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 WINGFIELD, SIR CHARLES JOHN (1820–1892)

I.C.S. : son of W. Wingfield-Baker : educated at Westminster and Haileybury, 1837–9 : to the N.W.P. in the Civil Service, 1839 : Commissioner of the Baraich Division in Oudh in the mutiny : retired to Gonda, Balrampur and Gorakhpur : C.B., 1860 : Chief Commissioner of Oudh, 1859–65 : retired, 1866 : K.C.S.I., 1866 : M.P. for Gravesend, 1868–74 : died Jan. 27, 1892.

WINTERBOTHAM, SIR HENRY MARTIN (1847–)

I.C.S. : born Jan. 13, 1847 : son of John Brend Winterbotham : entered the Madras Civil Service, 1869 : Commissioner of Revenue Settlement, Board of Revenue, 1895 : Member of Council, 1898–1903 : retired : C.S.I., 1900 : K.C.S.I., 1903.

WODEHOUSE, JOSCELINE HENEAGE (1852–)

Born July 17, 1852 : son of Admiral George Wodehouse : educated at Woolwich : entered the Royal Artillery, 1872 : served in the Zulu war, 1879 : Afghan war, 1880 : Soudan, 1883–94 : commanded 3rd Brigade, Malakand Field Force, 1898 : severely wounded : Egyptian campaign, 1898–1900 : commanded Presidency District, Bengal, 1898–9. Sikandarabad, 1900–1 : Lahore, 1902, : C.B., 1889 : C.M.G., 1890.

WODEHOUSE, SIR PHILIP EDMOND (1811–1887)

Governor : son of Edmond Wodehouse : born Feb. 26, 1811 : entered the Ceylon Civil Service, 1828 : became Government Agent for the Western province, 1843 : was Superintendent of British Honduras, 1851 : Governor of British Guiana, 1854–61 : C.B., 1860 : Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner in South Africa, 1862–70 : K.C.B., 1862 : was Governor of Bombay, May 6, 1872, to April 30, 1877 : G.C.S.I., 1877 : his successor. Sir R. Temple, refers to his strong sense, steady judgment and practical ability : died Oct. 25, 1887.

WOLFF, REV. JOSEPH (1795–1862)

Born of Jewish parents, 1795 : educated at Stuttgart and Bamberg : converted to Christianity near Prague, 1812 : studied Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaean : attended theological lectures at Vienna : also studied, at Tubingen, Arabic, Persian, religious subjects : went to Rome, 1816, but was expelled in 1818 from the Propaganda and the city : joined the Church of England, 1819, and studied Oriental languages at Cambridge : as a Missionary, chiefly to the Jews, visited, 1821–6, Malta, Alexandria, Sinai, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Bagdad, Ispahan, Tiflis, the Crimea, Turkey : in search of the lost tribes, he travelled, from 1828, to Alexandria, Asia Minor, Persia, Bokhara, Balkh, Kabul, Calcutta, Kashmir, Madras, Pondicherry, Goa, Bombay, Egypt, Malta : in 1836 he went to Abyssinia, Jeddah, Yemen, Bombay, and the United States, where he became D.D. and was ordained, 1837 : given a living in Yorkshire, 1838 : in 1843 he again went to Bokhara to as certain the fate of Stoddart and Conolly, who had been killed : himself escaped narrowly : published a Narrative of the Mission to Bokhara, 1845 : he died at his Somerset Vicarage, May 2, 1862. He called himself "The Protestant Xavier" : he wrote his Travels and Adventures, 1860–2, and several series of journals of his missionary labours.

WOLLASTON, ARTHUR NAYLOR (1842–)

Born Oct. 14, 1842 : son of Henry Francis Wollaston : educated at Stockwell Grammar School : joined the India Office, 1859 : became a senior clerk, 1873 : Assistant Secretary, 1884, in charge of the Revenue and Statistics Department, 1886–8 : Registrar and Superintendent of Records since 1898 : Examiner in Persian at the Staff College, 1880 : superintended the translation of Oriental inscriptions in the S. Kensington Museum, 1881 : translated the Anwar-i-Suhaili, 1877 : edited Sir L. Pelly's miracle play of Hasan and Husain, 1879 : published English-Persian dictionaries, 1882 and 1889 : Half-hours with Muhammad, 1886; and (with Sir Roper Lethbridge) a Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of India : C.I.E., 1886, for his Oriental scholarship.

WOLSELEY, GARNET JOSEPH, FIRST VISCOUNT (1833–)

Born June 4, 1833 : son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley : entered the