Webster 1913 Table of Authorities - W

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Waddell
Waddell, John Alex. Low, civil engineer
1854-
 
B. F. Wade
Wade, Benjamin Franklin, Am. statesman
1800-1878
 
Wagner
Wagner, Rufolf Johannes, Ger. chemist
1823-1880
 
W. Wagstaffe
Wagstaffe, William, Eng. phys.
1685-1725
 
Wake
Wake, William, Eng. archbishop
1672-1737
 
Wakefield
Wakefield, Gilbert, Eng. theol.
1756-1801
 
Walker
Walker, John, Eng. lexicographer
1732-1807
 
Dr. Walker, 1678
Walker, Anthony, Eng. divine
1629?-1700?
 
F. A. Walker
Walker, Francis Amasa, Am. political economist
1840-1897
 
A. R. Wallace
Wallace, Alfred Russell, Eng. traveler and ornitholigist
1822-
 
D. M. Wallace
Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Scotch author. [Russia]
1841-
 
L. Wallace
Wallace, Lewis, Am. author [Ben-Hur]
1827-
 
Waller
Waller, Edmund, Eng. poet
1605-1687
 
Wallis
Wallis, John, Eng. mathematician and grammarian
1616-1703
 
Walpole
Walpole, Horace, Eng. author
1717-1797
 
Walsh
Walsh, Robert, Am. author and journalist
1784-1859
 
J. H. Walsh
Walsh, John Henry, Eng. writer on sports, pseud. Stonehenge
1810-1888
 
W. Walsh
Walsh, William, Eng. poet
1663-1707
 
Walton
Walton, Izaak, Eng. writer. [Complete Angler]
1593-1683
 
Bp. Warburton
Warburton, Bp. Wm., Eng. author
1698-1779
 
Ward
Ward, John, Eng. writer
1679?-1758
 
A. W. Ward
Ward, Adolphus William, Eng. writer
1837-
 
Bp. Ward
Ward, Bp. Seth, Eng. divine
1617?-1689
 
E. Ward
Ward, Edward, Eng. poet
1660?-1731
 
L. F. Ward
Ward, Lester Frank, Am. scientific writer. [Dynamic Sociology]
1841-
 
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, Eng. author
1851-
 
R. P. Ward
Ward, Robert Plumer, Eng. statesman and jurist
1765-1846
 
Samuel Ward
Ward, Samuel, Eng. theologian
-1643
 
T. Ward
Ward, Thomas, Eng. writer
1652-1708
 
W. H. Ward
Ward, William Hayes, Am. Assyriologist
1835-
 
W. Warde
Warde, William. [Secrets of Physics, trans. from Fr., Lond. 1558.]
 
Warner
Warner, William, Eng. poet
1558?-1608?
 
C. D. Warner
Warner, Charles Dudley, Am. author
1829-1900
 
Warren
Warren, Samuel, Brit. author
1807-1877
 
J. Warton
Warton, Joseph, Eng. poet
1722-1800
 
T. Warton
Warton, Thomas, Eng. poet
1728-1790
 
Wase
Wase, Christopher, Eng. classical scholar
-1690
 
E. Washburn
Washburn, Emory, Am. lawyer
1800-1877
 
Washington
Washington, George, Pres. U. S.
1732-1799
 
E. Waterhouse
Waterhouse, Edward, Eng. author
1619-1670
 
Waterland
Waterland, Daniel, Eng. author
1688-1740
 
Waterton
Waterton, Charles, Eng. naturalist
1782-1865
 
Bp. Watson, 1805
Watson, Bp. Richard, Eng. divine
1737-1816
 
Sir T. Watson
Watson, Sir Thomas, Eng. phys.
1792-1882
 
W. Watson
Watson, William, Eng. author
-1603
 
Watts
Watts, Henry, Eng. chemist
1825-1884
 
I. Watts
Watts, Isaac, Eng. divine and poet
1674-1748
 
R. Watts
Watts, Robert, Am. anatomist
1812-1867
 
Wayland
Wayland, Francis, Amer. moral philosopher
1796-1865
 
Weale
Weale, John, Eng. editor and publisher
1791-1862
 
D. Webster
Webster, Daniel, Am. statesman and orator
1782-1852
 
J. Webster
Webster, John, Eng. dramatist
16th-17th c.
 
Wedgwood
Wedgwood, Hensleigh, Eng. philol.
1805-
 
Weever
Weever, John, Eng. antiquarian
1576-1632
 
Weisbach
Weisbach, Julius, Ger. math.
1806-1871
 
Sir A. Weldon
Weldon, Sir Anthony, Eng. author
1590?-1656?
 
