KNIGHTS AND DAMES
WAM - ZUR
Last updated 09/10/2018 (14 Aug 2026)
Last Name/Title First Names 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 29 Nov 2025 88
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
11 Jun 2016
9 Jun 2018		 Kt Bach
GBE (Civ)
KT		 21 Jul 1942 26 Jul 2026 84
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 Lieutenant 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
2005		 Hon KBE (Civ)
KBE (Civ)		 21 Dec 1933 5 Sep 2025 91
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, later [2026] Baron Wormald [L] 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 4 Oct 2020 96
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 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 Lieutenant 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.'