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 WORDEN. See WERDEN.

Admitted 12 August, 1595.

Fourth son of Thomas Wotton, born at Boughton Malherbe, in Kent, in 1568. In the year following his admission he became secretary to the Earl of Essex. He was knighted by James I., and employed as Ambassador to Venice, the United Provinces, and the German Courts. In 1624 he was made Provost of Eton, to qualify for which position he took deacon's orders. He retained this post until his death in 1639.

He wrote Epistola ad Marcum Velserum Duumvirum (1612); Epistola de Gaspare Scioppio (1613); Elements of Architecture, collected from the First Authors, etc. (1624); Plausus et Vota ad Regem e Scotia Reducem (1633); Parallel between Robert, Earl of Essex, and George, Duke of Bucks (1641); Short View of the Life of George Villiers, Duke of Bucks (1642); Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, or A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems, etc. (1651); The State of Christendom (1657); Letters to Sir Edmund Baker (1661); Letters to the Lord Zouch (1685).

Admitted 25 April, 1812.

Second son of Stephen Woulfe of Tiermaclane, co. Clare. He was educated at Stonyhurst and at Trinity College, Dublin, being one of the first Roman Catholics to be admitted. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1814. In 1830 be became Crown Counsel for Munster, and in 1835 entered Parliament for Cashel, and was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland the following year. In 1837 he became Attorney-General, and in the next year was raised to the Bench as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, being the first Roman Catholic elevated to that dignity. He died at Baden-Baden 2 July, 1840.

Admitted 6 February, 1693-4.

Son and heir of the great architect. He was educated at Eton and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, but left without graduating. He represented Windsor in Parliament from 1713 to 1715; but his chief claim to fame is his collection of the documents which form the chief materials for the Life of his distinguished father, and which were published by his son in 1750 under the title of Parentalia. He was a numismatist of some repute, and published in 1708 a treatise entitled Numismatum Antiquorum Sylloge. He died 6 Sept. 1747.

Admitted 14 November, 1670.

Son and heir of Rev. Abraham Wright of Oakham, divine. He came to the Middle Temple from New Inn, and was called to the Bar 14 May, 1675. He dwelt much at Oakham, in Rutland, of which his father was Vicar, and there studied the antiquities of the county, a history of which he published in 1684. In 1685 he published an account of the Popish Plot, 1678—84, under the title