19. Whelpton, George WHELPTON, GEORGE. Adm. pens, at Emmanuel, Apr. 1875. Matric. Michs. 1875; B.A. 1879; M.A. 1884. A Wesleyan Methodist Minister. Married, Apr. 22, 1885, at Ha\Te, Georgina Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of Sir William Henry Holmes. (Catnb. Yearbook; The Times, .\pr. 24, 1885.) WHELPTON, HENRY ROBERT. Adm. pens, at St John's, May 20, 1853. S. of George, shoe-maker (and Elizabeth). B. Aug. 10, 1833, at Louth, Lines. Matric. Michs. 1853; B.A. 1857; M.A. i860. Ord. deacon (London), June 7, 1857; priest, 1858; C. of Dalston, 1857-9. C. of Upton with Chalvey, Bucks., 1859-62. C. of St Edmund's, Salisbury, 1862-5. P.C.of St Saviour's, Eastbourne, 1867-97. Preb. of Chichester, 1882-1902. Married, May 10, 1859, Catherine Anne, youngest dau. of G. F. Urling, Esq., of Regent's Park, London. Built St Saviour's Church, to which on retirement he appointed his son (next) to succeed him. Died at Eastbourne, July 23, 1902. {Eagle, XXIV. 250; Crock/ord; The Times, July 24, 1902.) WHELPTON, HENRY URLING. Adm. pens, (age 20) at Pem- broke, Oct. I, 1879. Only s. of the Rev. Henry Robert (above), P.C. of St Saviour's, Eastbourne. B. June 27, i860, at Slough. [Schools, Eastbourne College and Harrow.] Matric. Michs. 1879; B..\. 1883; George Williams prize, 1884; (Theol. Trip., Pt II, ist Class, 1884); M.A. 1886. Ord. deacon (London), 1884; priest, 1885; C. of Christ Church, Albany Street, London, 1884-9. P-C of All Saints, Hastings, 1889- 95. C. of St Saviour's, Eastbourne, 1895-7; P.C. there, 1897- 1928. Preb. of Chichester, 1918-33. .Married, June 2, 1892, Edith Beatrice, youngest dau. of Benjamin Gott Kinnear, of Regent's Park, London. Latteriy of Uckfield, Sussex. Died Dec. 29, 1935, at Hove. tCrockford; Harrow Reg.; Who was Who; The Guardian. June 8, 1892; The Times, Dec. 31, 1935.) WHERRY, GEORGE EDWARD. Matric. Non-Coil., Easter, 1874. [S. of Edward (and Emma). B. Dec. 31, 1852, at Bourne, Lines. School, Bourne Grammar.] Migrated to Downing, Oct. 9, 1875; B.A. and M.B. 1878; M.Chir., 1879; M.A. 1881. Hon. Fellow, of Downing, 1927. At St Thomas's Hospital, 1870. M.R.C.S., 1873; F.R.C.S., 1879. Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital. House Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 1874-9; Surgeon, 1879-1915; Consulting Surgeon, 1915-28. Univer- sity Lecturer in Surgery, 1884-1914; University Teacher (at Addenbrooke's), 1914-17. A noted Alpine climber. Married, Apr. 2, 1881, Albinia Lucy, dau. of Robert Needham Cust, Bengal Civil Service, and had issue, a daughter. Author, Camiyridge and Charles Lamb; Notes from a Knapsack, etc. Died Aug. 12, 1928, at Zermatt; buried there in the English cemetery. (Medical Directories; Plarr, Lives of the Fellows; Who was Who; The Times, .-Vpr. 9, 1881; Who's Who in Camhs.; Cambridge Review, Oct. 1928.) WHETHAM (post DAMPIER), WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER. Adm. pens, at Trinity, June 14, 1S86. [Only] s. of Charles Langley, of 40, Albion Road, South Hampstead (and Mary Ann, youngest dau. of Thomas Dampier, of Kingston Manor, Yeovil, Somerset). B. Dec. 27, 1867, in London. School, 23, York Place, Portman Square, London (private). Matric. Michs. 1886; (Nat. Sci. Trip., Pt I, ist Class, 1888; Pt II, ist Class, 1889); Scholar, 1889; Coutts Trotter Student, 1889; B.A. 1889; Clerk Maxwell Scholar, 1893. M..\. 