died of a violent fever on 6 April 1726, and was buried, in accordance with the request in his will, in the Temple churchyard, under a plain raised tomb, on 12 April. He married Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir James Montagu [q. v.], chief baron of the exchequer. She died on 9 March 1746, and was buried in the same grave with her husband on 14 March. They had no children.
A volume published in 1723 contained ‘The Replies of Thomas Reeve and Clement Wearg in the House of Lords, 13 May 1723, against the Defence made by the Late Bishop of Rochester and his Counsel.’ Curll advertised late in 1726 the publication of six volumes of ‘Cases of Impotence and Divorce, by Sir Clement Wearg, late Solicitor-General.’ Curll was attacked for this by ‘A. P.’ in the ‘London Journal’ on 12 Nov. 1726, and two days later swore an affidavit that a book produced by him, and entitled ‘The Case of Impotency as debated in England, Anno 1613, in Trial between Robert, Earl of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard,’ 1715, was by Wearg. It was dated from the Inner Temple, 30 Oct. 1714. Wearg then had chambers in the new court (Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. iii. 501).
[Benchers of Inner Temple, p. 66; Gent. Mag. 1746, p. 164. A ‘Brief Memoir’ of Wearg was published by his relative, George Duke, of Gray's Inn, barrister-at-law, in 1843.]
WEATHERHEAD, GEORGE HUME (1790?–1853), medical writer, born in Berwickshire in 1789 or 1790, graduated M.D. at Edinburgh University on 1 Aug. 1816. He was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians on 27 March 1820, and died at The Cottage, Foot's Cray Park, near Bromley in Kent, on 22 June 1853.
Weatherhead was the author of: 1. ‘An Essay on the Diagnosis between Erysipelas, Phlegmon, and Erythema, with an Appendix on the Nature of Puerperal Fever,’ London, 1819, 8vo. 2. ‘A Treatise on Infantile and Adult Rickets,’ London, 1820, 12mo. 3. ‘An Analysis of the Leamington Spa in Warwickshire,’ 1820, 8vo. 4. ‘An Account of the Beulah Saline Spa at Norwood,’ London, 1832, 8vo; 3rd edit. 1833. 5. ‘A New Synopsis of Nosology,’ London, 1834, 12mo. 6. ‘A Pedestrian Tour through France and Italy,’ London, 1834, 8vo. 7. ‘A Treatise on Headaches,’ London, 1835, 12mo. 8. ‘A Practical Treatise on the Principal Diseases of the Lungs,’ London, 1837, 8vo. 9. ‘The History of the Early and Present State of the Venereal Disease examined, wherein is shown that Mercury never was necessary for its Cure,’ London, 1841, 8vo. 10. ‘On the Hydropathic Cure of Gout,’ London, 1842, 8vo; 2nd edit. 1843. He also translated from the French of Gabriel Laisné a treatise ‘On the Spontaneous Erosions and Perforations of the Stomach in contradistinction to those produced by Poisons,’ London, 1821, 12mo.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. iii. 213; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
WEATHERSHED or WETHERSHED, RICHARD of (d. 1231), archbishop of Canterbury. [See Grant, Richard.]
WEAVER, JOHN (d. 1685), politician, of North Luffenham, Lincolnshire, was admitted a freeman of Stamford on 25 Oct. 1631 (Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, i. 62). In 1643–4 he was judge-advocate to the army of the Earl of Manchester. In November 1645 he was returned to the Long parliament as member for Stamford, and in 1647 became conspicuous as one of the most outspoken members of the independent party in that body (Official Return, i. 490; Walker, Hist. of Independency, i. 95, 108, 124, 127). In January 1649 Weaver was named one of the commissioners for trying Charles I, but never attended any of the sittings of the court (Nalson, Trial of Charles I). In September 1650 he was appointed one of the four commissioners for the civil government of Ireland (Commons' Journals, vi. 479). Some of his letters in that capacity are printed in the appendix to Ludlow's ‘Memoirs’ (ed. 1894, i. 492–503). In 1652 Weaver was sent over to England to represent the views of his brother commissioners to parliament, but on 18 Feb. 1653 the officers of the Irish army petitioned for his removal, and on 22 Feb. he was, at his own request, allowed to resign (ib. i. 319; Commons' Journals, vii. 129, 260, 261; Report on the Duke of Portland's MSS. i. 644, 673). On 14 April 1653 parliament voted him Scottish lands to the value of 250l. per annum as a reward for his services, which the Protector commuted afterwards for a payment of 2,000l. (Ludlow, i. 401; Commons' Journals, vii. 278; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1654, pp. 260, 276).
Weaver represented Stamford in both the parliaments called by the Protector, and steadily voted with the republican opposition, though in 1656 he only procured his election by protesting that ‘his mind was altered from what it was in the last parliament’ (Thurloe, State Papers, v. 296, 299). None the less he was excluded from the House in September 1656, and signed the protest of the 120 members then kept out (Whitelocke, Memorials, ed. 1853, iv. 280). As soon as they were admitted Weaver began
