Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wickham, William (4)

by Joseph Foster

Wickham, William, s. Henry, of Bingley, Yorks, arm. Christ Church, matric. 27 Jan., 1779, aged 17; student 1779, B.A. 1782, M.A. 1786, created D.C.L. 3 July, 1810, of Cookham, Bucks, and of Binsted Wyck, Hants, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1786, a commissioner in bankruptcy 1790, minister to the Swiss cantons 1795-8, under-secretary of State Home Department 1798, P.C. 13 Jan., 1802, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the allied Austrian and Russian armies 1799, chief secre- for Ireland 1802, a lord of the Treasury 1806, M.P. Heytesbury in 1802, Cashel 1802-6, Callington 1806-7, died 22 Oct., 1840, brother of Lamplugh Hird (see page 666), and of Henry Lewis 1807.