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 * John Whichcord
 * ✅Benjamin Whichcote
 * George Whichcote
 * C. John M. Whichelo
 * Jacob Whiddon
 * Sir John Whiddon
 * Thomas Whincop
 * Edward Charles Whinyates
 * Francis Frankland Whinyates
 * Frederick William Whinyates
 * George Barrington Whinyates
 * Thomas Whinyates
 * George Mathews Whipple
 * Sir William Sampson Whish
 * Daniel Whistler
 * John Whiston
 * ✅William Whiston
 * Edward Whitaker
 * Edward William Whitaker
 * ✅Sir Frederick Whitaker

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 * ✅Jeremiah Whitaker
 * ✅John Whitaker
 * John Whitaker
 * ✅Joseph Whitaker
 * Joseph Vernon Whitaker
 * Thomas Dunham Whitaker
 * Tobias Whitaker
 * ✅William Whitaker (theologian)
 * William Whitaker (puritan)
 * ✅Samuel Whitbread

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 * ✅Sir Richard Whitbourne
 * ✅Thomas Whitbread
 * ✅Daniel Whitby
 * Stephen of Whitby
 * Edward Whitchurch
 * ✅Adam White
 * ✅Alice Mary Meadows White
 * ✅Andrew White (missionary)
 * Anthony White
 * ✅Blanco White
 * Charles White
 * ✅Francis White (bishop)
 * Francis White
 * ✅Francis Buchanan White
 * ✅✅George White (artist) sub
 * Gilbert White
 * Henry White
 * Henry Kirke White
 * Hugh White
 * James White
 * James White
 * James White
 * James White
 * Jeremiah White
 * ✅John White (bishop)
 * ✅John White (colonist and artist)
 * John White (chaplain)
 * ✅John White
 * ✅John White
 * ✅John White (minister)

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 * ✅John White
 * John Meadows White
 * ✅✅John Tahourdin White
 * Joseph White (professor)
 * Joseph Blanco White
 * Matthew White
 * Michael White
 * Sir Nicholas White
 * Richard White
 * ✅✅Richard White
 * Richard White (priest)

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 * Robert White (composer)
 * Robert White
 * Robert White
 * Robert Meadows White
 * Samuel White
 * Stephen White
 * ✅Thomas White
 * ✅Thomas White (benefactor)
 * Thomas White (scholar)
 * ✅Thomas White (bishop)
 * ✅Thomas White
 * Walter White
 * William White
 * William White
 * Sir William Arthur White
 * George Whitefield George Whttefield (1714–1770), leader of Oalvinistic methodists; born at Gloucester and educated at St. Mary de Crypt school and Pembroke College, Oxford; B.A., 1736; joinedSociety of Methodists 1735; ordained deacon, 1736; engaged in missionary preaching and gained great popularity, 1737; made successful missionary journey to Georgia, 1738-9, and was appointed by the Georgia trustees minister of Savannah; ordained priest at Christ Church, Oxford, 1739; returned to Savannah and founded an orphanage, 1740, the maintenance of which for the remainder of his life was an important factor in his work; left his work as incumbent of Savannah largely in the hand of a lay delegate, *nd engaged in evangelical preaching in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, and elsewhere, and was suspended from bis ministry for ceremonial irreguinUas by the commissary's court at Charleston; prowed to Boston, where his preaching gave new vitality to the Oalvinistic position, and his followers and thoae   of Wesley thenceforth formed rival parties; returned to London and opened, 1741, Moor fields tabernacle, a temporary shed, which was replaced by a brick building, 1763; preached with great success in Scotland, 1741 and 1742; presided at first conference of Oalvinistic methodists held at Watford, near Oaerphilly, 1743: in America, 1744-8; domestic chaplain to Lady Huntingdon, 1748; visited Scotland, where the synods of Glasgow, Lothian, and Perth passed resolutions intended to exclude him from churches, 1748; visited Ireland, 1751, and America, 1751-2; compiled his hymn-book, 1753; again in America, 1764-5; opened, 1766, chapel in Tottenham Court Road, London (rebuilt, 1899), and tabernacle at Bristol; in America, 1763-5; opened Lady Huntingdon's chapels at Bath, 1765, and Tunbridge Wells, 1769, and her college at Trevecca, 1768; finally embarked for America, 1769; settled conversion of orphanage into Bethesda College (destroyed by fire, 1773); published sermons and autobiographical and other writings; died at Newburyport, Massachusetts. His portrait (c. 1737) by John Woolaston is in the National Portrait Gallery.
 * ✅Caleb Whitefoord
 * Charles Whitefoord
 * Robert Whitehall
 * Charles Whitehead
 * David Whitehead (clergyman)]
 * George Whitehead
 * Hugh Whitehead
 * Whitehead
 * James Whitehead
 * John Whitehead (Quaker)
 * John Whitehead (physician)
 * John Whitehead (ornithologist)
 * ✅✅Paul Whitehead
 * William Whitehead
 * John Whitehurst
 * James Whitelaw
 * Bulstrode Whitelocke
 * Edmund Whitelocke
 * ✅James Whitelocke
 * John Whitelocke
 * Walter Whiter
 * James Whiteside
 * Henry Whitfeld
 * John Clarke Whitfeld
 * Adam Whitford
 * David Whitford
 * John Whitford
 * Richard Whitford
 * Walter Whitford
 * Walter Whitford
 * ✅John Whitgift
 * Peter Whithorne
 * Thomas Whithorne

