WHALE, Peter, son of Peter Whale, of Catton, co. Norfolk, Esq.; admitted, under alias of Robinson, June 9, 1642; alumnus June 29, 1644; dismissed, Sept. 6, 1646.
WHARTON, John, born May 26, 1772, son of Henry Wharton, and his wife Anne Molyneux, of Little Crosby, co. Lancaster; went Mr. Simon Geo. Bordley's School, Ince Blundell, sent by him to Lisbon; admit. Oct. 10, 1787.
WHARTON, Michael, born 1733, near Kirby Stephen, co. Westmoreland, being descended from the Whartons, of Wharton and Kirkby Thore in Westmoreland, and of Yorkshire, of whom Sir Michael Wharton, of Beverley, Knt., was living in 1724; admitted on Revell's Fund, Nov. 7, 1751; alumnus Mar. 13, 1756; ord. priest Dec. 20, 1760; left for England, July 18, 1761; chaplain at Leighton Hall, Lancashire, whence removed the mission to Yealand, where a church was subsequently erected by Richard T. Gillow, Esq.; there he died Dec. 10, 1809, aged 76. Was rural dean of Lonsdale hundred.
WHELAN, Arthur, admitted Sept. 28, 1881; left Jan. 18, 1887; went St. Thomas Sem., Hammersmith, and ord. priest Sept. 20, 1890; now at Clarence Gardens, Regent's Park.
WHITAKER, Humphrey, son of Thomas and Eleanor Whitaker, christened Aug. 10, 1614, at Burnley, Lancashire, where his father was master of the grammar-school. About 1626, through the influence of his mother who was a Catholic, he was received into the Church by Dom Robert Haydock, alias Benson, O.S.B. He continued his studies under his father till he was sent to St. Omer's College by a Jesuit known under the name of Edward Squire, Nov. I, 1629. Thence he went to the English College at Rome, where at the age of 18 he was admitted under the alias of Francis Starkie (probably taken from his mother's family surname) Oct. 22, 1631. There he was ordained priest Aug. 25, 1638, and left, Sept. 21, for Piacenza as procurator of the College, and assisted there for two years. He then returned to England, whence he was sent immediately to Lisbon to teach theology, and assumed that chair Dec. 26, 1640. On June 25, 1642, he was appointed prefect of studies and confessarius, and for five years, till 1647, was Vespertine lecturer. Owing to ill-health he left the College, Aug. n, 1647, by way of
