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WILLIAM LEGGE (c. 1609-1670)

WILLIAM MONTAGU

WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY (c. ,o8o–c. 1143)

WILLIAM OF NANGLS (d. 1300)

WILLIAM OF POITIERS (c. 1020-C. 1090)

WILLIAM OF ST CALAIS (CARILEF) (d. ro96)

WILLIAM OF VALENCE (d. 1296)

WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM (1323-1404)

WILLIAM THE BRETON (c. 1,6o–c. 1225)

WILLIAM THE CLITO (1 rot–1128)

WILLIAM TUKE (1732-1822)

JOHN WILLIAMS (1582-1650)

JOHN WILLIAMS (1796-1839)

ROGER WILLIAMS (c. 1604–1684)

ROWLAND WILLIAMS (1817-1870)

SIR WILLIAM FENWICK WILLIAMS

ALEXANDER WILLIAM WILLIAMSON (1824–1904)

SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON (1633–1701)

WILLIAM CRAWFORD WILLIAMSON (18r6–1895)

WILLIBRORD (or WILBRORD), ST (d. 738)

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (1806-1867)

THOMAS WILLIS (1621-1675)

JAMES TIBBITTS WILLMORE (1800-1863)

WILLOBIE (or WILLOUGHBY), HENRY (1575?-1596?)

WILLOCK (or WILLOCKS), JOHN (c. 1515-1585)

WILLIAM GORMAN WILLS (1828-1891)

FRANCIS WILLUGHBY (1635—1672)

DAVID WILMOT (1814-1868)

ALEXANDER WILSON (1766-1813)

HENRY WILSON (1812–1875)

HORACE HAYMAN WILSON (1786–1860)

JAMES WILSON (1742—1798)

JAMES WILSON (1835— )

JAMES HARRISON WILSON (1837– )

JOHN WILSON (1627-1696)

JOHN WILSON (178 1854)

ROBERT WILSON (d. 1600)

SIR DANIEL WILSON (1816–1892)

SIR ROBERT THOMAS WILSON (1777—1849)

SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS WILSON

THOMAS WILSON (1663-1755)

THOMAS WILSON (c. 1525-1581)

WOODROW WILSON (1856— )

WILTSHIRE [WILTS]

WIMBORNE (WIMBORNE MINSTER)

EMMANUEL FELIX DE WIMPFFEN (1811-1884)

COUNTESS OF ANNE FINCH WINCHELSEA (1661-1720)

ROBERT WINCHELSEA (d. 1313)

EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF WINCHESTER

JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN (1717-.1768)

WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

WIND INSTRUMENTS (Fr. instruments a vent, Ger. Blasinstrumente, Ital. strumenli da fiato)

WINDAU (Russian V•indava, Lettish Wentepits)

SIR FRANCIS WINDEBANK (1582-1646)

WILLIAM WINDHAM (1750-1810)

PRINCE ALFRED WINDISCHGRATZ (1787-1862)

WINDOW (properly. " wind eye" )

WINDSOR (properly NEw WINDSOR)

LUDWIG WINDTHORST (1812–1891)

WINDWARD ISLANDS

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

JOHN WINEBRENNER (1797-1860)

GEORG BENEDIKT WINER (1789-1858)

WINES OF THE BRITISH

WINES OF THE UNITED

SIR FRANCIS REGINALD WINGATE (1861- )

EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD (c. 156o-c. 1614)

SIR RICHARD WINGFIELD (c. 1469-1525)

EDUARD WINKELMANN (1838-1896)

ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED

EDWARD WINSLOW (1595-1655)

JUSTIN WINSOR (1831-1897)

JOHN STRANGE WINTER

PETER WINTER (c. 1755-1825)

HANS KARL VON WINTERFELDT (17o7–1757)

CHRISTIAN WINTHER (1796–1876)

JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)

JOHN WINTHROP (1606-1676)

ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP (1809-1894)

NINIAN WINZET (1518—1592)