J. S. Wells
Wells, John Soelberg, Eng. opthalmologist
ND
 
Welsford
Welsford, Henry, Eng. author
1810-
 
Welwood
Welwood, James, Scotch physician
1652-1716
 
Wesley
Wesley, John, Eng. founder of Methodism
1703-1791
 
West
West, Richard, Eng. poet
-1742
 
G. West
West, Gilbert, Eng. poet and translator
1706?-1756
 
B. F. Westcott
Westcott, Brooke Foss, Eng. biblical scholar
1825-
 
Westminster Catechism
Westminster Shorter Catechism
 
Westm. Rev.
Westminster Review, a Lond. quarterly, founded 1824
ND
 
Wharton
Wharton, Francis, Am. jurist
1820-1889
 
Wharton, Law Dict.
Wharton, John J. S., Eng. barrister and legal writer
1816?-1867
 
H. Wharton
Wharton, Henry, Eng. divine
1664-1695
 
Whately
Whately, Richard, abp. of Dublin
1787-1863
 
W. Whately
Whately, William, Eng. divine
1583-1639
 
Wheaton
Wheaton, Henry, Am. publicist and diplomatist
1785-1848
 
Wheatstone
Wheatstone, Sir Charles, Eng. physicist
1802-1875
 
Whewell
Whewell, William, Eng. philos. and scholar
1794-1866
 
B. Whichcote
Whichcote, Benj., Eng. divine
1610?-1683
 
E. P. Whipple
Whipple, Edwin Percy, Am. essayist and critic
1819-1886
 
Whishaw
Whishaw, James, Eng. lawyer. [Law Dict., Lond., 1830]
ND
 
Whiston
Whiston, William, Eng. divine and mathematician
1667-1752
 
Whitaker
Whitaker, Tobias, Eng. phys.. [Blood of Grape, Lond., 1638]
fl. 1620-1671
 
J. Whitaker
Whitaker, John, Eng. divine and antiq.
1735-1808
 
Whitby
Whitby, Daniel, Eng. divine
1638-1726
 
Gilbert White
White, Gilbert, Eng. divine and naturalist
1720-1793
 
James White
White, Jas., Brit. divine and hist.
1806-1862
 
James White
White, James, Eng. veterinary surgeon. [Farriery, 1815]
 
R. G. White
White, Richard Grant, Am. author
1821-1885
 
Whitefoot
Whitefoot, Minutes in posth. works of Sir Thomas Browne
 
Whitehead
Whitehead, William, Eng. poet
1715-1785
 
P. Whitehead
Whitehead, Paul, Eng. poet and satirist
1709?-1774
 
Whitelocke
Whitelocke, Bulstrode, Eng. statesman
1605-1676
 
Whiter
Whiter, Walter, Eng. lexicog.. [Univ. Etymol. Dict., 1800-1811.]
 
Whitgift
Whitgift, John, Eng. archbishop
1530-1604
 
Whiting
Whiting, Nicholas. [Albino and Bellama, 1637.]
ND
 
Whitlock
Whitlock, Richard, Eng. phys.
1616?-1673?
 
J. D. Whitney
Whitney, Josiah Dwight, Am. geol.
1819-1896
 
Mrs. Whitney
Whitney, Adeline D. Train, Am. author
1824-
 
W. D. Whitney
Whitney, William Dwight, Am. philologist
1827-1894
 
Whittier
Whittier, John Greenleaf, Am. poet
1807-1892
 
Whitworth
Whitworth, George Clifford. [Anglo-Indian Dict., Lond., 1883]
ND
 
J. Whitworth
Whitworth, Joseph, Eng. mechanician
1805?-1887
 
Whole Duty of Man
author unknown
 
Wilberforce
Wilberforce, Wm., Eng. philanthropist and statesman
1759-1833
 
B. G. Wilder
Wilder, Burt Green, Am. anatomist and physiologist
1841-
 
Wilhelm
Wilhelm, Thomas [Mil. Dict., Phila., 1881]
 
W. Wilkie
Wilkie, William, Scotch epic poet
1721-1772
 
Bp. Wilkins
Wilkins, Bp. John, Eng. divine
1614-1672
 
D. Wilkins
Wilkins, David, Eng. author
1685-1745
 
Wilkinson
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner, Eng. Egyptologist
1797-1875
 
William of Palerne
a poem in the Midland dialect, partly trans. from the French, about 1350
 
G. H. Williams
Williams, George Huntington, Am. mineralogist
1856?-
 
H. M. Williams
Williams, Helen Maria, Eng. author. [Letters from France]
1762-1827
 
M. Williams
Williams, Monier, Eng. orientalist
1819-
 
Sir R. Williams
Williams, Sir Roger, Eng. mil. hist.
-1595
 
S. W. Williams
Williams, Samuel Wells, Am. Chinese scholar
1812-1884
 
Willis
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, Am. poet and journalist
1806-1867
 
