948	KBE (Mil)	6 Jul 1893	11 Jul 1961	68

Weir	Reginald George PC 2016	20 Nov 2003	Kt Bach	1947

Weir	Roderick Bignell	16 Jun 1984	Kt Bach	14 Jul 1927

Weir	Stephen Cyril Ettrick	1 Jan 1960	KBE (Mil)	5 Oct 1905	24 Sep 1969	63

Weir	William Douglas, later [1918] 1st Baron Weir and [1938] 1st Viscount Weir. Secretary of State for Air 1918. PC 1918	21 Feb 1917	Kt Bach	12 May 1877	2 Jul 1959	82
"	"	1 Jan 1934	GCB (Civ)

Weiss	Eric	18 Mar 1980	Kt Bach	30 Dec 1908	26 Mar 1990	81

Welby	Alfred Cholmley Earle	1 Jan 1918	KBE	22 Aug 1849	18 May 1937	87

Welby	George Earle	24 Jul 1906	Kt Bach	9 Jan 1851	25 Aug 1936	85

Welby	Reginald Earle, later [1894] Baron Welby. PC 1913	26 Dec 1882	KCB (Civ)	3 Aug 1832	30 Oct 1915	83
"	"	20 Aug 1892	GCB (Civ)

Welby-Everard	Christopher Earle	1 Jan 1965	KBE (Mil)	9 Aug 1909	10 May 1996	86

Welch	David Nairne	16 Jun 1909	KCVO	26 Oct 1820	1 Feb 1912	91

Welch	George	1 Jan 1919	KCMG	13 Sep 1858	26 Oct 1947	89

Welch	George James Cullum, later [1957] 1st baronet	27 Feb 1952	Kt Bach	20 Oct 1895	28 Jul 1980	84

Welch	(Henry George) Gordon	16 Feb 1954	Kt Bach	13 Jun 1890	12 May 1960	69

Weld	Frederick Aloysius Governor of Western Australia 1869-1875, Tasmania 1875-1880 and the Straits Settlements 1880-1887	29 May 1880	KCMG	9 May 1823	20 Jul 1891	68
"	"	6 Jun 1885	GCMG

Weld	Joseph William	4 Dec 1973	Kt Bach	22 Sep 1909	14 Aug 1992	82

Weldon	William Henry	3 Jun 1919	KCVO	1837	25 Aug 1919	82

Welensky	Roy Roland PC 1960	15 Feb 1954	Kt Bach	20 Jan 1907	5 Dec 1991	84
"	"	1 Jan 1959	KCMG

Welland	Mark Edward	12 Oct 2011	Kt Bach	18 Oct 1955

Wellcome	Henry Solomon	25 Feb 1932	Kt Bach	1853	25 Jul 1936	83

Weller	Arthur Burton	28 Oct 1997	Kt Bach	9 Nov 1929	29 Nov 2011	82

Weller	Ian Vincent Derrick	18 Dec 2015	Kt Bach	27 Mar 1950

Weller	Nicholas John	29 Jan 2016	Kt Bach	Oct 1957

Weller	Rita	31 Dec 2002	DBE (Civ)

Wellesley	Arthur Charles, 4th Duke of Wellington	2 May 1902	GCVO	15 Mar 1849	18 Jun 1934	85
"	"	8 Aug 1902	KG

Wellesley	George Greville	23 Apr 1880	KCB (Mil)	2 Aug 1814	6 Apr 1901	86
"	"	21 Jun 1887	GCB (Mil)

Wellesley	Henry Richard Charles, 2nd Baron Cowley, later [1857] 1st Earl Cowley. PC 1852	1 Mar 1851	KCB (Civ)	17 Jun 1804	15 Jul 1884	80
"	"	21 Feb 1853	GCB (Civ)
"	"	3 Feb 1866	KG

Wellesley	Victor Alexander Augustus Henry	5 Jun 1926	KCMG	1 Mar 1876	20 Feb 1954	77

Wellings	Jack Alfred	9 Dec 1975	Kt Bach	16 Aug 1917	9 Apr 2010	92

Wellington, Duke of	see "Wellesley"

Wellington	(Reginald Everard) Lindsay	5 Feb 1963	Kt Bach	10 Aug 1901	9 Jan 1985	83

Wells	Frederick Michael, later [1948] 1st baronet	8 Jul 1947	Kt Bach	11 Mar 1884	13 Sep 1966	82

Wells	Gerard Aylmer	1 Feb 1937	KBE (Mil)		2 Aug 1943

Wells	Henry	2 Jan 1956	KBE (Mil)	22 Mar 1898	21 Oct 1973	75

Wells	Henry Weston	22 Nov 1966	Kt Bach	28 Feb 1911	30 Nov 1971	60

Wells	John Julius MP for Maidstone 1959-1987	27 Nov 1984	Kt Bach	30 Mar 1925	8 Feb 2017	91

Wells	Lionel de Lautour	11 Feb 1921	Kt Bach	Jan 1859	15 Mar 1929	70

Wells	Lionel Victor	1 Jan 1943	KCB (Mil)	28 Nov 1884	22 Apr 1965	80

Wells	Mordaunt Lawson	30 Dec 1858	Kt Bach	1817	26 Nov 1885	68

Wells	Murray John [originally DCNZM 31 Dec 2008]	1 Aug 2009	KNZM

Wells	Rachel Anne	4 Jul 2017	DCVO

Wells	Richard	20 May 1896	KCB (Mil)	3 Feb 1833	9 Oct 1896	63

Wells	Stanley William	18 Nov 2016	Kt Bach	21 May 1930

Wells	Sydney Richard, later [1944] 1st baronet. MP for Bedford 1922-1945	7 Jul 1938	Kt Bach	3 Aug 1879	26 Nov 1956	77

Wells	William Henry	10 Jul 1919	Kt Bach	30 May 1871	29 Jul 1933	62

Wells	William Henry Weston	25 Mar 1997	Kt Bach	3 May 1940

Welsford	Robert Mills	10 Jul 1929	Kt Bach	1861	10 Dec 1933	72

Welsh	Allan Ross	13 Jul 1943	Kt Bach	8 Jul 1875	6 Sep 1957	82

Welsh	(Ruth) Mary Eldridge	13 Jun 1946	DBE (Mil)	2 Aug 1896	25 Jun 1986	89

Welsh	William Lawrie	1 Jul 1941	KCB (Mil)	1891	2 Jan 1962	70

Wemyss	(Henry) Colville Barclay	1 Jul 1941	KBE (Mil)	26 Apr 1891	2 Apr 1959	67
"	"	14 Jun 1945	KCB (Mil)

Wemyss	Rosslyn Erskine, later [1919] 1st Baron Wester Wemyss	1 Jan 1916	KCB (Mil)	12 Apr 1864	24 May 1933	69
"	"	3 Jun 1918	GCB (Mil)

Wemyss and March, Earl of	see "Charteris"

Wenham	John Henry	6 Jul 1954	Kt Bach	23 Mar 1891	25 Aug 1970	79

Wenlock, Baron and Baroness	see "Lawley"

Wentworth- Fitzwilliam	(William) Charles	19 Jun 1911	KCVO	30 Mar 1848	17 Apr 1925	77
"	"	1 Jan 1921	GCVO

Wentworth- Fitzwilliam	William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam. MP for Wakefield 1895-1902	12 Jul 1912	KCVO	25 Jul 1872	15 Feb 1943	70

Wernher	Harold Augustus, later [1948] 3rd baronet	3 Jun 1930	KCVO	16 Jan 1893	30 Jun 1973	80
"	"	1 Jan 1949	GCVO

Wesker	Arnold	22 Feb 2006	Kt Bach	24 May 1932	12 Apr 2016	83

Wesley	Samuel Robert	10 Nov 1862	KCB (Mil)	1791	5 Jan 1877	85

Wessels	Cornelius Hermanus	4 Mar 1920	Kt Bach	26 Apr 1851	Mar 1924	72

Wessels	Johannes Wilhelmus PC 1933	9 Nov 1909	Kt Bach	7 Mar 1862	6 Sep 1936	74

Wessely	Simon Charles	13 Feb 2013	Kt Bach	23 Dec 1956

Wessex, Countess of	H.R.H. Sophie Helen	20 Jan 2010	GCVO	20 Jan 1965

Wessex, Earl of	H.R.H. Edward Antony Richard Louis	2 Jun 2003	KCVO	10 Mar 1964
"	"	23 Apr 2006	KG
"	"	10 Mar 2011	GCVO

West	Adam William John, later [2007] Baron West of Spithead [L]. PC 2010	31 Dec 1999	KCB (Mil)	21 Apr 1948
"	"	31 Dec 2003	GCB (Mil)

West	Algernon Edward PC 1894	30 Jul 1886	KCB (Civ)	4 Apr 1832	21 Mar 1921	88
"	"	26 Jun 1902	GCB (Civ)

West	Cicely Isabel [Rebecca]	1 Jan 1959	DBE (Civ)	21 Dec 1892	15 Mar 1983	90

West	Frederick John	5 Jul 1960	Kt Bach	29 Mar 1897	11 Jan 1971	73

West	Frederick Joseph	15 Jul 1936	Kt Bach	1872	14 Nov 1959	87
"	"	1 Jan 1943	KBE (Civ)
"	"	1 Jan 1947	GBE (Civ)

West	Glynn Hamilton	11 Jul 1916	Kt Bach	24 Sep 1877	6 Nov 1945	68

West	Harold Ernest Georges	20 Jul 1948	Kt Bach	7 Jun 1895	8 Nov 1968	73

West	James Grey	15 Jul 1936	Kt Bach	1885	15 Jun 1951	65

West	John	4 Jul 1840	KCB (Mil)	28 Jul 1774	18 Apr 1862	87
"	"	18 May 1860	GCB (Mil)

West	Leonard Henry	12 Jul 1933	Kt Bach	27 Mar 1864	1 Jan 1950	85

West	Michael Montgomerie Alston Roberts	1 Jan 1959	KCB (Mil)	27 Oct 1905	14 May 1978	72
"	"	13 Jun 1964	GCB (Mil)

West	Raymond	24 May 1888	KCIE	18 Sep 1832	8 Sep 1912	79

West	Walter Wooll	16 Feb 1928	Kt Bach	1861	13 Oct 1952	91

Westall	John Chaddesley	10 Jun 1954	KCB (Mil)	2 Jul 1901	30 Sep 1986	85

Westbrook	Neil Gowanloch	6 Dec 1988	Kt Bach	21 Jan 1917	13 Aug 2014	97

Westbury, Baron	see "Bethell"

Westerman	(Wilfred) Alan	22 Nov 1963	Kt Bach	25 Mar 1913	20 May 2001	88

Western	William George Balfour	3 Jun 1919	KCMG	2 May 1861	9 Jan 1936	74

Wester Wemyss, Baron	see "Wemyss"

Westlake	Charles Redvers	28 Apr 1954	Kt Bach	25 Apr 1900	17 Feb 1972	71

Westland	James	1 Jan 1895	KCSI	14 Nov 1842	9 May 1903	60

Westmacott	Peter John	14 Jun 2003	KCMG	23 Dec 1950
"		11 Jun 2016	GCMG

Westmacott	Richard	19 Jul 1837	Kt Bach	15 Jul 1775	1 Sep 1856	81

Westmacott	Richard	20 May 1898	KCB (Mil)	16 Mar 1841	27 Feb 1925	83

Westminster, Duke of	see "Grosvenor"

Westmorland, Earl of	see "Fane"

Weston	Agnes Elizabeth	3 Jun 1918	GBE	1840	23 Oct 1918	78

Weston	Arthur Reginald Astley	7 Feb 1956	Kt Bach	27 Jul 1892	18 Oct 1969	77

Weston	Eric	16 Feb 1954	Kt Bach	8 Dec 1892	20 Oct 1976	83

Weston	John Gerard Willsley	1 Jan 1964	KBE (Mil)	15 Nov 1908	13 Jun 1979	70

Weston	Joseph Dodge MP for Bristol South 1885-1886 and Bristol East 1890-1895	26 Nov 1886	Kt Bach	1822	5 Mar 1895	72

Weston	Margaret Kate	16 Jun 1979	DBE (Civ)	7 Mar 1926

Weston	Michael Charles Swift	29 Jun 1991	KCMG	4 Aug 1937

Weston	(Philip) John	31 Dec 1991	KCMG	13 Apr 1938

Weston-Stevens	Joseph	11 Jun 1913	Kt Bach	25 Jul 1861	7 Feb 1917	55

Westropp	Michael Roberts	12 Mar 1870	Kt Bach	29 Jun 1817	14 Jan 1890	72

Westrup	Jack Allan	7 Feb 1961	Kt Bach	26 Jul 1904	21 Apr 1975	70

West-Russell	David Sturrock	25 Mar 1986	Kt Bach	17 Jul 1921	2 Jul 2004	82

Westwood	Vivienne Isabel	31 Dec 2005	DBE (Civ)	8 Apr 1941

Wetherall	Edward Robert	16 Sep 1867	KCSI	1815	11 May 1869	53

Wetherall	George Augustus	5 Feb 1856	KCB (Mil)	1788	8 Apr 1868	79
"	"	28 Mar 1865	GCB (Mil)

Wetherall	(Harry) Edward de Robillard	23 May 1946	KBE (Mil)	22 Feb 1889	18 Nov 1979	90

Wevers	Maarten Laurens	4 Jun 2012	KNZM	1952

Whalen	Geoffrey Henry	12 May 1995	Kt Bach	8 Jan 1936

Wharhirst	Robert William	23 Jul 1946	Kt Bach	1885	26 Aug 1949	64

Wharton	(George) Anthony	29 Mar 1977	Kt Bach	22 Sep 1917	31 Mar 1980	62

Wharton	William James Lloyd	22 Jun 1897	KCB (Civ)	2 Mar 1843	29 Sep 1905	62

Whateley	Leslie Violet Lucy Evelyn Mary	1 Jan 1946	DBE (Mil)	28 Jan 1899	4 Jul 1987	88

Wheare	Kenneth Clinton	22 Mar 1966	Kt Bach	26 Mar 1907	7 Sep 1979	72

Wheatley	(George) Andrew	14 Mar 1967	Kt Bach	1908	21 May 1991	82

Wheatley	Mervyn James	1 Jan 1952	KBE (Civ)	24 Apr 1880	26 Oct 1974	94

Wheatley	Zachariah	25 Jun 1920	Kt Bach	28 Mar 1865	6 Jun 1950	85

Wheatstone	Charles For further information on this knight, see the note at the foot of this page	30 Jan 1868	Kt Bach	6 Feb 1802	19 Oct 1875	73

Wheeler	Charles Reginald	11 Jun 1966	KBE (Civ)	5 Dec 1904	25 Nov 1975	70

Wheeler	Charles Thomas	1 Jan 1958	KCVO	14 Mar 1892	22 Aug 1974	82

Wheeler	(Edward) Oliver	23 Feb 1943	Kt Bach	18 Apr 1890	19 Mar 1962	71

Wheeler	(Ernest) Richard	28 Jul 1981	KCVO	21 Jul 1917	9 Dec 1990	73

Wheeler	Frederick Henry	31 Mar 1967	Kt Bach	9 Jan 1914	5 Aug 1994	80

Wheeler	(Harry) Anthony	22 Mar 1988	Kt Bach	7 Nov 1919	19 Dec 2013	94

Wheeler	Henry	1 Jan 1917	KCIE	2 Jun 1870	2 Jun 1950	80
"	"	3 Jun 1921	KCSI

Wheeler	(Henry) Neil George	1 Jan 1969	KCB (Mil)	8 Jul 1917	9 Jan 2009	91
"	"	1 Jan 1975	GCB (Mil)

Wheeler	Hugh Massey	16 Aug 1850	KCB (Mil)	30 Jun 1789	27 Jun 1857	67

Wheeler	John Daniel MP for Paddington 1979-1983 and Westminster North 1983-1997. PC 1993	30 Dec 1989	Kt Bach	1 May 1940

Wheeler	Kenneth Henry	5 Apr 1976	Kt Bach	7 Sep 1912	10 May 1996	83

Wheeler	Olive Annie	2 Jan 1950	DBE (Civ)	1886	26 Sep 1963	77

Wheeler	(Robert Eric) Mortimer	8 Jul 1952	Kt Bach	10 Sep 1890	22 Jul 1976	85

Wheeler	Roger Neil	12 Jun 1993	KCB (Mil)	16 Dec 1941
"	"	31 Dec 1996	GCB (Mil)

Wheeler	William Ireland de Courcy	18 Aug 1919	Kt Bach	8 May 1879	11 Sep 1943	64

Wheeler-Bennett	John Wheeler	1 Jan 1959	KCVO	13 Oct 1902	9 Dec 1975	73
"	"	1 Jan 1974	GCVO

Wheeler-Booth	Michael Addison John	11 Jun 1994	KCB (Civ)	25 Feb 1934	26 Mar 2018	84

Wheelhouse	William St.James MP for Leeds 1868-1880	7 Dec 1882	Kt Bach	1821	8 Mar 1886	64

Wheldon	Huw Pyrs	23 Mar 1976	Kt Bach	7 May 1916	14 Mar 1986	69

Wheldon	Juliet Louise	31 Dec 2003	DCB (Civ)	26 Mar 1950

Wheldon	Wynn Powell	13 Jul 1939	Kt Bach	1879	10 Nov 1961	82
"	"	1 Jan 1952	KBE (Civ)

Whent	Gerald Arthur	2 May 1995	Kt Bach	1 Mar 1927	16 May 2002	75

Whetham	Charles	6 Aug 1874	Kt Bach	1812	4 Sep 1885	73

Whetham	William Cecil Dampier - see "Dampier"

Whigham	Robert Dundas	1 Jan 1917	KCB (Mil)	5 Aug 1865	23 Jun 1950	84
"	"	3 Jun 1919	KCMG
"	"	1 Jan 1931	GCB (Mil)

Whineray	Wilson James	1 Jun 1998	KNZM	10 Jul 1935	22 Oct 2012	77

Whinney	Arthur Francis	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	16 Dec 1865	30 May 1927	61

Whinyates	Edward Charles	18 May 1860	KCB (Mil)	6 May 1782	25 Dec 1865	83

Whipple	Philippa Jane Edwards	3 Nov 2015	DBE (Civ)	7 May 1966

Whish	William Sampson	5 Jun 1849	KCB (Mil)	27 Feb 1787	25 Feb 1853	65

Whishaw	Charles Percival Law	18 Mar 1969	Kt Bach	29 Oct 1909	15 Dec 2006	97

Whishaw	Ralph	9 Feb 1959	Kt Bach	29 Mar 1895	13 Jul 1976	81

Whiskard	Geoffrey Granville	2 Jan 1933	KCMG	1886	19 May 1957	71
"	"	2 Jun 1943	KCB (Civ)

Whistler	(Alan Charles) Laurence	17 Jun 2000	Kt Bach	21 Jan 1912	19 Dec 2000	88

Whistler	Lashmer Gordon	1 Jan 1952	KBE (Mil)	3 Sep 1898	4 Jul 1963	64
"	"	1 Jan 1955	KCB (Mil)
"	"	1 Jan 1957	GCB (Mil)

Whitaker	Albert Edward, later [1936] 1st baronet	28 Jun 1928	Kt Bach	9 May 1860	11 Jun 1945	85

Whitaker	Cuthbert Wilfrid	23 Jul 1946	Kt Bach	26 May 1873	4 Apr 1950	76

Whitaker	Frederick	1 Feb 1884	KCMG	23 Apr 1812	4 Dec 1891	79

Whitaker	(Frederick) Arthur	1 Jan 1945	KCB (Civ)	17 Jul 1893	13 Jun 1968	74

Whitaker	James Smith	24 Feb 1931	Kt Bach	Jan 1866	22 Mar 1936	70

Whitbread	Howard	24 Jul 1906	Kt Bach	25 Nov 1836	3 Dec 1908	72

Whitbread	Samuel Charles	12 Jun 2010	KCVO	22 Feb 1937	17 Jan 2023 *	85 *

Whitby	Bernard James	20 Jul 1948	Kt Bach	8 Mar 1892	26 Jun 1973	81

Whitby	Lionel Ernest Howard	13 Feb 1945	Kt Bach	8 May 1895	24 Nov 1956	61

Whitchurch	Graeme Ian	29 Nov 2006	Kt Bach	8 Dec 1945

White	Adrian Edwin	8 Dec 2015	Kt Bach	25 Jul 1942

White	(Alfred Edward) Rowden	1 Mar 1961	Kt Bach	5 Nov 1876	15 Jan 1963	86

White	Alfred John	20 Jul 1971	Kt Bach	2 Feb 1902	1987	85

White	Arnold William	5 Aug 1887	Kt Bach	1830	13 Aug 1893	63

White	Bernard Kerr	1 Jan 1949	KBE (Civ)	15 Dec 1888	11 Jul 1964	75

White	Bruce Gordon	19 Oct 1944	KBE (Mil)	5 Feb 1885	29 Sep 1983	98

White	(Charles) Arnold	27 Jun 1900	Kt Bach	8 Sep 1858	6 Sep 1931	72

White	Christopher John	5 Jun 2001	Kt Bach	19 Sep 1930

White	(Cyril) Brudenell Bingham	1 Jan 1919	KCMG	23 Sep 1876	13 Aug 1940	63
"	"	18 Aug 1920	KCVO
"	"	9 May 1927	KCB (Mil)

White	David Harry	15 Dec 1992	Kt Bach	12 Oct 1929

White	David John [David Jason]	1 Dec 2005	Kt Bach	2 Feb 1940

White	Dennis Charles	1 Jan 1962	KBE (Civ)	30 Jul 1910	17 Oct 1983	73

White	Dick Goldsmith	9 Jun 1955	KBE (Civ)	20 Dec 1906	20 Feb 1993	86
"	"	1 Jan 1960	KCMG

White	Douglas John	30 Dec 2017	KNZM

White	Edward For information on the death of his widow, see the note at the foot of this page	9 Mar 1912	Kt Bach	1847	14 Jun 1914	66

White	Ernest Keith	11 Apr 1969	Kt Bach	14 Aug 1892	1 Aug 1983	90

White	Frank John	12 Dec 1997	Kt Bach	12 Mar 1927	23 Oct 2012	85

White	Frederick William George	2 Jun 1962	KBE (Civ)	26 May 1905	17 Aug 1994	89

White	George MP for Norfolk North West 1900-1912	16 Dec 1907	Kt Bach	1840	11 May 1912	71

White	(George) Ernest	22 Jun 1932	Kt Bach	6 Feb 1867	26 Jan 1949	81

White	George Stewart VC OM 1905	25 Nov 1886	KCB (Mil)	6 Jul 1835	24 Jun 1912	76
"	"	1 Jan 1890	KCIE
"	"	6 Mar 1893	GCIE
"	"	22 Jun 1897	GCB (Mil)
"	"	11 Jan 1898	GCSI
"	"	7 May 1900	GCVO
"	"	19 Apr 1901	GCMG

White	Harold Leslie	24 Apr 1970	Kt Bach	14 Jun 1905	31 Aug 1992	87

White	Henry Arthur	25 Jan 1898	Kt Bach	18 Jun 1849	5 Jan 1922	72

White	Henry Dalrymple	2 Jun 1877	KCB (Mil)	5 Jul 1820	27 Mar 1886	65

White	Henry Ellis Yeo	12 Jun 1947	KCVO	1888	18 Jul 1976	88

White	Herbert Edward	4 Jun 1917	KCMG	30 Oct 1855	7 Jun 1947	91

White	Herbert Thirkell Lieut Governor of Burma 1905-1910	1 Jan 1903	KCIE	1 Oct 1855	27 Dec 1931	76

White	Hugo Moresby Governor of Gibraltar 1995-1997	15 Jun 1991	KCB (Mil)	22 Oct 1939	1 Jun 2014	74
"	"	31 Dec 1994	GCB (Mil)

White	John Chambers	29 Jun 1841	KCB (Mil)	c 1770	2 Apr 1845

White	John Charles	31 Dec 1981	Kt Bach	1 Nov 1911	27 Oct 2007	95

White	Luke MP for Buckrose 1900-1918	14 Dec 1908	Kt Bach	1 Mar 1845	17 Aug 1920	75

White	Luke, 3rd Baron Annaly	4 Feb 1912	KCVO	25 Feb 1857	15 Dec 1922	65
"	"	1 Jan 1917	GCVO

White	Lynton Stuart	19 Mar 1985	Kt Bach	11 Aug 1916	2 Apr 2005	88

White	Martin Spencer	9 Jun 2018	KCVO	25 Mar 1944

White	Michael	10 Nov 1862	KCB (Mil)	1791	27 Jan 1868	76

White	Nicholas John	31 Dec 2016	KCMG

White	Peter	1 Jan 1976	KBE (Mil)	25 Jan 1919	22 May 2010	91
"	"	31 Dec 1976	GBE (Mil)

White	Richard	28 Feb 1924	Kt Bach		21 Jan 1925

White	Robert	3 Jun 1893	KCB (Mil)	1827	17 Sep 1902	75

White	Robin Adair [originally DCNZM 2 Jun 2003]	1 Aug 2009	DNZM	1946

White	Sydney Arthur	1 Jan 1952	KCVO	19 Oct 1884	9 Mar 1958	73

White	Thomas	4 Aug 1873	Kt Bach	1810	8 Mar 1883	72

White	Thomas	28 Jun 1928	Kt Bach		25 Jan 1938

White	Thomas Walter For further information on this knight, see the note at the foot of this page	1 Jan 1952	KBE (Civ)	26 Apr 1888	13 Oct 1957	69

White	(Vincent) Gordon Lindsay, later [1991] Baron White of Hull [L]	16 Jun 1979	KBE (Civ)	11 May 1923	23 Aug 1995	72

White	Willard Wentworth	24 Nov 2004	Kt Bach	10 Oct 1946

White	William Arthur PC 1888	23 Mar 1885	KCMG	13 Feb 1824	28 Dec 1891	67
"	"	18 Feb 1886	GCMG
"	"	2 Jun 1888	GCB (Civ)

White	William Henry	27 Feb 1882	Kt Bach	1826	Dec 1891	65

White	William Henry	8 Jan 1895	KCB (Civ)	2 Feb 1845	27 Feb 1913	68

White	William Thomas PC 1920	1 Jan 1916	KCMG	13 Nov 1866	11 Feb 1955	88
"	"	3 Jun 1935	GCMG

Whitehead	Annabel Alice Hoyer	31 Dec 2013	DCVO	25 Jan 1943

Whitehead	Charles	16 Dec 1907	Kt Bach	7 May 1834	29 Nov 1912	78

Whitehead	Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle	10 Jun 1954	KCMG	8 Feb 1905	22 Sep 1971	66

Whitehead	Gillian Karawe [originally DCNZM 2 Jun 2008]	1 Aug 2009	DNZM	23 Apr 1941

