Dictionary of National Biography, 1904 errata/Volume 63
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| 25 | i | 23-24 | Wordsworth, William: for Nelson read Milton |
| 34 | ii | 10 f.e. | Worsley, Sir Henry: for 1821 read 1831 |
| 36 | ii | 37 | Worsley, Sir Richard: for 1802 read 1801 |
| 45 | i | 4 | Wortley, Sir Francis: for 1625 and 1626 read and 1625 |
| 57 | i | 13-15 | Wotton, Sir Henry: for is said to have been printed . . . to contain it. read was printed in 1614 with the fifth edition of Overbury's ' Wife.' |
| 57 | ii | 25 | Wotton, Nicholas: for fourth son read fourth child |
| 61 | ii | 31 | Wotton, William: for 1726) read 1727) |
| 63 | i | 3 | for 1726 read 1726-7 |
| 63 | i | 19 f.e. | Woty, William: omit in chancery |
| 64 | ii | 2 | Woulfe, Peter: for a religious prophet named Brothers read the prophet Richard Brothers [q. v.]) |
| 65 | i | 19 | Woulfe, Stephen: for 1834 read 1835 |
| 65 | i | 4 f.e. | Wrangham, Francis: for Raisthorpe read Raysthorpe |
| ii | 1-3 | for Stephen Thirlwell . . . ultimately vicar read Thomas Thirlwall (grandfather of Connop Thirlwall [q. v.]), afterwards vicar | |
| 71 | i | 11 | Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel W.: for a short while read in 1723, eight years |
| 74 | i | 18 f.e. | Wray, Sir Cecil: for tenth read thirteenth |
| 15 f.e. | for ninth read twelfth | ||
| 82 | i | 22 | Wren, Sir Christopher: for partition read parhelion |
| 91 | ii | 28 | for Allenbury read Atterbury |
| 94 | ii | 17 | after 1897 insert Birch's London Churches, London, fol. 1896 |
| 107 | ii | 11-10 f.e. | Wright, Sir James (1716-1785): for he received the commission read he received from England the commission (dated April 1761) |
| 124 | ii | 36 | Wright, Robert (1560-1643): for (September 1643) read (August 1643) |
| 128 | ii | 3-1 f.e. | Wright, Thomas (fl. 1740-1760) : for (fl. 1740-1760) . . . (Brit. Mus. Cat.), read (1711-1786), natural philosopher, was born at Byer's Green, near Durham, and brought up as a philosophical instrument maker. Subsequently he taught private pupils in mathematics, and became so well known that he was offered, but declined, the professorship of mathematics at the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg. In his 'Original Theory . . . of the Universe' (London, 1750, 4to) he anticipated the modern physico-philosophical theory of the material of the universe. He 'gave the theory of the Milky Way, which is now considered established,' and predicted the 'ultimate resolution of the rings of Saturn into congeries of small satellites' (De Morgan in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, Phil. Mag. vol. xxxii.) He died at Byer's Green in 1786. |
| 129 | i | 21 | after Lit. insert Gent. Mag. 1793, i. 9, 126, 213; Kant's Kosmogony, ed. 1900, pp. 193-205 |
| 144 | ii | 12 | Wriothesley, Henry, 3rd Earl of Southampton: for times read tennis
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| 153 | ii | 27-28 | Wriothesley, Thomas, Earl of Southampton: omit on 18 June 1585 was licensed to marry |
| 29 | after Holborn, insert married Thomas Arundell, afterwards first baron Arundell of Wardour; the marriage licence, dated 18 June 1585, was issued to the bridegroom's father, | ||
| 163 | i | 8 | Wroth, Sir Robert: for Francis Stonard read John Stonard |
| 167 | i | 4 f.e. | Wrottesley, Sir John, 2nd Baron Wrottesley: for was defeated read retired before the poll |
| 3 f.e. | for 1825 read 1823 | ||
| ii | 1-3 | for his seat being endangered . . . the whig interest, read he was defeated at the poll; | |
| 171 | i | 26-27 | Wulfhere: for Barrow in Atwood read Barrow-on-Humber |
| 180 | ii | 21 f.e. | Wyatt, John: after Boulton & Watt insert which was established in 1762 |
| 20 f.e. | omit about 1744 | ||
| 189 | ii | 9-7 f.e | Wyatt, Thomas Henry: for Anne, sister of Sir Thomas . . . ii. 445). read Anne daughter of George Hillier of Devizes. |
| 191 | ii | 21 f.e. | Wyatville, Sir Jeffry: before The work insert Wyatville was elected A.R.A. in 1822 and R.A. in 1824. |
| 225 | ii | 10 | Wyke, Sir Charles L.: for 1859 read 1860 |
| 228 | ii | 2 | Wykeham, William of: after death insert in June 1376 |