Willis & Clements, The Platinotype
William Willis, Jr. & Clements [The Platinotype, 1885.]
ND
 
Wilson
Wilson, Erasmus, English medical writer
1809-1884
 
Arthur Wilson
Wilson, Arthur, Eng. historian
1596-1652
 
D. Wilson
Wilson, Daniel, Brit. archaeologist
1816-1892
 
G. Wilson
Wilson, George, Scotch chemist and physician
1818-1859
 
H. B. Wilson
Wilson, Henry Bristow, Eng. divine and author
1803-1888
 
J. L. Wilson
Wilson, John Leighton, Am. missionary
1809-1884
 
John Wilson
Wilson, John, Am. printer and author. [Punctuation, 1850]
1802-1868
 
Prof. Wilson
Wilson, John, Scotch author, pseud. Christopher North
1785-1854
 
Sir T. Wilson
Wilson, Sir Thomas, English statesman
1520?-1581
 
Gov. Winthrop
Winthrop, John, Governor of Mass. Colony
1588-1649
 
Sir R. Winwood
Winwood, Ralph, Eng. statesman
1564?-1617
 
Wirt
Wirt, William, Am. lawyer
1772-1834
 
Wiseman
Wiseman, Richard, Eng. surgeon [Treatment of Wounds, 1672]
fl. 17th c.
 
Card. Wiseman
Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen, Eng. cardinal
1802-1865
 
Withals, 1608
Withals, John. [Dict., 1568, 1608]
ND
 
Wither
Wither, George, Eng. poet
1588-1667
 
Withering
Withering, William, Eng. writer on natural science
1749-1799
 
W. Withington
Withington, William, Am. clergyman and writer
ND
 
Wit's Recreations, 1654
a compilation of poems and epigrams, attrib. to George Herbert
ND
 
Wodhull
Wodhull, Michael, Eng. poet
1740-1816
 
Wodroephe
Wodroephe, John. [True Marrow of French, 1623]
ND
 
Wolcott
Wolcott, John, Eng. satirist
1738-1819
 
O. Wolcott
Wolcott, Oliver, Am. statesman
1760-1833
 
C. Wolfe
Wolfe, Charles, Irish poet
1791-1823
 
Wollaston
Wollaston, William, Eng. divine and author
1659-1724
 
T. V. Wollaston
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon [Variation of Species, 1856]
 
W. H. Wollaston
Wollaston, William Hyde, Eng. naturalist and philosopher
1766-1828
 
Wolsey
Wolsey, Thomas, Eng. cardinal and statesman
1471-1530
 
Wood
Wood, Alphonso, Am. botanist
1810-1881
 
Wood
Wood, Anthony. [Hist. of Oxford Univ.]
1632-1695
 
H. C. Wood
Wood, Horatio C., Am. physician
1841-
 
J. G. Wood
Wood, John George, English naturalist
1827-1889
 
Wood & Bache
Wood, George B. & Bache, Franklin [U. S. Dispensatory, 15th Ed.]
1797-1879 & 1792-1864
 
J. Woodbridge
Woodbridge, John, Eng. clergyman in America
1614-1691
 
Woodward
Woodward, John, Eng. geologist
1665-1728
 
S. Woodworth
Woodworth, Samuel, Am. poet
1785-1842
 
Woolsey
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, Am. clergyman and author
1801-1889
 
Bp. Woolton
Woolton, Bp. John [Christian Manuel, 1576]
1535?-1593?
 
Wordsworth
Wordsworth, William, Eng. poet
1770-1850
 
C. Wordsworth
Wordsworth, Christopher, Eng. divine
1807-1885
 
John Worthington
Worthington, John, Eng. writer
1618-1671
 
Sir H. Wotton
Wotton, Sir Henry, Eng. diplomatist and author
1568-1639
 
W. Wotton
Wotton, William, Eng. divine, critic and historian
1666-1726
 
Woty
Woty, William, Eng. poet. [Muses' Advice. Blossoms of Helicon.]
-1791
 
Wraxall
Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel Wm., Eng. author
1751-1831
 
Bp. Wren
Wren, Bp. Matthew, Eng. divine
1585-1667
 
Wright
Wright, Thomas, Eng. antiquary
1810-1877
 
Wyatt
Wyatt, Thomas, Eng. poet
1503-1542
 
Wycherley
Wycherley, William, Eng. dramatist
1640?-1715
 
Wyclif
Wyclif, John, Eng. reformer, and translator of the Bible
1324?-1384
 
Sir J. Wynne
Wynne, Sir John, Brit. writer
1553-1626
 

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