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Wagner. - RICHARD HENRY WAGNER, M. D. , Boon's Place, Plymouth ; second son of John Wagner, _ J .P. , of Dunmanway; born at Dunmanway, September nth, 186-1- ; educated privately, and at Queen 's College, Cork; M.D., M.Ch., l\I.A.O., Royal Uni\'ersity of Ireland, 1886. Medical Officer 4th District , Plymouth Unio:--.; Medical R eferee Royal and Pearl Assurance Companies ; ~Iember of the British Medical Association ; H onorary Medical Officer Plym outh Swimming Club ; has writt en a treatise on life saving, and lectures frequently on swimming; he and hs wife t ake great interest -n the Plymouth Amateur Dramatic Association. Married, August, 1892, Susan eldest daughter of J ohn J ames Marshall, J.p ., of Woodland Ten'ace, Plymouth , and has surviving issue one daugh ter. Aileen.

Wagner.- ROBERT BIRD -WAGNER, M.B., 7, Mount Edgcumbe Terrace, Stoke Devonport ; third and youngest sor of J e h:. Wagner , J.p. , of DU!lmanway; born at Dun­manway , August 25th, 1869; educat ed privately, and at Queer's Cc llege, Cork; M.B., B.Ch. , B.A.O. , R oyal University of Ireland. 1891. Is a well known breeder, exhibiter, and judge of gun dogs, and has won hundreds of prizes in E ngland ~nd Ireland , with such well known dogs as " Rock of Sennen " (setter) , " Underhill Lorna" (Gordon setter), an d Cocker spani els," Mary Bowdles," "Underhill Blue Bell ," "Underhill Raven," " Bright Witch," and " Blushing Widow," etc., etc. Married, in 1900 (his brother, the R ev. Dr. W . Wolfe Wagner . M.A. , officiating), Eva, second daught er of J ohn J ames Marshall, J.p., of Woodland Terrace, Plymouth .

Warren.- EDwAIW CARLETO N WARREN, Coolgrena, Rush· brooke, co . Cork ; only son of the la te Edward Townsend Warren , of Belleville, co . Cork, formerly of the qoth Light Infantry; born December 27th, 1826 ; educated at Kilkenny College. Married, September 6th, 1892, Emily, daughter of Henry Baldwin Foott, of Carrigacunna Castle, Killavullen , Mallow , co. Cork_

Waters. EATON WILLI AM WATERS, Brideweir , Aghern, Conna, co . Cork; son of the late Dr. Eaton W. Waters ; educated at Queen's College, Galway, and Carmichael College, Dublin; M_A.O . (honours) . r887 ; M.B. M.Ch., Royal University of Ireland, 1886. Late Demonstrator of Anatomy, Queen's Coll f'ge, Galway; practised for some years in Englcl..l1d . Recreations : gardenin g. and fishing.

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Warren.- LIEUT.-COLONEL HAROLD GALWEY WARREN, J.P., Sierra Leone. West Africa; only son of the late Major John Augustus vVarren, J.P., of Coolcower House, Macroom, and his wife, Mary Spence, daughter of Thomas Thimblely, of Avenue Hous,:;, Spilsby, Lincolnshire; born at Eastaway, Morwenstow, North Cornwall, in 1874; educated at Chatham House College, Ramsgate. District Commissioner, Sierra Leone, West Africa; Justice of the Peace. co. Cork, and Sierra Leone; Lieut.-Colonel Limerick City Royal Field Reserve Artillery; :vIedal for quelling disturbance in Sierra Leone. Recreation : big game hunting, and has many trophies of elephants' tusks, etc

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Webb. - CHARLES ARTHUR WEBB, J.P., WIlton, Mallow, co. Cork; and Quartertown . House, Mallow; second son of John Webb, of Castletownroche, co. Cork, born at <:;astle­town roche, in 1858; educated at Exeter, afterwards Public School, Sherborne , Dorsetshire. Justice of the Peace for co. Cork; Chairman of J. and R. Webb, Ltd., Quartertown, and Mallow Mills, co Cork. Hon. Treasurer of \lIallow Parish (Church of Ireland); Life Member of The Royal Dublin Society Married, October 27th, 1890, Isabella Maria, eldest daughter of Thomas Sanders, J.P. , LL.D., of Sanders Park, CharlevIlle, and niece of the late Colonel Robert Sanders, C.B., J.P., of Charleville ParK, co. Cork, and has issue onp daughter, Frances Renita. Clubs: County Cork. and Duhallow Hunt.

