English Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was an English nobleman and soldier.He was the younger son of Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt. As

Was an English nobleman and soldier.He was the younger son of Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt. As a young man he took "an ensigncy" in the First Foot Guards Light Dragoons, in October 1759. The regiment had been raised at his father's expense and was known as Harcourt's Black.

Was an English cricketer, and pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor the Royal Air Force.

Was an English cricketer, and pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor the Royal Air Force. Shakespeare played 26 first-class matches for Worcestershire between 1919 and 1931. He made his first-class debut in August 1919 against Warwickshire. He

Was an English amateur cricketer during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A right-handed ba

Was an English amateur cricketer during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A right-handed batsman who occasionally bowled, he was the joint captain of Kent County Cricket Club between 1890 and 1893.

Was an English cricketer who played a single first-class match, for Worcestershire against Glamorgan

Was an English cricketer who played a single first-class match, for Worcestershire against Glamorgan at Cardiff Arms Park in 1923.

Was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played 14 times for Worcestershire in their ear

Was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played 14 times for Worcestershire in their early years in first-class cricket. Born in Aston, Birmingham, Wilkes' first-class debut came in a County Championship match against Yorkshire County Cricket

Was an English physician who was the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact d

Was an English physician who was the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.

Styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He s

Styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891. Lord Dartmouth served with a volunteer battalion of the S

Is a former English professional footballer born in Plymouth, Devon, who played as a forward or wing

Is a former English professional footballer born in Plymouth, Devon, who played as a forward or wing half. He made 237 appearances and scored 40 goals in the Football League playing for Reading, Northampton Town, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers and Accrington Stanley.

Was a professional footballer who played most of his career at Huddersfield Town.He is one of Hudder

Was a professional footballer who played most of his career at Huddersfield Town.He is one of Huddersfield's all-time goal-scorers with 126 goals in his career between 1913 and 1934.

Was an English cricketer, and one of only a handful of players who played first-class cricket before

Was an English cricketer, and one of only a handful of players who played first-class cricket before the First World War and after the Second World War. He played for Kent County Cricket Club after the First World War. He scored 39 centuries, including a highest score of 332 against Essex in 1934. He scored more than 1,000 runs in 11 seasons of county cricket. He was also successful as a bowler, taking 602 wickets at a bowling average of 32.47. He retired in 1937. He became an umpire after retiring from first class cricket, and stood in two Tests against New Zealand in 1949 and one against the West Indies in 1950. He stepped down from the umpire's list resume his playing career as captain of Leicestershire 2nd XI until he was 55, doubling up as their coach and scorer. He died in Rugby, Warwickshire, aged 80.

Was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Ins

Was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services (known as the Beveridge Report) which served as the basis for the post-World War II Labour government's Welfare State, especiall

Was an English cricketer and footballer: a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Glo

Was an English cricketer and footballer: a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and MCC in the early 1890s; as well as keeping goal for Headington United (later Oxford United). He is notable as the first man to perform the "wicket-keeper's hat-trick" (three dismissals off consecutive deliveries) and the only man to perform a hat-trick of stumpings. He made his first-class debut for Oxford University in 1891 against Lancashire, in the same year hitting his only half-century by making 65 not out (with no team-mate scoring more than 13) in his only appearance for MCC, against Somerset.

Was a South African-born English all-round cricketer who played 66 times in first-class cricket in t

Was a South African-born English all-round cricketer who played 66 times in first-class cricket in the early 20th century. He played county cricket for Worcestershire and Hampshire, as well as representing the Gentlemen against the Players, but he appeare

Was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1821 to 1844. A medium pac

Was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1821 to 1844. A medium pace underarm bowler who was mainly associated with Cambridge Town Club and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he made 42 known appearances in first-class matches. He represented the Players in the Gentlemen v Players series and the South in the North v. South series.

Was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.He was born in Barro

Was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, England. Following graduation from the Royal College of Science, London, in 1898, he became an assistant to Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian radio entrepreneur. In 1901 he received his doctorate from the Royal College of Science. Eccles was an advocate of Oliver Heaviside's theory that a conducting layer of the upper atmosphere could reflect radio waves around the curvature of the Earth, thus enabling their transmission over long distances. Originally known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, this region of the Earth's atmosphere became known as the Ionosphere. In 1912 Eccles suggested that solar radiation was responsible for the observed differences in radio wave propagation during the day and night

Was an English cricketer. William Horton was educated at Stonyhurst for whom he represented the 1st

Was an English cricketer. William Horton was educated at Stonyhurst for whom he represented the 1st XI. As a right-handed batsman, he represented Middlesex in two matches in 1927 and the Europeans in India in two matches between 1929/1930 and 1934/1935.

Was an athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons firstly for

Was an athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons firstly for the Liberal Party and then for the Conservatives between 1880 and 1905 when he was raised to the peerage. He was President of the Thames Conservancy Board

Was an English cricketer. Harrison made a single first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1902 C

Was an English cricketer. Harrison made a single first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1902 County Championship, playing his only match against Warwickshire.

Was an English cricketer who played five first-class matches for Worcestershire in the space of litt

Was an English cricketer who played five first-class matches for Worcestershire in the space of little over a month in 1909. He took only two wickets: those of Warwickshire's Charles Baker and Middlesex's Harold Wyatt.

Was an English cricketer. Lipscomb was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm medium p

Was an English cricketer. Lipscomb was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm medium pace. Lipscomb made his first-class debut for Hampshire in 1866, against Surrey. Hemsted played four first-class matches for Hampshire, with his final match

Was a fast bowler and the unpredictable, occasionally devastating counterpart to the amazingly hard-

Was a fast bowler and the unpredictable, occasionally devastating counterpart to the amazingly hard-working Tom Richardson for Surrey in the early County Championship. A capable enough batsman against weaker bowling sides who scored over 10,000 runs in fi

Was an English cricketer. Style was a right-handed batsman and played primarily as a wicketkeeper. S

Was an English cricketer. Style was a right-handed batsman and played primarily as a wicketkeeper. Style represented Hampshire in one first-class match in 1865 against Surrey.

Was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research work on the d

Was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research work on the degradation of naturally occurring organic chemicals. He was the eldest son of Sir William Henry Perkin who had founded the aniline dye industry, and was born at Sudbury, England, close to his father's dyeworks at Greenford.In 1892 he accepted the chair of organic chemistry at Victoria University of Manchester , England, succeeding Carl Schorlemmer, which he held until 1912. During this period his stimulating teaching and brilliant researches attracted students from all parts, and he formed at Manchester a school of organic chemistry famous throughout Europe. This was possible because he was assigned new laboratory buildings,

Was an English sailor and astronomer. He was the father of Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington Wilki

Was an English sailor and astronomer. He was the father of Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth and General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth. Of his daughters, Henrietta Grace Smyth married Professor Baden Powell and was mother of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, while Georgiana Rosetta Smyth married Sir William Henry Flower.Smyth joined the Royal Navy and during the Napoleonic wars he served in the Mediterranean, eventually achieving the rank of Admiral. He married Eliza Anne "Annarella" Warington in 1815. During a hydrographic survey in 1817 he met the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in Palermo, Sicily, and visited his observatory; this sparked his interest in astronomy and in 1825 he retired from the Navy to establish a private observatory in Bedford, England, equipped with a 5.9-inch refractor telescope. He used this instrument to observe a variety of deep sky objects over the course of the 1830s, including double stars,

Was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire,

Was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces of the Honourable East India Company, in 1804, returning to Britain in 1837. He became Member of Parliament for Aberdeen in 1857, and was elected President of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1858.