Whitehead	Hayward Reader	1 Jan 1917	KCB (Mil)	14 Jul 1855	28 Sep 1925	70

Whitehead	Henry	8 Jul 1922	Kt Bach	12 Jan 1859	29 Feb 1928	69

Whitehead	James Beethom	25 Jun 1909	KCMG	31 Jul 1858	19 Sep 1928	70

Whitehead	John Stainton	14 Jun 1986	KCMG	20 Sep 1932	8 Nov 2013	81
"	"	31 Dec 1991	GCMG

Whitehead	Margaret McRae	31 Dec 2015	DBE (Civ)	28 Sep 1948

Whitehead	Thomas	20 Jul 1838	KCB (Mil)	1778	7 Apr 1851	72

Whitehouse	George	11 Jul 1902	KCB (Civ)	26 Jul 1857	17 Nov 1938	81

Whitehouse	Harold Beckwith	11 Jun 1937	Kt Bach	26 Oct 1882	28 Jul 1943	60

Whitehouse	Julian Osborn	7 Jul 1942	Kt Bach	1876	24 Nov 1942	66

Whitelegge	(Benjamin) Arthur	19 Jun 1911	KCB (Civ)	17 Oct 1852	25 Apr 1933	80

Whiteley	Gerald Charles	4 Jul 1944	Kt Bach	1891	28 Feb 1958	66

Whiteley	John Francis Martin	2 Jan 1950	KCB (Mil)	7 Jun 1896	4 Apr 1970	73
"	"	31 May 1956	GBE (Mil)

Whiteley	Peter John Frederick	12 Jun 1976	KCB (Mil)	13 Dec 1920	1 Feb 2016	95
"	"	16 Jun 1979	GCB (Mil)

Whiteside	Cuthbert William	11 Apr 1921	Kt Bach	26 Oct 1880	25 Oct 1969	88

White-Smith	Henry	1921	Kt Bach	6 Jul 1878	26 Dec 1943	65

White-Spunner	Barnabas William Benjamin	11 Jun 2011	KCB (Mil)	31 Jan 1957

White-Thomson	Hugh Davie	3 Jun 1919	KBE (Mil)	6 Sep 1866	24 Feb 1922	55

White-Thomson	Robert Thomas	22 Jun 1897	KCB (Civ)	21 Feb 1831	13 Mar 1918	87

Whiteway	William Vallance	29 May 1880	KCMG	1 Apr 1828	24 Jun 1908	80

Whitfield	June Rosemary	17 Jun 2017	DBE (Civ)	11 Nov 1925

Whitfield	William	16 Mar 1993	Kt Bach	21 Oct 1920

Whitford	John	1 Jan 1949	KBE (Mil)	1893	12 Aug 1966	73

Whitford	John Norman Keates	18 Feb 1970	Kt Bach	24 Jun 1913	5 Nov 2001	88

Whitla	William MP for Queen's University Belfast 1918-1923	11 Aug 1902	Kt Bach	15 Sep 1851	11 Dec 1933	82

Whitley	Edward Nathan	4 Jun 1921	KCB (Civ)	1873	29 Nov 1966	93

Whitley	John René	31 May 1956	KBE (Mil)	7 Sep 1905	26 Dec 1997	92

Whitley	Michael Henry	10 Jul 1929	Kt Bach	26 Sep 1872	14 Oct 1959	87

Whitley	Norman Henry Pownall	18 Feb 1941	Kt Bach	29 Jun 1883	12 Apr 1957	73

Whitley-Thomson	Frederick Whitley	11 Jul 1916	Kt Bach	2 Sep 1851	21 Jun 1925	73

Whitlock	George Cornish	16 May 1859	KCB (Mil)	3 Dec 1798	30 Jan 1868	69

Whitmore	Clive Anthony	11 Jun 1983	KCB (Civ)	18 Jan 1935
"	"	11 Jun 1988	GCB (Civ)

Whitmore	Edmund Augustus	24 Nov 1882	KCB (Mil)	8 Jul 1819	14 Dec 1890	71

Whitmore	Francis Henry Douglas Charlton, later [1954] 1st baronet	12 Jun 1941	KCB (Civ)	20 Apr 1872	12 Jun 1962	90

Whitmore	George Stoddart	24 May 1882	KCMG	30 May 1829	16 Mar 1903	73

Whitney	Benjamin	2 Aug 1897	Kt Bach	23 Dec 1833	21 Dec 1916	82

Whitney	Cecil Arthur	15 May 1947	Kt Bach	13 Aug 1862	7 Feb 1956	93

Whitney	James Pliny	23 Jul 1908	Kt Bach	2 Oct 1843	24 Sep 1914	70
"	"	1 Jan 1913	KCMG

Whitney	Raymond William MP for Wycombe 1978-2001	9 May 1997	Kt Bach	28 Nov 1930	15 Aug 2012	81

Whitson	Keith Roderick	5 Nov 2002	Kt Bach	25 Mar 1943

Whitson	Thomas Barnby	26 Jun 1931	Kt Bach	10 Mar 1869	1 Oct 1948	79

Whittaker	Edmund Taylor	13 Feb 1945	Kt Bach	24 Oct 1873	24 Mar 1956	82

Whittaker	(Joseph) Meredith	19 Mar 1974	Kt Bach	28 Sep 1914	27 Sep 1984	69

Whittaker	Meredith Thompson	10 Feb 1922	Kt Bach	26 Aug 1841	10 Nov 1931	90

Whittaker	Thomas Palmer PC 1908	24 Jul 1906	Kt Bach	7 Jan 1850	9 Nov 1919	69

Whittall	James William	6 Aug 1898	Kt Bach	1 Dec 1838	10 Apr 1910	71

Whittam Smith	Andreas	17 Nov 2015	Kt Bach	13 Jun 1937

Whitteridge	Gordon Coligny	13 Jun 1964	KCMG	6 Nov 1908	11 Jan 1995	86

Whittingham	Harold Edward	1 Jul 1941	KBE (Mil)	3 Oct 1887	16 Jul 1983	95
"	"	1 Jan 1945	KCB (Mil)

Whittington	Richard	12 Jun 1958	KCMG	22 Jun 1905	18 Aug 1975	70

Whittle	Frank OM 1986	10 Jun 1948	KBE (Mil)	1 Jun 1907	8 Aug 1996	89

Whittome	(Leslie) Alan	6 Apr 1994	Kt Bach	18 Jan 1926	21 Jan 2001	75

Whittome	Maurice Gordon	5 Jul 1961	Kt Bach	15 Dec 1902	15 Jul 1974	71

Whitty	John Tarlton	10 Jul 1935	Kt Bach	1 Feb 1876	8 May 1948	72

Whitty	Reginald Ramson	10 Jun 1948	KBE (Civ)	18 Sep 1891	6 Jan 1960	68

Whitty	see Webster, Mary Louise

Whitworth	William Jock	1 Jul 1941	KCB (Mil)	29 Jun 1884	25 Oct 1973	89

Whyatt	John	23 Jul 1957	Kt Bach	13 Apr 1905	14 Mar 1978	72

Whyte	(Alexander) Frederick	10 Feb 1922	Kt Bach	30 Sep 1883	30 Jul 1970	86
"	"	3 Jun 1925	KCSI

Whyte	Roberta Mary	1 Jan 1955	DBE (Mil)	6 Jun 1897	25 Jan 1979	81

Whyte	William	20 Jun 1911	Kt Bach	15 Sep 1843	14 Apr 1914	70

Whyte	William	19 Oct 1943	Kt Bach		21 Apr 1945

Whyte	William Edward	6 Mar 1930	Kt Bach		1 Apr 1950

Whyte	(William Erskine) Hamilton	15 Jun 1985	KCMG	28 May 1927	20 Jul 1990	63

Whyte	William Marcus Charles Beresford	2 Jan 1922	KCB (Mil)	28 Nov 1863	13 Jul 1932	68

Wickens	John	29 Jun 1871	Kt Bach	13 Jun 1815	23 Oct 1873	58

Wickerson	John Michael	15 Dec 1987	Kt Bach	22 Sep 1937

Wickham	Charles George	15 Feb 1923	Kt Bach	11 Sep 1879	20 Jul 1971	91
"	"	14 Jun 1945	KBE (Civ)
"	"	1952	KCMG

Wickham	Henry Alexander For further information on this knight, see the note at the foot of this page	25 Jun 1920	Kt Bach	29 May 1846	27 Sep 1928	82

Wicks	James	8 Nov 1972	Kt Bach	20 Jun 1909	17 Jul 1989	80

Wicks	James Albert	12 Oct 1978	Kt Bach	14 Jun 1910	1996	86

Wicks	Nigel Leonard	31 Dec 1991	KCB (Civ)	16 Jun 1940
"	"	31 Dec 1998	GCB (Civ)

Widgery	John Passmore, later [1971] Baron Widgery [L]. Lord Justice of Appeal 1968-1971. Lord Chief Justice of England 1971-1980. PC 1968	16 Feb 1961	Kt Bach	24 Jul 1911	26 Jul 1981	70

Wien	Philip Solly	28 Oct 1970	Kt Bach	7 Aug 1913	11 Jun 1981	67

Wigan	Frederick, later [1898] 1st baronet	30 Nov 1894	Kt Bach	4 Oct 1827	2 Mar 1907	79

Wiggin	Alfred William [Jerry] MP for Weston-super-Mare 1968-1997	10 Feb 1993	Kt Bach	24 Feb 1937	12 Mar 2015	78

Wiggin	Charles Douglas	12 Jun 1976	KCMG	26 Sep 1922	8 Mar 1977	54

Wiggin	William Henry	1 Jan 1948	KCB (Civ)	1888	11 Sep 1951	63

Wiggins	Bradley Marc	10 Dec 2013	Kt Bach	28 Apr 1980

Wigglesworth	(Horace Ernest) Philip	1 Jan 1946	KBE (Mil)	11 Jul 1896	31 May 1975	78

Wigglesworth	Vincent Brian	22 Jul 1964	Kt Bach	17 Apr 1899	11 Feb 1994	94

Wight	Gerald Robert	14 Feb 1951	Kt Bach	28 May 1898	20 May 1962	63

Wightman	Owen William	19 Feb 1936	Kt Bach	29 Dec 1869	9 Nov 1948	78

Wightman	William	28 Apr 1841	Kt Bach	1784	10 Dec 1863	79

Wigley	George	15 Feb 1923	Kt Bach	1837	5 Jan 1925	87

Wigley	Henry Rodolph	1 Jan 1976	KBE (Civ)	2 Feb 1913	15 Sep 1980	67

Wigley	Wilfrid Murray	18 Feb 1941	Kt Bach	9 Nov 1876	19 Dec 1959	83

Wigram	Charles Hampden	18 Dec 1902	Kt Bach	1826	30 Oct 1903	77

Wigram	Clive, later [1935] 1st Baron Wigram. PC 1932	2 Jan 1928	KCVO	5 Jul 1873	3 Sep 1960	87
"	"	3 Jun 1931	KCB (Civ)
"	"	3 Jun 1932	GCVO
"	"	3 Jun 1933	GCB (Civ)

Wigram	Henry Francis	1 Apr 1926	Kt Bach	18 Jan 1857	6 May 1934	77

Wigram	James PC 1842	Jan 1842	Kt Bach	5 Nov 1793	29 Jul 1866	72

Wigram	Kenneth	1 Jan 1930	KCB (Mil)	5 Dec 1875	11 Jul 1949	73
"	"	3 Jun 1935	GCB (Mil)

Wijeyekoon	(Abraham Charles) Gerard	18 Feb 1941	Kt Bach	5 May 1878	17 Sep 1952	74

Wijeyeratne	Edwin Aloysius Perera	1 Jan 1953	KBE (Civ)	7 Jan 1890	20 Oct 1968	78

Wijeyewardene	(Edwin) Arthur Lewis	1 Oct 1949	Kt Bach	21 Mar 1887	4 Feb 1964	76

Wilberforce	Henry William Wrangham	24 Feb 1931	Kt Bach	1864	28 Mar 1941	76

Wilberforce	Herbert William	3 Jun 1919	KBE (Mil)	4 Jul 1866	28 Apr 1952	85

Wilberforce	Richard Orme, later [1964] Baron Wilberforce [L]. Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1964-1982. PC 1964	15 Feb 1961	Kt Bach	11 Mar 1907	15 Feb 2003	95

Wilberforce-Bell	Harold	1 Jan 1938	KCIE	17 Nov 1885	24 Jan 1956	70

Wilbraham	Richard	24 May 1873	KCB (Mil)	1811	30 Apr 1900	88

Wilcox	Malcolm George	30 Nov 1983	Kt Bach	3 Jun 1921	23 May 1986	64

Wild	Ernest Edward MP for Upton 1918-1922	26 Jun 1918	Kt Bach	1 Jan 1869	13 Sep 1934	65

Wild	Herbert Richard Churton PC 1966	4 Mar 1966	KCMG	20 Sep 1912	22 May 1978	65
"	"	11 Feb 1978	GBE (Civ)

Wild	John Ralston	11 Jun 2011	Kt Bach	21 Oct 1928	14 Oct 2014	85

Wilde	Alfred Thomas	2 Jun 1869	KCB (Mil)	1 Nov 1819	7 Feb 1878	58

Wilde	Frances Helen	31 Dec 2016	DNZM	11 Nov 1948

Wilde	James Plaisted, later [1869] Baron Penzance. PC 1865	24 Apr 1860	Kt Bach	12 Jul 1816	9 Dec 1899	83

Wilde	Thomas, later [1850] 1st Baron Truro. MP for Newark 1831-1832 and 1835-1841 and Worcester 1841-1846. Solicitor General 1839-1841. Attorney General 1841 and 1846. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1846-1850. Lord Chancellor 1850-1852. PC 1846	19 Feb 1840	Kt Bach	7 Jul 1782	11 Nov 1855	73

Wilde	William Robert Wills For further information on this knight, see the note at the foot of this page	28 Jan 1864	Kt Bach	Mar 1815	19 Apr 1876	61

Wildish	Henry William	1 Jan 1946	KBE (Mil)	25 Jun 1884	9 Jul 1973	89

Wiles	Andrew John	31 Dec 1999	KBE (Civ)	11 Apr 1953

Wiles	Donald Alonzo	Nov 1984	KA	8 Jan 1912	21 Nov 1999	87

Wiles	Gilbert	1 Jan 1938	KCIE	25 Mar 1880	11 Sep 1961	81

Wiles	Harold Herbert	12 Jun 1947	KBE (Civ)	4 Jul 1892	20 May 1965	72

Wilford	(Kenneth) Michael	1 Jan 1976	KCMG	31 Jan 1922	28 Jun 2006	84
"	"	14 Jun 1980	GCMG

Wilford	Thomas Mason	3 Jun 1930	KCMG	1870	22 Jun 1939	68

Wilkes	Maurice Vincent	19 Jul 2000	Kt Bach	26 Jun 1913	29 Nov 2010	97

Wilkes	Michael John	31 Dec 1990	KCB (Mil)	11 Jun 1940	27 Oct 2013	73

Wilkie	Alan Fraser	30 Nov 2004	Kt Bach	26 Dec 1947

Wilkie	David Percival Dalbreck	19 Feb 1936	Kt Bach	1882	28 Aug 1938	56

Wilkin	Albert Scholick	13 Jul 1939	Kt Bach	22 Apr 1883	19 Sep 1943	60

Wilkin	Walter Henry	14 Jul 1893	Kt Bach	1 Apr 1842	13 Nov 1922	80
"	"	5 Nov 1896	KCMG

Wilkins	(George) Hubert	14 Jun 1928	Kt Bach	31 Oct 1888	1 Dec 1958	70

Wilkins	Graham John [Bob]	9 Dec 1980	Kt Bach	22 Jan 1924	2 Jul 2003	79

Wilkins	Henry John Arthur	25 Feb 1932	Kt Bach	1864	2 Oct 1936	72

Wilkins	Michael	21 Mar 2014	Kt Bach	Jun 1956

Wilkins	Michael Compton Lockwood	15 Jun 1985	KCB (Mil)	4 Jan 1933	25 Apr 1994	61

Wilkinson	Denys Haigh	10 Dec 1974	Kt Bach	5 Sep 1922	22 Apr 2016	93

Wilkinson	Geoffrey Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1973	1 Dec 1976	Kt Bach	14 Jul 1921	26 Sep 1996	75

Wilkinson	George Henry, later [1941] 1st baronet	3 Oct 1932	Kt Bach	20 Jul 1885	27 Jun 1967	81
"	"	2 Jan 1956	KCVO

Wilkinson	Harold	22 Jul 1964	Kt Bach	24 Feb 1903	9 May 1986	83

Wilkinson	Henry Clement	22 Jun 1897	KCB (Mil)	17 Apr 1837	23 Nov 1908	71

Wilkinson	Hiram Shaw	18 Jul 1903	Kt Bach	13 Jun 1840	27 Sep 1926	86

Wilkinson	John Gardner	26 Aug 1839	Kt Bach	5 Oct 1797	29 Oct 1875	78

Wilkinson	Joseph Loftus	24 Oct 1902	Kt Bach	1845	16 Jun 1903	57

Wilkinson	Louisa Jane	1 Jan 1948	DBE (Mil)	11 Dec 1889	4 Dec 1968	78

Wilkinson	Nevile Rodwell	4 Mar 1920	Kt Bach	26 Oct 1869	22 Dec 1940	71
"	"	22 Jun 1921	KCVO

Wilkinson	Percival Spearman	4 Jun 1917	KCMG	5 Jul 1865	4 Nov 1953	88

Wilkinson	Peter Allix	13 Jun 1970	KCMG	15 Apr 1914	16 Jun 2000	86

Wilkinson	Philip William	6 Dec 1988	Kt Bach	8 May 1927	23 Aug 2007	80

Wilkinson	(Robert Francis) Martin	2 Dec 1969	Kt Bach	4 Jun 1911	22 Jan 1990	78

Wilkinson	Robert Pelham	23 Jul 1946	Kt Bach	1 Oct 1883	24 May 1962	78

Wilkinson	Russell Facey	1 Jan 1930	KCVO	1888	23 Dec 1968	80

Wilkinson	Thomas	24 May 1866	KCSI	1794	7 Apr 1867	72

Wilkinson	William Henry	1 Jan 1913	Kt Bach	10 May 1858	31 Mar 1930	71

Wilkinson	William Henry Nairn	7 Mar 1989	Kt Bach	22 Jul 1932	12 Apr 1996	63

Willan	Harold Curwen	1 Sep 1947	Kt Bach	29 Feb 1896	11 Dec 1971	75

Willans	Frederic Jeune	2 Jan 1933	KCVO		27 Jan 1949

Willatt	(Robert) Hugh	28 Mar 1972	Kt Bach	25 Apr 1909	18 Oct 1996	87

Willcocks	David Valentine	14 Dec 1977	Kt Bach	30 Dec 1919	17 Sep 2015	95

Willcocks	James Governor of Bermuda 1917-1922	28 Jul 1900	KCMG	1 Apr 1857	18 Dec 1926	69
"	"	1 Jan 1913	KCSI
"	"	1 Jan 1914	KCB (Mil)
"	"	3 Jun 1915	GCMG
"	"	4 Jun 1921	GCB (Mil)

Willcocks	Michael Alan	31 Dec 1999	KCB (Mil)	27 Jul 1944

Willcocks	William	6 Dec 1902	KCMG	27 Sep 1852	28 Jul 1932	79

Willcox	Henry Beresford Dennitts	1 Jan 1945	KCIE	30 Apr 1889	15 Aug 1968	79

Willcox	William Henry	3 Jun 1921	KCIE	1870	8 Jul 1941	71

Willert	Arthur	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	19 May 1882	11 Mar 1973	90

Willes	George Ommaney	24 May 1884	KCB (Mil)	19 Jun 1823	18 Feb 1901	77
"	"	25 May 1892	GCB (Mil)

Willes	James Shaw PC 1871	14 Aug 1855	Kt Bach	13 Feb 1814	2 Oct 1872	58

William-Powlett	Peveril Barton Reibey Wallop Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1954-1959	1 Jun 1953	KCB (Mil)	5 Mar 1898	10 Nov 1985	87
"	"	13 Jun 1959	KCMG

Williams	Alan Meredith	8 Jun 1963	KCMG	22 Aug 1909	2 Dec 1972	63

Williams	Albert Henry Wilmot	23 Mar 1904	KCVO	7 Feb 1832	29 Oct 1919	87

Williams	Alexander Thomas Governor of the Leeward Islands 1956-1958	1 Jan 1958	KCMG	13 Jul 1903	8 Jan 1984	80

Williams	Alwyn	30 Nov 1983	Kt Bach	8 Jun 1921	4 Apr 2004	82

Williams	Anthony James	11 Jun 1983	KCMG	28 May 1923	7 May 1990	66

Williams	Arthur Dennis Pitt	15 Jun 1991	Kt Bach	15 Oct 1928	Nov 2001	73

Williams	(Arthur) Leonard Governor General of Mauritius 1968-1972	23 Jul 1968	GCMG	22 Jan 1904	27 Dec 1972	68
"	"	24 Mar 1972	GCVO

Williams	Benjamin Allen	16 Nov 1965	Kt Bach	1889	11 Oct 1968	79

Williams	Bernard Arthur Owen	15 Dec 1999	Kt Bach	21 Sep 1929	10 Jun 2003	73

Williams	Bryan George	30 Dec 2017	KNZM	3 Oct 1950

Williams	Bruce Rodda	14 Jun 1980	KBE (Civ)	10 Jan 1919	Aug 2010	91

Williams	Charles Frederick	18 Jul 1838	Kt Bach

Williams	Charles Henry Trelease [Harry]	10 Nov 1970	Kt Bach	11 May 1898	13 Jan 1982	83

Williams	Charles Othniel	21 Nov 2000	Kt Bach	24 Nov 1932

Williams	Daniel Charles Governor General of Grenada 1996-2008	9 Aug 1996	GCMG	4 Nov 1935

Williams	(Daniel) Thomas	11 Feb 1958	Kt Bach		26 Mar 1973

Williams	David Governor of Gibraltar 1982-1985	1 Jan 1975	KCB (Mil)	22 Oct 1921	16 Jul 2012	90
"	"	11 Jun 1977	GCB (Mil)

Williams	David Arthur Rhodes	31 Dec 2016	KNZM

Williams	David Basil	2 Nov 2017	Kt Bach	18 Jun 1964

Williams	David Glyndwr Tudor	10 Dec 1991	Kt Bach	22 Oct 1930	6 Sep 2009	78

Williams	David Innes	12 Dec 1985	Kt Bach	12 Jun 1919	3 May 2013	93

Williams	David Reeve	7 Dec 1999	Kt Bach	8 Jun 1939

Williams	Dawson	11 Feb 1921	Kt Bach	17 Jul 1854	27 Feb 1928	73

Williams	Denys Ambrose	1987	Kt Bach	12 Oct 1929	7 Aug 2014	84
"	"	12 Jun 1993	KCMG

Williams	Dudley	10 Jun 1954	KBE (Civ)	12 Dec 1889	8 Jan 1963	73

Williams	Edgar Trevor	20 Mar 1973	Kt Bach	20 Nov 1912	26 Jun 1995	82

Williams	Edward Charles Sparshott	3 Jun 1893	KCIE	27 Mar 1831	2 Oct 1907	76

Williams	(Edward) Dillwyn	11 Dec 1990	Kt Bach	1 Apr 1929

Williams	Edward Eyre	31 May 1878	Kt Bach	1813	30 Apr 1880	66

Williams	Edward John [Ted] MP for Ogmore 1931-1946. PC 1945	5 Jun 1952	KCMG	1890	16 May 1963	72

Williams	Edward Leader	2 Jul 1894	Kt Bach	28 Apr 1828	1 Jan 1910	81

Williams	Edward Stratten	31 Dec 1980	KBE (Civ)	29 Dec 1921	10 Jan 1999	77
"	"	31 Dec 1982	KCMG

Williams	Edward Vaughan PC 1865	4 Feb 1847	Kt Bach	1797	2 Nov 1875	78

Williams	Ernest Hillas	23 Jul 1957	Kt Bach	16 Aug 1899	5 Feb 1965	65

Williams	(Evan) Owen	22 Apr 1924	KBE (Civ)	20 Mar 1890	23 May 1969	79

Williams	Francis Owen Garbett [Frank]	23 Feb 1999	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1942

Williams	Frederic Calland	12 Jun 1976	Kt Bach	26 Jun 1911	11 Aug 1977	66

Williams	George	18 Jul 1894	Kt Bach	11 Oct 1821	6 Nov 1905	84

Williams	Glanmor	9 Nov 1995	Kt Bach	5 May 1920	24 Feb 2005	84

Williams	Godfrey	3 Jun 1918	KCIE	31 Dec 1859	3 Sep 1940	80

Williams	Griffith Goodland	1 Jan 1949	KBE (Civ)	20 Sep 1890	19 Apr 1974	83

Williams	Guy Charles	8 Jun 1939	KCB (Mil)	10 Sep 1881	2 Feb 1959	77

Williams	Gwilym Ffrangcon	9 Feb 1960	Kt Bach	6 Dec 1902	13 Dec 1969	67

Williams	Gwilym Tecwyn	10 Mar 1970	Kt Bach	9 Aug 1913	5 May 1989	75

Williams	Harold	31 May 1956	KBE (Mil)	1 Jun 1897	17 Oct 1971	74

Williams	Harold Herbert	31 Jul 1951	Kt Bach	25 Jul 1880	24 Oct 1964	84

Williams	Hartley	15 Feb 1894	Kt Bach	15 Oct 1843	12 Jul 1929	85

Williams	Henry Francis	29 Jun 1906	KCB (Mil)	3 Apr 1825	1 May 1907	82

Williams	Henry Morton Leech	5 Jul 1961	Kt Bach	19 Mar 1913	18 Aug 1989	76

Williams	(Henry) Sydney	20 Oct 1983	Kt Bach	10 Jan 1920	11 May 2003	83

Williams	Herbert Geraint, later [1953] 1st baronet. MP for Reading 1924-1929, Croydon South 1932-1945 and Croydon East 1950-1954	13 Jul 1939	Kt Bach	2 Dec 1884	25 Jul 1954	69

Williams	Howell Jones	25 Jun 1921	Kt Bach	1860	13 Aug 1939	79

Williams	Ifor	8 Jul 1947	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1881	4 Nov 1965	84

Williams	John, 1st baronet	30 Dec 1902	KCVO	6 Nov 1840	24 May 1926	85
"	"	15 Jul 1911	GCVO