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 * John Whiting (quaker)
 * ✅Richard Whiting (Abbot)
 * ✅Elizabeth Whitlock
 * John Whitlock
 * William Whitlock (historian)
 * George Whitmore (lord mayor)
 * ✅Geoffrey Whitney
 * James Hawkins Whitshed
 * John Whitson
 * George Byrom Whittaker

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 * James William Whittaker
 * John William Whittaker
 * ✅Charles Whittingham
 * ✅✅Charles Whittingham (1795–1876)
 * Samuel Ford Whittingham ✅
 * William Whittingham
 * Richard Whittington
 * ✅✅Edward Michael Whitty
 * ✅Michael James Whitty
 * John Griffin Whitwell
 * Charles Whitworth
 * Sir Charles Whitworth
 * Charles Whitworth
 * Sir Joseph Whitworth
 * Isaac Whood
 * ✅Jane Whorwood
 * Samuel Whyte
 * George John Whyte-Melville
 * Thomas Whytehead
 * Richard Whytford
 * Robert Whytt
 * Robert Whytynton
 * Perceval Wiburn
 * John Wiche
 * John Wiche
 * Sir John Wickens
 * Henry Lewis Wickham
 * ✅William Wickham
 * Viscount Wicklow
 * William de Wickwane
 * John Wiclif
 * Henry Widdicomb
 * John Esdaile Widdicomb
 * Giles Widdowes
 * ✅Ralph Widdrington
 * Roger Widdrington
 * Samuel Edward Widdrington
 * Sir Thomas Widdrington
 * William Widdrington
 * William Widdrington
 * Benjamin Barron Wiffen
 * Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
 * Alfred Sydney Wigan
 * Horace Wigan
 * ✅John Wigan (physician)
 * Joseph Wightman
 * William Wightman
 * George Wightwick
 * Wiglaf
 * ✅Barons of Wigmore
 * William Wigmore
 * George William Wigner
 * George Vicesimus Wigram
 * James Wigram
 * Leonora Wigan
 * Lilly Wigg
 * Giles Wigginton
 * Wighard
 * Robert Wight
 * Edward Wightman
 * Joseph Wightman
 * Joseph Cotton Wigram