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

WISCONSIN (known as " the Badger' state ")

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

WISDOM LITERATURE

WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

HENRY ALEXANDER WISE (1806-1876)

ISAAC MAYER WISE (1819-1900)

NICHOLAS PATRICK STEPHEN WISEMAN (1802-1865)

GEORGE WISHART (c. 1513-1546)

JOHANNES WISLICENUS (1835-1902)

WITAN, or WITENAGEMOT (from O. Eng. wita, p1. witan, a wise man, and gemot, a meeting, from O. Eng. metan, to meet)

WITCH OF AGNESI

GEORGE WITHER (1588-1667)

JOHN WITHERSPOON (1723-1794)

WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

WITOWT, or WITOLD (1350-1430)

HERMANN WITSIUS (1636-1708)

COUNT SERGE JULIEVICH WITTE (1849— )

COUNT LUDWIG ADOLF PETER WITTGENSTEIN

WITTINGAU (Czech, Trreboh)

WIVELISCOMBE (pronounced Wilscomb)

WLADISLAUS (WLADISLAW)

WOCHUA (Aci;ua.)

ROBERT WODROW (1679-1734)

JOSEPH WOELFL (1772--1812)

MARGARET [PEG] WOFFINGTON (c. 1714-1760)

FRIEDRICH WOHLER (1800-1882)

MICHAEL WOHLGEMUTH (1434-1519)

JOHN WOLCOT (1738-1819)

ROGER WOLCOTT (1679-1767)

WOLF (Canis lupus)

FRIEDRICH AUGUST WOLF (1759-1824)

HUGO WOLF (1860-1903)

JOSEPH WOLF (1820-1899)

CHARLES WOLFE (1791-1823)

JAMES WOLFE (1727-1759)

WOLFF (less correctly WOLF), CHRISTIAN (1679-1754)

CASPAR FRIEDRICH WOLFF (1733-1794)

JOSEPH WOLFF (1795–1862)

WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH

WOLFRAMITE, or WOLFRAM

WILLIAM WOLLASTON (1659--1724)

WILLIAM HYDE WOLLASTON (1766-1828)

WOLOF (WoLOFF, JOLOF)

LOUIS FRANCOIS MICHEL RAYMOND WOLOWSKI (1810-1876)

VISCOUNT GARNET JOSEPH WOLSELEY WOLSELEY (1833- )

THOMAS WOLSEY (c. 1475–1530)

CHARLOTTE WOLTER (1834-1897)

HENRY HARTLEY FOWLER WOLVERHAMPTON

ANTHONY A2 WOOD (1632-1695)

JOHN GEORGE WOOD (1827—1889)

MRS HENRY [ELLEN] WOOD (1814—1887)

SEARLES VALENTINE WOOD (1798—188o)

CHARLES HERBERT WOODBURY (1864— )

LEVI WOODBURY (1789—1851)

WOODCOCK (O. Eng. wude-cocc, wudu-coc, and wudu-snite)

HENRY SAMPSON WOODFALL (173.9-1805)

LEONARD WOODS (1774-1854)

SIR ALBERT WOODS (1816-1904)

SAMUEL WOODWARD (179o-1838)

WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES WOOL

WILLIAM WOOLLETT (1735-1785)

JOHN WOOLMAN (1720-1772)

THOMAS WOOLNER (1825-1892)

THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY (18or—1889)

THOMAS WOOLSTON (1669—1731)

WOOTTON BASSETT

EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF WORCESTER

EARL OF JOHN TIPTOFT WORCESTER (1427—1470)

WILLIAM WORCESTER (c. 1415-c. 1482)

CHARLES WORDSWORTH (1806–1892)

CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH (1774–1846)

CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH (1807–1885)

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-185o)

BOARD OF WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS

WORKS ILLUSTRAT1ID

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY (1835-1866)

CHARLES FREDERICK WORTH (1825-1895)

NICHOLAS WOTTON (c. 1497–1567)

SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568–1639)

WILLIAM WOTTON (1666-1727)

WOUND (O. Eng. wund,connected with a Teutonic verb, meaning to strive, fight, suffer, seen in O. Eng. winnan, whence Eng. " win ")

PHILIP WOUWERMAN (1618-1668)

COUNT VON FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ERNST WRANGEL (1784–1877)

KARL GUSTAV VON WRANGEL (1613-1676)

SIR NATHANIEL WILLIAM WRAXALL (1751-1831)

WREATH (O. Eng. wry, from wriian, to twist)

WREN (O. Eng. wrcknna, Mid. Eng. wrenne; Icel. rindill)

SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (1632-1723)

WRESTLING (O. Eng. wrcestlian)

WREXHAM (Welsh•Gwrecsam, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Wrighlesham)

CARROLL DAVIDSON WRIGHT (1840-1909)

CHAUNCEY WRIGHT (1830-1875)

JOSEPH WRIGHT (1734-1797)

SILAS WRIGHT (1795-1847)

THOMAS WRIGHT (1809–1884)

THOMAS WRIGHT (1810—1877)

WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT (1836– )

WRIT (O. Eng. gewrit, writ, from writan, to write)

WRITERS TO THE SIGNET

WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

WRYNECK (Ger. Wendehals, Dutch draaihalzen, Fr. torcol)

WULFHERE (d. 675)

ST WULFSTAN (c. 1o12—1095)

JURGEN WULLENWEBER (c. 1492—1537)

WILHELM MAX WUNDT (1832— )

CHARLES ADOLPHE WURTZ (1817–1884)

KARL FRIEDRICH ADOLF WUTTKE (1819—1870)

ALEXANDER H WYANT

SIR THOMAS WYAT (1503—1542)

SIR THOMAS WYAT (d. 1554)

JAMES WYATT (1746–1813)

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY (c. 1640-1716)

WYCOMBE (officially CHEPPING WYCOMBE, also CHIPPING or HIGH WYCOMBE)

ALEXANDER WYLIE (1815-1887)

ROBERT WYLIE (1839—1877)

WYMONDHAM (pronounced Windham)

WYNAAD, or WAINAD

SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM (1837— )

BART SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM

SIR JOHN WYNN (1553-1627)

ANDREW OF WYNTOUN (?1350-?142o)

THOMAS WYON (1792—1817)

SIR THOMAS WYSE (1791—1862)

DANIEL ALBERT WYTTENBACH (1746—1820)

WYVERN, or WIVERN

XANTHI (Turkish Eskije)

XANTHIC ACID (xanthogenic acid)

XANTHONE (dibenzo-y-pyrone, or diphenylene ketone oxide)

XANTHUS (mod. Gunuk)

XAPAKTHP ("engraving" or "engraved piece")

FRANCISCO DE XAVIER (1506-1552)

XERXES (the Greek form of the Pers. Khshayarsha; Old Testament Ahasverus, Akhashverosh—i.e. Ahasuerus (q.v.)—with wrong vocalization and substitution of y for v, instead of Akhshavarsh; in Aramaic inscriptions and papyri from Egypt the name is written Khs

XIL MATHILDE LETITIA WILHELMINE (1820-1904)

XIL THE REIGN OF VICTORIA

JOANNES XIPHILINUS

GUILIELMUS XYLANDER (WILHELM HOLTZMAN, according to his own spelling) (1532-1576)

XYLENE, or DIMETHYL BENZENE, C6H4(CH3)2

XYLOPHONE (Fr. xylophone; Ger. Xylophon, Strohfiedel or Holzharmonika; Ital. armonica de legno)

Y4RKAND (Chinese name Soche Fu)

YABLONOI, or YABLONOVOI (" Apple Mountains," known to the Mongols as Dynze-daban)

YAKUB KHAN (1849- )

YAKUT, or YAKUT (Yaqut ibn 'Abdallah ur-Rumi) (1179-1229)