Webber. - WILLIAYl DOWNES WEBBER, J.P., Mitchelstown Castle, Mitchelstown, co. Cork, Kellavil, \2ueen's County, and Leekfield, co. Sligo; son of the late Rev '- Thomas Charles Webber, of Leekfield, co. Sligo, Rector of Ovoca. co. Wic:dow; born at Dublin, July 19th, 1834; educated privately, and at Trinity College, Dublin; B.A., 1857. Has bee!l engaged in estate . management, and farming in Queen's County, and co. Cork, and breeding cattle and horses; he and his wife, the Countess of Kingston, have lived constantly at Mitchelstown as resident landowners. The difficulties arising from the "No Rent" agitation were finally overcome by the sale of the estate to the occupying tenantry in 1904; is Justice of the Peace for co. Cork and Queen's County; Grand Juror for Cork; member of Royal Dublin Society, and Munster Agricultural Society; has travelled in Central and South Europe repeatedly, and round Globe in 1887, Vl cL Australia, New Zealand, China,

Japan. and the United States, and also in the West Indies, and Canada. Married, July 29th, r873, Anna Countess of Kingston, Lady of the Manor of Mitchelstown, widow of the 5th Earl of Kingstori, and daughter of Matthew Brinkley, of Parsonstown, co. Meath. Clubs: Kildare Street, Dublin; Cork County; and Junior Conservative, London.

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Webster. - REV. CHARLES ALEXANDER WEBSTE R, B.D., lVIarmullane Recwry, Passage West , co. Cork; son of the lat e George Web::oter, of Killowen, Bandon, co. Cork; born October 5tb, r866 ; educat ed at Devonshire Grammar School, Bandon, and Trinity College, Dublin; B.A. (Resp.), r890; Divinity Test (2nd Class) , r89 [ : Archbishop King's Divinity Prize (2nd); B.D. , 1900. Ordained Deacon at Kilkenny , r890 , and Priest, at Cork by tbe late Right Rev. R. S. Gregg, in r8gI. Curate of Nohoval Union, r890-92 ; Curate of Marmullane, r892-I gO I, a nd Rectnr from. rgor. Author of "The Church Plate of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross " (Guy and Company), and of various articles in theological and archc.eological m agazines. Member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Irela nd. Married , September 8th, Ig03, Emily Frances, elder daughter of the late Willi8.m Morley, of Mavis Enderby and

Rev. C. A. Webster, B.D. Raithby, Lincolnshire, and granddaughter of Rev. William Morley, Vi car of Enderby and R aithby, Lincolnshire, and of the late Thomas Parsons Boland, of Pembroke, Passage West , co. Cork, and has issue one daughter , Sarah Emily Boland, born July 211d, I g04. Is a Freem ason , No.8, St. Patrick's Lodge, and Royal Arch Chapter. No.8.

.\1r. T. E. Weekes, J.P.

Mr. F. C. Weldon .

Weekes. - THOMAS EARLE WEEKES, J.p., Hazledean, Monkstown, co. Cork; son of the late Thomas Earle Weekes, of Windsor Terrace, Plymouth. Justice of the Pep'ce for co . Cork . Married SophIa, daughter of the late Edward Stocker, of Glenview, St. Austell , Cornwall, and has issue two sons, Thomas Earle. B.A., T. C.D , who was drowned saving a life at Ceylon, le aving a daughter, Marj ory; Edward Stocker, of Kingston-on-Thames, and six daughters, Caroline Penkivil, married to Richard Alger Oram, son of the late Richard Sprague Oram, C. B., late Chief Inspector of Factories ; Alice Sophia , of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society in China; Mary Roxana , married to Robert William Belton, of Monkstown; Sarah Mildred, married to J ohn O. Garland, of W olvers, near Reigate, Surrey; Winifred Ann, married to Colonel Molesworth, of the Indi an Medical Service; and Clara Medland. married t('j Percy Howe, son of the late Colonel Howe, of Monkstown.