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 * Earls of Wigtown
 * Wihtgar
 * Wihtred
 * ✅Robert de Wikeford
 * Thomas Wikes
 * ✅Henry William Wilberforce
 * ✅Robert Isaac Wilberforce
 * ✅Samuel Wilberforce
 * ✅William Wilberforce William Wilberforce (1759–1833), philanthropist; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; M.P. for Hull, his native town, 1780; became intimate with Pitt, George Selwyn, Fox, Sheridan, and their friends; M.P n Yorkshire, 1784,1790, 1796, 1802, 1806, and 1807-18; travelled on the continent, 1784-5, in company with Isaac Miloer, under whose influence he adopted strict religious views; carried through House of Commons, 1786, bill for amending criminal law, which was rejected in House of Lords; founded Proclamation Society for suppression of vice, 1787; became parliamentary leader of cause of abolition of slavery, 1787; proposed motion for abolition, motion for gradual abolition being eventually carried, 1791, the date fixed for abolition being 1 Jan. 1796; failed to obtain leave to bring in bill for abolition, 1795, 1797, and 1798, the bill being again defeated, 1799; carried bill for abolition through House of Commons, 1804 (bill rejected by Lords, and on its reintroduction, 1805, thrown out on second reading, but was passed and received royal assent, 1807); the African Institution founded to promote the effective application of his bill; M.P., Bramber, 1812-25; supported extension of missionary teaching in India, and was mainly responsible for foundation of bishopric of Calcutta, 1813; continued to advocate various measures relating to slavery question; took part in founding Church Missionary Society, 1798, and Bible Society, 1803; expended most of his fortune in philanthropic objects; publishedView of the... Religious System of professed Christians... contrasted with Real Christianity 1797, and Appeal... on behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies 1823. His life by his sons Robert and Samuel appeared, 1838. Portraits by John Russell, R.A., and Sir Thomas Lawrence are in the National Portrait Gallery.
 * ✅Wilbrord

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 * ✅John Wilbye
 * Joseph Wilcocks
 * Joseph Wilcocks
 * ✅Thomas Wilcox
 * Wild
 * ✅✅Charles Wild
 * ✅George Wild (bishop)
 * James William Wild
 * Jonathan Wild
 * ✅Robert Wild (poet)

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 * Sir Alfred Thomas Wilde
 * ✅James Plaisted Wilde
 * ✅Jane Francisca Wilde
 * ✅John Wilde (jurist)
 * ✅Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
 * ✅Thomas Wilde
 * William Wilde (judge)
 * ✅William Robert Wills Wilde
 * ✅Samuel Wilderspin
 * ✅John Wildman