Williams	John Bickerton	19 Jul 1837	Kt Bach	4 Mar 1792	21 Oct 1855	63

Williams	John Fischer	25 Jul 1923	Kt Bach	26 Feb 1870	17 May 1947	77

Williams	John Francis	19 Aug 1958	Kt Bach	16 Jun 1901	31 Mar 1982	80

Williams	John Hugh	7 Jun 2010	KNZM	23 Sep 1939

Williams	(John) Kyffin	22 Apr 1999	Kt Bach	9 May 1918	1 Sep 2006	88

Williams	(John) Leslie	19 Mar 1974	Kt Bach	1 Aug 1913	18 Oct 1993	80

Williams	(John Lloyd Vaughan) Seymour	3 Jun 1925	KBE (Civ)	1868	24 Feb 1945	76

Williams	John Protheroe	6 Oct 1967	Kt Bach	5 Mar 1896	29 Jan 1989	92

Williams	John Robert	12 Jun 1982	KCMG	15 Sep 1922	24 Mar 2000	77

Williams	John Wesley	1 Jul 1840	Kt Bach		by Feb 1873

Williams	John William Collman	25 May 1892	KCB (Mil)	29 Aug 1823	21 Jul 1911	87

Williams	Josephine	30 Dec 2006	DBE (Civ)	8 Jul 1948

Williams	Joshua Strange PC 1913	20 Jun 1911	Kt Bach	19 Sep 1837	22 Dec 1915	78

Williams	Leonard	13 Jun 1981	KBE (Civ)	19 Sep 1919	1 Aug 2006	86

Williams	Leslie Hamlyn	1 Jan 1946	KBE (Mil)	13 Jun 1892	7 Aug 1965	73

Williams	Michael Sanigear	1 Jan 1968	KCMG	17 Aug 1911	25 Feb 1984	72

Williams	Nicholas Stephen	28 Feb 2013	Kt Bach	29 Dec 1953

Williams	Norman Stanley	26 Feb 2015	Kt Bach	15 Mar 1947

Williams	Paul Michael	4 Oct 2011	Kt Bach	25 Jun 1948

Williams	Peter Aldridge	31 Dec 2014	KNZM	1 Dec 1934	9 Jun 2015	80

Williams	Peter Michael	10 Dec 1998	Kt Bach	22 Mar 1945

Williams	Ralph Champneys	9 Nov 1907	KCMG	9 Mar 1848	22 Jun 1927	79

Williams	Richard	1 Jan 1954	KBE (Civ)	3 Aug 1890	7 Feb 1980	89

Williams	Richard John	11 Feb 1921	Kt Bach	26 Feb 1853	25 Jan 1941	87

Williams	Robert Evan Owen	8 Dec 1976	Kt Bach	30 Jun 1916	24 May 2003	86

Williams	Rodney Errey Lawrence Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda 2014-	30 Aug 2014	GCMG	2 Nov 1947

Williams	Roger	14 Dec 2006	Kt Bach	21 Mar 1942

Williams	Roland Lomax Bowdler Vaughan	30 Jun 1890	Kt Bach	31 Dec 1838	8 Dec 1916	77

Williams	Thomas	18 Aug 1919	Kt Bach	1853	19 May 1941	87

Williams	Thomas	17 Sep 1964	Kt Bach	26 Sep 1893	23 Feb 1967	73

Williams	Thomas Marchant	5 Jul 1904	Kt Bach	31 Jul 1845	27 Oct 1914	69

Williams	Thomas Melling	8 Jun 1950	KCB (Mil)	27 Sep 1899	10 Jun 1956	56

Williams	Watkin	1 Dec 1880	Kt Bach	1829	17 Jul 1884	55

Williams	William Daniel Campbell	3 Jun 1916	KCMG	30 Jul 1856	10 May 1919	62

Williams	William Emrys	12 Jul 1955	Kt Bach	5 Oct 1896	30 Mar 1977	80

Williams	William Fenwick, 1st baronet MP for Calne 1856-1859	5 Feb 1856	KCB (Mil)	4 Dec 1800	26 Jul 1883	82
"	"	20 May 1871	GCB (Mil)

Williams	William John	30 May 1891	KCB (Mil)	1828	22 Apr 1903	74

Williams	William Jones	7 Jul 1969	KCVO	31 May 1904	26 Mar 1976	71

Williams	(William) Maxwell Harries	6 Dec 1983	Kt Bach	18 Feb 1926

Williams	William Richard	13 Jun 1930	Kt Bach	1879	28 Jun 1961	81

Williams	(William) Thomas MP for Hammersmith South 1949-1955, Barons Court 1955-1959 and Warrington 1961-1981	23 Mar 1976	Kt Bach	22 Sep 1915	28 Feb 1986	70

Williams	Wyn Lewis	22 Mar 2007	Kt Bach	31 Mar 1951

Williams-Bulkeley	Richard Henry, 12th baronet	2 Jan 1922	KCB (Civ)	4 Dec 1862	7 Jul 1942	79

Williams-Ellis	(Bertram) Clough	3 Feb 1972	Kt Bach	28 May 1883	8 Apr 1978	94

Williamson	Alexander	27 Feb 1952	Kt Bach	1879	29 Jun 1971	91

Williamson	Alice Mary	12 Jun 1958	DBE (Mil)	8 Jan 1903	27 Jul 1983	80

Williamson	Andrew Wallace	18 Feb 1926	KCVO	29 Dec 1856	10 Jul 1926	69

Williamson	David Francis, later [1999] Baron Williamson of Horton [L]. PC 2007	13 Jun 1998	GCMG	8 May 1934	30 Aug 2015	81

Williamson	(Elsie) Marjorie	2 Jun 1973	DBE (Civ)	30 Jul 1913	12 Aug 2002	89

Williamson	Frederic Herbert	12 Jul 1933	Kt Bach	1876	25 Feb 1939	62

Williamson	George Alexander	30 Jun 1953	Kt Bach	5 Jan 1898	23 Jun 1975	77

Williamson	(George) Malcolm	6 Dec 2007	Kt Bach	27 Feb 1939

Williamson	Horace	2 Mar 1934	Kt Bach	1880	15 Apr 1965	84

Williamson	James	27 Jun 1900	Kt Bach	28 Jan 1839	30 Jul 1932	93

Williamson	James	1 Mar 1935	Kt Bach	24 Feb 1877	21 Mar 1959	82

Williamson	Keith Alec	30 Dec 1978	KCB (Mil)	25 Feb 1928	2 May 2018	90
"	"	12 Jun 1982	GCB (Mil)

Williamson	(Robert) Brian	12 Dec 2001	Kt Bach	16 Feb 1945

Williamson	Thomas, later [1962] Baron Williamson [L]. MP for Brigg 1945-1948	10 Jul 1956	Kt Bach	2 Sep 1897	27 Feb 1983	85

Williamson	Walter James Franklin	22 Jun 1927	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1867	19 Nov 1954	87

Williams-Taylor	Frederick	6 Feb 1913	Kt Bach	23 Oct 1863	2 Aug 1945	81

Williams-Wynn	Henry Watkin PC 1825	1 Mar 1851	KCB (Civ)	16 Mar 1783	28 Mar 1856	73

Williams-Wynn	Robert William Herbert Watkin	9 Jun 1938	KCB (Civ)	3 Jun 1862	23 Nov 1951	89

Willingdon, Marquess and Marchioness of	see "Freeman-Thomas"

Willis	Algernon Usborne	2 Jun 1943	KCB (Mil)	17 May 1889	12 Apr 1976	86
"	"	18 Dec 1945	KBE (Mil)
"	"	12 Jun 1947	GCB (Mil)

Willis	Edward William	12 Jul 1933	Kt Bach	1849	13 Feb 1941	91

Willis	Eric Archibald	14 Jun 1975	KBE (Civ)	15 Jan 1922	10 May 1999	77

Willis	Frederick Arthur	3 Jun 1899	KCB (Mil)	1827	May/Jun 1899	71

Willis	Frederick James	1 Jan 1920	KBE (Civ)	16 Mar 1863	17 Jun 1946	83

Willis	George Harry Smith	18 Nov 1882	KCB (Mil)	11 Nov 1823	29 Nov 1900	77
"	"	25 May 1895	GCB (Mil)

Willis	George Henry	27 Mar 1929	Kt Bach	21 Oct 1875	13 Jul 1940	64

Willis	(Guido) James	13 Jun 1981	KBE (Mil)	18 Oct 1923	15 Jun 2003	79

Willis	John Frederick	31 Dec 1992	KCB (Mil)	27 Oct 1937	9 Jan 2008	70
"	"	14 Jun 1997	GBE (Mil)

Willis	John Ramsay	8 Jun 1966	Kt Bach	2 Aug 1908	29 Oct 1988	80

Willis	(Walter) Addington	28 Jan 1947	Kt Bach	30 Oct 1862	18 Jul 1953	90

Willis	William	1 Aug 1885	Kt Bach	25 Nov 1821	28 Sep 1905	83

Willis	(Zwinglius) Frank	28 Jan 1947	Kt Bach	29 Aug 1890	8 Nov 1974	84

Willison	David John	1 Jan 1973	KCB (Mil)	25 Dec 1919	24 Apr 2009	89

Willison	John Alexander	1 Dec 1970	Kt Bach	3 Jan 1914	20 Oct 2002	88

Willison	John Stephen	1 Jan 1913	Kt Bach	9 Nov 1856	27 May 1927	70

Willmer	(Henry) Gordon Lord Justice of Appeal 1958-1969. PC 1958	19 Dec 1945	Kt Bach	11 Aug 1899	17 May 1983	83

Willmott	Glenis MEP for East Midlands 2006-2017	22 Sep 2015	DBE (Civ)	4 Mar 1951

Willmott	Maurice Gordon	10 Jul 1956	Kt Bach	25 Feb 1894	14 Oct 1977	83

Willoughby	John Edward Francis	1 Jan 1967	KBE (Mil)	18 Jun 1913	23 Feb 1991	77

Willox	John Archibald MP for Everton 1892-1905	3 Aug 1897	Kt Bach	1842	9 Jun 1905	62

Wills	Alfred PC 1905	11 Aug 1884	Kt Bach	11 Dec 1828	9 Aug 1912	83

Wills	Edward Payson, later [1904] 1st baronet	21 Nov 1899	KCB (Civ)	12 Jun 1834	13 Mar 1910	75

Wills	Frank William	28 Jun 1912	Kt Bach	17 Aug 1852	26 Mar 1932	79

Wills	Gerald MP for Bridgwater 1950-1970	15 Jul 1958	Kt Bach	3 Oct 1905	31 Oct 1969	64

Wills	(Hugh) David Hamilton	18 Mar 1980	Kt Bach	19 Jun 1917	10 Dec 1999	82

Wills	John Spencer	2 Dec 1969	Kt Bach	10 Aug 1904	28 Oct 1991	87

Wills	John Vernon, 4th baronet	31 Dec 1997	KCVO	3 Jul 1928	26 Aug 1998	70

Wills	Kenneth Agnew	11 Jun 1960	KBE (Civ)	3 Mar 1896	13 May 1977	81

Wills	Mary Monica Cunliffe	3 Jun 1925	DBE (Civ)	c 1861	2 Apr 1931

Wills	Violet Edith	11 May 1937	DBE (Civ)	1867	26 Oct 1964	97

Willshere	Thomas, later [1841] 1st baronet	20 Dec 1839	KCB (Mil)	24 Aug 1789	31 May 1862	72
"	"	28 Jun 1861	GCB (Mil)

Willson	Mildmay Willson	22 Aug 1902	KCB (Mil)	13 Jul 1847	29 Feb 1912	64

Willson	Walter Stuart James	18 Jan 1927	Kt Bach	16 Nov 1876	16 Apr 1952	75

Wilmot	David	12 Jul 2002	Kt Bach	12 Mar 1943

Wilmot	Henry Sacheverell VC, 5th baronet. MP for Derbyshire South 1869-1885 For information regarding his award of the VC, see the note at the foot of the page containing details of his baronetcy	22 Jun 1897	KCB (Civ)	3 Feb 1831	7 Apr 1901	70

Wilmut	Ian	30 Jun 2009	Kt Bach	7 Jul 1944

Wilsey	John Finlay Willasey	31 Dec 1990	KCB (Mil)	18 Feb 1939
"	"	30 Dec 1995	GCB (Mil)

Wilshaw	Edward	8 Jun 1939	KCMG	3 Jun 1879	3 Mar 1968	88

Wilshaw	Michael Norman	13 Jul 2000	Kt Bach	3 Aug 1946

Wilson	Adam	20 Dec 1887	Kt Bach	22 Sep 1814	28 Dec 1891	77

Wilson	Alan Geoffrey	27 Nov 2001	Kt Bach	8 Jan 1939

Wilson	Alan Herries	7 Feb 1961	Kt Bach	2 Jul 1906	30 Sep 1995	89

Wilson	Alexander	14 Feb 1887	Kt Bach	2 May 1843	6 Sep 1907	64

Wilson	Alexander	1 Jan 1916	KCB (Mil)	29 Oct 1858	7 Jul 1937	78

Wilson	(Alexander) James	15 Jun 1974	KBE (Mil)	13 Apr 1921	17 Dec 2004	83

Wilson	Angus Frank Johnstone	10 Feb 1981	Kt Bach	11 Aug 1913	31 May 1991	77

Wilson	Anthony	22 Mar 1988	Kt Bach	17 Feb 1928	Apr 2012	84

Wilson	Archdale, later [1858] 1st baronet	14 Nov 1857	KCB (Mil)	3 Aug 1803	9 May 1874	70
"	"	13 Mar 1867	GCB (Mil)

Wilson	(Archibald) Duncan	1 Jan 1965	KCMG	12 Aug 1911	20 Sep 1983	72
"	"	12 Jun 1971	GCMG

Wilson	Arnold Talbot MP for Hitchin 1933-1940	30 Dec 1919	KCIE	18 Jul 1884	31 May 1940	55

Wilson	Arthur PC 1902	1 Jan 1898	KCIE	1837	28 Dec 1915	78

Wilson	Arthur Knyvet VC, later [1919] 3rd baronet. OM 1912	26 Jun 1902	KCB (Mil)	4 Mar 1842	25 May 1921	79
"	"	11 Aug 1903	KCVO
"	"	11 Aug 1905	GCVO
"	"	9 Nov 1906	GCB (Mil)

Wilson	Arton	10 Jun 1948	KBE (Civ)	16 Jul 1893	19 Sep 1977	84

Wilson	Austin George	21 May 1981	Kt Bach	6 Nov 1906	5 May 1987	80

Wilson	Barry Nigel	16 Jun 1990	KCB (Mil)	5 Jun 1936	29 Aug 2018	82

Wilson	Belford Hinton	23 Dec 1852	KCB (Civ)	1804	27 Dec 1858	54

Wilson	Bertram	27 Feb 1952	Kt Bach	14 Mar 1893	19 Sep 1974	81

Wilson	Charles Haynes	23 Mar 1965	Kt Bach	16 May 1909	9 Nov 2002	93

Wilson	Charles Henry	25 Jul 1923	Kt Bach	13 Jan 1859	30 Dec 1930	71

Wilson	Charles McMoran, later [1943] 1st Baron Moran	17 Feb 1938	Kt Bach	10 Nov 1882	12 Apr 1977	94

Wilson	Charles Rivers	22 Dec 1879	KCMG	19 Feb 1831	9 Feb 1916	84
"	"	14 Mar 1895	GCMG

Wilson	Charles William	24 May 1881	KCMG	14 Mar 1836	25 Oct 1905	69
"	"	25 Aug 1885	KCB (Mil)

Wilson	Colin Alexander St. John	8 May 1998	Kt Bach	14 Mar 1922	14 May 2007	85

Wilson	Daniel	30 Jul 1888	Kt Bach	5 Jan 1816	6 Aug 1892	76

Wilson	David Governor of British Honduras 1897-1903	3 Jun 1899	KCMG	1838	15 Mar 1924	85

Wilson	David Clive, later [1992] Baron Wilson of Tillyorn [L] Governor of Hong Kong 1987-1992	15 Jan 1987	KCMG	14 Feb 1935
"	"	31 Dec 1990	GCMG
"	"	30 Nov 2000	KT

Wilson	David Mackenzie	20 Mar 1984	Kt Bach	30 Oct 1931

Wilson	Duncan Randolph	1938	Kt Bach	1875	1 Mar 1945	69

Wilson	Frank O'Brien	1 Mar 1949	Kt Bach	1883	7 Apr 1962	78

Wilson	Franklyn Roosevelt	31 Dec 2015	KCMG	28 Mar 1947

Wilson	Frederick William	15 Jul 1907	Kt Bach	26 Mar 1844	26 May 1924	80

Wilson	Garnet Douglas	4 Jul 1944	Kt Bach	24 Mar 1885	18 Sep 1975	90

Wilson	Geoffrey Masterman	1 Jan 1969	KCB (Civ)	7 Apr 1910	11 Jul 2004	94

Wilson	George Henry	27 Jun 1934	Kt Bach	1869	20 Feb 1939	69

Wilson	Gordon	13 Jun 1946	KCSI	1 Feb 1887	17 Jul 1971	84

Wilson	Graham Selby	13 Feb 1962	Kt Bach	10 Sep 1895	5 Apr 1987	91

Wilson	Henry Francis	26 Jun 1908	KCMG	8 Aug 1859	6 May 1937	77
"	"	3 Jun 1919	KBE (Civ)

Wilson	Henry Fuller Maitland	3 Jun 1915	KCB (Mil)	18 Feb 1859	16 Nov 1941	82
"	"	1 Jan 1918	KCMG

Wilson	Henry Hughes, later [1919] 1st baronet. MP for Down North 1922	3 Jun 1915	KCB (Mil)	5 May 1864	22 Jun 1922	58
"	"	17 Dec 1918	GCB (Mil)

Wilson	Henry Maitland, later [1946] 1st Baron Wilson	11 Jul 1940	KCB (Mil)	5 Sep 1881	31 Dec 1964	83
"	"	4 Mar 1941	GBE (Mil)
"	"	8 Jun 1944	GCB (Mil)

Wilson	Horace John	3 Jun 1924	KCB (Civ)	23 Aug 1882	19 May 1972	89
"	"	2 Jan 1933	GCMG
"	"	11 May 1937	GCB (Civ)

Wilson	Isaac	21 Feb 1838	Kt Bach	1757	2 Dec 1844	87

Wilson	Isaac Henry	13 Jul 1939	Kt Bach	1874	26 Sep 1944	70

Wilson	Jacob	29 Jun 1889	Kt Bach	16 Nov 1836	11 Jul 1905	68
"	"	30 Jun 1905	KCVO

Wilson	Jacqueline	29 Dec 2007	DBE (Civ)	17 Dec 1945

Wilson	James	1 Jan 1909	KCSI	1853	22 Dec 1926	73

Wilson	James Arthur	12 Mar 1946	Kt Bach	27 Feb 1877	17 Dec 1950	73

Wilson	James Glenny	1 Jan 1915	Kt Bach	29 Nov 1849	4 May 1929	79

Wilson	James Milne See also the note at the foot of this page	2 Sep 1873	Kt Bach	29 Feb 1812	29 Feb 1880	68
"	"	25 May 1878	KCMG

Wilson	(James) Steuart	20 Jul 1948	Kt Bach	21 Jul 1889	18 Dec 1966	77

Wilson	Jeremiah	25 Jun 1920	Kt Bach		27 Nov 1930

Wilson	John Cracroft	31 May 1872	KCSI	21 May 1808	2 Mar 1881	72

Wilson	John Foster	11 Mar 1975	Kt Bach	20 Jan 1919	24 Nov 1999	80

Wilson	John Gardiner	13 Jul 1982	Kt Bach	13 Jul 1913	22 Aug 1994	81

Wilson	John Leonard	1 Jan 1968	KCMG	23 Nov 1897	22 Jul 1970	72

Wilson	John Martindale	15 Jun 1974	KCB (Civ)	3 Sep 1915	26 Jul 1993	77

Wilson	John Mitchell Harvey, 2nd baronet	13 Jun 1957	KCVO	10 Oct 1898	6 Feb 1975	76

Wilson	John Morillyon	1838	Kt Bach	1783	8 May 1868	84

Wilson	Keith Cameron	15 Apr 1966	Kt Bach	3 Sep 1900	28 Sep 1987	87

Wilson	Leonard	24 Jun 1941	Kt Bach	12 Mar 1888	13 Apr 1980	92
"	"	1 Jan 1945	KCIE

Wilson	(Leslie) Hugh	23 Nov 1967	Kt Bach	1 May 1913	20 Jul 1985	72

Wilson	Leslie Orme MP for Reading 1913-1922 and Portsmouth South 1922-1923. Governor of Queensland 1932-1946. PC 1922	31 Oct 1923	GCIE	1 Aug 1876	29 Sep 1955	79
"	"	1 Mar 1929	GCSI
"	"	29 Jun 1937	GCMG

Wilson	Mark	4 Jul 1950	Kt Bach	22 Oct 1896	10 Apr 1956	59

Wilson	Michael Thomond	11 Mar 1975	Kt Bach	7 Feb 1911	4 Oct 1983	72

Wilson	Murrough John	3 Jun 1927	KBE (Civ)	14 Sep 1875	30 Apr 1946	70

Wilson	Nicholas Allan Roy Lord Justice of Appeal 2005-2011. Justice of the Supreme Court 2011- PC 2005	7 Jul 1993	Kt Bach	9 May 1945

Wilson	Reginald Holmes	14 Feb 1951	Kt Bach	10 Jul 1905	1 Jan 1999	93

Wilson	(Reginald) Victor	19 Jan 1926	KBE (Civ)	30 Jun 1877	13 Jul 1957	80

Wilson	Richard John McMoran, 2nd Baron Moran	31 Dec 1980	KCMG	22 Sep 1924	14 Feb 2014	89

Wilson	Richard Thomas James, later [2002] Baron Wilson of Dinton [L]	31 Dec 1996	KCB (Civ)	11 Oct 1942
"	"	30 Dec 2000	GCB (Civ)

Wilson	Robert	25 Jun 1921	Kt Bach	20 Dec 1865	18 Aug 1943	77

Wilson	Robert	5 Dec 1989	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1927	2 Sep 2002	75

Wilson	Robert Christian	23 Sep 1966	Kt Bach	11 Nov 1896	21 Aug 1973	76

Wilson	(Robert) Donald	17 Mar 1987	Kt Bach	6 Jun 1922	29 Jul 2001	79
"	"	31 Dec 1994	KBE (Civ)

Wilson	(Robert James) Timothy	11 May 2011	Kt Bach	2 Apr 1949

Wilson	Robert Peter	31 Dec 1999	KCMG	2 Sep 1943

Wilson	(Roderick) Roy	10 Jul 1929	Kt Bach	10 Aug 1876	27 Aug 1942	66

Wilson	Roger Cochrane	11 May 1937	KCB (Mil)	26 Dec 1882	5 Feb 1966	83

Wilson	Roger Plumpton	15 Jun 1974	KCVO	3 Aug 1905	1 Mar 2002	96

Wilson	Roland	4 Feb 1955	Kt Bach	7 Apr 1904	25 Oct 1996	92
"	"	1 Jan 1965	KBE (Civ)

Wilson	(Ronald) Andrew Fellowes [Sandy]	15 Jun 1991	KCB (Mil)	27 Feb 1941

Wilson	Ronald Darling	24 Jul 1979	KBE (Civ)	23 Aug 1922	15 Jul 2005	82

Wilson	Roy Mickel	13 Feb 1962	Kt Bach	8 May 1903	12 Apr 1982	78

Wilson	Samuel MP for Portsmouth 1886-1892	29 Sep 1875	Kt Bach	7 Feb 1832	11 Jun 1895	63

Wilson	Samuel	26 Jun 1931	Kt Bach	2 Apr 1861	23 Jun 1937	76

Wilson	Samuel Herbert	29 Nov 1921	KBE (Civ)	31 Oct 1873	5 Aug 1950	76
"	"	1 Jan 1923	KCMG
"	"	3 Jun 1927	KCB (Civ)
"	"	1 Mar 1929	GCMG

Wilson	Tennant Edward [Tay] [originally DCNZM 30 Dec 2006]	1 Aug 2009	KNZM	3 Feb 1925	26 Oct 2014	89

Wilson	Thomas Fleming	3 Jun 1918	KBE	1862	2 Apr 1929	66

Wilson	(Thomas) George	15 Feb 1944	Kt Bach	24 Nov 1900	25 May 1979	78
"	"	1 Jan 1959	KBE (Civ)

Wilson	Thomas George	6 Mar 1950	Kt Bach	27 Mar 1876	15 Mar 1958	81

Wilson	Thomas Saulters	15 Feb 1923	Kt Bach	1863	17 Nov 1930	67

Wilson	(Tom) Ian Findlay	31 Dec 1963	KBE (Civ)	15 Jan 1904	3 Mar 1971	67

Wilson	(William) Courthope Townshend	6 Mar 1930	Kt Bach	1865	5 Jan 1944	78

Wilson	William Deane	19 Apr 1901	KCMG	27 Aug 1843	19 Oct 1921	78

Wilson	William James Erasmus	7 Dec 1881	Kt Bach	25 Nov 1809	7 Aug 1884	74

Wilson	William Tweedley	8 Jul 1941	Kt Bach	9 Nov 1882	2 May 1942	59

Wilson-Barker	David	25 Jun 1920	Kt Bach	1 Oct 1858	15 Jun 1941	82

Wilson-Barnett	Jenifer	31 Dec 2002	DBE (Civ)	10 Aug 1944

Wilson Smith	Henry	14 Jun 1945	KBE (Civ)	30 Dec 1904	28 Mar 1978	73
"	"	1 Jan 1949	KCB (Civ)

Wilson Taylor	John	27 Jun 1934	Kt Bach	1866	13 May 1943	76

Wilton	(Arthur) John	30 Dec 1978	KCMG	21 Oct 1921	12 Jun 2011	89
"	"	19 Feb 1979	KCVO

Wilton	Ernest Colville Collins	1 Jan 1923	KCMG	6 Feb 1870	28 Dec 1952	82

Wilton	James MacElmunn	28 Jul 1937	Kt Bach	1868	8 Feb 1946	77

Wilton	John Gordon Noel	1 Jan 1964	KBE (Mil)	22 Nov 1910	10 May 1981	70

Wilton	Penelope Alice	11 Jun 2016	DBE (Civ)	3 Jun 1946

Wilton	Thomas	10 Jul 1919	Kt Bach	1861	4 Nov 1929	68

Wilton-Phipps	Jessie Percy Butler	5 Jun 1926	DBE (Civ)	9 Feb 1855	7 Aug 1934	79

Wiltshire	Frank Henry Cufaude	7 Jul 1938	Kt Bach	27 Nov 1881	19 Mar 1949	67

Wiltshire	Frederick Munro	5 Nov 1976	Kt Bach	5 Jun 1911	1 Feb 1994	82

Wimble	John Bowring	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	24 Aug 1868	25 Nov 1927	59

Winchester, Marchioness of	see "Paulet"

Winder	Arthur Benedict	9 Feb 1943	Kt Bach	12 Feb 1875	11 Dec 1953	78

Windeyer	Brian Wellingham	6 Mar 1961	Kt Bach	7 Feb 1904	26 Oct 1994	90

Windeyer	William Charles For further information on this knight, see the note at the foot of this page	13 Jul 1891	Kt Bach	29 Sep 1834	12 Sep 1897	62

Windeyer	(William John) Victor PC 1963	31 Oct 1958	KBE (Civ)	28 Jul 1900	23 Nov 1987	87

Windham	Charles Ashe MP for Norfolk East 1857-1859	28 Mar 1865	KCB (Mil)	8 Oct 1810	4 Feb 1870	59