Weldon.-FRANCIS CORNWELL WELDON, Cooliney. Charle ville; son of the late Robert Weldon, of Cooliney; born at Cooliney, in r855; educated at Tipperary Grammar School. Landowner and farmer; District Councillor for Charleville; hunted for twenty years with Duhallow, now retired; in r897. won Duhallow Hunt Cup (fourteen St!.HlP) with" Old Boy" by "May Boy"; in r 905, won rst prize for weight (fifteen stone carrying hunters at Dublin Horse Show with" Pat " Married Lllcy, daughter of Captain Burinston. R.N., and has issue four daughters

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Welply. - JOHN J AGOE WELPLY, M.D., Floraville, Bandon. co. Cork; son of the late William Norwood Welply. of Kilronan, co. Cork born in 1851; educated privately, and at Queen's College. Cork; M.D., with First Honours. Gold :Vledal, and Peel Prize in Medicine, Q.D.I., 1876 : iVl.Ch. , L.M., Queen's University, Ireland. Since 1879 has been ,engaged in general practice at Bandon; was formerly Medical Officer of Bandon Dispensary, and Medical Officer of Health for Bandon District, which positions he resigned after holding them upwards of twenty years Author of " Creaneries and Infectious Diseases," articles that appeared first in the Lancel,

and were subsequently published in book form; they wt're bast'd on ;m account of an epidemic of typhoid fever, which he ,traced to a creamery; this was the first recorded case of infectious diseases spread by creameries, and led to much

Dr. J. J. Welply. more efficient supervision. Married, firstly, in 1880, Ellen (who died 1904), daughter of J ohn A. J agoe.of Westfield, co. Cork, and had issue one son and ont' daughter; secondly, in 1910, J ane, daughter of George Crofts, of Templehlll; and Concamore, co. Cork.

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Welply.-JOHN J AGOE "WELPLY, 'Nestfield, AghCldown; only son of John Jagoe Welply, M.D., of Bandon; born at Bandon, in 1880; educated at St. Faughnan's College, Ross­carbery, and Bandon GrClmmar School. Spent some time in Australia; served in the Boer war, 1900, in the Prince of Wales's Light Horse under Colonel Owen Thomas, and aftr'f­wards in the Irish Horse under Lord Longford; Medal and four bars; later five years in New Zealand with a large colliery, two years of which was with the Dunedin Highland Rifles; returned to Ireland in 1908, and in I909 inherited the Westfield property from. his uncle, the late Samuel J agoe ; keen on all sports, particularly hunting, shooting, and fishing. Married, December loth, 1904 (at All Saints, Dunedin, New Zealand, by the Rev. Dean Fitchett), Oriel Adelaide, only daughter of Arthur Oriel Singer Cave, formerly of Rossbrin Manor, co. Cork (see page 143) , and his ;'vife, Jane Adeliza

H usseyde Burgh, widow of John Henry Townshend, 2nd Life Guards, of Castletownroche, and has issue one dallghter, Oriel Ellen Henrietta, and two sons, John Samuel, and Arthur de Burgh.

Dr. R. A. H. Williams, J.P.

