Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 62

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 * Adam Williamson (general)
 * ✅Alexander Williamson (missionary)
 * John Williamson (painter)
 * John Suther Williamson
 * ✅Joseph Williamson (politician)
 * Peter Williamson
 * Samuel Williamson
 * William Crawford Williamson
 * Willibald
 * Willibrord

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 * ✅Browne Willis
 * ✅Richard Willis (bishop)
 * Robert Willis (engineer) ✅
 * ✅Robert Willis (medical writer)
 * Thomas Willis (schoolmaster)
 * ✅Thomas Willis
 * Timothy Willis
 * ✅Francis Willis
 * ✅Henry Brittan Willis
 * ✅ John Willis (stenographer)

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 * John Walpole Willis
 * Thomas Willis
 * Thomas Willisel
 * George Willison (artist)
 * ✅John Willison
 * Arthur Willmore
 * ✅James Tibbitts Willmore
 * Robert Aris Willmott
 * ✅Henry Willobie
 * John Willock
 * ✅Willoughby de Broke

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 * ✅Willoughby de Eresby
 * Francis Willoughby
 * ✅Henry Willoughby
 * Hugh Willoughby
 * ✅Nesbit Josiah Willoughby
 * Richard de Willoughby
 * ✅Robert Willoughby
 * William Willoughby
 * Charles Wills
 * James Wills