| 7 | after 11 Oct. insert 1376 | ||
| 10 f.e. | after 7 Jan. insert 1377 | ||
| ii | 17-19 | for and Wykeham bought . . . for Winchester College, read Three years later, in 1380, Wykeham acquired the manor of Meonstoke Perrers from Alice's husband, William de Windsor, who had obtained a grant of her lands after her pardon in Dec. 1379. But it would be hazardous to connect this purchase with the events of 1377. | |
| 234 | i | 39 | Wyld, James: after 1868 insert (except for a few months in 1859) |
| 240 | ii | 37 | Wyndham, Sir Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont: for 1734 read 1735 |
| 247 | ii | 14 | Wyndham, Robert H.: for in April read on 8 April |
| 260 | ii | 22 | Wynn, Sir Watkin W.: for 1660 read 1678-9 |
| 308 | i | 19 | Yeamans, Robert: for alderman read councillor |
| 316 | i | 36 | Yelverton, Sir Henry: after the university, insert He and his brother Thomas were admitted fellow-commoners of Christ's College, Cambridge, on 1 July 1581. Like his father he was afterwards counsel for the college. |
| 324 | ii | 30 | Yonge, Sir George: after continuously insert (excepting from 1761 to 1763) |
| 31 | for 1794 read 1796 | ||
| 332 | i | 8-11 | Yonge, Sir William: for to replace his father . . . to meet on 10 May 1722, read to represent Honiton on 4 Feb. 1714-5, |
| l.l. | for Byng, Torrington, Norris, and Wager, read Byng (Viscount Torrington), Norris, Wager, and others, | ||
| 339 | i | 7-17 | Yorke, Charles (1722-1770): omit Meanwhile he angled . . . the attorney-general (30 Nov.) |
| 17 | for His conduct in this crisis betrayed read Pitt saw in his conduct during this crisis | ||
| 28 | after general warrants, insert At the end of the year he angled for his reinstatement in the attorney-generalship, which his successor, Fletcher Norton [q. v.], was wrongly thought to be about to vacate, in order to succeed to the mastership of the rolls, vacant by the death of Sir Thomas Clark. Yorke also professed himself willing to accept the vacant mastership of the rolls with a salary of 4,OOOl. and a peerage. These ridiculous advances were repulsed by Lord-chancellor Northington, and Yorke ended by accepting a patent of precedence next after the attorney-general (30 Nov.). | ||
| 340 | ii | 28 | for No. xliv. read No. xlix. |
| 341 | ii | 27-28 | Yorke, Charles P.: for secretary for war read secretary at war |
| 345 | ii | 21 | Yorke, Joseph, Baron Dover: for 1761-4 read 1761-74 |
| 346 | ii | 12-13 | Yorke, Sir Joseph S.: for nearly continuously since 1790. read from 1790 to 1806 and from 1818 to 1831, having in the interval represented St. Germans, West Looe, and Sandwich. |
| 346 | ii | 13 f.e. | Yorke, Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwicke: for brother read uncle |
| 353 | i | 30 | Yorke, Philip (1743-1804): for the dissolution of March 1784 read his retirement in 1781 |
| 364 | ii | 12 | Young, Bartholomew: for Twenty-four read Twenty-five
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| 370 | i | 20-19 f.e. | Young, Edward: for daughter of George Henry Lee, second earl of Lichfield read younger daughter of Edward Henry Lee, first earl of Lichfield |
| 376 | i | 22 | Young, Sir Henry E. F.: for was created K.B. read was knighted |
| 376 | ii | 33-35 | Young, James (d. 1789): for In July 1778 . . . admiral of the white. read On 29 Jan. 1778 he was promoted to be admiral of the white and in July he returned to England. |
| 400 | ii | 15 | Young, Sir William (1749-1815): omit in the whig interest |
| 16 | after Cornwall. insert He was a follower of Pitt until 1801, when he joined the ranks of his patron Grenville. | ||
| 408 | ii | 8-12 | Zerffi, George G.: omit He was also for some time . . . a biographical memoir. |
| 422 | ii | 15 | Zouche, William la: for (Histories read (Historians |
| 424 | ii | 37 | Zucchi, Antonio P.: after at Reculver' insert (from Keate's Sketches from Nature) |
| 430 | i | 34 | Zuylestein, William H., 4th Earl of Rochford: for In December of this year Rochford showed read In December 1770 Rochford, though still nominally under Weymouth's direction, showed |
| ii | 41 | for a master read master
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