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 * James Wilford
 * John Wilford
 * ✅Ralph Wilford
 * Thomas Wilford
 * Wilfrid
 * John Wilkes
 * Richard Wilkes
 * ✅Sir Thomas Wilkes
 * Sir David Wilkie
 * William Wilkie
 * Simon Wilkin
 * Sir Charles Wilkins
 * ✅David Wilkins (scholar)
 * ✅George Wilkins:
 * ✅George Wilkins (priest)
 * Henry St Clair Wilkins
 * ✅John Wilkins
 * William Wilkins
 * Charles Smith Wilkinson
 * ✅Henry Wilkinson (canon)
 * ✅Henry Wilkinson (dean)
 * James John Wilkinson
 * James John Garth Wilkinson
 * John Wilkinson
 * John Wilkinson
 * Tate Wilkinson
 * William Wilkinson
 * John Wilks (swindler)
 * ✅John Wilks (MP))
 * Mark Wilks
 * Robert Wilks
 * Samuel Charles Wilks
 * William Wilks
 * ✅Robert Willan
 * ✅Willehad
 * ✅Thomas Willement
 * George Wickens Willes
 * James Shaw Willes
 * John Willes (judge)
 * ✅Richard Willes
 * ✅Andrew Willet
 * ✅Thomas Willet
 * Ralph Willett
 * William the Conqueror William the Conqueror (1027–1087), king of England: natural son of Itobert II, duke of Normandy; born at Falaise; succeeded as duke, 1085; suppressed, with assistance of French king, Henry, rising under Guy, grandson of Richard II of Normandy, and established his power In the duchy, 1047: visited England, 1061; married Matilda, daughter of Count of Flanders, 1068: resisted invasion under Henry of France, 1064-4; received homage of Guy, count of Ponthieu, and Geoffrey of Mayenne; again defeated invasion of Henry and Geoffrey of An jou, 1068: decreed, 1081, at council held at Caen, ringing of evening bell as a signal for all to shut their doors and not eo out again, a custom afterwards Introduced Into RngCndi MSXw: obtained person of Harold (1022 ?-106), then Earl of Wessex, who had been shipwrecked off Ponthieu, and, 1064, exacted an oath to uphold the duke's claim to sooceed to English throne, which had been promised him by Edward the Confessor; Invaded SSanon Harold's ao=e-ion, lOtt: landed at Pevensey (28 Sept.X encamped at Hasttngand defeated IHaroW I at a Dlace eight miles distant afterwards called Battle (14 Oct.); ravaged country and received submission of Londoner*, and was crowned at Westminster, 10M; visited Normandy. 1067; qoelled insorrection under Harold's sons at Bxeter, 1068, and Invasion under Sweyn of Denmark in north, 1069-70, deposed Stigand and appointed Lanfranc archbishop of Canterbury, 1070, and of government separate the wpremaoy of   nud church a. department from civil administration, and as  his own will in respectof papalautbority; reded Wsof Elv and supDressed rebellion under Here ward, 1071; SJaded Scotland and received homage of Jfalcolm, 1071; his son Robert, duke of Normandy, in Normandy, 1080 and 1082; ordered survey, results of which were embodied in Domesday book, 1085: engaged in dispute as to right to the French Vexin, and invaded the Vexin and took Mantes, where he met with an accident on horseback and died; buried at Caen.
 * William II
 * William III Hi William (1650–1702), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland; born at the Hague; posthumous son of William II, prince of Orange, and Mary, daughter of Charles I and princess royal of England; educated at Leyden; admitted to council of state, 1667; visited England, 1670, and received an honorary degree at each of the universities; appointed captain-general of Dutch forces, 1672; and later proclaimed stadholder, captainand admiral-general at Vere in Zealand and at Dort: conducted war against France, and concluded treaties of alliance with the empire and Spain; fought indecisive battle with Conde at Senef, 1674, and suffered reverses at Maestricht, 1676, and Montcassel and Charleroi. 1677; married, 1677, Mary, daughter of James, duke of York afterwards James II of England); secured integrity of territories in United Provinces by treaty of Nimeguen, 1678; went to England, 1681; with aid of Waldeck, carried on schemes for European alliance against France, a basis for which was furnished, 1681, by association formed between United Provinces, Sweden, the empire, and Spain for maintenance of existing treaties, but his work undone by a twenty yearstruce, 1684, concluded on basis of existing conquests, which left the European position of France stronger than ever; endeavoured to prevent sailing of Argyll's and Monmouth's expeditions against James II, prepared at Amsterdam, 1685, and showed anxiety for friendly relations with James II until estranged by James's catholic zeal; accepted invitation to undertake armed expedition to England, 1688, landed at