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Edward Wymper was a mountaineer who wrote Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-1869 which was one of the most popular mountaineering books ever written.

Derek Pepys Whiteley was born in 1906, the son of Gerard Tarver Whiteley and the Hon. Amy Theresa Pepys. He was educated at Sherborne and King's College, and was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1931. He became senior legal assistant in the Treasury Solicitor's Department, retiring in 1957; and from 1959 to 1970 was Assistant Pepys Librarian. An expert on Victorian art history, he wrote a life of George du Maurier, and articles for DNB.

Walter Henry Whitear was a tea merchant, a writer for the Chiswick Times, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Honorary Secretary of the Hogarth House Preservation Committee.

An English draughtsman and engraver. A Londoner, he was a pupil of David Loggan, and became a leading portrait engraver. White was celebrated for his original portraits, drawn in pencil on vellum in the manner of Loggan. He died in reduced circumstances in Bloomsbury Market, where he had long resided, in November 1703.

Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler was a Canadian surveyor, mountain climber and soldier. Wheeler participated in the first expedition to Mount Everest in 1921. He was an accomplished mountain climber and on the 1921 expedition was one of the team to reach the 7000 metre North Col. As a Brigadier in the British Army he was appointed Surveyor General of India in 1941. He was knighted for the work he did surveying India.

Wheatstone made several important contributions numerous branches of science, such as optics. However, his name has been most closely connected with the electric telegraph.

In 1827 he became professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy, a post he held until his death. During his forty-year career he created about 275 works and early on distinguished himself as a leading sculptor of civic and national monuments.

From 1830, Lady of the bedchamber to the queen dowager Adelaide.

Born in Walesby, Lincs. in 1681. Son of Henry Waterland, Rector of Walesby

Admitted sizar at Clare College on 4 May 1699
Matriculated 1699
B.A. 1702/3; M.A. 1706
D.D. from Magdalene, 1725

Fellow of Clare, 1705-14
Fellow of Magdalene, 1714-24
Brother of Daniel Waterland, Master of Magdalene College who appointed him Bursar and Steward in c. 1718
Senior Proctor, 1721-22

Incorporated at Oxford in 1724
Ordained priest (Ely) 30 May 1708
Vicar of St Peter's, Cambridge, 1711-18
Vicar of St Giles', Cambridge, 1711-20
Vicar of Longstanton All Saints' and Longstanton St Michael's, Cambridgeshire, 1720-64
Minister of St Benetfink, London

Died in Hackney, 18 March 1764

Master of Magdalene College, 1713-1740

Born in Walesby, Lincolnshire on 14 February 1682/83. Second son of Henry, Rector of Walesby
School - Lincoln

Admitted sizar (age 16) at Magdalene on 30 March 1699
B.A. 1702/3; M.A. 1706; B.D. 1714; D.D. 1717 (Com. Reg)

Made a Fellow in 1704 and served as Master between 1714 and 1740
Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1715-6

Incorporated at Oxford in 1724

Ordained Deacon at Peterborough on 3 June 1705 and priest, on 9 March 1706/7
Curate of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1707-8
Rector of Ellingham, Norfolk, 1713
Rector of St Augustine, Paul's Gate, London, 1721-30
Chancellor of York, 1722-40
Prebend of Windsor, 1727-40
Vicar of Twickenham, 1730-40
Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1730-40

He was author of many learned works. ‘Few names, recorded in the annals of the Church of England, stand so high in the estimation of its most sound and intelligent members, as that of Dr Waterland… this distinguished writer’ (Van Mildert, William, The Works of the Rev. Daniel Waterland, D. D.: to Which Is Prefixed a Review of the Author's Life and Writings, Volume 1, p.1).

Married Theodosia, daughter of John Tregonwell, of Anderton, Dorset

Died on 23 November 1740 or 23 December 1740. Buried at Windsor

College Magazine
Article: ‘Student counselling, eighteenth-century style’ by Ged Martin, College Magazine, No. 26 (1981-82) pp. 45-49
Article by Eamon Duffy, College Magazine, No. 33 (1988-89) pp. 22-26