Williams.-ROf\ERT ALOYSIUS HAMILTON WILLIAMS, J.P., Queen Square, Fermoy, co. Cork; son of Patrick Williams, of Shandon Lodge, Dungarvan, co. Waterford; born at Dungarvan, co. Waterford; educated at Queen's University, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cork; Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians, Edinburgh, and Licentiate in Midwifery, 1882; L.A.H. Dublin, I884. Medical OffIcer Great ~outhern and Western Railway; Medical Attendant Royal Irish Constabulary; Certifying Factory Surgeon; Medical Referee Prudential and other Assurance Companies, and Post Office Insurance Department; Justice of the Peace for counties Cork and Waterford Grand Nephew, late Bartholomew Rivers Riverstown, Tramore, co. Waterford, and the late Joseph Rivers , Tybroughney Castle, Carrick-on-Suir. Presented an Address to their Majesties the King and Queen on the occasion of their visit to his Grace the

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late Duke of Devonshire at Lismore Castle in the summer of 1904, on behalf of the inhabitants of F ermoy. Married Joan, elder daughter of Patrick Walsh, of Ballyquin House, Ardmore, F oxmount, and Knocknacullen. co. Waterford, and has issue Frederick Joseph, and Dorothy Mary J osephine. Club: Junior Conservative, London.

Mr J. F. Williamson.

Williamson.-JAMES FRANKLIN V\'ILLIAMSON,OldDromore, and Summer Hill, Mallow, co. Cork; son of Usher Williamson, J.P ; born at Old Dromore, Mallow, June 24th, 1857; educated at Teignmouth, South Devon, and Royal School, Armagh. Clerk of Petty Sessions for the District of Mallow for more than thirty years ; is interested in agriculture and a well k.nown

. seed potato specialist ; .. memoer of the County Cork Committee of Agriculture, etc. Married, in June, r887, Jane, daughter of Edward H eard, of Ballintubber, co. Cork, and has issue two sons, Usher Arthur ' Franklin, born March 8th, 1894, and Edward Benjamin Bickford, born Ju ne 16th, 1897.

Williamson. - COLONEL ROBERT FREDERIC WILLIAMSON , C.B., Carrokeal, Mallow, co . Cork; son of the late Lieut.-Colonel J ohn Williamson, late 33rd Regiment of Foot; born at Templemore, Tipperary, April 29tl~, 1843 ; educated at Sandhurst. Entered the Army in Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1861; Captain, 1870; Major, 1881 ; Lieut.-Colonel , 1885; Colonel, 1886; served on West Coast of Africa, Coomasi, 1874 ; in Burmah war at taking of Mandalay, . and further operations; served in the Hazara Campaign, r890-91, as Brigadier-General; five times mentioned in Dispatches, receiving Medal and clasp for West Coast of Africa; Medal and clasp for Burmah; clasp for Hazara a nd C.B., r89r. Farms own estate of nearly 300 acres at Carrokeal, and is a breeder of hunters ; High Sheriff of county Cork, 19IO-II. Recreations: hunting; on the Con:tmittee of the Duhallow Hounds. Married, in 1883, Mabel, daughter of Lieut. ,General Sir George Cheeney, K.C.B., who was M.F. for Oxford, and has' issue two daughters, H elen, married to Lieut. Gilbert Stevenson, R.N., and Kathleen , married Major Hunt. Club : County, Cork.

Wilson.-REV. ARTHUR WILSON, Fanlobbus Rectory, Dunmanway, co. Cork; son of the late Rev . Peter Wilson, B.A., of Dublin; born at Rothdrum, co. Wicklow, March z2nd. r856; educated at Ormond School, Rathmines, under the Rev . Roger North, Principal, and Trinity College, Dublin; 1st Classical Sizal'ship; 3rd Classical Scholarship ; Junior and Senior Exhibitions ; B.A., 1878; Examiner at Apothecaries ' Hall , Dublin, 1879-80. Ordained Deacon, 1880, and Priest, 188r , by the Bishop of Cork ; Curate of Queenstown, 1880; Y oughal, 1881-84 , Incumbent of Frankfield, 1884-90, and Curate of st. Fin Barre's Parish, Cork; Incumbent of Caheragh, 1890-97; Incumbent of St. Anne, Shandon, Cork, 1897-1904; Incumbent of F anlobbus from 1904; Governor of Diocesan Board of Education; member of Diocesan Council and General Synod. During Incumbency of St .

Rev. Arthur Wilson. Anne, Shandon (where are the famous" Bells of Shandon "),

a new organ wa~ erect ed at a cost of £500; from 1899-1904 was e'lected by Cork Corporation /'

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