Windham	Ralph	13 Jul 1961	Kt Bach	25 Mar 1905	6 Jul 1980	75

Windham	Walter George	15 Feb 1923	Kt Bach	1868	5 Jul 1942	74

Windham	William	20 Mar 1923	Kt Bach	1864	21 Mar 1961	96

Windle	Bertram Coghill Alan	6 Mar 1912	Kt Bach	8 May 1858	14 Feb 1929	70

Windley	Edward Henry Governor of the Gambia 1958-1962	12 Jun 1958	KCMG	10 Mar 1909	5 Jan 1972	62

Windsor	Barbara	31 Dec 2015	DBE (Civ)	6 Aug 1937

Windsor-Clive	Robert George, 1st Earl of Plymouth. Paymaster General 1891-1892. First Commissioner of Works 1902-1905. PC 1891	3 Jun 1918	GBE	27 Aug 1857	6 Mar 1923	65

Winfield	Percy Henry	12 Jul 1949	Kt Bach	16 Sep 1878	7 Jul 1953	74

Winfrey	Richard MP for Norfolk SW 1906-1923 and Gainsborough 1923-1924	12 Feb 1914	Kt Bach	5 Aug 1858	18 Apr 1944	85

Wingate	Andrew	31 Dec 1898	KCIE	1846	1 Jan 1937	90

Wingate	Catherine Leslie [wife of Sir Francis Reginald Wingate]	1 Jan 1920	DBE (Civ)	26 Oct 1858	10 Jun 1946	87

Wingate	Francis Reginald, later [1920] 1st baronet. Governor General of the Sudan 1899-1916	11 Nov 1898	KCMG	25 Jun 1861	28 Jan 1953	91
"	"	13 Mar 1900	KCB (Mil)
"	"	17 Jan 1912	GCVO
"	"	22 Jun 1914	GCB (Mil)
"	"	1 Jan 1918	GBE

Wingate	George	24 May 1866	KCSI	1812	7 Feb 1879	66

Wingate	James Lawton	25 Jun 1920	Kt Bach	1846	22 Apr 1924	77

Wingate	Miles Buckley	31 Dec 1981	KCVO	17 May 1923	2 May 2016	92

Wingate-Saul	Ernest Wingate	12 Jul 1933	Kt Bach	25 Mar 1873	13 Dec 1944	71

Wingfield	Anthony Henry	25 Feb 1937	Kt Bach	1857	20 Sep 1952	95

Wingfield	Charles John MP for Gravesend 1868-1874	24 May 1866	KCSI	16 Apr 1820	27 Jan 1892	71

Wingfield	Charles John FitzRoy Rhys	2 Jan 1933	KCMG	18 Feb 1877	26 Mar 1960	83

Wingfield	Edward	2 Jan 1899	KCB (Civ)	6 Mar 1834	5 Mar 1910	75

Winkley	David Ross	20 May 1999	Kt Bach	30 Nov 1941

Winn	(Charles) Rodger Noel PC 1965	15 May 1959	Kt Bach	22 Dec 1903	4 Jun 1972	68

Winneke	Henry Arthur Governor of Victoria 1974-1982	19 Aug 1958	Kt Bach	29 Oct 1908	28 Dec 1985	77
"	"	11 Jun 1966	KCMG
"	"	20 Apr 1977	KCVO

Winner	Albertine Louise	1 Jan 1967	DBE (Civ)	4 Mar 1907	13 May 1988	81

Winnicott	(John) Frederick	28 Feb 1924	Kt Bach	1855	31 Dec 1948	93

Winniett	William Robert Wolseley Lieut Governor of the Gold Coast 1845-1850	29 Jun 1849	Kt Bach	2 Mar 1793	4 Dec 1850	57

Winnifrith	(Alfred) John Digby	13 Jun 1959	KCB (Civ)	16 Oct 1908	1 Jan 1993	84

Winnington-Ingram	Arthur Foley, Bishop of London 1901-1939. PC 1901	17 Apr 1915	KCVO	26 Jan 1858	26 May 1946	88

Winship	Peter James Joseph	16 Nov 2004	Kt Bach	21 Jul 1943

Winskill	Archibald Little	31 Dec 1979	KCVO	24 Jan 1917	9 Aug 2005	88

Winsloe	Alfred Leigh	25 Jun 1909	KCB (Mil)	25 Apr 1852	16 Feb 1931	78

Winsor	Thomas Philip	19 Mar 2015	Kt Bach	7 Dec 1957

Winstedt	Richard Olaf	3 Jun 1935	KBE (Civ)	2 Aug 1878	2 Jun 1966	87

Winster, Baron	see "Fletcher"

Winstone	Dorothy Gertrude	16 Jun 1990	DBE (Civ)	23 Jan 1919	3 Apr 2014	95

Winter	Francis Pratt	24 Oct 1900	Kt Bach	23 Feb 1848	30 Mar 1919	71

Winter	Gregory Paul	9 Dec 2004	Kt Bach	14 Apr 1951

Winter	James Spearman	10 Sep 1888	KCMG	1 Jan 1845	6 Oct 1911	66

Winter	Marmaduke George	15 Feb 1923	Kt Bach	4 Apr 1857	11 Aug 1936	79

Winter	Ormonde de l'Epee	28 Dec 1922	KBE (Civ)	1875	13 Feb 1962	86

Winterbotham	Geoffrey Leonard	27 Feb 1937	Kt Bach	1890	22 Jan 1966	75

Winterbotham	Henry Martin	1 Jan 1903	KCSI	13 Jan 1847	6 Oct 1932	85

Winterbotham	William Howard	10 Jul 1919	Kt Bach	13 Dec 1843	24 Jan 1926	82

Winterbottom	Walter	7 Mar 1978	Kt Bach	31 Mar 1913	16 Feb 2002	88

Winterton	Nicholas Raymond MP for Macclesfield 1971-2010	3 Dec 2002	Kt Bach	31 Mar 1938

Winterton	Rosalie MP for Doncaster Central 1997- PC 2006	31 Dec 2015	DBE (Civ)	10 Aug 1958

Winterton	(Thomas) John Willoughby	8 Jun 1950	KCMG	13 Apr 1898	14 Dec 1987	89
"	"	1 Jan 1955	KCB (Mil)

Winton	Nicholas George	11 Mar 2003	Kt Bach	19 May 1909	1 Jul 2015	106

Wintour	Anna	31 Dec 2016	DBE (Civ)	3 Nov 1949

Wintz	Sophia Gertrude	1 Jan 1920	DBE (Civ)	1848	16 Jan 1929	80

Wisdom	Norman Joseph	2000	Kt Bach	4 Feb 1915	4 Oct 2010	95

Wisdom	Robert	19 Apr 1887	KCMG	31 Jan 1830	16 Mar 1888	58

Wise	Fredric MP for Ilford 1920-1928	28 Feb 1924	Kt Bach	1871	26 Jan 1928	56

Wise	John Humphrey	1 Jan 1943	KCMG	11 Mar 1890	21 Oct 1984	94

Wise	(William) Lloyd	5 Jul 1904	Kt Bach	13 Jun 1845	6 Jan 1910	64

Wiseham	Joseph Angus Lucien	25 Oct 1967	Kt Bach	13 Dec 1906	3 May 1972	65

Wiseman	William Saltonstall, 8th baronet	13 Mar 1867	KCB (Mil)	4 Aug 1814	14 Jul 1874	59

Wishart	Sydney	10 Feb 1922	Kt Bach	27 Feb 1854	7 Jun 1935	81

Withers	John James MP for Cambridge University 1926-1939	10 Jul 1929	Kt Bach	21 Dec 1863	29 Dec 1939	76

Witt	John Clermont	14 Mar 1967	Kt Bach	5 Nov 1907	26 Apr 1982	74

Witt	Robert Clermont	10 Feb 1922	Kt Bach	16 Jan 1872	26 Mar 1952	80

Wittenoom	Edward Charles Horne	23 May 1900	KCMG	12 Feb 1854	5 Mar 1936	82

Witty	Andrew Philip	15 May 2012	Kt Bach	22 Aug 1964

Wodehouse	(Edwin) Frederick	19 Jun 1911	KCVO	20 Feb 1851	1 Apr 1934	83
"	"	4 Jun 1917	KCB (Civ)

Wodehouse	Josceline Heneage	9 Nov 1908	KCB (Mil)	17 Jul 1852	16 Jan 1930	77
"	"	3 Jun 1913	GCB (Mil)

Wodehouse	Pelham Grenville	1 Jan 1975	KBE (Civ)	15 Oct 1881	14 Feb 1975	93

Wodehouse	Philip Edmond Superintendent of British Honduras 1851-1854. Governor of British Guiana 1854-1861, the Cape Colony 1861-1870 and Bombay 1872-1877	23 Jul 1862	KCB (Civ)	26 Feb 1811	25 Oct 1887	76
"	"	28 Jun 1876	GCSI

Wogan	Michael Terence [Terry]	11 Jun 2005	Hon KBE (Civ)	3 Aug 1938	31 Jan 2016	77
"	"	11 Oct 2005	KBE (Civ)

Wolfendale	Arnold Whittaker	2 May 1995	Kt Bach	25 Jun 1927

Wolfenden	John Frederick, later [1974] Baron Wolfenden [L]	10 Jul 1956	Kt Bach	26 Jun 1906	18 Jan 1985	78

Wolff	Albert Asher	13 Jun 1959	KCMG	30 Apr 1899	27 Oct 1977	78

Wolff	Henry Drummond MP for Christchurch 1874-1880 and Portsmouth 1880-1885. PC 1885	8 Oct 1862	KCMG	12 Oct 1830	11 Oct 1908	77
"	"	7 Aug 1878	GCMG
"	"	24 Sep 1879	KCB (Civ)
"	"	2 Jan 1889	GCB (Civ)

Wolffsohn	Arthur Norman	13 Jul 1961	Kt Bach	30 Sep 1888	17 Nov 1967	79

Wolfit	Donald	16 Jul 1957	Kt Bach	20 Apr 1902	17 Feb 1968	65

Wolfson	Brian Gordon	11 Dec 1990	Kt Bach	2 Aug 1935	10 May 2007	71

Wolfson	David, later [1991] Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale [L]	4 Dec 1984	Kt Bach	9 Nov 1935

Wolfson	Leonard Gordon, later [1985] Baron Wolfson [L]	14 Dec 1977	Kt Bach	11 Nov 1927	20 May 2010	82

Wolfson de Botton	Janet	15 Jun 2013	DBE (Civ)	31 Mar 1952

Wollaston	Arthur Naylor	1 Jan 1908	KCIE	14 Oct 1842	8 Feb 1922	79

Wollaston	Gerald Woods	27 Oct 1930	Kt Bach	2 Jun 1874	4 Mar 1957	82
"	"	1 Jan 1935	KCVO
"	"	11 May 1937	KCB (Civ)

Wollaston	Harry Newton Phillips	14 Jun 1912	KCMG	17 Jan 1846	14 Feb 1921	75

Wollen	(Ernest) Russell Storey	1 Jan 1969	KBE (Civ)	9 Jun 1902	28 May 1986	83

Wolseley	Garnet Joseph, later [1885] 1st Viscount Wolseley. Governor of Cyprus 1878 and Natal 1879-1880. PC [I] 1890. OM 1902	16 Dec 1870	KCMG	4 Jun 1833	25 Mar 1913	79
"	"	31 Mar 1874	KCB (Mil)
"	"	31 Mar 1874	GCMG
"	"	19 Jun 1880	GCB (Mil)
"	"	28 Nov 1885	KP

Wolseley	George Benjamin	19 Nov 1891	KCB (Mil)	11 Jul 1839	10 May 1921	81
"	"	28 Jun 1907	GCB (Mil)

Wolstenholme	Gordon Ethelbert Ward	23 Mar 1976	Kt Bach	28 May 1913	29 May 2004	91

Wolverhampton, Viscount	see "Fowler"

Womersley	Walter James, later [1945] 1st baronet. MP for Great Grimsby 1924-1945. Minister of Pensions 1939-1945. PC 1941	27 Jun 1934	Kt Bach	5 Feb 1878	15 Mar 1961	83

Wong Yick-ming	Rosanna	31 Dec 1996	DBE (Civ)	15 Aug 1952

Wontner	Hugh Walter Kingwell	28 Mar 1972	Kt Bach	22 Oct 1908	25 Nov 1992	84
"	"	15 Jun 1974	GBE (Civ)

Woo	Leo Joseph	21 Jul 1993	Kt Bach	17 Oct 1952

Woo	Po-Shing	16 Feb 1999	Kt Bach	19 Apr 1929

Wood	Alan Thorpe Richard	4 May 2018	Kt Bach	4 Apr 1954

Wood	Alexander	12 Dec 1922	Kt Bach	1849	19 Apr 1924	74

Wood	Alfred	25 Feb 1937	Kt Bach	1878	25 May 1960	81

Wood	Andrew Marley	17 Jun 1995	KCMG	2 Jan 1940
"	"	31 Dec 1999	GCMG

Wood	(Arthur) Michael	7 Nov 1985	Kt Bach	28 Jan 1919	16 May 1987	68

Wood	Charles, 3rd baronet, later [1866] 1st Viscount Halifax. See Commons pages for details of the various seats he represented and the Peerage pages for the various political posts he held.	19 Jun 1856	GCB (Civ)	20 Dec 1800	8 Aug 1885	84

Wood	Charles Alexander	21 Feb 1874	Kt Bach	1810	7 Apr 1890	79

Wood	(Charles) Edgar	12 Jan 1931	Kt Bach	1877	8 Mar 1941	63

Wood	David Edward	17 Aug 1859	KCB (Mil)	6 Jan 1812	16 Oct 1894	82
"	"	2 Jun 1877	GCB (Mil)

Wood	Dorothy Evelyn Augusta, Countess of Halifax [wife of the 1st Earl]	1 Jun 1953	DCVO	7 Feb 1885	2 Feb 1976	90

Wood	Edward	24 Jul 1906	Kt Bach	16 Jan 1839	22 Sep 1917	78

Wood	Edward Frederick Lindley, 1st Baron Irwin, later [1944] 1st Earl of Halifax. See Commons pages for details of the seats he represented and Peerage pages for political posts held	3 Apr 1926	GCIE	16 Apr 1881	23 Dec 1959	78
"	"	3 Apr 1926	GCSI
"	"	5 May 1931	KG
"	"	16 Jul 1957	GCMG

Wood	(Edward) Graham	13 Jun 1917	Kt Bach	5 Sep 1854	23 Jul 1930	75

Wood	Elliott	29 Nov 1900	KCB (Mil)	5 May 1844	7 Sep 1931	87

Wood	Ernest	12 Jun 1947	KBE (Mil)	9 May 1894	17 May 1971	77

Wood	Frank	3 Jun 1972	KBE (Civ)	9 Nov 1913	7 Oct 1974	60

Wood	Frederick Ambrose Stuart	14 Dec 1977	Kt Bach	30 May 1926	9 Mar 2003	76

Wood	George Ernest Francis	14 Jun 1975	KBE (Civ)	13 Jul 1900	1978	77

Wood	(Henry) Evelyn VC	23 Jun 1879	KCB (Mil)	9 Feb 1838	2 Dec 1919	81
"	"	20 Feb 1882	GCMG
"	"	30 May 1891	GCB (Mil)

Wood	Henry Hastings Affleck	26 May 1894	KCB (Mil)	1826	5 Aug 1904	78

Wood	Henry Joseph	23 Feb 1911	Kt Bach	3 Mar 1869	19 Aug 1944	75

Wood	Henry Peart	14 Mar 1967	Kt Bach	30 Nov 1908	22 Mar 1994	85

Wood	Henry Trueman	30 Jun 1890	Kt Bach	13 Nov 1845	7 Jan 1929	83

Wood	(Howard) Kingsley MP for Woolwich West 1918-1943	6 Feb 1918	Kt Bach	19 Aug 1881	21 Sep 1943	62

Wood	Ian Clark	29 Jun 1994	Kt Bach	21 Jul 1942
"	"	11 Jun 2016	GBE (Civ)
"	"	9 Jun 2018	KT

Wood	Ian Jeffreys	5 Nov 1976	Kt Bach	5 Feb 1903	1 Sep 1986	83

Wood	James Lockwood	7 Jul 1938	Kt Bach	1880	7 Apr 1941	60

Wood	James Sebastian Lamin	14 Jun 2014	KCMG	6 Apr 1961

Wood	John Barry	1 Jan 1918	KCIE	27 Apr 1870	10 Feb 1933	62
"	"	21 Feb 1922	KCVO

Wood	John Crossley	18 Jul 1979	Kt Bach	1931	9 Apr 2014	82

Wood	John Kember	30 Nov 1977	Kt Bach	8 Aug 1922	27 Jan 2017	94

Wood	Kenneth Milins	1 Dec 1970	Kt Bach	25 Apr 1909	27 May 1986	77

Wood	Martin Francis	11 Dec 1986	Kt Bach	19 Apr 1927

Wood	Michael Charles	31 Dec 2003	KCMG	5 Feb 1947

Wood	(Murdoch) McKenzie MP for Aberdeen & Kincardine Central 1919-1924 and Banffshire 1929-1935	25 Feb 1932	Kt Bach	1881	11 Oct 1949	68

Wood	Peter John	3 Feb 2017	Kt Bach	Jul 1945

Wood	Richard	1 Dec 1877	KCMG	1806	21 Jul 1900	94
"	"	10 Sep 1879	GCMG

Wood	Robert Stanford	12 Jun 1941	KBE (Civ)	5 Jul 1886	18 May 1963	76

Wood	Roderic Lionel James	18 Mar 2004	Kt Bach	8 Mar 1951

Wood	Russell Dillon	31 Dec 1984	KCVO	16 May 1922	15 Dec 2008	86

Wood	Wilfred Denniston	Nov 2000	KA	15 Jun 1936

Wood	William	28 Mar 1865	KCB (Mil)	1782	8 Aug 1870	88

Wood	William Alan	3 Jun 1978	KCVO	8 Dec 1916	28 Jun 2010	93

Wood	William Page, later [1868] Baron Hatherley. MP for Oxford 1847-1852. Solicitor General 1851-1852. Lord Chancellor 1868-1872. PC 1868	14 Apr 1851	Kt Bach	29 Nov 1801	10 Jul 1881	79

Wood	William Valentine	11 Jun 1937	Kt Bach	14 Feb 1883	26 Aug 1959	76
"	"	1 Jan 1947	KBE (Civ)

Wood	William Wilkinson	7 Jul 1959	Kt Bach	1879	12 Dec 1963	84

Woodall	Ambrose Edgar, later [1946] 1st Baron Uvedale of North End	24 Feb 1931	Kt Bach	24 Apr 1885	28 Feb 1974	88

Woodall	Corbet	6 Feb 1913	Kt Bach	1841	17 May 1916	74

Woodall	John Dane Governor of Bermuda 1955-1959	1 Jun 1953	KBE (Mil)	19 Apr 1897	7 May 1985	88
"	"	13 Jun 1959	KCMG

Woodard	Robert Nathaniel	25 Mar 1995	KCVO	13 Jan 1939

Woodbine Parish	David Elmer	11 Mar 1980	Kt Bach	29 Jun 1911	12 Nov 1998	87

Woodburn	John Lieut Governor of Bengal 1898-1902	1 Jan 1897	KCSI	13 Jul 1843	21 Nov 1902	59

Woodcock	John	25 Jul 1989	Kt Bach	14 Jan 1932	21 Sep 2012	80

Woodcock	(Simon) Jonathan	30 Dec 2017	KCB (Mil)	5 Jul 1962

Woodeson	James Brewis	29 Mar 1977	Kt Bach	14 Oct 1917	23 Jan 1980	62

Woodfield	Philip John	31 Dec 1982	KCB (Civ)	30 Aug 1923	17 Sep 2000	77

Woodford	Alexander George [prev KCB (Mil) 13 Sep 1831 and GCMG 30 Jun 1832]. Governor of Gibraltar 1836-1842	6 Apr 1852	GCB (Mil)	15 Jun 1782	26 Aug 1870	88

Woodford	John George [prev Kt Bach 24 Jun 1832]	19 Jul 1838	KCB (Mil)	28 Feb 1785	22 Mar 1879	94

Woodgate	Alfred	25 Jun 1921	Kt Bach	20 May 1860	24 Jan 1943	82

Woodgate	Edward Robert Prevost	8 Jan 1900	KCMG	Nov 1845	23 Mar 1900	54

Woodhead	(Anthony) Peter	13 Jun 1992	KCB (Mil)	30 Jul 1939

Woodhead	Christopher Anthony	26 Oct 2011	Kt Bach	20 Oct 1946	23 Jun 2015	68

Woodhead	German Sims	3 Jun 1919	KBE (Mil)	29 Apr 1855	29 Dec 1921	66

Woodhead	John	25 Jan 1897	Kt Bach	1832	16 Apr 1898	65

Woodhead	John Ackroyd	31 Jul 1934	KCSI	19 Jun 1881	8 Jan 1973	91
"	"	1 Jan 1946	GCIE

Woodhouse	(Arthur) Owen PC 1974	18 Oct 1974	Kt Bach	18 Jul 1916	15 Apr 2014	97
"	"	13 Jun 1981	KBE (Civ)

Woodhouse	Charles Henry Lawrence	9 Jun 1949	KCB (Mil)	9 Jul 1893	23 Sep 1978	85

Woodhouse	Horace Marton, 3rd Baron Terrington	1 Jan 1952	KBE (Civ)	27 Oct 1887	7 Jan 1961	73

Woodhouse	James Thomas, later [1918] 1st Baron Terrington. MP for Huddersfield 1895-1906	27 Feb 1895	Kt Bach	16 Jul 1852	8 Feb 1921	68

Woodhouse	Percy	26 Jun 1918	Kt Bach	30 Jan 1856	29 Oct 1931	75
"	"	5 Jun 1926	KBE (Civ)

Woodhouse	Stewart	14 Dec 1908	Kt Bach	25 Feb 1846	2 Nov 1921	75

Woodhouse	Tom Percy	4 Jun 1917	KCMG	10 Aug 1857	10 Apr 1931	73

Wooding	Harold	14 Feb 1951	Kt Bach		c Aug 1951

Wooding	Hugh Olliviere Beresford PC 1967	5 Feb 1963	Kt Bach	14 Jan 1904	26 Jul 1974	70

Wooding	Norman Samuel	15 Dec 1992	Kt Bach	20 Apr 1927	27 Jun 2005	78

Woodiwiss	Abraham	20 Apr 1883	Kt Bach	1814	24 Feb 1884	69

Woodley	(Frederick George) Richard	4 Jul 1950	Kt Bach	1 Sep 1899	6 Oct 1971	72

Woodman	George Joseph	24 Jul 1905	Kt Bach	1847	26 Mar 1915	67

Woodroffe	George Cuthbert Manning	14 Jun 1980	KBE (Civ)	17 May 1918	29 Nov 2012	94

Woodroffe	John George	18 Jun 1915	Kt Bach	15 Dec 1865	16 Jan 1936	70

Woodroofe	Ernest George	4 Dec 1973	Kt Bach	6 Jan 1912	31 Mar 2002	90

Woodruff	Michael Francis Addison	21 May 1969	Kt Bach	3 Apr 1911	10 Mar 2001	89

Woods	Albert William Garter King of Arms 1869-1904	11 Nov 1869	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1816	7 Jan 1904	87
"	"	21 May 1890	KCMG
"	"	22 Jun 1897	KCB (Civ)
"	"	30 Jun 1903	GCVO

Woods	Colin Philip Joseph	11 Jun 1977	KCVO	20 Apr 1920	27 Jan 2001	80

Woods	Frank	3 Jun 1972	KBE (Civ)	6 Apr 1907	29 Nov 1992	85

Woods	Henry Felix [Woods Pasha]	22 Aug 1902	KCVO	18 Jul 1843	18 Feb 1929	85

Woods	James Edward	8 Jul 1922	Kt Bach	1850	30 Oct 1944	94

Woods	James William	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	1855	25 Apr 1941	85

Woods	John Harold Edmund	14 Jun 1945	KCB (Civ)	20 Apr 1895	2 Dec 1962	67
"	"	9 Jun 1949	GCB (Civ)

Woods	Kent Linton	15 Nov 2011	Kt Bach	5 Jun 1948

Woods	Raymond Wybrow	6 Mar 1930	Kt Bach	28 Aug 1882	12 Sep 1943	60

Woods	Robert Henry MP for Dublin University 1918-1922	11 Jun 1913	Kt Bach	27 Apr 1865	8 Sep 1938	73

Woods	Robert Kynnersley	17 Jun 2000	Kt Bach	12 Nov 1939

Woods	Robert Stanton	12 Jun 1929	Kt Bach	10 Feb 1877	18 Nov 1954	77

Woods	Robert Wilmer	1 Jan 1971	KCVO	15 Feb 1914	20 Oct 1997	83
"	"	31 Dec 1988	KCMG

Woods	Wilfrid John Wentworth	11 Jun 1960	KCB (Mil)	19 Feb 1906	1 Jan 1975	68
"	"	1 Jan 1963	GBE (Mil)

Woods	Wilfrid Wentworth	6 Mar 1930	Kt Bach	11 Nov 1876	6 Jan 1947	70
"	"	1 Jan 1935	KCMG
"	"	2 Jun 1943	KBE (Civ)

Woodward	(Albert) Edward	27 Aug 1982	Kt Bach	6 Aug 1928	15 Apr 2010	81

Woodward	(Alfred) Chad Turner	4 Jul 1944	Kt Bach	2 Mar 1880	2 Feb 1957	76

Woodward	Arthur Smith	10 Jul 1924	Kt Bach	23 May 1864	2 Sep 1944	80

Woodward	Barbara Janet	11 Jun 2016	DCMG	29 May 1961

Woodward	Clive Ronald	29 Oct 2004	Kt Bach	6 Jan 1956

Woodward	Edward Mabbott	4 Jun 1917	KCMG	29 Jul 1861	21 Mar 1943	81

Woodward	Eric Winslow Governor of New South Wales 1957-1965	1 Jan 1958	KCMG	21 Jul 1899	29 Dec 1967	68
"	"	4 Mar 1963	KCVO

Woodward	(Ernest) Llewellyn	8 Jul 1952	Kt Bach	14 May 1890	11 Mar 1971	80

Woodward	Henry William	1 Jan 1936	KCB (Mil)	19 Jul 1879	18 Feb 1959	79

Woodward	John Forster	11 Oct 1982	KCB (Mil)	1 May 1932	4 Aug 2013	81
"	"	17 Jun 1989	GBE (Mil)

Woodward	Lionel Mabbott	29 Mar 1922	Kt Bach	9 Sep 1864	5 Sep 1925	60

Woodward	Thomas Jones [Tom Jones]	29 Mar 2006	Kt Bach	7 Jun 1940

Woodwark	(Arthur) Stanley	22 Jun 1932	Kt Bach	1875	11 May 1945	69

Woolavington, Baron	see "Buchanan"