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 * John Wills
 * Richard Wills
 * ✅✅Thomas Wills (minister)
 * William Gorman Wills
 * William Henry Wills
 * William John Wills
 * Thomas Willshire
 * Edward James Willson
 * Robert William Willson
 * Francis Willughby
 * Percivall Willughby
 * Cooper Willyams
 * William Willymat
 * William Willymott
 * Earl of Wilmington
 * Charles Wilmot
 * Edward Wilmot
 * Henry Wilmot
 * ✅James Wilmot
 * John Wilmot
 * John Eardley Wilmot
 * John Eardley-Wilmot
 * Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot
 * ✅Lemuel Allen Wilmot
 * Robert Wilmot
 * Robert Wilmot
 * Robert John Wilmot-Horton
 * Mrs Wilson
 * Aaron Wilson (archdeacon)
 * Sir Adam Wilson
 * Alexander Wilson
 * Alexander Wilson
 * Alexander Philip Wilson
 * Andrew Wilson
 * Andrew Wilson
 * Andrew Wilson
 * Anthony Wilson
 * Sir Archdale Wilson
 * ✅Arthur Wilson (17th century)
 * Benjamin Wilson
 * Bernard Wilson
 * Caroline Wilson
 * Charles Heath Wilson
 * ✅Mrs Cornwall Baron Wilson
 * Daniel Wilson
 * Sir Daniel Wilson
 * Edward Wilson
 * Edward Wilson
 * Erasmus Wilson
 * Florence Wilson
 * George Wilson
 * George Wilson
 * ✅✅George Wilson
 * Harriette Wilson
 * Harry Bristow Wilson
 * Henrietta Wilson
 * Henry Bristow Wilson
 * Horace Hayman Wilson
 * James Wilson
 * James Wilson
 * James Wilson
 * James Arthur Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * ✅✅John Wilson (singer)
 * John Wilson (professor)
 * John Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * John Wilson
 * John Mackay Wilson
 * John Matthias Wilson
 * Sir John Morillyon Wilson
 * Joshua Wilson
 * Margaret Wilson
 * Mary Anne Wilson
 * Matthew Wilson
 * Nicholas Wilson
 * Richard Wilson
 * Richard Wilson
 * Robert Wilson
 * Robert Wilson
 * Robert Wilson
 * Robert Arthur Wilson
 * Robert Thomas Wilson
 * Rowland Wilson
 * ✅Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)
 * ✅Thomas Wilson
 * ✅Thomas Wilson
 * ✅Thomas Wilson (bishop)
 * Thomas Wilson
 * Thomas Wilson
 * ✅Thomas Wilson (philanthropist)
 * Thomas Wilson (poet)
 * Walter Wilson (biographer)
 * William Wilson
 * William Wilson (botanist)
 * William Wilson
 * William Wilson
 * William James Erasmus Wilson
 * William Rae Wilson
 * Wiltshire Wilson
 * John Wilson-Patten
 * Joseph Wilton
 * William de Wilton
 * Earls of Wiltshire
 * Viscount Wimbledon
 * Edmund Morison Wimperis
 * Humphrey Winch
 * Nathaniel John Winch
 * John Winchcombe
 * John Winchcombe
 * ✅Robert de Winchelsea Robert de Winchelsea (d. 1313), archbishop of Canterbury; graduated in arts at Paris and became rector of the university before 1267; D.D. Oxford; chancellor of Oxford, 1288; prebendary of Lincoln; archdeacon of Essex and prebendary of St. Paul's, London, c. 1283; elected archbishop of Canterbury, 1293: travelled to Rome and obtained papal confirmation of election, 1294; published papal bull forbidding clergy to pay taxes to the secular authority; outlawed with clergy by Edward I, who required money for French wars, but reconciled with him, 1297, Pope Boniface VIII making an exception in favour of voluntary gifts and sums raised for national defence, and Edward I conceding his long-promised confirmation of the charters; came into conflict with monks of St Augustine's, Canterbury, and with bishop of Winchester, who were in the main supported by the pope; entrusted by Boniface VIII with delivery of apostolic mandate to Edward I to withdraw from attacking the .Scots, 1300; quarrelled with Edward I on account of living of Pagham, which the king had presented to Theobald, brother of his son-in-law, the Count of Bar; deprived Theobald (who was, however, reappointed by papal provision), presented Pagham to Ralph of Mailing, and was excommunicated, 1300, by the abbot of St. Michael's in liocese of Terdun. who was sent to England to secure execution of papal provision; submitted and obtained removal of sentence, 1302: induced clergy to reject law proposed by Edward I, 1305, forbidding export of specie from alien priories: suspended from spiritual and temporal functions by Pope Clement V under influence of Bishop Langton, 1306, and was in exile from England till Edward I's death; restored, through intercession of Edward n, 1308: one of lords ordainers, 1310; excommunicated Piers Gavestou and his abettors, and Langton, 1312; buried at Canterbury.
 * ✅Marquises of Winchester
 * Earls of Winchester
 * Godfrey of Winchester
 * Gregory of Winchester
 * ✅John Winchester
 * Wulfstan of Winchester
 * Earls of Winchilsea
 * Countess of Winchilsea
 * Sir Francis Windebank
 * John Windele
 * Henry Winder
 * James Windet
 * Charles Windeyer
 * Richard Windeyer
 * Sir William Charles Windeyer
 * Sir Charles Ash Windham
 * Joseph Windham
 * William Windham
 * William Windham
 * Alice de Windsor
 * ✅Thomas Windsor Windsor
 * William de Windsor
 * John Windus
 * Winefride
 * Winfrid
 * Tycho Wing
 * Vincent Wing
 * Edmund Wingate
 * ✅Ninian Wingate
 * Anthony Wingfield
 * Anthony Wingfield
 * ✅Edward Maria Wingfield
 * ✅Humphrey Wingfield 184
 * ✅John Wingfield
 * Lewis Strange Wingfield
 * ✅Richard Wingfield
 * ✅Richard Wingfield
 * ✅Robert Wingfield
 * ✅Henry de Wingham
 * ✅Wini
 * Catherine Winkworth
 * Susanna Winkworth
 * Baron Winmarleigh
 * ✅Thomas Winniffe
 * Sir Francis Winnington
 * Thomas Winnington
 * George Winram
 * John Winram
 * ✅Edward Winslow
 * Forbes Benignus Winslow
 * Frederick Albert Winsor
 * Frederick Albert Winsor
 * Gerrard Winstanley
 * Hamlet Winstanley
 * Henry Winstanley
 * John Winstanley
 * Thomas Winstanley
 * William Winstanley
 * Charles Winston
 * Thomas Winston
 * Peter de Wint
 * Edward Winter
 * John Winter
 * Robert Winter
 * Samuel Winter
 * Thomas Winter
 * Thomas Winter
 * William Winter
 * Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham
 * William Winterbotham
 * Thomas Winterbourne
 * William Wintersel
 * Ralph Winterton
 * Thomas Winterton
 * John Winthrop
 * John Winthrop
 * Earls of Winton
 * ✅Archibald William Montgomerie
 * ✅Andrew of Winton
 * John Crawford Wintour
 * Clifton Wintringham
 * Clifford Wintringham
 * Ralph Winwood
 * Ninian Winzet
 * Nigel Wireker
 * William Wirley
 * Robert Wisdom (priest)
 * Francis Wise
 * Henry Wise
 * John Richard de Capel Wise
 * Michael Wise
 * William Furlong Wise
 * Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman
 * Richard Wiseman (surgeon)
 * George Wishart
 * George Wishart
 * James Wishart
 * John Wishart
 * Robert Wishart
 * Willem Wissing
 * Edwin Witchell
 * John Withals
 * ✅George Witham
 * ✅Robert Witham
 * Thomas Witham
 * Francis Withens
 * ✅George Wither

