Wilkinson, John James Garth. 1812 ——. Physician. Author Biography of Swedenborg, The Human Body, The Ministry of Health, etc. Pub. Lip.
Williams, Sir Chas. Hanbury. 1709–1759. Satirist and poet.
Williams, Helen Maria. 1762–1827. Poet and political writer. Author of the familiar hymn beginning "While Thee I seek, Protecting Power."
Williams, Monier. 1819 ——. Sanskrit scholar. Author Eng. and Sanskrit Dict., and Sanskrit and Eng. Dict., etc. Pub. Mac.
Williams, Rowland. 1817–1870. Welsh theologian. See Life, by his wife, 1874.
Wills, Wm. Gorman. 1828 ——. Dramatist and novelist. Eugene Aram, Jane Shore, Charles I., and Mary Stuart are some of his plays. Pub. Har.
Wills, Wm. Henry. 1810–1880. Journalist and miscellaneous writer. Pub. Har.
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester. 1647–1680. Poet. A writer of numerous gay, witty, but extremely licentious lyrics.
Willmott, Robert Avis. 1809–1863. Poet and biographer. Author Life of Jeremy Taylor, and editor of Herbert, Gray, Cowper, etc. Pub. Rou.
Wilson, Daniel. 1816 ——. Miscellaneous writer. Author of Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Prehistoric Man, Caliban the Missing Link, Chatterton: a Biographical Study, etc. Pub. Mac.