Woolf	Catherine Fiona	31 Dec 2014	DBE (Civ)	11 May 1948

Woolf	Harry Kenneth, later [1992] Baron Woolf [L]. Lord Justice of Appeal 1986-1992. Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1992-1996. Master of the Rolls 1996-2000. Lord Chief Justice 2000-2005. PC 1986. CH 2015	25 May 1979	Kt Bach	2 May 1933

Woolf	John	11 Mar 1975	Kt Bach	15 Mar 1913	28 Jun 1999	86

Woolford	Eustace Gordon	1 Sep 1947	Kt Bach	15 Dec 1876	20 May 1966	89

Woolfryes	John Andrew	26 Jun 1902	KCB (Mil)	14 Jun 1823	12 Jan 1912	88

Woollaston	(Mountford) Tosswill	9 Nov 1979	Kt Bach	11 Apr 1910	31 Aug 1998	88

Woollcombe	Charles Louis	1 Jan 1916	KCB (Mil)	23 Mar 1857	6 May 1934	77
"	"	3 Jun 1919	KCMG

Woollcombe	Jocelyn May	2 Jan 1950	DBE (Mil)	9 May 1898	30 Jan 1986	87

Woolley	Charles Augustus	18 Aug 1919	Kt Bach	6 Jul 1859	3 Apr 1936	76

Woolley	Charles Campbell Governor of Cyprus 1941-1946 and British Guiana 1947-1953	1 Jan 1943	KCMG	15 Jan 1893	20 Aug 1981	88
"	"	1 Jan 1953	GBE (Civ)

Woolley	(Charles) Leonard	10 Jul 1935	Kt Bach	17 Apr 1880	20 Feb 1960	79

Woolley	Harold, later [1967] Baron Woolley [L]	22 Jul 1964	Kt Bach	6 Feb 1905	31 Jul 1986	81

Woolley	Richard van der Riet	5 Feb 1963	Kt Bach	24 Apr 1906	24 Dec 1986	80

Wools-Sampson	Aubrey	26 Jun 1902	KCB (Mil)		19 May 1924

Woolton, Earl of	see "Marquis"

Woon	John Blaxell	19 Jun 1911	KCB (Mil)	24 Feb 1856	29 Aug 1938	82

Wootten	George Frederick	1 Jan 1958	KBE (Civ)	1 May 1893	30 Mar 1970	76

Wootton	David Hugh	13 Jun 2013	Kt Bach	20 Jul 1950

Worboys	Arthur Thomas	22 Mar 1966	Kt Bach	1886	7 Nov 1966	80

Worboys	Walter John	11 Feb 1958	Kt Bach	22 Feb 1900	17 Mar 1969	69

Worcester	Robert Milton	22 Sep 2004	Hon KBE (Civ)	21 Dec 1933
"	"	2005	KBE (Civ)

Wordie	James Mann	12 Feb 1957	Kt Bach	26 Apr 1889	16 Jan 1962	72

Wordie	John Stewart	24 Mar 1981	Kt Bach	15 Jan 1924	21 Jan 1997	73

Wordsworth	Elizabeth	4 Jun 1928	DBE (Civ)	1840	30 Nov 1932	92

Wordsworth	William Henry Laycock	11 Jun 1937	Kt Bach	6 Mar 1880	31 Mar 1960	80

Worley	Arthur, later [1928] 1st baronet	11 Feb 1921	Kt Bach	10 May 1871	19 Jul 1937	66

Worley	Newnham Arthur	4 Jul 1950	Kt Bach	2 Mar 1892	13 May 1976	84
"	"	1 Jan 1958	KBE (Civ)

Worlledge	John Leonard	7 Jun 1951	KBE (Civ)	24 Sep 1895	19 Apr 1968	72

Wormald	Christopher Stephen	17 Jun 2017	KCB (Civ)	30 Oct 1968

Wormald	Ethel May	8 Jun 1968	DBE (Civ)	19 Nov 1901	23 Feb 1993	91

Wormald	John	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	1 Jul 1859	20 May 1933	73

Worrell	Frank Mortimer Maglinne	16 Jun 1964	Kt Bach	1 Aug 1924	13 Mar 1967	42

Worsley	Henry [prev KCB (Mil) 26 Sep 1831]	16 Feb 1838	GCB (Mil)	20 Jan 1768	19 Jan 1841	72

Worsley	John Francis	11 Jun 1966	KBE (Mil)	8 Jul 1912	13 May 1987	74

Worsley	Richard Edward	12 Jun 1976	KCB (Mil)	29 May 1923	23 Feb 2013	89
"	"	31 Dec 1981	GCB (Mil)

Worsthorne	Peregrine Gerard	16 Jul 1991	Kt Bach	22 Dec 1923

Wort	Alfred William Ewart	13 Jul 1939	Kt Bach	17 Mar 1883	1 Feb 1976	92

Worthington	Edward Scott	11 Jun 1913	Kt Bach	24 Oct 1876	5 Apr 1953	76
"	"	3 Jun 1918	KCVO

Worthington	Geoffrey Luis	1 Jan 1960	KBE (Mil)	26 Apr 1903	28 Apr 1992	89

Worthington	(John) Hubert	1 Mar 1949	Kt Bach	4 Jul 1886	26 Jul 1963	77

Worthington	John Vigers	10 Jul 1935	Kt Bach	1872	16 Jun 1951	78

Worthington	Mark	18 Jul 2014	Kt Bach	23 Jan 1961

Worthington	Percy Scott	10 Jul 1935	Kt Bach	31 Jan 1864	15 Jul 1939	75

Worthington-Evans	Laming, 1st baronet. MP for Colchester 1910-29 and St. Georges 1929-31. Minister of Blockade 1918. Minister of Pensions 1919-20. Minister without Portfolio 1920-21. Sec of State for War 1921-22 and 1924-29. Postmaster General 1923-24. PC 1918	3 Jun 1922	GBE (Civ)	23 Aug 1868	14 Feb 1931	62

Wragg	Herbert MP for Belper 1923-1929 and 1931-1945	4 Jul 1944	Kt Bach	1880	13 Feb 1956	75

Wragg	Walter Thomas	13 Jul 1891	Kt Bach	1842	28 Oct 1913	71

Wraight	John Richard	1 Jan 1976	KBE (Civ)	4 Jun 1916	23 Apr 1997	80

Wrangham	Geoffrey Walter	21 Feb 1958	Kt Bach	16 Jun 1900	22 Aug 1986	86

Wratten	William John	29 Jun 1991	KBE (Mil)	15 Aug 1939
"	"	31 Dec 1997	GBE (Mil)

Wraxall, Baron	see "Gibbs"

Wreford	Ernest Henry	10 Jul 1935	Kt Bach	17 Dec 1866	10 May 1938	71

Wrenbury, Baron	see "Buckley"

Wrench	Charles Arthur	10 Jul 1935	Kt Bach	20 Jan 1875	21 Sep 1948	73

Wrench	(John) Evelyn Leslie For further information, see the note at the foot of this page	25 Feb 1932	Kt Bach	29 Oct 1882	11 Nov 1966	84
"	"	1 Jan 1960	KCMG

Wrenfordsley	Henry Thomas	16 Jun 1883	Kt Bach	1826	2 Jun 1908	81

Wrigglesworth	Ian William, later [2013] Baron Wrigglesworth [L]. MP for Thornaby Feb 1974-1983 and Stockton South 1983-1987	14 Feb 1991	Kt Bach	8 Dec 1939

Wright	Alexander Kemp	5 Jun 1926	KBE (Civ)	1859	21 Sep 1933	74

Wright	Allan Frederick	31 Dec 1981	KBE (Civ)	25 Mar 1929

Wright	Almroth Edward	24 Jul 1906	Kt Bach	1861	30 Apr 1947	85
"	"	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Mil)

Wright	Andrew Barkworth Governor of the Gambia 1947-1949 and Cyprus 1949-1954	1 Jan 1948	KCMG	30 Nov 1895	24 Mar 1971	75

Wright	Bernard Swanwick	25 Jun 1921	Kt Bach	9 Apr 1876	14 Aug 1961	85

Wright	Charles Seymour	13 Jun 1946	KCB (Civ)	7 Apr 1887	1 Nov 1975	88

Wright	Charles Theodore Hagberg	28 Feb 1934	Kt Bach	17 Nov 1862	7 Mar 1940	77

Wright	David John	15 Jun 1996	KCMG	16 Jun 1944
"	"	15 Jun 2002	GCMG

Wright	Denis Arthur Hepworth	10 Jun 1961	KCMG	23 Mar 1911	18 May 2005	94
"	"	12 Jun 1971	GCMG

Wright	Edward Maitland	29 Mar 1977	Kt Bach	13 Feb 1906	2 Feb 2005	98

Wright	George	5 Feb 1926	Kt Bach		16 Feb 1927

Wright	Henry Edward	16 Nov 1965	Kt Bach	30 Mar 1893	2 Nov 1966	73

Wright	Herbert	13 Jun 1930	Kt Bach	10 Sep 1874	28 Oct 1940	66

Wright	James	28 Jul 1887	Kt Bach	1823	17 Apr 1899	75

Wright	(John) Michael	15 Mar 1990	Kt Bach	26 Oct 1932

Wright	(John) Oliver	15 Jun 1974	KCMG	6 Mar 1921	1 Sep 2009	88
"	"	13 Jun 1978	GCVO
"	"	31 Dec 1980	GCMG

Wright	Johnstone	9 Feb 1943	Kt Bach	22 Jan 1883	19 Jul 1953	70

Wright	Leonard Morton	6 Jun 1957	Kt Bach	29 Jul 1906	22 Oct 1967	61

Wright	Michael Robert	7 Jun 1951	KCMG	3 Dec 1901	10 Jun 1976	74
"	"	1 Jan 1958	GCMG

Wright	Nicholas Alcwyn	9 Feb 2006	Kt Bach	24 Feb 1943

Wright	Norman Charles	16 Jul 1963	Kt Bach	19 Feb 1900	16 Jul 1970	70

Wright	Patrick Richard Henry, later [1994] Baron Wright of Richmond [L]	16 Jun 1984	KCMG	28 Jun 1931
"	"	17 Jun 1989	GCMG

Wright	Paul Hervé Giraud	14 Jun 1975	KCMG	12 May 1915	10 Jun 2005	90

Wright	Peter Robert	9 Dec 1993	Kt Bach	25 Nov 1926

Wright	Reginald Charles	23 Aug 1978	Kt Bach	10 Jul 1905	10 Mar 1990	84

Wright	Robert Alderson, later [1932] Baron Wright [L]. Master of the Rolls 1935-1937. Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1932-1935 and 1937-1947. PC 1932	28 May 1925	Kt Bach	15 Oct 1869	27 Jun 1964	94
"	"	10 Jun 1948	GCMG

Wright	Robert Alfred	12 Jun 2004	KBE (Mil)	10 Jun 1947

Wright	Robert Brash	23 Mar 1976	Kt Bach	1 Mar 1915	4 Dec 1981	66

Wright	Robert Patrick	6 Jul 1911	Kt Bach	12 Feb 1857	19 Dec 1938	81

Wright	Robert Samuel	20 Mar 1891	Kt Bach	1839	13 Aug 1904	65

Wright	Rowland Sydney	27 Oct 1976	Kt Bach	4 Oct 1915	14 Jun 1991	75

Wright	Roy Douglas	26 Jan 1983	AK	7 Aug 1907	28 Feb 1990	82

Wright	Royston Hollis	10 Jun 1961	KCB (Mil)	29 Sep 1908	18 Jul 1977	68
"	"	13 Jun 1964	GBE (Mil)

Wright	Stephen John Leadbetter	31 Dec 2005	KCMG	7 Dec 1946

Wright	Thomas	3 Jun 1893	KCB (Mil)	27 Sep 1825	18 Jan 1910	84

Wright	Thomas	11 Aug 1893	Kt Bach	15 Feb 1838	5 Aug 1905	67

Wright	William	7 Aug 1869	Kt Bach	1812	11 Nov 1884	72

Wright	William Charles, later [1926] 2nd baronet	1 Jan 1920	KBE (Civ)	12 Jan 1876	14 Aug 1950	74
"	"	1 Jan 1943	GBE (Civ)

Wright	William Owen	27 Jun 1934	Kt Bach	11 Aug 1882	8 May 1951	68

Wright	William Purvis	9 Nov 1904	KCB (Mil)	16 Jul 1846	29 Apr 1910	63

Wright	William Shaw	29 Jun 1914	Kt Bach	9 Mar 1843	10 Nov 1914	71

Wright	William Thompson	18 May 2018	Kt Bach	Sep 1927

Wrigley	Edward Anthony [Tony]	19 Mar 1996	Kt Bach	17 Aug 1931

Wrigley	John Crompton	1 Jan 1944	KBE (Civ)	8 Feb 1888	7 Jun 1977	89

Wrisberg	Frederick George	1 Jan 1949	KBE (Mil)	3 Jan 1895	26 Feb 1982	87

Wrixon	Henry John	1 Jan 1892	KCMG	18 Oct 1839	9 Apr 1913	73

Wrottesley	Frederic John PC 1947	23 Jun 1937	Kt Bach	20 Mar 1880	14 Nov 1948	68

Wroughton	Philip Lavallin	29 Dec 2007	KCVO	19 Apr 1933

Wu	Gordon Ying Sheung	14 Jun 1997	KCMG	3 Dec 1935

Wunderly	Harry Wyatt	15 Feb 1954	Kt Bach	30 May 1892	13 Apr 1971	78

Wyatt	(Arthur) Guy Norris	9 Jun 1949	KBE (Mil)	8 Mar 1893	9 Nov 1981	88

Wyatt	Matthew	17 May 1848	Kt Bach	1812	19 Jul 1886	74

Wyatt	Matthew Digby	14 Jan 1869	Kt Bach	28 Jul 1820	21 May 1877	56

Wyatt	Myles Dermot Norris	16 Jul 1963	Kt Bach	2 Jul 1903	14 Apr 1968	64

Wyatt	Richard Henry	20 Apr 1883	Kt Bach	1823	1904	81

Wyatt	Stanley Charles	16 Feb 1939	Kt Bach	22 Apr 1877	26 May 1968	91

Wyatt	William Henry	21 Jul 1876	Kt Bach	1823	8 Jan 1898	74

Wyatt	Woodrow Lyle, later [1987] Baron Wyatt of Weeford [L]. MP for Aston 1945-1955 and Bosworth 1959-1970	6 Dec 1983	Kt Bach	4 Jul 1918	7 Dec 1997	79

Wycherley	George Joseph	6 Jun 1885	Kt Bach

Wycherley	(Robert) Bruce	10 Feb 1953	Kt Bach	5 Apr 1894	17 Mar 1965	70

Wyke	Charles Lennox PC 1886	22 May 1860	KCB (Civ)	2 Sep 1815	4 Oct 1897	82
"	"	10 Sep 1879	GCMG

Wykeham	Peter Guy	1 Jan 1965	KCB (Mil)	13 Sep 1915	23 Feb 1995	79

Wykes	Hilary Margaret [Til]	31 Dec 2015	DBE (Civ)	1953

Wyldbore-Smith	Edmund Charles	8 Apr 1916	Kt Bach	15 Jan 1877	18 Oct 1938	61

Wyldbore-Smith	(Francis) Brian	11 Nov 1980	Kt Bach	10 Jul 1913	6 Dec 2005	92

Wyley	William Fitzthomas	17 Feb 1938	Kt Bach	1852	11 Aug 1940	88

Wylie	Campbell	15 Jul 1964	Kt Bach	14 May 1905	2 Aug 1992	87

Wylie	Francis James	10 Jul 1929	Kt Bach	18 Oct 1865	29 Oct 1952	87

Wylie	Francis Verner	11 May 1938	KCSI	9 Aug 1891	25 Nov 1970	79
"	"	14 Aug 1947	GCIE

Wylie	James	30 Oct 1843	Kt Bach		c 1853?

Wyllie	William	28 Mar 1865	KCB (Mil)		26 May 1891
"	"	2 Jun 1877	GCB (Mil)

Wyllie	William Hutt Curzon For information on the death of this knight, see the note at the foot of this page	23 Sep 1902	KCIE	5 Oct 1848	1 Jul 1909	60

Wymer	George Petre	2 Jan 1857	KCB (Mil)	1788	12 Aug 1868	80

Wyndham	Charles	24 Oct 1902	Kt Bach	23 Mar 1837	12 Jan 1919	81

Wyndham	Charles Henry, 3rd Baron Leconfield	1 Jan 1935	GCVO	17 Feb 1872	17 Apr 1952	80

Wyndham	(George) Hugh	15 Mar 1894	KCMG	18 Nov 1836	10 Feb 1916	79

Wyndham	Harold Stanley	22 Jul 1969	Kt Bach	27 Jun 1903	22 Apr 1988	84

Wyndham	Henry MP for Cockermouth 1852-1857 and Cumberland West 1857-1860	21 Jun 1859	KCB (Mil)	12 May 1790	3 Aug 1860	70

Wyndham	Percy Charles Hugh	1 Jan 1919	KCMG	23 Sep 1864	6 Oct 1943	79

Wyndham White	Eric Henry	8 Jun 1968	KCMG	26 Jan 1913	27 Jan 1980	67

Wyn-Harris	Percy Governor of the Gambia 1949-1958	1 Jan 1952	KCMG	24 Aug 1903	25 Feb 1979	75

Wynn Parry	Henry	6 Mar 1946	Kt Bach	15 Jan 1899	10 Jan 1964	64

Wynne	Arthur Singleton	28 Jun 1907	KCB (Mil)	5 Mar 1846	5 Feb 1936	89
"	"	22 Jun 1914	GCB (Mil)

Wynne	Graham Robert	9 Jul 2010	Kt Bach

Wynne	Henry Arthur PC [I] 1922	10 Jul 1919	Kt Bach	14 Jun 1867	21 Aug 1943	76

Wynne	Trevredyn Rashleigh	1 Jan 1909	KCIE	1853	28 Jun 1942	88
"	"	12 Dec 1911	KCSI

Wynne-Edwards	Robert Meredydd	20 Jul 1965	Kt Bach	1 May 1897	22 Jun 1974	77

Wynne Finch	William Heneage	5 Jul 1960	Kt Bach	18 Jan 1893	16 Dec 1961	68

Wynter	Luther Reginald	11 Jun 1977	Kt Bach	15 Sep 1899	4 Nov 1984	85

Wyon	Albert William	1 Jan 1919	KBE (Civ)	14 Feb 1869	1 Dec 1937	68

Wyse	Thomas MP for Tipperary 1830-1832 and Waterford 1835-1841 and 1842-1847	27 Mar 1857	KCB (Civ)	24 Dec 1791	16 Apr 1862	70

Xidian	Anastasio Tipaldo	26 Sep 1849	KCMG

Yacoub	Magdi Habib	19 May 1992	Kt Bach	16 Nov 1935

Yain	Lee Ah	31 Jul 1929	Kt Bach	Apr 1874	17 Apr 1932	58

Yaki	Roy	12 Jun 1999	KBE (Civ)

Yakub	Mohammad	3 Mar 1933	Kt Bach	27 Aug 1879	23 Nov 1942	63

Yang	Ti Liang	27 Jul 1988	Kt Bach	30 Jun 1929

Yapp	Arthur Keysall	4 Jun 1917	KBE	12 Mar 1869	5 Nov 1936	67

Yapp	Frederick Charles	7 Jul 1942	Kt Bach	1880	5 Sep 1958	78

Yapp	Stanley Graham	9 Dec 1975	Kt Bach	30 Jun 1933	1 Apr 2012	78

Yarde-Buller	Henry	3 Jun 1919	KBE (Mil)	2 Nov 1862	15 Mar 1928	65

Yardley	David Charles Miller	31 Mar 1994	Kt Bach	4 Jun 1929	4 Jun 2014	85

Yardley	William	1847	Kt Bach	1810	15 Dec 1878	68

Yarr	Michael Thomas	4 Jun 1917	KCMG	17 Oct 1862	24 Apr 1937	74

Yarranton	Peter George	15 Dec 1992	Kt Bach	30 Sep 1924	1 Jun 2003	78

Yarrow	Alan Colin Drake	22 Mar 2016	Kt Bach	27 Jun 1951

Yarrow	Harold Edgar, 2nd baronet	1 Jan 1958	GBE (Civ)	11 Aug 1884	19 Apr 1962	77

Yarwood	Elizabeth Ann	1 Jan 1969	DBE (Civ)	25 Nov 1900	31 Dec 1989	89

Yarworth Jones	William George	19 May 1919	Kt Bach	11 Jan 1870	4 Jan 1953	82

Yassaie	Hossein	19 Jul 2013	Kt Bach

Yates	Frances Amelia	11 Jun 1977	DBE (Civ)	28 Nov 1899	29 Sep 1981	81

Yates	Thomas	10 Feb 1959	Kt Bach	25 Sep 1896	27 May 1978	81

Yeabsley	Richard Ernest	14 Mar 1950	Kt Bach	16 May 1898	13 Feb 1983	84

Yeaman	Ian David	15 Jul 1958	Kt Bach	20 Mar 1889	28 Feb 1977	87

Yeend	Geoffrey John	22 Aug 1979	Kt Bach	1 May 1927	6 Oct 1994	67

Yellowlees	Henry	14 Jun 1975	KCB (Civ)	1919	22 Mar 2006	86

Yelverton	Hastings Reginald	2 Jun 1869	KCB (Mil)	Mar 1808	24 Jul 1878	70
"	"	29 May 1875	GCB (Mil)

Yeo	Alfred William MP for Poplar 1914-1918 and Poplar South 1918-1922	6 Feb 1918	Kt Bach	13 Oct 1863	14 Apr 1928	64

Yeo	William	12 Nov 1964	Kt Bach	1 May 1896	9 Dec 1972	76

Yip	Amanda Louise	2 Nov 2017	DBE (Civ)

Yocklunn	John Soong Chung	16 Sep 1975	Kt Bach	5 May 1933
"	"	23 Mar 1977	KCVO

Yonge	(Charles) Maurice	18 Oct 1967	Kt Bach	9 Dec 1899	17 Mar 1986	86

Yonge	(Ida) Felicity Ann	31 Dec 1981	DBE (Civ)	28 Feb 1921	1 Apr 1995	74

Yoo Foo	(François) Henry	13 Feb 1992	Kt Bach

York, Duke of	H.R.H. Albert Frederick Arthur George, later [1936] King George VI	14 Dec 1916	KG
"	"	1 Jan 1921	GCVO
"	"	24 Apr 1923	KT
"	"	22 Dec 1926	GCMG
"	"	7 Mar 1936	KP

York, Duke of	H.R.H. Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward	2 Jun 2003	KCVO	19 Feb 1960
"	"	23 Apr 2006	KG
"	"	19 Feb 2011	GCVO

Yorke	Charles	5 Feb 1856	KCB (Mil)	7 Dec 1790	20 Nov 1880	89
"	"	29 Jun 1860	GCB (Mil)

Yorke	Henry Francis Redhead	11 Jul 1902	KCB (Civ)	1842	12 Jan 1914	71

Yorke	(Horatio) Arthur	6 Feb 1913	Kt Bach	3 Jun 1848	10 Dec 1930	82

Yorston	(Robert) Keith	18 Jul 1969	Kt Bach	12 Feb 1902	16 May 1983	81

Youde	Edward Governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986	31 Dec 1976	KCMG	19 Jun 1924	4 Dec 1986	62
"	"	31 Dec 1982	GCMG
"	"	22 Oct 1986	GCVO

Youens	Peter William	9 Mar 1965	Kt Bach	29 Apr 1916	6 May 2000	84

Youl	James Arndell	1 Jan 1891	KCMG	28 Dec 1811	5 Jun 1904	92

Young	Alfred Karney	15 Feb 1923	Kt Bach	1865	5 Jan 1942	76

Young	Allen William	12 Mar 1877	Kt Bach	12 Dec 1827	20 Nov 1915	87

Young	Anthony Ian, later [2004] Baron Young of Norwood Green [L]	13 Dec 2002	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1942

Young	Arthur Edwin	16 Nov 1965	Kt Bach	1907	20 Jan 1979	71
"	"	1 Jan 1971	KBE (Civ)

Young	Arthur Henderson Governor of the Straits Settlements 1911-1920	9 Nov 1908	KCMG	31 Oct 1854	20 Oct 1938	83
"	"	3 Jun 1916	GCMG
"	"	1 Jan 1918	KBE

Young	Brian Walter Mark	8 Dec 1976	Kt Bach	23 Aug 1922	11 Nov 2016	94

Young	Charles Alban, later [1921] 9th baronet	3 Jun 1918	KCMG	18 Nov 1865	2 Mar 1944	78

Young	Charles George	27 Aug 1842	Kt Bach	6 Apr 1795	31 Aug 1869	74

Young	Colville Norbert Governor General of Belize 1993-	22 Feb 1994	GCMG	20 Nov 1932

Young	David Tod	1980	KBE (Mil)	17 May 1926	9 Jan 2000	73

Young	Dennis Charles	31 Dec 1998	KCMG

Young	Edward Hilton Young, later [1935] 1st Baron Kennet. MP for Norwich 1915-1923 and 1924-1929 and Sevenoaks 1929-1935. Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1921-1923. Minister of Health 1931-1935. PC 1922	3 Jun 1927	GBE (Civ)	26 Mar 1879	11 Jul 1960	81

Young	Frank George	20 Feb 1973	Kt Bach	25 Mar 1908	20 Sep 1988	80

Young	Frank Popham For further information, see the note at the foot of this page	3 Jun 1918	KBE	24 Dec 1863	12 Dec 1940	76

Young	Frederick	28 Jan 1888	KCMG	21 Jun 1817	9 Nov 1913	96

Young	Frederick William MP for Swindon 1918-1922	6 Feb 1918	Kt Bach	5 Jan 1876	26 Aug 1948	72

Young	Frederick William	5 Oct 1920	KBE (Mil)		20 Dec 1927

Young	George Samuel	30 Jun 1905	KCB (Mil)	18 Nov 1824	10 Sep 1911	86

Young	Guilford Clyde	3 Jun 1978	KBE (Civ)	10 Nov 1916	16 Mar 1988	71

Young	Harold William	31 Dec 1982	KCMG	30 Jun 1923	21 Nov 2006	83

Young	Henry Edward Fox Governor of South Australia 1848-1854 and Tasmania 1855-1861	12 Feb 1847	Kt Bach	23 Apr 1803	18 Sep 1870	67

Young	Hubert Winthrop Governor of Nyasaland 1932-1934, Northern Rhodesia 1934-1938 and Trinidad & Tobago 1938-1942	22 Jun 1932	Kt Bach	1885	20 Apr 1950	64
"	"	1 Jan 1934	KCMG