1893; Sc.D. 1931. Fellow, 1891-1952; Tutor, 1907-13; Senior Tutor, 1913-17. Assistant Demonstrator in Experimental Physics, 1892-4. F.R.S., 1901. Knighted, 1931. Took the name of Dampier only on succeeding to the Dampier estates. Fellow of Winchester College, 1917-47. Member of the Central Agricultural Wages Board, 1925-42. Secretary of the Agri- cultural Research Council, 1931-5; Member, 1935-46. .A. Development Commissioner, 19^3-51. Chairman of Home Ofi&ce Committee on Factory Lighting. Vice-President, Royal Agricultural Society, 1948. Married, Dec. 10, 1897, Catherine Duming, eldest dau. of Robert Duming Holt, of Liverpool, and had issue. Author, A History of Science; The Theory of Experimental Electricity; Matter and Change; Back to the Land; An Introduction to Eugenics; The Family and the Nation; Life of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, etc. Of Hilfield Manor.iDorset and Upwater Lodge, Chaucer Road, Cambridge. Died December 11, 1952. [Who's Who.) WHETSTONE, WILLIAM FREDERICK. Adm. pens, at St John's, June 15, 1874. [2nd] s. of William, wool-stapler [of Broom Ley and Whitwick, Leics.] (and Sarah). B. Apr. 14, 1853, at Leicester. Matric. Michs. 1874; B.A. 1878; LL.B. 1879; M.A. 1881. Adm. at the loner Temple. Nov. i, 1875- Called to the Bar, May 7, 1879. On the Midland Circuit. Died May 24, 1936, at Barrow-on-Soar, Leics. (Eagle, xlix. 203; Law Lists; Inns of Court; Foster, Men at the Bar.) WHEWELL, WILLIAM. .A.dm. sizar (age 17) at Trinity, Sept. 23, 181 1. [Eldest] s. of John [master-carpenter] (and Elizabeth Bennison). B. [May 24, 1794], at Lancaster. School, Heversham. Matric. Michs. 1812; Chancellor's (English) medal, 1814; Scholar, 1815; B.A. (2nd Wrangler Whichcote, Christopher and 2nd Smith's prize) 1816; M.A. 1819; B.D. 1838; D.D. 1844. Fellow, 1817; Assistant Tutor, 1818-23; Tutor, 1823- 39. .Master, 1841-66. Vice-chancellor, 1842-3 and 1855-6. President of the Union, 1817. F.R.S., 1820. Professor of Mineralogy, 1828-32; Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy, 1838-55. The Knightbridge Professorship was of small value, and had been treated as a sinecure; Whewell not only lectured, but published his lectures and wrote upon allied subjects. He also introduced Philosophy into the Trinity Fellowship examination, and took an important part in founding the Moral Sciences Tripos. Ord. priest, 1825. In 1832, gave his mineralogical books and collections to the L^niversity. President of the Philosophical Society, 1843. Married (i) Oct. 12, 1841, Cordelia (died 1855), dau. of John Marshall, of Leeds; (2) July i, 1858, Evelina Frances Ellis. Died Mar. 6, 1866, as a result of a fall whilst riding on the Gog-Ma-Gog hills near Cambridge. Established by will the Whewell Professorship an4 also scholarships in International Law, maintained from the rents of Whewell's Court, Trinity, which was built at his expense. Author, Mechanics; Dynamics; History of the Inductive Sciences; Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, etc. (Historical Register; D.N.B.) WHIBLEY, CHARLES. Adm. pens, (age 19) at Jesls, Apr. i, 1879. [Eldest] s. of Ambrose, Esq., merchant (and Mary Jeim Davey). B. [Dec. 9, 1859], at Sittingboume, Kent. School, Bristol Grammar. -Matric. Michs. 