Wainwright, William, B.A. 7 April, 1543. See Warwright.
Waite. See Wayte.
Wake, Abraham, of co. Warwick, cler. fil. Christ Church, matric. 10 Feb., 1592-3, aged 16, B.A. 16 June, 1596; bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1603, as son and heir of Arthur, of Oxford; brother of Isaac. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.
Wake, Arthur (3s. John), student Christ Church 1561, B.A. 11 Feb., 1563-4, M.A. 25 June, 1566, canon 1567; rector of Great Billing, Northants, 1565, until deprived in 1573 for nonconformity, master of the hospital of St. John in Northampton 1569; died 12 July, 1596; brother of William 1571, father of the last-named, and of Isaac. See O.H.S. i. 354; & Foster's Index Eccl.
Wake, Benjamin, B.A. from Merton Coll. 5 July, 1606, M.A. from St. Alban Hall 3 July, 1610.
Wake, Charles, of St. John's Coll. circa 1581. [6],
Wake, Edward, s. Edward, of London, gent. Christ Church, matric. entry 4 March, 1678-9, aged 14, B.A. 1682, M.A. 1685, D.D. Lambeth 6 Oct., 1724; born in London 30 Nov., 1664, rector of Broadwell, co. Gloucester, 1697-9, and of Wylye, Wilts, 1701-8; canon of Lincoln 1706, rector of Whethamsted 1708, and canon of Canterbury 1721, until his death 7 Nov., 1732; perhaps brother of William 1691. See Rawl. xxi. 163.
Wake, George, Baronetti fil. Magdalen Coll., matric. 28 Jan., 1629-30, B.A. same day, fellow 1630-48, M.A. 20 Oct., 1632, proctor 1643, D.C.L, 5 July, 1660; (s. Sir John), an advocate of Doctors' Commons 1664, chancellor of the diocese of Peterborough. See Coote's Civilians, 87; & Burrows, 514.
Wake, (Sir) Isaac, of Hants. Christ Church, matric. entry 25 May, 1593, aged 12 (as gent.), B.A. 23 July, 1597; fellow Merton Coll. 1598, M.A. 22 Feb., 1602-3, public orator 1604-21; student of Middle Temple 1604 (as 2s. Arthur, of Oxford, gent.); knighted 9 April, 1619, ambassador to Venice, etc., M.P. Oxford university 1624-5, died July 1632; brother of Abraham. See Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary; O.H.S. iv. 277; & Ath. ii. 539.
Wake, (Sir) John, s. John (rather William), of Piddington, Northants, bart. Merton Coll., matric. 19 July, 1679, aged 17; 4th baronet, student of Gray's Inn 1679 (his father called William); died 1714; brother of the next. See Foster's Gray's Inn Reg. [10],
Wake, Robert, youngest son of William, of Piddington, Northants, bart. Brasenose Coll., matric. 21 March, 1683-4, scholar Trinity Coll. 1685, B.A. 1687, M.A. 1690, fellow 1693; vicar of Fritwell, Oxon, 1690-1703, rector of Farthingstone, Northants, 1714-20, and of Bocking, Essex, 1724-5; rector of Buxted with chapelry of Cuckfield, Sussex, and vicar of Ogbourne St. Andrew, Wilts. See Rawl. i. 190, v. 174, and xxi. 165; & Foster's Index Eccl.
Wake, Robert, paup. Pembroke Coll., subscribed 29 Oct., 1691, B.A. 1697, M.A. 1702; rector of Chilfrome with Wraxall, Dorset, 1709, and canon of Wells 1734, until his death in 1757. See Foster's Index Eccl.
Wake, Thomas, s. Robert, of London; pensioner of Caius Coll., Cambridge, 3 June, 1599, aged 16; scholar 1599, M.A. 1606; incorporated 10 July, 1610, educated at Westminster school; rector of Bincombe, Dorset, 1629, and of Burroughgreen, co. Cambridge, 1634. See Venn, 90; & Foster's Index Eccl.