Young	(James) Alexander	21 Jan 1935	KCVO	1875	18 Apr 1956	80

Young	James Henry	21 Jul 1908	Kt Bach	1842	20 Oct 1912	70

Young	James Reid	31 Jul 1951	Kt Bach	2 Dec 1888	6 Sep 1971	82

Young	John, 2nd baronet, later [1870] Baron Lisgar. MP for Cavan 1831-1855. Governor of New South Wales 1860-1867. Governor General of Canada 1868-1872. PC 1852. PC [I] 1852	16 May 1855	GCMG	31 Aug 1807	6 Oct 1876	69
"	"	4 Feb 1859	KCB (Civ)
"	"	13 Nov 1868	GCB (Civ)

Young	(John) Douglas	1 Mar 1935	Kt Bach	7 Apr 1883	13 Apr 1973	90

Young	John McIntosh	14 Jun 1975	KCMG	17 Dec 1919	6 Oct 2008	88

Young	John Robertson [Rob]	31 Dec 1998	KCMG	21 Feb 1945
"	"	14 Jun 2003	GCMG

Young	John Smith	16 Dec 1907	Kt Bach	25 Jun 1843	16 Jul 1932	89

Young	Julian Mayne	18 Feb 1941	Kt Bach	6 Aug 1872	19 Oct 1961	89

Young	Leslie Clarence	4 Dec 1984	Kt Bach	5 Feb 1925

Young	Leslie Ronald [Jimmy]	27 Jun 2002	Kt Bach	21 Sep 1921	7 Nov 2016	95

Young	Mark Aitchison Governor of Barbados 1933-1938, Tanganyika 1938-1941 and Hong Kong 1941-1947	4 Jun 1934	KCMG	30 Jun 1886	12 May 1974	87
"	"	1 Jan 1946	GCMG

Young	Nicholas Charles	12 Nov 2000	Kt Bach	16 Apr 1952

Young	Norman Smith	9 Jul 1968	Kt Bach	24 Jul 1911	17 May 1999	87

Young	Richard Dilworth	10 Mar 1970	Kt Bach	9 Apr 1914	16 May 2008	94

Young	Robert MP for Newton 1918-1931 and 1935-1950	24 Feb 1931	Kt Bach	26 Jan 1872	13 Jul 1957	85

Young	Robert Arthur	8 Jul 1947	Kt Bach	6 Nov 1871	22 Aug 1959	87

Young	Robin Urquhart	15 Jun 2002	KCB (Civ)	7 Sep 1948

Young	Roger William	20 Oct 1983	Kt Bach	15 Nov 1923	15 Feb 2017	93

Young	Ronald Leslie	6 Jun 2016	KNZM

Young	(Thomas) Eric Boswell	1 Mar 1949	Kt Bach	6 Feb 1891	12 Mar 1973	82

Young	Walter James	1 Jan 1932	KBE (Civ)	2 Apr 1872	5 Jan 1940	67

Young	William	8 Feb 1869	Kt Bach	8 Sep 1799	8 May 1887	87

Young	William	3 Jun 1935	KBE (Civ)	1875	25 Aug 1957	82

Young	William	16 Dec 1975	Kt Bach	13 Jun 1905	19 Jun 1980	75

Young	(William) Douglas Governor of the Falkland Islands 1915-1920	3 Jun 1919	KBE (Civ)	27 Jan 1859	7 Mar 1943	84

Young	William Gillow Gibbes Austen [originally DCNZM 4 Jun 2007]	1 Aug 2009	KNZM	14 Apr 1952

Young	William Mackworth Lieut Governor of the Punjab 1897-1902	22 Jun 1897	KCSI	15 Aug 1840	10 May 1924	83

Younger	George Kenneth Hotson, Baron Younger of Prestwick [L] and later [1997] 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie. MP for Ayr 1964-1992. Secretary of State for Scotland 1979-1986 and Defence 1986-1989. PC 1979	31 Dec 1992	KCVO	22 Sep 1931	26 Jan 2003	71
"	"	30 Nov 1995	KT

Younger	James Paton	5 Jul 1961	Kt Bach	19 Jun 1891	17 Sep 1974	83

Younger	John David Bingham	29 Dec 2012	KCVO	20 May 1939

Younger	Kenneth Gilmour MP for Grimsby 1945-1959. PC 1951	3 Jun 1972	KBE (Civ)	15 Dec 1908	19 May 1976	67

Younger	Robert, later [1923] Baron Blanesburgh. Lord Justice of Appeal 1919-1923. Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1923-1937. PC 1919	20 Apr 1915	Kt Bach	12 Sep 1861	17 Aug 1946	84
"	"	4 Jun 1917	GBE

Young-Herries	Michael Alexander Robert	29 Oct 1975	Kt Bach	28 Feb 1923	6 May 1995	72

Younghusband	Eileen Louise [daughter of Sir Francis Edward Younghusband]	13 Jun 1964	DBE (Civ)	1 Jan 1902	22 May 1981	79

Younghusband	Francis Edward	16 Dec 1904	KCIE	31 May 1863	31 Jul 1942	79
"	"	1 Jan 1917	KCSI

Younghusband	George John	1 Jan 1913	KCIE	9 Jul 1859	30 Sep 1944	85
"	"	29 Oct 1915	KCMG

Yoxall	James Henry MP for Nottingham West 1895-1918	22 Jul 1909	Kt Bach	15 Jul 1857	2 Feb 1925	67

Ypres, Earl of	see "French"

Yule	David, later [1922] 1st baronet	4 Jan 1912	Kt Bach	4 Aug 1858	3 Jul 1928	69

Yule	George Udney	24 May 1866	KCSI	1813	13 Jan 1886	72

Yule	Henry	25 May 1889	KCSI	1 May 1820	30 Dec 1889	69

Yusuf	Mohamad	18 Jun 1915	Kt Bach		15 Sep 1965

Yusuf	Muhammad	3 Mar 1933	Kt Bach	Jun 1890	by 1970

Yuwi	Matiabe	31 Dec 1996	KBE (Civ)	1935

Zacaroli	Antony James	27 Nov 2017	Kt Bach

Zacca	Edward PC 1992	13 Jun 2015	KCMG	26 Jul 1931

Zaffar	Naila	12 Jun 2010	DBE (Civ)

Zahedi	Mir Saeed	8 Feb 2018	Kt Bach	May 1957

Zambellas	George Michael	16 Jun 2012	KCB (Mil)	4 Apr 1958
"	"	31 Dec 2015	GCB (Mil)

Zammit	Temistocle	6 Mar 1930	Kt Bach	1864	2 Nov 1935	71

Zeal	William Austin	25 May 1895	KCMG	5 Dec 1830	11 Mar 1912	81

Zealley	Alec Thomas Sharland	16 Jul 1957	Kt Bach	28 Jan 1893	20 Apr 1970	77

Zeeman	(Erik) Christopher	10 Dec 1991	Kt Bach	4 Feb 1925	13 Feb 2016	91

Zeidler	David Ronald	11 Mar 1980	Kt Bach	18 Mar 1918	16 Mar 1998	79

Zetland, Marquess of	see "Dundas"

Zimmern	Alfred Eckhard	19 Feb 1936	Kt Bach	26 Jan 1879	24 Nov 1957	78

Zissman	Bernard Philip	7 Mar 1996	Kt Bach	11 Dec 1934

Zochonis	John Basil	16 Jul 1997	Kt Bach	2 Oct 1929	30 Nov 2013	84

Zoleveke	Gideon Asatori Pitabose	11 Jun 1983	KBE (Civ)	3 Aug 1922	12 Nov 2003	81

Zuckerman	Solly, later [1971] Baron Zuckerman [L]. OM 1968	7 Feb 1956	Kt Bach	30 May 1904	1 Apr 1993	88
"	"	1 Jan 1964	KCB (Civ)

Zulfikar Ali Khan		18 Aug 1919	Kt Bach	1875	26 May 1933	57

Zumla	Alimuddin	17 Oct 2017	Kt Bach	15 May 1955

Zunz	Gerhard Jacob [Jack]	5 Dec 1989	Kt Bach	25 Dec 1923

Zurenuo	Zurewe Kamong	1981	Kt Bach	5 Jul 1920	20 Aug 1994	74

Zurenuoc	Manasupe Zure	15 Jun 2013	Kt Bach

Zurenuoc	Zibang	31 Dec 1994	KBE (Civ)







Sir Arnold Horace Santo Waters VC [Kt Bach 1954]


Waters was an acting Major in the 218th Field Company, Royal Engineers when, at the second Battle of the Sambre, he
was awarded the Victoria Cross. The citation in the London Gazette (issue 31178, page 2249) reads:-

"For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on the 4th November, 1918, near Ors, when bridging with his Field
Company the Oise-Sambre Canal. From the outset the task was under artillery and machine-gun fire at close range, the
bridge being damaged and the building party suffering severe casualties. Major Waters, hearing that all his officers had
been killed or wounded, at once went forward and personally supervised the completion of the bridge, working on cork
floats while under fire at point-blank range. So intense was the fire that it seemed impossible that he could escape being
killed. The success of the operation was due entirely to his valour and example."



Sir John Watson VC [KCB 1886 and GCB 1902]


Watson was a Lieutenant in the 1st Punjab Cavalry in the Bengal Army when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his
actions at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. His citation in the London Gazette of 18 June 1858 (issue 22154, page 2960)
reads:-

"Lieut. Watson, on the 14th November, with his own squadron, and that under Captain, then Lieutenant, Probyn [qv], came
upon a body of the rebel cavalry. The Ressaldar [the native captain of an Indian cavalry regiment] in command of them - a
fine specimen of the Hindustani Mussulman - and backed up by some half dozen equally brave men, rode out to the front.
Lieutenant Watson singled out this fine looking fellow, and attacked him. The Ressaldar presented his pistol at Lieutenant
Watson's breast, at a yard's distance and fired; but, most providentially, without effect; the ball must, by accident, have
previously fallen out. Lieutenant Watson ran the man through with his sword, and dismounted him; but the native officer,
nothing daunted, drew his tulwar [a curved sword or sabre] and with his Sowars [members of a cavalry regiment] renewed
his attack upon Lieutenant Watson, who bravely defended himself until his own men joined in the melee, and utterly routed
the party. In this rencontre, Lieutenant Watson received a blow on the head from a tulwar, another on the left arm, which
severed his chain gauntlet glove, a tulwar cut on his right arm, which fortunately only divided the sleeve of the jacket, but
disabled the arm for some time; a bullet also passed through his coat, and he received a blow on his leg, which lamed him
some days afterwards." (Despatch from Major-General James Hope Grant, K.C.B., dated 10th January 1858.)

Watson continued his career in the Army and rose to the rank of General in 1891.



Sir Henry Vassall Webster [Kt Bach 1843]


Sir Henry Webster committed suicide by cutting his throat. The following report appeared in the London "Morning Post"
of 21 April 1847:-

"We regret to announce the decease of [Sir Henry Vassall Webster]. Sir Henry died at midnight on Monday, at his residence
in Brook-street, from the effects of injuries inflicted on himself at an early hour in the morning of the same day.

"The unfortunate gentleman had only recently returned, in company with Lady Webster, from the Continent, whither he
had been travelling for the benefit of his health. It appears that within the last few weeks his malady had increased rather
than otherwise. On Sunday night he was left by his servant in bed, nothing particular being observed in his demeanour.
Next morning at seven o'clock his servant knocked at the door in order to ascertain whether his master had taken some
medicine left with him for that purpose the previous night, but on Sir Henry making an observation when witness under-
stood to be a desire that he should not be disturbed, the man retired. He returned some time afterwards, and knocked,
but on receiving no reply again went away. At half past eight o'clock he knocked a third time, and finding that his master
still remained silent, became alarmed, and informed Lady Webster of the circumstance. Her Ladyship immediately suggested
that the door should be broken open, and this object having been accomplished, the man entered the room, and found his
master lying on the floor, at the foot of the bed, in a senseless state, there being a severe wound on the left side of his
throat, from which blood was copiously flowing. The servant forthwith left the room, for the purpose of obtaining surgical
aid, and by a fortunate presence of mind spared Lady Webster the pain of witnessing the melancholy sight, as her
Ladyship was in the act of entering the apartment just as he was retiring from it. No time was lost, and ere many minutes
had elapsed several medical gentlemen were in attendance, and rendered all the assistance in their power. The unfortun-
ate gentleman, according to the position in which he was discovered, must have got up from his bed to commit the rash
act. Various statements are afloat in the West-end on the subject, which, out of respect to members of the family, we do
not insert, as an inquest will be held on the body this day, when the truth will be elucidated. [The inquest jury returned a
verdict "that the deceased...died from the effects of wounds inflicted on himself while labouring under temporary insanity"]
From the moment of the medical gentlemen being called in Sir Henry gradually lingered up to twelve o'clock on Monday,
when he breathed his last.

"Sir Henry Webster's untimely end will be regretted by a numerous circle, as well as by many of the military profession, of
which, for years, he was a distinguished and a hard-working member, indeed one who so noble braved the storms and
dangers of Portugal, Spain, Holland, Belgium, France, and lastly those of the ever-memorable battle of Waterloo, deserved
a better fate. He was born in 1794, being the second son of the late Sir Godfrey Vassall [Webster], Bart., and brother to
the present holder of that title, with which is connected the celebrated Battle Abbey, Sussex. His mother was the late
Lady Holland, a lady who, in the fashionable world, gained much distinction. She was the daughter and heiress of Richard
Vassal, Esq., of the island of Jamaica, and married Sir Godfrey in 1786. The marriage was dissolved in 1799, by Act of
Parliament, and in the same year she married Lord Holland. Sir Henry entered the army in 1810, being then twenty years of
age [sic]. In 1831 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, but since he attained his majority in 1826 [i.e.
became a Major], would appear to have been on the unattached list. In 1815 he was nominated a Knight of William of the
Netherlands. This honour, it appears, was conferred in consideration of the services which he rendered while acting as
Aide-de-Camp to the Prince of Orange at Waterloo. In 1832 he was nominated a Knight Commander of the Tower and
Sword of Portugal, and in 1835 received the Orders of that of St. Bento d'Avia. In 1843 he received the only English title
which he held, that of a Knight Bachelor by patent. He was decorated with a medal for Waterloo, and would of course be
entitled to the Peninsula one, had he lived. The deceased married some years since, the only daughter and heiress of the
late Samuel Boddington, Esq."



Sir Hugh Weightman [Kt Bach 1948]


Sir Hugh served in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force before joining the Indian Civil Service. He later transferred
to the Indian Political Service and was Political Agent in Assam, Central India, Baluchistan, the Persian Gulf and Delhi. His
last role was as Secretary to the Indian External Affairs Department from which position he retired on Indian independence
and was subsequently rewarded with a knighthood. He was killed in a plane crash at London Airport, the cause of such
crash probably being the combination of dangerous overloading of the plane and ice on its wings,

The 'Daily Telegraph' of 29 October 1949 reported:-

'Investigations were conducted all yesterday at London Airport in an effort to discover the cause of the crash there just
after 2 a.m. of an American Grumman Mallard amphibian.......six of the seven people aboard lost their lives. Those killed
were Sir Hugh Weightman, 50, an official of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation, London [and five others, being
three passengers, the pilot and the radio officer].

'The plane was owned by the Superior Oil Company of Los Angeles and was bound for Cairo via Rome. The sole survivor
was the co-pilot, Mr Earl Oscar Sivage, 33, an American living in Egypt, who escaped with superficial injuries.

'Describing the crash he said: "We were going down the runway when the plane started swerving to the left. I found
myself standing on my head. My clothes and hair were on fire when I released my safety belt. I have no idea what went
wrong."

The subsequent inquest was described in 'The Times' of 29 November 1949:-

'A verdict of "Accidental Death" in each case was returned at the resumed inquest at Kilburn yesterday on the bodies of
the six persons who were killed when an American Grumman Mallard aircraft crashed at London Airport on October 28
while taking off for Cairo via Rome.

'Ezuard Karl Dupker, station operation officer for K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), who serviced the aircraft, said he asked
[pilot] Captain Jordan before the crash whether he wanted the weights and number of bags for his load-sheet and was
told not to bother. Another K.L.M. Station operation officer, Edward Robert-Sheppard, said he asked Captain Jordan
whether he wanted the baggage weighed in pounds or kilos, but Captain Jordan said that it did not matter because he had
to take whatever there was.

'Oliver Howard, a ground engineer, said there was frost on the aircraft. Captain Jordan wiped some of it off with his glove,
but said it did not matter as the ice would come off with the take-off. The aircraft was de-iced on the engineers' own
initiative for the safety of the aircraft. John Holden, a navigation officer, said that Captain Jordan asked for his aircraft to
be de-iced.

'The sole survivor, Oscar Earl Sivage, co-pilot mechanic, said that both engines were replaced in Amsterdam by K.L.M. and
a seven-hour test followed. In London servicing, but no overhaul, was done. He was quite satisfied at the take-off.

'Charles Walling, of California, a pilot for the Superior Oil Company of Los Angeles, owners of the aircraft, said that it was
over-loaded by roughly 1,500lb. It was his conviction that the aircraft took off with ice on its wings and that seriously
destroyed its lifting ability.

'The Coroner (Mr. H.G. Broadbridge) told the jury that they had no direct proof what caused the machine to crash.'



Sir Charles Wheatstone [Kt Bach 1868]


The following [edited] biography of Sir Charles Wheatstone appeared in the November 1966 issue of the Australian monthly
magazine "Parade". It draws an interesting parallel with the case of Dr. Crippen, the first man to be apprehended by the
use of radio technology, since it commences with the arrest of John Tawell, the first man to suffer the same fate brought
about by telegraphic means. The biography makes no mention of Wheatstone's invention of the cipher system which has
become known as the Playfair Cipher, named after Lord Playfair who popularised its use. Nor does it mention his pioneering
work in relation to electricity, particularly "Wheatstone's Bridge."

"On the evening of January 2, 1845, John Tawell arrived at Slough, on the Great Western Railway, just in time to catch the
8.15 train to London. He was a portly gentleman of 61 and nothing about his conservative attire or dignified manner
suggested he had once been transported to New South Wales for forgery or that he had just poisoned a woman. He had
had a strange career. He had made a fortune as a druggist in Sydney, advertised the cause of temperance by pouring 600
gallons of rum into Port Jackson and built a Quaker chapel in Macquarie St. Now he had entered the last phase of his life.
Leaving the body of his mistress, Sarah Hart, at Salt Hill, he rushed to catch the train at Slough, believing he could lose
himself in the London crowd before the crime was discovered. But, despite his knowledge of poisons, Tawell had not kept
abreast of other scientific developments. What he did not know was that the Great Western Railway Company had chosen
that 17-mile stretch of line to experiment with Cooke & Wheatstone's electric telegraph. So he stepped out of the train
into the arms of police at Paddington station.

"The trial and execution of John Tawell gave the electric telegraph the boost needed to convince the public that it was a
practical necessity and not a scientific plaything. Within a few months telegraph lines were extended so rapidly that Queen
Victoria's speech at the opening of Parliament was wired to Southampton and Bristol almost as she delivered it. Until then
the fastest means of communication were semaphore signals which, on a few key routes, laboriously relayed signals from
hilltop to hilltop. Useless at night and almost so in bad weather, they were soon put into the discard by the Wheatstone
telegraph, whose magnetic needle could spell out 40 words a minute. The whirling arms of the semaphores, which had
carried news across the country for so long and had given Londoners the first hint of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar, ceased
operations in 1847, leaving their stone towers standing like abandoned lighthouses.

"The man who accomplished this revolution was Charles Wheatstone, a self-taught genius who received honours from
every scientific body of the time and yet was too nervous to give a public lecture. The telegraph was only one of
and yet was too nervous to give a public lecture. The telegraph was only one of Wheatstone's many interests. His work in
field of music and sound would have won him renown had he given no thought to electricity or optics. Although
Wheatstone was one of the intellectual giants of the early Victorian age, he had little interest in money, and thus much of
the profit and a good deal of the credit for some of his most important inventions went to men with keener commercial
minds.

"The son of an obscure musician, Charles Wheatstone was born in 1802 in the quiet West Country town of Gloucester. At
a small grammar school he was taught some mathematics but no science. Yet he was a natural technician and turned his
skill to the making and repairing of musical instruments. When his father moved to London as a teacher of piano, flute and
violin, Charles opened a music shop in Pall Mall. The business languished until the young proprietor announced the exhibition
of a scientific marvel called the Enchanted Lyre. People rushed to see the wonder which could play string quartets all by
itself. The mysterious instrument was an outsize lyre of ancient pattern, suspended from the ceiling by a single stout wire.
Instead of strings it was fitted with metal rods. The two horns had open mouths, like trumpets, from which the music
issued. Every day the lyre gave three concerts, each program lasting an hour. An enormous success, both commercially
and artistically, it remained on exhibition for years, and made Wheatstone's establishment famous.

"Although the lyre was a mystery to all who heard it, the explanation, as eventually given by Wheatstone himself, was
simple. The musicians were in a cellar below the shop. The sounds they produced were carried in a series of vibrations
along a metal conductor to the lyre, which acted as a sounding board. In effect, Wheatstone had produced the world's
first microphone. Rudimentary as it was, the Enchanted Lyre has an important place in the story of sound reproduction.
Among Wheatstone's most important gifts to music were the portable harmonium and the English concertina, now better
known as a piano-accordion.

"While he was improving the range and compass of many musical instruments, he was also gaining a reputation in scientific
circles. In 1831, at the age of 29, he astounded the savants by calculating the velocity of electricity. The apparatus he
devised for this momentous demonstration is still on view in King's College museum, London. Its main component is a mirror
geared to revolve so fast so that electric sparks are reflected as continuous lines.

"In 1834 Wheatstone was appointed professor of experimental physics at king's College. Although much of his most
important work was carried on in the college laboratory, he was not a success as a teacher. Too diffident to address the
students, he was often forced to write his lectures and give them to his friend, Professor Michael Faraday, to deliver. A
bewildered student once protested that a statement made by Faraday contradicted what he had said the previous
Thursday. "Possibly," said Faraday dryly, "but I was Professor Wheatstone last Thursday."

"In the 1830s Wheatstone was one of several scientists who in various countries were investigating the transmission of
messages by electricity. In 1833 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German pioneer of electro-magnetism, set up a telegraph line
between Gottingen Observatory and his house a mile away. He transmitted intelligible signals but his apparatus, the pointer
of which weighed 56 pounds, proved too slow and clumsy to be practical. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Samuel Morse
was working on the problem of telecommunication.

"Wheatstone's telegraph was based on the fact that an electric current switched on and off will move a magnetised needle
suspended nearby. In its original form the Wheatstone instrument had a wire and a needle for every letter of the alphabet.
But the inventor speedily realised that far fewer wires, together with a skilfully designed dial, would provide enough
combinations for ordinary messages.

"While he was working on this, Wheatstone was visited by William Fothergill Cooke [1806-1879, Kt Bach 1869], a former
army engineer who had become interested in the electric telegraph while studying in Germany. He asked Wheatstone for an
opinion on an instrument he had designed. When told that it would not function, he hurled his plans to the floor and angrily
declared that he had wasted two years of his life. Persuading him not to despair, Wheatstone offered help. At that Cooke
explained that he was only interested in the telegraph as a means of making money and suggested they pool their
knowledge. Wheatstone was concerned solely with the scientific aspects of the telegraph and could not afford to take out
international patent rights. He had no idea how to exploit the invention. Cooke, on the other hand, was an intensely
practical man, well able to find his way about the jungles of finance.

"The pair entered into a partnership and the telegraph was first tried out on July 5, 1833, over a mile and a half of line
between Euston station and Camden Town, London. The instruments functioned perfectly, the letters registering on the
dials being quickly read, even when the range of the experiment was extended to Slough. But the public remained
apathetic. The murder of Sarah Hart caused a sensation and focused attention on the mysterious electric device. Thanks
to the villainous John Tawell, the rise of the telegraph system became one of the phenomena of the period.

"The Cooke-Wheatstone partnership was an uneasy one. Disregarding his agreement with Wheatstone, Cooke entered his
his own name first on all documents connected with the telegraph and invariably declared that he was the real inventor.
Commercially, however, Cooke was an able man, and although he and Wheatstone quarrelled bitterly in private, they
presented a united front to the world. Their partnership was not wound up until they sold their rights to the Electric
Telegraph Company for £140,000. By 1885 more than 20,000 Wheatstone instruments were in use in Britain. From then on
they were gradually superseded by the Morse system.

"Charles Wheatstone also made the first stereoscopic viewer and pioneered stereoscopic photography. Also, to demon-
strate he could explode underwater charges by electricity, he blew up the sunken hull of the old Royal George, which had
Royal George, which had capsized off Spithead 80 years before [29 August 1782]. Although his inventions ranged from a
a combination fiddle and accordion to a means of detecting the 200-millionth part of a grain of sodium in a metallic flame,
he seldom spoke about his work. He was knighted in 1868, and died in 1875 at the age of 73."


Sophie, Lady White, widow of Sir Edward White [Kt Bach 1912]


In normal circumstances, my focus on members of the Knightage would be limited to the various knights themselves, and
would not extend to knights' wives/widows/children, unless such family members earned a note regarding the facts
surrounding them. It would seem to me that being murdered qualifies one for the right to a note, and this is precisely what
happened in the case of Lady White, widow of Sir Edward White. The report below (one of an extremely large number at
the time) appeared in the Gloucester "Citizen" on 15 March 1922:-

'[Sophie] Lady White, the widow of Sir Edward White, at one time Chairman of the London County Council, was found in a
dying condition on Tuesday at the Spencer Hotel, Portman-street, London, having been brutally attacked in mysterious
circumstances while in bed.

'Lady White, who is between 50 and 60 years of age [other sources say 65], formerly lived at Upper Berkeley-street, and
had a bedroom at the hotel, which is really four inter-communicating houses in Portman-street. On Monday night she went
to be about 11 p.m., after spending the evening playing bridge with other ladies at the hotel. She was then in good
health, and no unusual sound was heard during the night, but between 8.15 and 8.30 on Tuesday morning the chamber-
maid made the discovery that Lady White was lying unconscious in bed with her face and the pillow covered in blood. A
doctor was at once summoned, and found that there was a scalp wound on the left side of the head. So much force had
been used that the skull was not only fractured, but a portion of the brain was protruding. The wound could not have
been self-inflicted, and had apparently been caused by a blunt instrument.

'The blinds of the bedroom were down and Lady White had retired for the night before she was attacked. So far as can be
ascertained nothing is missing from the room, and no weapon was found. The night porter heard nothing nor saw anyone
moving about during the night. There are only two exits from the hotel, the street doors of two of the houses having been
blocked up.

'The crime seems absolutely motiveless except on the assumption that Lady White awoke and disturbed a burglar who had
entered her room. A bruise on her left arm rather suggests that she raised her arm in order to ward off a blow. If the
assailant was a burglar, the mystery is how he got into the hotel without being seen. Although the closest inquiry has
been made, there is nothing to suggest that any of the guests staying at the hotel could have been guilty of the attack.'