1879; Scholar; (Classical Trip., Pt II, ist Class, 1883); B.A. 1884; .M.A. 1912. Hon. Fellow, 1912-30. Leslie Stephen Lecturer, 1917. Hon. LL.D., Edinburgh and St Andrews. Sometime in the editorial department of Messrs Cassell and Co. Assisted W. E. Henley with The Natioruxl Observer. On the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette and also contributed to the New Review. Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1894-6, where he made the acquaintance of many French poets and litterateurs, including St^phane Mallarm6, Marcel Schwob and Paul Val^ry. On his return to England, associated with Black- wood's Magazine, to which for over 25 years he contributed monthly articles entitled Musings without Method; also contributed the Letters of an Englishman to the Daily Mail for some years. Reader for Macmillan and Co. Married (i) 1896, Ethel, dau. of John Birnie Philip, the sculptor; (2) 1927, Philippa, dau. of Sir Walter Raleigh, Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Author, In Cap and Gown; Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit; A Book of Scoundrels; Studies in Frankness; The Pageantry of Life; William Pitt; American Sketches; Lord John Manners and his Friends; etc. Died Mar. 4, 1930, at Hydres; buried at Great Brickhill, Bucks., where he had lived for many years. Brother of the next. [Who was Who; D.N.B. ; The Times, Mar. 5, 1930.) WHIBLEY, LEONARD. Adm. pens, (age 20) at Pembroke, Oct. 2, 1882. S. of Ambrose, merchant, of Milton, near Gravesend, Kent. B. there. [School, Bristol Grammar.] Matric. Michs. 1882; Scholar; B.A. (Class. Trip., Pt I, ist Class) 1885; (Class. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class, 1886); Prince Consort prize, 1888; M.A. 1889; Hare prize, 1893. Fellow, 1889-1941. University Lecturer in Classics, 1899-1910. Latterly of the Dial House, Frensham, Surrey. Married, Feb. 17, 1920, Rhita, dau. of General W. B. Barivell and the Countess Leiningen. DiedNov. 8, 1941. Brother of the above. (The Tiines, Nov. 9, 1941.) WHICHCOT (or WITCHOT), GEORGE. Adm. pens, at Peter- house, .Mar. 9, 1755. Of Lines. [S. of the Rev. John (1722), R. of Scotton (and Sarah) Bapt. Sept 21, 1736.] School, Eton. Ensign, 31st Regt. of Foot, 1756; Lieut., 1757; Capt., 84th Regt., 1760. Transferred to Bengal Army; commanded a troop of European Hussars, 1763; resigned, 1765. {T A. Walker, 310, which incorrectly suggests he might have been a son of Sir Christopher, Bart.; V. Hodson; Eton Reg.) WHICHCOTE, BENJAMIN. Adm. pens, at Trinity, June 13, 1810. [2nd s. of Sir Thomas (1782), 5th Bart., of Aswarby, Lines, (and Diana, 3rd dau. of Edward Tumor, of Panton and Stoke-Rochford). B. May 19, 1792. School, Rugby.] Matric. Michs. 1810. Major, 43rd Regt. Present at the battle of New Orleans, 1815. Married, Dec. 31, 1840, Harriet, widow of William Villiers Surtees, and dau. of William Samuel Towers. Died, s.p., June 9, 1872. Brother of Francis (1812) and Christopher (1824). (Foster, Baronetage.) WHICHCOTE, CHRISTOPHER. .\dm. Fell.-Com. at Clare, Oct. 25, 1756. [Elder s. of Sir Francis (1708), 3rd Bart., of .•\swarby, Lines, (by his 2nd wife, Frances, dau. of Edward Hall, and widow of Sir Nevile Hickman, 4th Bart.).] B. at Lincoln. Bapt. there, Mar. 15, 1737-8. [School, Eton.] Matric. Michs. 1756. Succeeded as 4th Bart., Oct. 27, 1775. High Sheriff of Lines., 1777. .Married, July i, 1762, Jane, dau. of Thomas Whichcote, of Harpswell, Lines., and had issue. Died Mar. 9, 1786. Father of Thomas (1782); brother of Francis (1757). (Eton Coll. Reg.; Burke, P. and B.; G. Mag., 1786, 269; G.E.C.) 425