Wake, William, student Christ Church 1571, B.A. 19 Feb., 1573-4, M.A. 22 May, 1577; 5th son of John; ancestor of William next-named, and brother of Arthur 1561.
Wake, William, s. William, of Blandford, Dorset, gent. Christ Church, matric. 28 Feb., 1672-3, aged 15, B.A. 1676, M.A. 1679, B. and D.D. 1689, and canon 1689; born at Blandford 26 Jan., 1657, preacher of Gray's Inn, Middlesex; licenced (V.G.) 26 Sept., 1688, to marry Ethelred Hovell, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, spinster; deputy clerk of the closet, preacher to Gray's Inn 1688, and chaplain in ordinary to William & Mary, rector of St. James, Westminster, 1695, rector of St. John, Westminster, 1701, dean 1701, and prebendary and canon residentiary of Exeter 1701, a lord justice in 1719-20-3-5, bishop of Lincoln 1705-16, archbishop of Canterbury 1716, until his death at Lambeth 29 Jan., 1736. See Ath. iv. 657; Rawl. i. 79b; & Foster's Index Eccl. [15],
Wake, William, s. E., of Charlton, Devon, gent. Christ Church, matric. 23 Feb., 1690-1, aged 16, B.A. 29 Jan., 1694-5, M.A. 1697; rector of Stoke Hammond, Bucks, 1706, and of Walgrave 1708, and of Hannington, (both) Northants, 1712, canon of Lincoln 1711, until his death at Bath 24 Sept., 1731; perhaps brother of Edward 1679. See Foster's Index Eccl.
Wakefielde, Christopher, "ser." Queen's Coll., matric. 14 June, 1649. See Burrows, 545.
Wakefield, John, B.A. 18 June, 1572.
Wakefield, John, "ser." Queen's Coll., matric. 10 Nov., 1654, B.A. 16 Feb., 1657-8, M.A. 7 Aug., 1660.
Wakefield, Nicholas, pleb. Queen's Coll., matric. 20 March, 1644-5. [20],
Wakefield, Richard (Wakefylde), B.Can.L. 11 March, 1511-12.
Wakefield, Robert, B.A. 1513-14, M.A. Louvaine, B.D. of Cambridge, 1525, "sup. May, 1532, for incorporation," canon of King's Coll. (Christ Church) 1532, and read a Hebrew lecture, acquired great skill in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Chaldaic, and Syriac, chaplain to the king about 1524, died in London 8 Oct., 1537. See Ath. i. 102; Cooper, i. 63, 531; & Fasti, i. 94.
Wak(e)filde, Thomas, of co. Cambridge, pleb. Brasenose Coll., matric. entry under date 20 July, 1578, aged 16.
Wakeham, Edmund, of Devon, gent. Broadgates Hall, matric. 16 Nov., 1582, aged 20, student of Inner Temple 1587, as of Stancomb-in-Sherford, Devon, gent. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.
Wakeham, George, s. Ralph, of South Molton, Devon, p.p. Exeter Coll., matric. 6 April, 1666, aged 19, B.A. 1669; rector of Halland, Cornwall, 1682. See Foster's Index Eccl. [25],
Wakeham, John, of Devon, pleb. Exeter Coll., matric. 3 June, 1603, aged 18, B.A. 28 June, 1606, as Wakeman.
Wakeham, Walter, pleb. Exeter Coll., matric. 3 March, 1650-1, B.A. from Gloucester Hall 12 Oct., 1654, M.A. 29 May, 1657 (as Wakeman); vicar of Kenwyn, Cornwall, 1661. See Foster's Index Eccl.
Wakeley, John, s. Nicholas, of Thorncombe, Devon, gent. New Inn Hall, matric. 20 March, 1639-40, aged 16, B.A. 22 May, 1647, created M.A. 14 April, 1648, fellow University Coll. by the parliamentary visitors 1648; ejected from the rectory of Lidiard St. Lawrence, Somerset, 1660. See Calamy, iii. 196; & Burrows, 558.
Wakely, Thomas, s. Osmond, of Chideock, Dorset, paup. Wadham Coll., matric. 2 May, 1684, aged 17.
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