Within a week police had arrested one Henry Julius [Harry] Jacoby, the 18-year-old pantry boy at the hotel. Jacoby was
tried at the Old Bailey and, on 5 May 1922, was found guilty of the murder of Lady White and sentenced to death, as
as reported in the "Tamworth Herald" on 6 May 1922:-

'The eighteen-year-old pantry-boy, Henry Jacoby, was at the Old Bailey, on Friday, found guilty of the murder of Lady
White at the Hotel Spencer, Portman-street, during the night of March 13th-14th.

'The jury added to their verdict a strong recommendation to mercy on the ground of the prisoner's youth, and the fact
that they did not believe he went to Lady White's room intending to kill, but for the purpose of robbery.

'In a statement to the police, Jacoby described how he went to Lady White's room to steal money. She awoke, shrieked,
and he struck herb two blows with a workman's hammer.

'Jacoby, in the box, said that on March 13th he felt queer all day. He went to bed about 11, but got up at 1.20 to go to
the lavatory, and on passing the kitchen heard the murmur of voices like two men speaking together. He told the night
porter, and they searched the basement. The porter thought there burglars, and took a poker to defend himself. They
could find nothing, but on returning to his room he thought he heard the voices again, and decided to have another look
round.

'Mr. Fior (defending counsel): "Had you any intention then of stealing any money, or doing anyone any harm?" - "No."

"I armed myself with a hammer," continued Jacoby, "and went upstairs, where the voices seemed to come [from]. Lady
White's door was partly open, and I thought the sound came from inside. I rushed in, saw a form, and hit out."

'Mr. Justice McCardie, in passing sentence, said he would send the recommendation at once to the Home Secretary.
Jacoby received the sentence unmoved.'

Jacoby appealed his sentence, but his appeal was dismissed on 22 May 1922. Notwithstanding the jury's recommendation
to mercy, the Home Secretary, Edward Shortt, refused to interfere, and Jacoby was hanged on 7 June 1922. The hanging
caused a great deal of controversy; at the same time another man, Ronald True, who had been found guilty of strangling
a prostitute, was reprieved, and it was suggested that True was treated more leniently because his family were influential
people.


Sir Thomas Walter White [KBE 1952]


The following biography of Sir Thomas White appeared in the July 1963 issue of the Australian monthly magazine "Parade":-

"Most mornings between 1951 and 1956, a car flying the Australian flag threaded the traffic of The Strand in London,
swung into Aldwych and stopped outside Australia House at 9.30. From it stepped a genial man in his early sixties,
generally immaculate in the orthodox black jacket, striped trousers and homburg of the diplomat. Nothing about this man,
who was Sir Thomas White, KBE, DFC, FRGS, and son-in-law of a former Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, suggested he had
once disguised himself as a Turk and lived a cloak-and-dagger life in Constantinople.

"Here is how it came about: Late in November 1918 two unshaven, shabby young men arrived in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.
Bulgaria had been knocked out of the war on September 30, and Sofia was thronged with Allied troops and refugees from
all over the Balkans. Carrying swags like Australian sundowners the two newcomers pushed through the crowds until they
located British headquarters. There they had great difficulty in convincing anyone that they were Allied airmen who had
spent three years as prisoners of the Turks. One was Captain A[lan] J[ohn] Bott [1893-1952], of the Royal Flying Corps.
The other, who wore a ragged oversize coat and a white waistcoat adorned with bilious green checks, was Thomas W.
White, of Melbourne. Known as "Australia" White to his fellow officers, he was a member of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary
Force which set out from the Persian Gulf in 1915 in an ill-starred attempt to capture Baghdad.

"His nickname was prophetic. More than three decades later he rounded off a brilliant career by representing his county in
England as one of the most popular High Commissioners Australia has had. But in 1915 the odds against him ever seeing
Australia again were astronomical. On Friday, November 13 [1915], he and his observer, Captain [Francis] Yeats-Brown
[1886-1944], of the Bengal Lancers, volunteered to land behind the Turkish positions and destroy the telegraph line
Baghdad and Mosul. That night the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir John Nixon, was told they had not returned. Three
years were to pass before either of them showed up.

"Thomas Walter White was born in 1888, the son of a Melbourne timber merchant. When the universal military training
scheme was established by the Fisher Government in 1910 he joined the Citizen Forces as a volunteer, and at the outbreak
the outbreak of World War I was a captain in the 60th Battalion. He enlisted in the AIF [Australian Imperial Force] and soon
after seized the opportunity to transfer from the infantry to the Australian Flying Corps, which at that time existed only on
paper. He was one of the first four officers to enter the flying school at Point Cook [near Melbourne], recently established
under the command of Captain [Henry Aloysius] Petre [1884-1962], an RFC officer. The only aircraft at the school were
two BE biplanes and a "box kite." These primitive open-fuselage machines were without dual control and their instruments
were limited to a barometer. Their speed was so low that they were liable to fly backwards if caught in a strong wind. Thus
instruction was usually held at dawn or sunset when the air was still. Nevertheless, White won his wings - only to be sent
back to the infantry because there was still no air force.

"In February 1915 the Australian Government was requested to provide four pilots and 50 men to serve with the army in
Mesopotamia. Captain Petre selected White, together with Lieutenants [George Pinnock] Merz [1891-1915, the first
Australian airman to perish in WW1], [D.T.W.] Manwell and Williams (afterwards Air-Marshall [Sir Richard] Williams). Petre
went ahead, leaving White to recruit the remaining personnel and bring them to Basra, on the Persian Gulf. After collecting
NCOs and mechanics from the AIF training camp at Broadmeadows [10 miles north of Melbourne], White finally reached
Basra, where they found the job lot of secondhand aircraft provided by the Indian Government unsuitable and unreliable.
They had no machine-guns and an average of five engine failures for every 2000 miles flown was not uncommon. Yet in
such planes the first Australian airmen went into action, armed only with rifles and grenades. Usually the pilots were
employed on reconnaissance work. They always considered themselves lucky to return from a mission, for a forced landing
meant certain death at the hands of marauding Arabs who roamed Mesopotamia.

"The British were within 70 miles of Baghdad when White and Yeats-Brown flew off to cut the telegraph line running north-
west from the city. As their plane was capable of barely three hours' flying time at 50 mph, they stripped it of all super-
fluous weight in order to carry extra fuel. Soon after taking off they became the first men in the Mesopotamia force to see
the city which was their target. But their map was inaccurate. It showed the telegraph line running several miles off the
main road whereas both followed the same route. Searching for a place where the line could be cut without interruption,
White cruised about until the fuel ran low. When he put the plane down in what appeared to be a reasonably safe spot, an
unexpected gust of wind dashed the flimsy machine against a telegraph pole and wrecked a wing.

"The two men were busily blowing up telegraph poles with gun-cotton when a furious horde of Arabs armed with daggers
and swords suddenly descended on them. White and his comrade put up a bold resistance, but were wounded and would
certainly have been murdered but for the arrival of a party of Turkish military police, who put them in a cart and drove
them to Baghdad. They were followed by a screaming mob of Arabs, whose sheik claimed them as his prisoners and wanted
hold them to ransom.

"After a spell in hospital, where they were well treated, the two men were clapped into solitary confinement to force them
to give military information. When this failed they were sent to Mosul, 300 miles north, where they had their first glimpse
of Turkish brutality. Later White was taken to Aleppo and finally to Afyon Karahissar, in Asia Minor [in western Turkey, 150
miles south-west of Ankara]. There the prison camp was under the command of Musloum Bey, a man with few human
feelings who had formerly held the job of personal assassin to Enver Pasha, leader of the Young Turk Party.

"Meanwhile, the badly prepared invasion of Mesopotamia came to a catastrophic halt when General [Sir Charles Vere
Ferrers] Townshend was trapped in Kut-el-amara with 13,000 troops, mostly Indians. Forced by starvation and disease to
surrender, the survivors had to march nearly 1000 miles to Afyon Karahissar. [Unfortunately these survivors did not include
my great-uncle William Charles Rayment who is buried in the Baghdad War Cemetery]. The prison camp became a place of
under Musloum Bey, mitigated only by parcels sent by the American Embassy at Constantinople and the Red Cross. Even
then most of the parcels were delivered only after the Turks had stolen the pick of the contents.

"By 1917 the end of the war seemed farther off than ever and White felt he must either escape from Afyon Karahissar or
die there. He had learned to speak Turkish reasonably well though with a baffling accent, but even with this advantage
escape from the middle of Asia Minor seemed impossible. The brutalities of Musloum Bey became so notorious that even the
Turkish Government took notice, only to see him bribe his way out of a court of inquiry. During the inquiry conditions were
relaxed sufficiently to allow White to persuade Turkish doctors that he was seriously ill and should be sent to Constantin-
ople for treatment. He left Afyon Karahissar in July 1918 for Scutari [now Üsküdar], opposite Constantinople, on the Asiatic
shore of the Bosphorus. He was admitted to the hospital made famous by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War.

"It did not take the doctors long to find nothing wrong with him, but three years as a prisoner of war had made White a
master of bluff. After learning that the hospital did not possess the necessary equipment, he demanded an X-ray examin-
ation. The Scutari medicos ordered him removed to a hospital on the European side of the Bosphorus. The X-ray, of course,
revealed nothing and White faced the unpleasant prospect of being returned to Afyon Karahissar. But luck was with him on
the way back. The suburban train he was on for the first stage of the trip crashed into some trucks. The Turks panicked,
so White from the carriage and plunged into a labyrinth of streets and alleys, where he found temporary sanctuary in a
house occupied by Turk-hating Greeks. Later he acquired a fez and other clothing which enabled him to pass as a Turk. In
this guise he lived an underground existence in Constantinople, expecting to be arrested and shot as a spy at any moment.

"He met Captain Bott during this period. Through the agency of a mysterious Russian, the two escapees secured a passage
in the steamer Batoun, which was running contraband across the Black Sea to Odessa. But it lay in the Golden Horn for
over a month while the ship's company held nightly orgies. White and Bott lived on bread and cheese, spent most of their
time concealed in the ballast tanks, where the atmosphere was so foul that matches would scarcely stay alight. When at
last the ships reached Odessa they were confronted by more problems. As the chief port of the newly formed but
temporary Republic of the Ukraine, it was in a state of complete confusion. White's money, carefully hoarded out of the
pittance paid as a prisoner of the Turks, was running out. He bought a forged passport from a Russian refugee and, as
Serge Feodorovich Davidoff went to work in a tannery.

"With the combined aid of the Dutch Consulate, an English internee and a Russian merchant service captain, White and
Bott eventually left Odessa in a Ukrainian hospital ship and disembarked at Varna in Bulgaria. The Armistice was declared a
week later, so they headed for Sofia. A few days afterwards, still in the rags in which they had escaped, they were the
guests of Air Marshall Sir John Salmond in Salonica.

"Captain Yeats-Brown, who also escaped, wrote a once-famous book called "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer." But no Bengal
lancer lived more lives than Thomas White, author of "Guests of the Unspeakable," founder of the Australian Aero Club and
the Australian Musical Society, and - as Lieut. Colonel White, commanding officer of the Royal Melbourne Regiment. He was
a Federal parliamentarian for 10 years before World War II [and for nearly 22 years in total] and was Minister for Customs.
Although more than 50 in 1939, he donned uniform again and went overseas as a group-captain to take command of an
RAAF base in the south of England [at Brighton]. After the war he rejoined the Cabinet as Minister for Air and Civil Aviation
but gave up this post to become High Commissioner. He was knighted in 1952. He returned to Australia in 1956, a year
before he died at the age of 69."



Sir Henry Alexander Wickham [Kt Bach 1920]


The following biography of Sir Henry Wickham appeared in the May 1956 issue of the Australian monthly magazine
"Parade":-

"Rare botanical specimens for Her Britannic Majesty's Royal Gardens at Kew." The fat little Brazilian Customs chief in the
port of Belem fanned himself with a palm leaf and pondered the document doubtfully. It would not do to offend Her
Britannic Majesty without due cause. He shrugged and scrawled his name at the foot of the paper. When the little British
steamer butted out of the Amazon River into the Atlantic that day in 1876, the English explorer Henry Wickham had staged
one of the most remarkable smuggling coups in history. Hidden in banana-leaf baskets in the ship's hold were 70,000 seeds
of the jealously guarded Amazon trees that provided three-quarters of the world's rubber. They were to found the great
plantations of the East, and make possible the giant development of the modern rubber industry.

"Europeans had never heard of rubber till the first Spanish explorers turned fire and sword loose in South America. In
Mexico, they found the Indians playing ball games with "spheres made of the juice of a certain herb which bound incredibly
in the air." The Indians also used rubber to coat water bottles and waterproof their sandals. The gold-greedy Spaniards,
however, paid little attention to the strange product. For more than 200 years rubber was ignored. Then, in 1736, the
French explorer De la Condamine made his epic journey up the Amazon and across the Andes to the Pacific. The black,
resilient lumps of rubber he brought back stirred scientific curiosity throughout Europe. Twenty years later, the Governor-
General of Brazil sent a suit of rubber clothes to his lord, the King of Portugal.

"Before 1800, the British scientist, Joseph Priestley, and the Frenchmen, Grossart and Fourcroy, were all experimenting to
find industrial uses for rubber. The great boom began in the 1820s when a Soho coachbuilder, Thomas Hancock, built the
first factory to make rubber belts, braces and coach fittings. In 1839 the American, Charles Goodyear, discovered how to
mould rubber by vulcanisation.

"In 1825, only 30 tons of raw rubber was exported from Brazil. The rubber tree, Hevea Brasiliensis, that flourished in the
sweltering American jungles was virtually the only source of the world's supply. With the increasing demand from Britain
and America, the Amazon rubber traffic developed into a hideous orgy of exploitation. Slavery was still legal in Brazil. The
infant rubber trade flourished and waxed fat on the blood and suffering of the primitive Indians. Thousands or men, women
and children were torn from their homes and set to work tapping the precious milky-white fluid from the rubber trees.
Smoke houses lined the riverbanks, where the Indians converted the latex into rubber by turning it slowly on wooden
paddles over fires of palm nuts. Loaded with the smoked rubber, the boats of the rubber traders floated down the Amazon
to Santarem or Belem, where the foreign agents gathered to chaffer and deal over their whisky bottles in the stifling heat
of the mud-walled warehouses. Uncounted numbers of the wretched Indian serfs died from malaria, yellow fever and
dysentery. Others were flogged to death or mutilated when they tried to escape from their masters into the trackless
jungle.

"Despite this ferocious exploitation, the world was clamouring for more rubber. By 1854, the price had soared to nearly 3/-
a pound. New sources of supply were desperately needed. Britain, the workshop of the world, led the way. Thomas
Hancock demanded the establishment of plantations in the British colonies. He was supported by the great botanist of Kew
Gardens, Sir Joseph Hooker, and by Sir Clements Markham of the India Office. Markham had already successfully trans-
planted the Peruvian cinchona tree, the source of quinine, to the British East. He saw no reason why the rubber tree
should not flourish equally in Malaya and India.

"There was, however, one very powerful reason. The Brazilian Government jealously guarded its rubber monopoly. The only
The only way to get the vital seeds of Hevea Brasiliensis out of the Amazon was to steal and smuggle them. In 1873, a
man named Farris delivered 2000 seeds to Kew, but they failed to germinate. The India Office then began to heed the
letters written by a rnysterious and voluble Briton named Henry Alexander Wickham, who had buried himself for years in the
heart of the Amazon jungle.

"Wickham had been born on May 29, 1846, into a wealthy City family. Scarcely out of his teens, he set out to wander
through South America on foot or by canoe. After crossing Venezuela and exploring the upper reaches of the Orinoco River,
Wickham pushed south into the vast, matted wilderness of the Amazon Valley. He lived in Indian huts, and listened
appalled to their horrifying stories of the bloodstained rubber traffic. By 1873, Wickham had carved out his own rubber
estate on the Tapajos River, a wide, alligator-infested stream that flows down to join the Amazon at Satarem. He refused
to employ Indians, and slaved at tapping and smoking the rubber himself. Wickham was convinced that the odious Brazilian
monopoly could be broken. He dreamt of lifting the rubber trade out of the fever-ridden swamps of the Amazon into clean,
healthy, well-ordered plantations. He wrote long and fervid appeals to the British Government.

"At last, in 1876 he received his answer. The India Office offered him £10 for every 1000 rubber seeds he delivered in
Britain. How he got them out of Brazil was his own business. Wickham was at Santarem when the letter reached him. As he
tossed in the sweltering gloom of his room in the grubby "hotel" debating how to proceed, an incredible stroke of luck
brought a British seaman, Captain Murray, of Liverpool, to him. Murray's ship, the steamer Amazonas, was anchored in the
river. Her supercargoes had deserted. She had no cargo to take back to Liverpool. Risking money and liberty on the plunge,
Wickham promptly chartered her on behalf of the India Office.

"Telling Murray to wait for one month at Santarem, Wickham set out to obtain his precious shipment of rubber seeds. With
a small band of picked Indians and a flotilla of canoes, he paddled up the Tapajos River to an area he knew was rich in
virgin trees. The wild Tapuyo Indians, who would have murdered any other white man at sight, helped his party collect the
seeds. The native girls packed them carefully between layers of banana leaves in baskets of split cane. By the end of May,
Wickham was back at Santarem with no fewer than 70,000 of the smooth, brown, mottled seeds.

"There now remained the problem of getting them past the suspicious Brazilian port officials at Belem, on the mouth of the
Amazon. Wickham knew what discovery would mean. He would probably be flung into prison. He had involved the British
Government by chartering the ship in the name of the India Office, but he had been warned that he could expect no help
from Whitehall. Again good luck was with him. When the Amazonas reached Belem, he personally interviewed the Port
Officer. Grandly he produced a carefully-worded document claiming he was taking out only "rare botanical specimens" for
the Royal Gardens. The name of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria and her powerful Government was not to be trifled
with. Wickham himself, with his confident voice, great physique and enormous, curling moustache, was an imposing figure.
The Brazilian officer was overawed. Her papers in order, and the seed-baskets carefully stowed in the hold, the Amazonas
steamed safely out of the huge river on her way to Britain.

"On June 13, 1876, she docked at Liverpool. Wickham flashed a triumphant telegram to Sir Joseph Hooker at Kew Gardens.
Visiting royalty could not have been greeted with greater preparations and rejoicings. A special train was sent to bring
Wickham and his precious freight to London. For 24 hours, right through the summer's night, a team of gardeners worked
at Kew to receive the seeds. Every orchid and rare tropical plant was cleared out of the vast £1,000,000 hot house - the
biggest in the world - to make room for the seed beds. By the morning of June 15 all 70,000 seeds were planted in beds of
loam, leaf mould and sand. Wickham, "striding round the gardens as if he owned them," personally supervised the work.
Within a few months it was evident that the grand coup had succeeded. Only 4,000 of the 70,000 seeds germinated, but
they were sufficient to found the rubber-growing industries of the East. Their descendants are still flourishing on the
plantations of Malaya and the Indies.

"Late in 1876, nearly 2000 of the young seedlings were sent to Peradiniya Botanical Gardens in Ceylon. From there, some
were transplanted to Singapore. By the early 1880s the seedlings were being distributed to plantation owners in Ceylon and
Malaya. Nevertheless, the development of plantation rubber was slow for some years. Wild rubber from Brazil still brought
the highest price. Many believed that a flood of plantation rubber would cause a collapse in the world market. Tea
remained the staple crop of Ceylon. In Malaya, the efforts of Henry Ridley [1855-1956], chief of the Singapore Botanical
Gardens, induced some planters to cultivate rubber on their coffee and sugar estates. In 1900, the plantations produced
only 1000 tons of rubber, compared with 40,000 from Brazil. The development of the automobile industry then touched off
a boom that sent the plantation output soaring to 320,000 tons by 1920, and spread rubber estates all over the East
Indies.

"Wickham, detested in Brazil as a "buccaneer" and smuggler, had lived to see his dream come true. The last years of his
life were spent roaming the world. He held the posts of Inspector of Forests in India and Police Inspector in British
Honduras. He travelled widely in Central America, Australia, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. In 1911, the associations
of rubber planters granted him a gift of 1000 guineas and an annuity for life. In 1920, he was knighted. From then on he
mainly in retirement in London. On September 27, 1928, Sir Henry Wickham died."



Sir William Robert Wills Wilde [Kt Bach 1864]


This biography of Sir William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde, appeared in the July 1959 issue of the Australian monthly
magazine "Parade":-

"The crime in the doctor's surgery! Read all about it!" bawled the half dozen ragged news-boys who erupted into the
Abbey Street Hall, Dublin, one summer evening in 1864. The lecturer, bearded Sir William Wilde, stopped in confusion as
the boys began hawking their pamphlets through the hall. Sir William's erudite lecture on Irish history was forgotten in the
gasps of the fashionable audience. The scandal that had so long hung over the head of Ireland's most famous eye surgeon
had broken in a woman's vengeance. Like his famous son, Oscar, after him, Sir William Wilde was to end a brilliant career
in disgrace and obscurity.

"Oscar Wilde's dazzling notoriety has relegated his father to the shadows of history. In his own day, however, Sir William
Wilde was one of the most famous figures on the Irish medical scientific and literary scene. He was acknowledged the
greatest eye surgeon of his generation. His books made medical history. His patients included a Royal Princess. He was
Surgeon Oculist to the Queen in Ireland. It was Sir William Wilde's reckless amours, however, that brought him down in ruin.
Ugly, shambling and slovenly, he still had a way with women. His love affairs were the scandal of Dublin. When, finally, one
of his vengeful victims dragged his escapades into court his name and fortune were blasted beyond repair. He died, still in
disgrace, just as his butterfly son Oscar was making his first conquests in the salons of London.

"William Robert Wilde was born in Co. Roscommon in 1815. His father, a prosperous doctor, sent William to study medicine
at Stevens' Hospital in Dublin. The cholera epidemic that swept southern Ireland in the 1830s gave Wilde his first chance.
As a volunteer doctor, he travelled hundreds of miles on horseback among the plague-haunted mud cabins of the
peasantry. He escaped the fever by soaking himself with brandy and porter, acquiring a habit of hard drinking that never
left him. In Dublin, where he obtained his surgeon's degree in 1837, he was quickly regarded as the most promising young
promising young doctor of the day. This led a rich and eccentric merchant to take Wilde with him as "private physician" on
a nine months' yacht cruise in the Mediterranean. Wilde turned the tour to profit by writing a travel book that sold 2000
copies and brought him £250.

"With the money he studied in London, Berlin and Vienna. In 1841, he returned to Dublin and set up an eye clinic in a
disused, rat-infested warehouse in the slums. At that stage in his career, Wilde cared little for money. He wanted
experience in his chosen field. He refused to accept payment from the poorer patients who flocked to him. Soon they were
coming from all parts of Ireland. In time, the fame of shabby, genial little Dr. Wilde spread into the aristocratic Dublin
quarters round Merrion Square. Fine carriages with liveried servants clattered over the muddy cobbles to the little slum
clinic. Wilde charged his wealthy patients enormous fees to make up for his free services to the poor. With the surplus he
rented an old hospital in St. Martin's Lane.

"By 1845, Wilde was recognised as the leading eye surgeon in Ireland. From his big house in Westland Row poured medical
pamphlets and treatises that helped to revolutionise the primitive eye surgery that mutilated and disfigured thousands of
sufferers in the past. Medical science, however, was only one of Wilde's interests. He had two others of strangely
contrasting types - one harmless and scholarly, the other so disreputable that Dublin matrons would only mention his
name in horrified whispers.

"Wilde was a fervent Irish nationalist, with a passion for Irish history and archaeology. He wandered Ireland, digging up old
coins, surveying prehistoric villages, ancient castles and burial mounds, and writing learned articles about them. When not
engaged in examining eyes or tumuli, however, he was employing the arts of seduction far and wide among women
patients, friends and casual "lights-of-love" in Dublin. Wilde had few outward attractions to ensnare the fair sex. One
acquaintance described him as a "miserable looking little creature, unkempt and unshorn, who looked as if he'd been rolling
in the dust." Another candid friend called him a hairy little monkey. Wilde was short, bow-legged, with a straggling beard
and an untidy mane of hair. His clothes were slovenly. His breath frequently reeked of brandy. As a counterbalance, he
had a brilliant mind, conversational wit and charm and a gift of Irish blarney that went straight to a woman's heart. Before
he was 30 he had several illegitimate children. He was an indulgent father and always provided for their education and
upbringing. Victims of his far-flung gallantries ranged from serving maids to the daughters of substantial citizens who
visited him as patients.

"At first scandal whispered only in corners. Outwardly, Dr. Wilde was rich, famous and respected. About 1846 came his
first meeting with Ireland's most flamboyant woman, Jane Francesca Elgee, 20-years-old poet and fiery rebel, whose
writings under the name of "Speranza" infuriated British officialdom in Dublin Castle. "Speranza" was the centre of the
ardent young coterie who published the "seditious" journal, the Nation. She too was fascinated by the charm of "Doctor
Willie" and, according to some, became his mistress. This may be true, as Wilde was notoriously not the marrying kind. He
had, indeed, once proposed to the Shakespearean actress Helen Faucit [1817-1898, later the wife of Sir Theodore Martin]
and been rejected. Since then, his relations with women had been entirely unconventional.

"In 1848, the Nation was suppressed. "Speranza's" political enthusiasm began to wane. She was seen more and more with
Dr. Wilde. On November 12, 1851, to the astonishment of Dublin, they married. After a honeymoon in Europe, where Wilde
collected honorary degrees from several universities they returned to set up house in Dublin's Merrion Square. The square,
with its fine old Georgian mansions, was the social and artistic centre of Dublin. The Wilde house was the heart of this
little world. The novelists Charles Lever and Sheridan le Fanu, the poet Samuel Ferguson, the chief of the Irish party in
Westminster, Isaac Butt, led the throng that flocked there to indulge in torrents of treasonable talk and the doctor's
famous brandy.

"Wilde's professional reputation was then at its zenith. He had published several volumes that stood as medical textbooks
for nearly 50 years. He was called in to treat one of Queen Victoria's daughters, when no other eye surgeon would handle
the delicate case. His patients included Bernard Shaw's father, whom he treated for a squint, "so successfully," said Shaw
years later, "that my father squinted in the opposite direction for the rest of his life." Marriage, wealth and fame, however,
made no difference to Wilde's amorous adventures. "Speranza" accepted with resignation, and eventual indifference, the
unsavoury gossip that gathered round his name.

"In 1854, began the liaison that was to ruin him. This time, the victim was Mary Travers, 19-years-old green-eyed
daughter of a Professor of Medicine at Trinity College. In the sensational court case 10 years later, Mary claimed that
Wilde seduced her in the surgery while he was treating her eyes. In any case, they were soon appearing openly together,
at theatres, concerts and on archaeological expeditions in the country. Wilde lavished gifts of jewellery on her, dresses
and even "warm winter underclothing." Mary frequently visited Merrion Square, where "Speranza" received her with unfailing
dignity. Most of "Willie's" amours were brief, and ended in the mistress being pensioned off with provision for the children.
Mary Travers enjoyed an unusually long reign in his favour. Wilde was to be sadly disillusioned when he tried to repeat the
usual arrangement.

