Dictionary of National Biography, 1904 errata/Volume 61
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| v | ii | 10 f.e. | List of Writers: for B.D. read D.D. |
| 4 | ii | 39 | Whiddon, Jacob: for (fl. 1585-1595) read (d. 1595) |
| l.l. | for It is probable that he was read He was | ||
| 5 | i | 1-4 | for the expedition against Cadiz . . . . is not mentioned, read but he died on the return journey, and was buried by Ralegh, who styles him 'a man most honest and valiant,' in the island of Trinidad (Discoverie of Guiana, in Raleh's Works, viii. p. 398) |
| 7 | i | 12 | Whinyates, Sir Edward C.: for first captain read post-captain |
| 13 | ii | 36 | Whiston, William: for Grabes's read Grabe's |
| 20 | ii | 33 | Whitaker, Tobias: for (fl. 1634-1661) read (d. 1666) |
| 21 | i | 11 | Whitaker, William: for seventeenth read sixteenth |
| 12 | for Bromley read Burnley | ||
| 33 | i | 13 f.e. | White, Charles: for (1695- read (1696- |
| ii | 4 | for Royal College of Surgeons read Corporation of Surgeons (now the Royal College of Surgeons) | |
| 48 | for 13 Feb. read 20 Feb. | ||
| 51 | for 1759 read 1757 | ||
| 34 | i | 16 | for 1733 read 1773 and for 1785 read 1784 |
| 18 | for 1773 read 1793 | ||
| 56 | i | 2 | White, John (1576-1618): for Hinlip read Hindlip |
| 70 | i | 36-52 | White, Richard (d. 1584). There seems reason to believe that the Richard Gwyn of St. John's College, Cambridge, whose career is described in the lines indicated is to be distinguished from the martyred Richard White who, to the college register, matriculated as a pensioner from Christ's College, Cambridge, in May 1571, graduating B.A. and M.A. (1578). |
| 103 | i | 13 | Whitehead, John (1630-1696): for 1764 read 1704 |
| 127 | ii | 9 f.e. | Whitford, Walter: omit by the |
| 128 | ii | 18-19 | for queen's scholar read king's scholar |
| 151 | ii | 18 f.e. | Whittingham, William: for Italian read Roman |
| 18-12 f.e. | for omitted, as were the names . . . . the calendar prefixed, read differentiated, as regards its authoritative value, from the rest of the Old Testament, | ||
| 7 f.e. | for Some sixty read More than sixty | ||
| 153 | ii | 39 | for Doré's read Dore's |
| 158 | i | 21 f.e. | Whittington, Robert: for 1528 read 1521, 1525 |
| 180 | ii | 26-7 | Widdrington, Ralph: for before 30 Aug. 1688, when read on 10 June 1688: on 30 Aug. following |
| 182 | ii | 5 f.e. | Widdrington, Sir Thomas: omit perhaps |
| 4 f.e. | after who insert matriculated as a pensioner in April 1617, and | ||
| 197 | i | 17 f.e. | Wiglaf: for Hambury read Hanbury
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| 203 | i | 23 | Wilberforce Robert I.: for Brown read Browne |
| ii | 2 f.e. | ||
| 207 | i | 6-5 f.e. | Wilberforce, Samuel: for denied the bishop's right to refuse institution to read reversed the sentence of a year's suspension passed by the Court of Arches on some of |
| 221 | ii | 38 | Wild, George: after old age. insert Several plays that he wrote for St. John's College, Oxford, are extant in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 14047. |
| 256 | i | 16 | Wilkie, Sir David: for seized for the rent of the room, read unfairly seized for rent owing by a previous tenant of the room. |
| 265 | ii | 13 | Wilkins, John: for probably read became in 1663 |
| 14-15 | for though some authorities . . . . this appointment; read (cf. Sloane MS. 1326, f. 40 b) | ||
| 267 | ii | 40 | Wilkins, William: for Oxberton read Osberton |
| 271 | i | 25 | Wilkinson, Henry: for Kennet's read Kennett's |
| 272 | i | 29 | Wilkinson, James J. G.: for A bust read A bust by F. Leifchild |
| 287 | i | 2 f.e. | Willes, Sir John: for Bishop's Ickington read Bishop's Itchington |
| 306 | i | 25-26 | William II: for and the duchy of Normandy were read was |
| 314 | i | 50-51 | William III: for Kennet read Kennett and so through article |
| 331 | i | 15 | William IV: for of Victoria read Victoria |
| 367 | ii | 33 | William de Fors, Earl of Albemarle: for King Stephen read Count Stephen |
| 369 | ii | 21 f.e. | for Beforth read Beeford |
| 379 | i | 35 | Williams, Sir Charles H.: after (1664-1734) insert [q. v.] |
| 396 | i | 6 f.e. | Williams, Edward E.: for Elliker read Ellerker |
| 4-2 | for His father, a merchant . . . . attained his majority, read His father Captain John Williams, a captain in the East India Company's army, died on his voyage home from India in June 1809. | ||
| 396 | ii | 8 | for the lady read Jane, sister of General John Wheeler Cleveland, of the Madras army |
| 34 | for Bysshe], Williams left a son, read Bysshe]. Mrs. Williams subsequently formed an union with Thomas Jefferson Hogg [q. v.J Williams's children included, besides a daughter (Mrs. Lonsdale), a son, Edward Medwin, | ||
| 36 | for a daughter, married to read a daughter, Rosalind, married to Henry Sylvan Leigh, | ||
| 18 f.e. | after cemetery add in 1884. Williams kept a diary from 21 Oct. 1821 till 4 July 1822, four days before his death. The original MS. was presented, with other relics of Williams, to the British Museum by his grandson, Mr. J. W. Williams. The diary was edited in 1902 by Dr. Richard Garnett. | ||
| 409 | i | 32 | Williams, Isaac: for The college historian read James Pycroft, in 'College Memories' |
| 410 | i | 27 | after (d. 1871). insert A portrait painted about 1850 by W. H. Cubley, of Newark, was lately presented to Trinity College to be hung in the Hall.
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