Ward, Robert Plumer (1765–1846), politician and writer
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Ward, Robert Plumer (1765–1846), politician and writer
Ward, William James (c. 1800–1840), mezzotint engraver
Engraver to the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV).
Ward, William, the Elder (1766-1826), engraver
Engraver of portraits, genre scenes and animals. One of the leading pointillist and mezzotint engravers of his day.
Wardle, Peter (1929–2016), artist
Peter Wardle studied at Leicester School of Art and the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. He has been a professional portrait painter for more than forty years, working in Oxford, Toulouse, and London. His portraits can be found in many Oxford and Cambridge colleges, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. His portrait of Sir Peter Strawson was featured in the Guardian, Wednesday February 15 2006. He regularly exhibits with the Royal Portrait Society and has held one man exhibitions in London, Oxford, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Paris and Lisbon.
Waring, Edward (1736-1798), mathematician and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Matriculated in 1753; Senior Wrangler, 1757; Fellow, 1758-1776.
At the age of 24 he was elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, 1760-1798.
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1763 – Copley medallist.
Although a qualified (if nervous) physician, he abandoned medicine for mathematics and became ‘Magdalene’s greatest mathematical don. In his prime he was the most famous mathematician in England…lonely, disturbed, isolated…a mathematical genius’ (Dr S. Martin). He wrote ‘one of the most abstruse books written on the abstrusest parts of Algebra’, which made his name famous throughout Europe.
Waring, William (1801-1877), Anglican cleric and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Admitted to Trinity College in 1819 and migrated to Magdalene in May 1822. Fellow, 1823-1832. Vicar of Shobdon, Hereford, 1847-1854. Archdeacon of Salop, 1851-1877. Canon of Hereford, 1870-1877.
Washington, Martha (1731-1802), First Lady of the United States
Wass, Charles W. (active 1822), engraver
Waterland, Daniel (1683-1740), theologian and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Master of Magdalene College, 1713-1740
Matriculated in 1699, aged 16. Became a Fellow in 1704;. Served as Vice-Chancellor, 1715-1716. He was an influential theologian; Royal Chaplain, and Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1730. He refused the Bishopric of Llandaff. He was author of many learned works (ed. Van Mildert, 6 vols). ‘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, vol 1, p. 1).
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
Watlet, Nicolas (1789-1868), magistrate and politician
Watt, William Henry (1804- after 1845), reproductive engraver
Watts, Alaric Alexander (1797–1864), journalist and poet
Wayne, Mary Geraldine (1859-1950), painter
Webster, Daniel (1782–1852), United States Secretary of State
Weerdt, Adriaen de (1510-1590), painter and draughtsman
Weert, Jacob de (1569-1605), engraver and publisher
From 1830, Lady of the bedchamber to the queen dowager Adelaide.
Wellesley, Arthur (1769–1852), 1st duke of Wellington, army officer and prime minister
Wellesley, Gerald Valerian (1809–1882), dean of Windsor
Wellmore, Edward (active 1834-1867), engraver
Westmacott, Sir Richard (1775–1856), sculptor
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.
Weyen, Herman (active 1638-1669), engraver and publisher
Wheatstone, Sir Charles (1802–1875), developer of telegraphy
Wheatstone made several important contributions numerous branches of science, such as optics. However, his name has been most closely connected with the electric telegraph.
Wheeler, Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver (1890-1962), surveyor, mountaineer and soldier
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.
Whewell, William (1794–1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Whishaw, John (1764-1840), English barrister and writer
White, Colonel Charles (1793-1861), author
White, Robert (1645–1703), engraver
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.