"By the early 1860s, Wilde was tiring of Mary, and trying to get rid of her. After hysterical scenes, he gave her £100 on
the understanding that she go to Liverpool and take ship to Australia. Mary got as far as Liverpool, but refused to go any
further. Wilde followed her. His persuasions were in vain. She threatened to take poison or throw herself in the sea. They
returned together to Dublin, where Wilde told her bluntly he would never see her again. Maddened by his neglect, Mary
bombarded Merrion Square with abusive letters.

"Early in 1864, when Wilde was knighted by the Lord Lieutenant in Dublin Castle, she renewed her campaign with extra
venom. She hired newsboys to hawk scurrilous pamphlets round the audience whenever Sir William appeared on a lecture
platform. Her journalist friends printed barely-veiled paragraphs in their newspapers. The whole of Dublin buzzed with the
scandal. His rich practice was falling off. The furore was so great that he packed "Speranza" and her two young sons off
to the country town of Bray until the storm blew over. Mary followed the family to Bray, took lodgings near them, and
engaged street urchins to shout insults under their windows. At last, even "Speranza's" resignation gave way. She wrote
to Professor Travers, begging him to restrain his daughter's insults. The letter forged the weapon of the wronged Mary's
Mary's vengeance. She at once issued a writ for £2000 damages for libel against Lady Wilde, and named Sir William as co-
defendant. The storm had burst.

"The lawsuit, heard before the Chief Justice of Ireland in December, 1864, provided Dublin with the most sensational case
of a generation. When it was over, the reputation of Sir William Wilde had been blasted forever. The highlight of the
hearing was Mary's account of her first seduction in the surgery. "He put his arms around me and asked me to call him
William," she said. When I refused, he told me to go to the devil, so I went to a solicitor." Later, when she had been under
the influence of chloroform, she awoke to find Dr. Wilde pouring water over her and saying: "Pray rouse yourself, madam,
or we shall both be ruined." "And had you been - er -ruined?" asked her counsel, amid a breathless hush in court. "I had,"
said Mary grimly. The jury were not strongly impressed by Mary's story. They awarded her the contemptuous damages of
one farthing. Wilde, however, had to pay costs amounting to £2000.

"Wilde's name never recovered from the shock. He was lampooned as the "Wild Knight." Undergraduates of Trinity College
chanted in the streets a ballad that began:
"There's an oculist living in Merrion Square,
Whose skill is unrivalled and talent is rare,
And, if you will listen, I'll try to reveal,
The matter that caused poor Miss Travers to squeal."

"For some years, Wilde lived obscurely in the country. His closing years were darkened by tragedy when two illegitimate
daughters on whom he doted were burned to death at a ball in a nearby house. As one of the girls was dancing, her
crinoline caught fire from an open hearth. Her sister rushed to her rescue. Her dress also burst into flames. The two girls
were carried from the ballroom and rolled in the snow outside. Both died next day from terrible burns.

"Wilde returned to Dublin in 1875. The lawsuit scandal was dwindling. His son Oscar had been launched on a brilliant career
in London. On April 19, 1876, Sir William Wilde died. Legend has it that a mysterious, veiled woman called to see him on
his death-bed, sat watching him silently for an hour, then slipped from the house. Some say it was Mary Travers, the
woman whose wrongs had crushed him."



Sir James Milne Wilson [Kt Bach 1873 and KCMG 1878]


Of all the many thousands of dates of birth and death that I have recorded over a large number of years, those of Sir
James Milne Wilson stand alone. He is the only person that I have ever encountered that was born on the 29 February
and later died on that same date. By my reckoning the odds against such an occurrence are 2,143,296 to 1.




Sir William Charles Windeyer [Kt Bach 1891]


The following biography of Sir William appeared in the September 1960 issue of the monthly Australian magazine "Parade".
It is recommended that the biography be read in conjunction with that of Sir Julian Emanuel Salomons.

"Gay young blades wending their way home in Sydney, November 27, 1886, were surprised to see lights still burning in the
Central Criminal Court. They would have been even more surprised had they looked inside. Eleven prisoners on trial for
their lives slept fitfully in the dock, heads lolling from side to side. At the bar table lawyers nodded from weariness, jerking
back to attention at a thundering interjection from the judge. Jurymen, struggling to keep awake, passed a salts bottle up
and down their ranks to fight off exhaustion. The only man in the whole courtroom still alert, listening keenly to every word
and making frequent notes, was the judge, Sir William Windeyer. Sir William had kept the court in session for more than 16
hours. When counsel protested he sternly reminded them that "personal considerations ought not to prevail in a case
where men are on trial for their lives." This marathon sitting and Sir William's general conduct of the case, the notorious
Mount Rennie rape trial, brought violent outbursts from newspapers and the public.

"Sir William became one of the most controversial figures in Australian legal history. No sooner had memories of the Mount
Rennie case faded than Sir William was again the subject of nation-wide attack over the Dean case, a trial which rocked
Australia and almost led to the fall of a Government. Sir William was assailed from all sides. Newspapers howled for his
scalp. Mobs burned his effigy. He was labelled the "hanging judge."

"Sir William's association with these two famous cases made him a marked man, yet there was another side to this stern
judge which was scarcely known. As a member of Parliament he worked for many reform measures. He guided through the
House Acts whose benefits are still enjoyed. He took a keen interest in education and was the author of many measures
to help brilliant, but poor, students receive good schooling. Untiring in his work for charity, he founded the Discharged
Prisoners' Aid Society. Now recognised as a brilliant lawyer, Sir William was one of the best judges Australia has ever had.
But he had a brusque, abrupt manner and a dogmatic attitude which made him many enemies.

"William Charles Windeyer was born in England in 1834. His parents came to Australia when he was a year old. He was
educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and graduated M.A. at Sydney University. Called to the bar in 1857, Sir William
later served as Crown Prosecutor in many country districts gaining experience which served him well on the bench. In 1866
he entered Parliament as member for West Sydney. Eleven years later he was appointed Attorney General in the second
[Sir Henry] Parkes ministry.

"In 1881 Sir William was appointed a puisne judge of the Supreme Court. Thereafter he was constantly in the public eye.
He soon won a name for himself as a conscientious and hard-working judge. Criminals regarded him as a terror to be
avoided at any cost. He had the knack of spotting a liar the moment he entered the witness box. Many a criminal who
thought he could lie his way out of trouble wished he had never met Judge Windeyer. The judge would lash a man with his
tongue, then give him the stiffest sentence the law allowed. On one occasion when a jury acquitted a man of theft Sir
William told him: "You're a lucky man, prisoner. It is not my verdict. It is the verdict of the jury."

"Sir William was a stickler for protocol. Heaven help the inexperienced junior counsel who was not quick to his feet when
Sir William entered the courtroom. Lawyers would get a scathing dressing down for the slightest breach of court etiquette.
Counsel who came into court with a weak case were even more likely to feel the sting of Sir William's tongue.

"Sir William was soon a prominent figure in Sydney. The Mount Rennie rape case brought him right into the limelight. On
September 9, 1886, a 16-year-old orphan, Mary Jane Hicks, was lured into dense scrub below Mount Rennie near Moore
Park [now an inner suburb of Sydney]. A gang of youths sprang on her, tore off her clothing, flung her on a bed of leaves.
Each in turn ravished the young girl while the others pinned her to the ground. The vicious assault continued even after
Mary Hicks had lost consciousness. A passing shipwright told the police. The youths scattered but within a few days police
arrested 15 boys. Eleven were committed for trial before Sir William Windeyer.

"The hearings were sensational. On Monday, November 22, the first day of the hearing, the Court sat for 12 hours. The
following Friday it sat for 18 hours till 3.30 a.m. Saturday. During these late hours counsel for the defence had to address
the nodding jury on matters that meant life or death for the youths in the dock. The final address for the Crown began
at 1.45 a.m. on Saturday. When it ended Sir William adjourned the court till 9 a.m. The court resumed five and a half hours
later. The jury retired at 8.21 p.m. And after two and a half hours found nine of the prisoners guilty, but recommended
mercy on account of their youth.

"In passing sentence, Sir William made an astounding speech to the youths. Glaring down from the bench, he thundered:
'I warn you to prepare for death. No hope of mercy can I extend to you. Be sure no weakness of the executive, no
maudlin feeling of pity will save you from the death you so richly deserve. I advise you to prepare to meet your Maker....
your time is short. The recommendation to mercy the jury has made in your favour it will be my duty to convey to the
executive.....but I can hold out no hope that this recommendation will be acted upon." The judge then formally pronounced
sentence of death but took the most unusual step of altering the formal pronouncement ".......and may the Lord have
mercy on your souls." Instead, he said ".....and may the Lord help you repent of this crime."

"On Monday the storm broke. The Bulletin described the trial as "such a travesty of justice as we recently been shocked
to see." Newspapers expressed doubt as to the fairness of Sir William's attitude to the jury's recommendation for mercy.
They attacked his presumption in officially forecasting the decision of the executive. The lengthy sittings during the trial
were also bitterly criticised. The issue of the death sentences became a State-wide affray overnight. Letters both for and
against the commutation of the death penalties flooded newspapers. Petitions to the Governor (Lord Carrington) were
delivered almost daily. Public meetings to discuss the affair were held throughout New South Wales.

"On December 16, after a lengthy meeting of the Executive Council at which Sir William Windeyer was present, three of
the prisoners were reprieved and sentenced to life imprisonment. On January 6, two more were reprieved. At Darlinghurst
Gaol on January 7, 1887, the remaining four were hanged. Two were only 17. The other two had recently turned 19. At 9
a.m. they plunged to their doom, but the hangman had bungled the job. Only one of the youths died instantly. Three were
slowly and horribly strangled, jerking out their lives at the end of the rope. One took fully 10 minutes to die. Had the
hanging been quick and clean the affair might soon have been forgotten, but this butchery brought a new wave of public
anger. The storm reached its peak, then slowly died away. It was almost buried in history when the famous Dean case
came before the Criminal Court.

"Dean, a ferry master, was charged with attempting to murder his wife, Mary. The case was heard before Sir William
Windeyer on April 4, 1895. It soon resolved itself into one simple issue. The jury could believe Mrs Dean, who said that
her husband had tried to poison her, or it could believe Dean, who said his wife had taken the poison herself to get him
into trouble. In a brilliant address to the jury, Richard Meagher, a rising 29-year-old lawyer, closed the defence case by
suggesting that the jury should accept Dean's testimony because of his excellent character. Popular feeling was on Dean's
side and it was generally expected he would be acquitted. There was a stir, therefore, when Sir William summed up most
unfavourably for Dean.

"The jury retired at 12.25 p.m. on Saturday, April 6. Eight hours later, when it stilled showed no sign of returning with a
verdict, the judge summoned the jurors. Sir William told the men he could not understand why it was taking them so long
to reach a verdict. He said the only question they needed to consider was 'who administered the poison?' He said the
suggestion that Mrs Dean had taken it herself was 'monstrous.' Then Sir William said if the jury were still undecided by
midnight he would have them locked up till Monday. He added that if the jury were being influenced by Dean's good
character it could add a recommendation for mercy to any finding it made. Ten minutes later the jury returned with a
verdict of guilty, adding a strong recommendation for mercy because of Dean's good character. Sir William then said
that he was as satisfied that Dean was guilty as if he had personally seen him administer the poison. He indicated he
would not endorse the jury's recommendation for mercy.

"The uproar started the next day. The general feeling was, guilty or not, Dean had not had a fair trial. Following a
monster protest meeting at Sydney Town Hall the Government seemed so much in danger of falling that it appointed a
Royal Commission to still the outcry. The Commission in a majority report found the charges against Dean had not been
proved beyond all reasonable doubt. Dean was immediately granted a Royal pardon. Sir William stuck to his guns. He
insisted that Dean was guilty and that he had had a fair trial.

"In October a series of sensations proved the verdict had been correct. Sir Julian Salomons QC, who had represented
the Crown before the Royal Commission, told the Legislative Council of an amazing conversation with Meagher, Dean's
counsel. Sir Julian alleged that Meagher had told him that Dean was really guilty. Meagher replied in the Legislative
Assembly. He denied that he had ever spoken to Sir Julian, and cast doubts on Sir Julian's mental stability.

"On October 4, Richard Smith, a North Sydney chemist confessed to having sold Dean quantities of poison. Immediately
Meagher, his partner Crick, two of their employees and Dean were charged with conspiracy. On October 9, Dean
confessed his guilt. Meagher resigned his seat, but later was cleared. Dean could not be charged twice on the same
count, but the Crown now pressed charges of having made a false declaration and having committed perjury. On
October 24, Judge Backhouse sentenced him to 14 years' imprisonment.

"Judge Windeyer had shown himself a man of courage who had stuck to his convictions. The public tried to make amends,
but it was too late. The affair had broken Sir William's health. A year after the trial he resigned his position and went to
Europe on a health trip. He collapsed in Bologna and died on September 11, 1897, from paralysis of the heart."



Sir (John) Evelyn Leslie Wrench [Kt Bach 1932, KCMG 1960]


Sir Evelyn was founder of the English Speaking Union, an organisation whose aim was to promote friendship between
the members of the British Commonwealth and the United States. It was therefore not surprising that he despised Hitler
and all that he represented. The following tongue-in-cheek article, which appeared in the Adelaide "Mail" on 8 May 1954,
describes an incident which occurred in Sydney in 1941 when he failed to deliver a promised lecture, because he felt too
few people had turned up to hear him.

'In saying rude things about Herr Hitler, Sir Evelyn Wrench took what he considered to be a calculated risk. He was very
conscious that some day the Gestapo might come for him. But as a noted lecturer and a public-spirited man, he felt he
must expose his valuable breast come what might.

'In 1941, he arrived in Australia to tell the locals what a very wicked chap Hitler was. One would imagine that he would be
pretty safe our here. But Sir Evelyn knew better. He was forever on the alert, and wisely so, as shall soon become evident.
A small band of undergraduates at Sydney University styling themselves the British Unity Society, invited Sir Evelyn to
come and address them in the university union hall. Now, if there was one thing the knight enjoyed doing it was addressing
young people and guiding their thoughts in the way they should go. He accepted, having in mind the fact that a similar
invitation he had received in New Zealand had resulted in his being confronted with 600 eager, shining, undergraduate
faces. On Wednesday, July 23, 1941, Sir Evelyn went up to the university bright and early. He had lunch with the vice-
chancellor and actually hurried the meal so that he would be free to begin speaking to the students at 1.15 p.m. on the
dot. Came 1.15 p.m., Sir Evelyn strode through the door of the Union Hall all braced to withstand the shock waves of
cheering which were likely to greet him. He suddenly stopped, looked, and staggered. There were barely six bodies in the
whole hall, and they seemed more interested in the food than in the lecture which lay ahead.

'Sir Evelyn withdrew to the corridor. He was much upset. Nothing like this had ever happened to him before, and he made
a sharp statement to that effect. He decided to walk up and down for a while, to give students an opportunity to mass
into the hall. He walked, but the students didn't mass. Sir Evelyn decided that he wouldn't give his lecture. The president
of the British Unity Society, an undergraduate, drove the distinguished visitor back to the plush Hotel Australia, mumbling
apologies all the way. The daily papers duly reported the whole affair, plus Sir Evelyn's indignation. And it can be
reasonably presumed that the Fifth Column read the reports and shaped their actions accordingly.

'Sir Evelyn was scheduled to give an address over national stations at 9.15 p.m. Thursday. His subject was 'The Empire
in the Post War Era.' At 9.5 o'clock on the night of the broadcast, Sir Evelyn was sitting in his hotel suite, relaxing in
striped pants, black coat, and old school tie when his phone rang. A voice said the Australian Broadcasting Commission
was speaking. "Our landline to the other states has broken down," the voice said urgently. "The Commission would be most
grateful if you would go out to our Mascot studio to make your speech. Transport will be provided, and will arrive at your
hotel at once." Sharp was he was, Sir Evelyn didn't sense anything wrong. "Of course," he agreed. After all, the broadcast
had to go on at all costs.

'Exactly three minutes later, Sir Evelyn was down in the foyer of his hotel. Waiting for him at the desk was a tall, dark
young man, with heavy circle under his eyes. These circles alone should have warned the lecturer who stood constantly in
the shadow of the Gestapo's wrath. Good, clean living young Britishers don't have such marks upon them as a rule.
However, the young man was otherwise immaculate. He had striped pants and black coat just like Sir Evelyn's. And he
certainly looked as though he could have been on the ABC's payroll. He introduced himself as 'Philps,' expressed regret
at all the inconvenience that was being caused to Sir Evelyn, and said that transport waited without.

'On walking down the hotel steps, Sir Evelyn got a very nasty shock. The 'transport' consisted of a very ancient jalopy
which wouldn't have been much out of place if lined up with Boadicea's war chariots. Sir Evelyn was too nicely mannered
to ask any questions. Perhaps the ABC was too poor to afford any better. The visitor climbed into the car. The driver, who
sat hunched and silent over the wheel, got it into gear, and jumped his charge away from the pavement like a performing
flea. Sir Evelyn registered the sensation that the seat beneath him was not firmly fixed. The driver did not appear to be
an expert at his trade. Two minutes after take off he almost became involved in a collision. He stamped on the brake and
Sir Evelyn and seat lifted into the air. It took the knight some time to settle down, but when he did he sought to make
conversation with the driver. The figure at the wheel remained dumb and crouched. The dark-eyed Mr. Philps seemed
ready to say a few words every five minutes or so.

'The houses gradually became fewer until Sir Evelyn realised that the car was far out into the wastelands. This did not
particularly startle him. After all, a people who would not turn up to one of his lectures were quite likely to build a broad-
casting studio in a completely remote area. The car suddenly halted. There was a deep silence except for the call of sea-
birds in the distance. "Here we are," said Mr. Philps. A great, white building showed dully in the darkness at the end of a
long gravel drive. "There's the studio," continued Mr. Philps. "I'm sorry, but we have to pick up another party." Sir Evelyn
alighted. The strange car, Mr. Philps, and the silent driver disappeared into the darkness.

'The visitor was now quite alone. With his normal measured tread he proceeded up the gravel drive and reached the
imposing building. Rap, rap, rap, he went on the big double doors. There was no response. He hit harder. Still no result.
Impatiently he rattled the doors. At this moment he became fully aware of something very strange. There wasn't a single
light in the building. He peered out into the night. There wasn't a light anywhere there either. Suddenly he realised the
whole thing was a wicked plot to block his ABC broadcast.

'Hurrying away from the big, white building, he wandered through the night until he found a house. Knocking up the
householder he asked simply: "Where am I?" The householder wasn't the type of fellow who enjoyed silly pranks and made
this fact quite evident. Sir Evelyn had a busy time explaining to him how he came to be wandering round the wastelands
of Botany Bay clad in striped pants and a black coat. The householder said that a couple of miles along the road was a
tram stop and if Sir Evelyn ran real fast he might soon get a tram. Sir Evelyn - to use his own words - ran like a hare.
Speed plus endurance won out and the tram was caught.

'The first thing Sir Evelyn did on getting back to his suite at the Hotel Australia was ring the Criminal Investigation Branch.
There was no time to waste. The Fifth Column had struck, and struck hard. Newspaper reporters rushed to the hotel and
Sir Evelyn told the whole ugly story at length. "I know I'm on the Nazi black list." the knight declared fearlessly. "The Fifth
Column were trying to block my broadcast," he added. "But I foiled the gangsters. They didn't know that I had had a
record made of my speech and it went over the air in spite of them." (This was the truth. The broadcast had gone out all
over Australia. The world learned that, in the opinion of Sir Evelyn Wrench, Australia had a very good chance of becoming
a most important key country in the British Commonwealth of Nations in the post-war era.) And so Hitler and all his minions
had been foiled despite their dirty deeds.

'On the night of the escapade, certain anonymous persons rang the Press to advise that the kidnapping of Sir Evelyn
had been simply a prank by university undergraduates, to show that gentleman that he shouldn't refuse to speak to
even six people at the university if he had promised to address a meeting.

'The great, white building had been the Botany Bay Crematorium which stands on the edge of Botany Bay cemetery, on
the lonely edge of Botany Bay. When Sir Evelyn Wrench was told all this, he scoffed indignantly. He knew an under-
graduate when he saw one, and he also knew a gangster. The creature who called himself 'Philps' was no university
student, but a 'tough nut.' Sir Evelyn insisted that the police should get to the bottom of the whole affair, claiming that
the matter could seriously affect Australia's reputation. And furthermore, it was preposterous that he should be taken
by hooligans from "a hotel where I was paying 55/- a day."

'It is perhaps little to Sydney's credit that it rocked with laughter over the whole incident, and seemed little concerned
with the damage done to Australia's reputation. Sir Evelyn proved that he didn't lack spirit by visiting the scene of the
crime on the day following the kidnapping. He stood before the big white Botany Bay crematorium and shook his head in
amazement. "It is amazing I did not lose my way," he announced, "or meet with some accident. Fortunately I have a very
good sense of direction." Gradually Sir Evelyn began to realise that perhaps there might be something in the theory that
university students and not Hitler's Gestapo had worked his kidnapping. "In that case, out of fairness to a great seat of
learning and for the community's sake, the University should take the matter up," he argued. The university vice-
chancellor retorted that he would take no action, because he was not aware that students had been involved. Two vice-
presidents of the British Unity Society published a joint letter criticising Sir Evelyn's poor taste in not addressing the
solitary six who turned up for his lecture. They furthermore disassociated themselves from the apology their president
had made when driving the visitor back to the city. Sir Evelyn felt he was getting nowhere, for the police kept assuring
him they were working night and day on the case, but were producing no culprits. He announced that he was going on to
Melbourne, and then to Adelaide. "Will you address university bodies in those cities?" the reporters asked him. "No," said
Sir Evelyn. "Even if specially requested?" wheedled the Press. "Definitely not."

'Sir Evelyn had learned that while he could take risks with Hitler and his Gestapo, it was 100 per cent fatal to monkey
about with Australian university students.'



Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie [KCIE 1902]


Wyllie was assassinated on 1 Jul 1909 while attending a reception for Indian students in London, which had been organised
by the National Indian Association. The following report is taken from "The Aberdeen Daily Journal" of 2 July 1909:-

"The Press Association was informed early this morning that shortly before 11 o'clock last night, at the Imperial Institute,
at the conclusion of a public gathering, an Indian student, whose name has not yet been disclosed shot dead Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, K.C.I.E., and Dr. Cawas Lalcaca, of Shanghai. He was immediately seized by those
about him and given into the custody of the police. In the student's possession were found two fully-loaded revolvers, a
dagger - quite a new instrument - besides a knife, also a number of visiting cards. It was thought at first that Dr. Cawas
Lalcaca showed some signs of life, and was taken to St. George's Hospital, where, upon arrival, life was found to be
extinct. Two doctors had previously examined Sir Curzon Wyllie, and found him dead. The crime was evidently pre-
meditated.

"Mr. D.W. Thorburn, who witnesses the tragedy, gave the following account:- All at once the native drew a revolver. The
action was as quick as thought. He fired four shots very rapidly full into the head of the Englishman with the muzzle of the
weapon close to the face. Then another shot at him as he fell, and a sixth, which struck down an elderly Indian gentleman
standing two or three yards off, who fell shot in the side. The first four shots were all fired so quickly that I could do
nothing. Then I rushed at the assassin, and another man sprang at him from the other side of the door. We seized him and
he struggled. Wresting one hand free, he placed the revolver to his head and pulled the trigger, but it clicked harmlessly.
He had fired all his shots. "Shut the folding doors!" I called, and this was done to prevent the people seeing the fearful
sight. A doctor was in the hall and he came at once. He said:- "Nothing can be done for him," as he knelt down by the side
of the Englishman. I had asked while I was still holding the Indian - "Whom has he shot?" Someone - I don't know who-
called out in horror - "It is Sir Curzon Wyllie!" A stately woman in dark evening dress came upstairs. She knelt down, for
the wounds had disfigured him. Then I saw horror leap to her eyes. Quite quietly she said"- "It is my husband! my
husband! Why was I not with him?" It was Lady Wyllie. She had only left her husband a few minutes before to get her
cloak, and he was following her when the Indian student engaged him in conversation.

"Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, who was 61 years of age, entered the Indian army in 1867 and retired
as lieutenant-colonel in 1901. He served for eight years on the Oudh Commission, and subsequently transferred to the
Political Department. He served in Baluchistan under Sir Robert Sandeman during the Afghan War in 1879-80; and
accompanied General Sir Robert Phayre's force to the relief of Kandahar, being decorated for these services. In 1881 he
was military secretary to the Governor of Madras (Mr. W.P. Adam), and in 1882 private secretary to Mr. Huddleston, the
Acting Governor. Lieutenant-Colonel Wyllie was Political A.D.C. to the Secretary for India in 1901."

The assassin was the 25-year-old Indian revolutionary independence activist Madan Lal Dhingra. He was tried at the Old
Bailey on 23 Jul 1909. He represented himself and announced that he did not recognise the legitimacy of the Court. Found
guilty of murder, he was hanged on 17 August 1909.



Sir Frank Popham Young [KBE 1918]


In its issue on 14 December 1940, "The Times" reported that:-

'Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frank Popham Young, who was found lying dead on the Marlow-Henley road, had apparently been
knocked dow by a passing motor vehicle late on Tuesday night. He was 76 years old, and was formerly Commissioner in
the Rawalpindi Division of the Punjab.'

On 17 December, "The Times" published the obituary beneath:-

'Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frank Popham Young, K.B.E., C.I.E., whose death in na motor accident on the Marlow-Henley road
was recorded in our issue of December 14, was a man of much versatility and one of the few Indian administrtaors whose
plays have been produced on the London stage.

'The son of Colonel G. Gordon Young, he was born in 1863, and followed his father into the Indian Army, being gazetted
in 1888. He was appointed to the Punjab Commission, and lived to be one of the few remaining military officers whose
service was almost entirely in civil administration along with members of the I[ndian] C[ivil] S[ervice]. He reached the
post of Commissioner of Rawalpindi in the last War, and gave the late Sir Michael O'Dwyer, then Lieutenant-Governor,
enthusiastic aid in recruitment of the Army. No less than 120,000 fighting men were obtained for, in the words of his
chief, Young knew how "to get the best out of his officers and people." In 1916 he submitted to the authorities a
confidential note propounding a scheme for the establishment of a Territorial Army in India. For a few months thereafter
he was placed on military duty, and he may be regarded as having had some share in planning the formation of the Indian
Territorial Force, which was established under an Act passed in 1920.

'Young, who had now been knighted, retired in the summer of 1919, and turned to account his delight in imaginative
writing. A first play, Behind the Purdah (1919), was followed by two others, A Dog's Chance (1926) and The One-Eyed
Herring (1927). The latter had a theme suited to the pen of Edgar Wallace, but lacked his sureness of touch. Young
spent some of his later years on the Riviera, and in 1922 brought out a poem, "A Ménage à Trois across the Styx." He was
twice married, first to a daughter of the late olonel J.A.L. Montgomery and secondly to Elisabeth Anne Marcus, of San
Francisco, who died in 1936.'