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 * William Withering
 * William Frederick Witherington
 * Thomas Witherow
 * Thomas Withers
 * John Witherspoon
 * Withman
 * William Wittlesey
 * Abraham Wivell
 * Samuel Wix
 * Philip Edmond Wodehouse
 * Robert Wodehouse

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 * Robert Wodelarke
 * Theophilus Wodenote
 * Arthur Wodenoth
 * Michael Wodhull
 * Robert Wodrow
 * Margaret Woffington
 * Charles Wogan
 * Edward Wogan
 * John Wogan
 * Nicholas Wogan
 * Thomas Wogan
 * William Wogan
 * Charles Godfrey Woide
 * John Wolcot
 * Josef Wolf
 * Arthur Wolfe
 * Charles Wolfe
 * David Wolfe (Jesuit)
 * James Wolfe
 * John Wolfe
 * Reyner Wolfe
 * William Wolfe
 * Joseph Wolff
 * Francis Wollaston
 * Francis John Hyde Wollaston
 * George Wollaston
 * Thomas Vernon Wollaston
 * William Wollaston
 * William Hyde Wollaston
 * Edward Wolley
 * ✅Sir John Wolley
 * Richard Wolley
 * Mary Wollstonecraft
 * Richard Wolman
 * Humphrey Wolrich
 * ✅Thomas Wolrich
 * ✅Charles Wolseley
 * ✅Charles Wolseley (reformer)
 * Robert Wolseley

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 * William Wolseley
 * William Wolseley
 * ✅Thomas Wolsey Thomas Wolsey (1475?–1530), cardinal and statesman; son of Kobert Wulcy (or Wolsey) of Ipswich, who is said to have been a butcher; fellow of Magdalen College, oxfoid, 1497; M.A. and master of school adjoining Magdalen College; junior bursar, 1498-5); senior bursar, 1499-1500; rector of Lirnington, 1500; domestic chaplain to Henry Deane, archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1501; chaplain to Sir Richard Nanfan, 1503; Henry VIl's chaplain, 1507; appointed by Henry VII dean of Lincoln, 1509; prebendary of Lincoln, 15o!i; almoner to Henry VIII, 1509; B.D. and D.D. Oxford, 1510; prebendary of Hereford, 1510; canon of Windsor, 1511; registrar of order of Garter, 1511; privy councillor, 1511; directed plan of operations against France, 1512; dean of Hereford, 1512, of York, 1513; dean of St. Stephen's, Westminster, and precentor of London, 1513; accompanied Henry VIII to Calais and in French campaign, 1513; received from Pope Leo X bishopric of Tour nay, 1513, i but never obtained possession; bishop of Lincoln, 1514; archbishop of York, 1514; created cardinal by Leo X, with title,St. Oaecilia trans Tiberim 1516; lord chancellor, 1515; concluded with Ferdinand, whose position in Naples had been threatened by the battle of Marignano, league for commerce and defence against invasion, 1515; papal legated later as associate of Campeggio, who came to England to urge a crusade, 1518; granted by Pope Leo X administration of bishopric of Bath and Wells, of which Cardinal Adrian de Oastello was deprived; signed with Henry VIII and French ambassador secret articles for marriage of dauphin to Princess Mary, and for surrender of Tournay to French, and arranged treaty of alliance with France, 1518, and accompanied Henry to Field of Cloth of Gold, 1520, but meanwhile negotiated marriage between Princess Mary and Emperor Charles of Spain (Charles V of Germany), who had pledged him, self to marry the French king's daughter, Charlotte; went to Calais as mediator in dispute between France and the emperor, 1521, and at Henry VIII's instance made with Charles a secret defensive and offensive alliance against France; took part in forming new treaty between Henry VIII and Charles, 1522, by which Charles agreed to marry Mary in 1526, and both monarchs agreed to invade France before May 1524; supported king in demand for money for war, which was granted immediately, 1522; resigned Bath and Wells, and received from pope temporalities of Durham, 1524; concluded treaty with France, 1525; converted into a college (Christ Church, by papal bull, dated 1524) the monastery of St. Frideswide, Oxford, 1525; supported Henry VIII in matter of divorce from Catherine of Arragon, 1527; went as Henry VIII's lieutenant to France and concluded treaties with Francis at Amiens, 1527, and endeavoured to obtain from Pope Clement VII a decretal commission to define the law by which the judges were to be guided, and a dispensation for the new marriage, the only result of which endeavour was that the pope sent Cardinal Campeggio, giving Wolsey no control over the business; received see of Winchester, resigning that of Durham, 1529; incurred, owing to delay in divorce proceedings, dislike of Anne Boleyn, who influenced Henry VIII against him, the result being that a bill of indictment was preferred against him in king's bench, 3 Nov. 1529; acknowledged that he had incurred a prcemunire; received general pardon, 12 Feb. 1530; retired to Cawood, where he was arrested for high treason on false information given by his physician, Augustine, 4 Nov.; died and was buried at Leicester, where he had arrived on journey to London.
 * Wolstan
 * Dean Wolstenholme
 * Dean Wolstenholme
 * John Wolstenholme (merchant-adventurer)
 * ✅Joseph Wolstenholme
 * ✅John Wolton
 * Baron Wolverton