Brixham, south of Torbay, 5 Nov., and arrived at St. James's. 18 Dec. 1688; refused, on James IPs flight, to accept throne as by right of conquest, but assumed executive, on which he and Princess of Orange were declared king and queen by declaration of right drawn up by committee of Convention parliament, the succession being to Mary's issue, then to Anne and her issue, and finally, in default, to William's issue: crowned with his wife, 11 April 1689; formed grand alliance with United Provinces and the empire: went to Ireland, 1690, and defeated James II and Irish-French army atBoyne; made expedition to Holland, 1691, to support the confederacy; i-anctloned vigorous treatment of Scottish rebels, which culminated in massacre of Glencoe, 1692: again in Holland, 1693, and was defeated at Landen by Luxemburg, who, however, was unable through losses to follow up Bacons: reopened campaign, 1694; took Namur, 1695; obtained from Louis XIV a promise not to support his enemies by peace of Ryswyk. 1697; engaged in negotiations with Louis XI V,n the Spanish succession, and signed partition treaties, 1G98 and 1700, but oudeath of Charles II   of Spain, Louis having acted in direct opposition to the term* of the second treaty, William returned to policy of grand alliance and embarked for Holland, 1701; assented to Act of Settlement securing ultimate succession of house of Hanover, 1701; died from effects of accident while riding at Hampton Court; buried at Westminster. Portraits by Jan Wyck are in National Portrait Gallery.
 * William IV
 * William the Lyon
 * William
 * William, Duke of Gloucester
 * William Augustus
 * ✅Henry William
 * Frederick William
 * ✅William Fitzosbern
 * William Malet
 * ✅William
 * ✅ ✅William de St Carilef
 * William Giffard
 * William
 * ✅ ✅William of Corbeil
 * William de Warelwast
 * William of Malmesbury
 * William
 * William of Thwayt
 * William
 * William of Ypres
 * William de Tracy
 * William
 * William of St Albans
 * William of Crowland
 * William of Peterborough
 * William Fitzstephen
 * William Fitzosbert
 * ✅ ✅William of Longchamp
 * William of Newburgh
 * William de Leicester
 * William Malet
 * William of Ramsey
 * William the Trouvère
 * William of Saint-Mère-Eglise
 * William the Clerk
 * ✅William de Longespée
 * William de Fors
 * William of Drogheda
 * William of Durham
 * William de Longespée
 * William of Nottingham
 * William of York
 * William de Fors
 * William de Wilton
 * William de Wickwane
 * William de Valence
 * William of Hothum
 * William of Ware
 * William of Wheatley
 * ✅William of Littlington
 * William de Shepesheved
 * William of Exeter
 * William de Ayreminne
 * William of Coventry
 * William of Berton
 * William of Alnwick
 * William of Worcester
 * William de Machlinia
 * Charles Williams
 * Sir Charles Williams
 * Charles James Blasius Williams
 * Sir Charles James Watkin Williams
 * Daniel Williams
 * Sir David Williams
 * David Williams
 * David Williams
 * David Williams
 * Edward Williams
 * Edward Williams
 * Edward Williams
 * Edward Williams
 * Edward Ellerker Williams
 * Edward Vaughan Williams
 * Eliezer Williams
 * Frederick Williams
 * George Williams
 * George Williams
 * George James Williams
 * Griffith Williams
 * Griffith Williams
 * Helen Maria Williams
 * Henry Williams
 * Hugh William Williams
 * Isaac Williams
 * Jane Williams
 * ✅John Williams
 * ✅John Williams (Archbishop of York)
 * ✅John Williams
 * John Williams
 * ✅John Williams
 * John Williams
 * ✅John Williams (satirist)
 * ✅John Williams
 * John Williams
 * ✅Sir John Williams
 * ✅✅John Williams (1792–1858)
 * John Williams (Ab Ithel)
 * John Bickerton Williams
 * Joseph Williams
 * Joshua Williams
 * Maria Jane Williams
 * Montagu Stephen Williams
 * Morris Williams
 * Moses Williams
 * Penry Williams (artist)
 * Peter Williams
 * Peter Williams (archdeacon)
 * Peter Bayly Williams
 * Richard D'Alton Williams
 * Robert Williams
 * Robert Williams
 * Robert Williams
 * ✅✅Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu)
 * Robert Williams
 * Roger Williams
 * Roger Williams
 * Samuel Williams (engraver)
 * Taliesin Williams
 * Thomas Williams
 * Thomas Williams
 * Thomas Williams
 * Thomas Williams
 * Thomas Williams
 * Thomas Williams
 * Thomas Walter Williams
 * William Williams
 * William Williams
 * ✅✅William Williams (antiquary)
 * William Williams
 * William Williams
 * William Williams
 * William Fenwick Williams
 * William Henry Williams
 * William Mattieu Williams
 * William Peere Williams
 * William Peere Williams
 * Zachariah Williams