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 * George Wombwell
 * ✅Laurence Womock
 * Nicholas Wonostrocht
 * Alexander Wood
 * Alexander Wood
 * Andrew Wood
 * Anthony Wood
 * Edmund Burke Wood
 * Ellen Wood
 * George Wood

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 * ✅ ✅George Adam Wood
 * Mrs Henry Wood
 * Herbert William Wood
 * James Wood
 * James Wood
 * Charles Wood
 * David Edward Wood
 * Sir James Athol Wood
 * John Wood
 * John Wood
 * John Wood
 * John Wood
 * John Wood
 * John Wood
 * John Wood
 * ✅John Wood (surgeon)
 * John George Wood
 * John Muir Wood
 * Sir John Page Wood
 * John Philip Wood
 * Mark Wood
 * Marshall Wood
 * Mary Ann Wood
 * Mary Anne Everett Wood
 * Matthew Wood
 * Robert Wood (mathematician)
 * ✅Robert Wood (traveller)
 * Searles Valentine Wood
 * Searles Valentine Wood
 * Shakspere Wood
 * Thomas Wood
 * Western Wood
 * William Wood
 * William Wood
 * William Wood
 * William Wood
 * William Page Wood
 * ✅John Woodall
 * Nathaniel Woodard
 * Benjamin Woodbridge
 * John Woodbridge
 * Walter Bentley Woodbury
 * Martin Woodcock
 * Bennet Woodcroft
 * Basil Woodd
 * ✅✅Richard Wooddeson
 * George Woodfall
 * Henry Sampson Woodfall
 * William Woodfall
 * Sir Alexander George Woodford
 * ✅James Russell Woodford
 * Sir John George Woodford
 * Samuel Woodford
 * William of Woodford
 * Samuel Woodforde
 * Mrs Woodham
 * Adam Woodham
 * Sir Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate
 * Abraham Woodhead
 * James Woodhouse
 * Peter Woodhouse
 * Robert de Woodhouse
 * Robert Woodhouse
 * Thomas Woodhouse
 * ✅Lord Woodhouselee
 * William Frederick Woodington
 * Robert Woodlark
 * George Woodley
 * ✅✅Richard Woodman
 * ✅Richard Woodman
 * Benjamin Woodroffe
 * Anne Woodrooffe
 * Henry Woodrow
 * James Woods
 * Joseph Woods
 * Julian Edmund Tenison Woods
 * Robert Woods
 * Edmund of Woodstock
 * Edward of Woodstock
 * Robert of Woodstock
 * Thomas of Woodstock
 * Anthony Woodville
 * Elizabeth Woodville
 * Lionel Woodville
 * Richard Woodville
 * William Woodville
 * Benjamin Woodward
 * Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward
 * George Moutard Woodward
 * Henry Woodward
 * Hezekiah Woodward
 * John Woodward
 * Richard Woodward
 * Samuel Woodward
 * Samuel Pickworth Woodward
 * Thomas Woodward
 * Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
 * Thomas Jonathan Wooler
 * Arthur Woolf
 * John Thomas Woolhouse
 * John Wooll
 * William Woollett
 * Hannah Woolley
 * ✅John Woolley (educator)
 * Joseph Woolley
 * John Woolman
 * Thomas Woolner
 * John Woolridge
 * Humphry William Woolrych
 * John Woolton
 * John Wootton
 * Emma Jane Worboise
 * Marquis of Worcester
 * Earls of Worcester
 * William Worcester
 * Wynkyn de Worde
 * Worden