| W. L. G. | William Lawson Grant, M.A.- Professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Formerly Beit Lecturer in Colonial History at Oxford University. Editor of Acts of the Privy Council (Colonial Series); Canadian Constitutional Development (in collaboration).
| | Prince Edward Island; Quebec: Province (in part); Quebec: City. |
| W. M. | William Minto, M.A., LL.D.- See the biographical article: Minto, William.
| | Pope, Alexander (in part). |
| W. M. F. P. | William Matthew Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., D.C.L., Litt.D.- See the biographical article: Petrie, W. M. F.
| | Pyramid. |
| W. O. B. | Ven. Winfrid Oldfield Burrows, M.A.- Archdeacon of Birmingham. Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, 1884-1891. Principal of Leeds Clergy School, 1891-1900. Author of The Mystery of the Cross.
| | Prayers for the Dead. |
| W. R. M. | William Richard Morfill, M.A. (d. 1910).- Formerly Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic Languages in the University of Oxford. Curator of the Taylorian Institution, Oxford. Author of Russia; Slavonic Literature; &c.
| | Pushkin. |
| W. R. S. | William Robertson Smith, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Smith, William Robertson.
| | Priest (in part); Prophet (in part); Psalms, Book of (in part); Rameses (in part). |
| W. W. F.* | William Warde Fowler, M.A.- Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Sub-Rector, 1881-1904. Gifford Lecturer, Edinburgh University, 1908. Author of The City-State of the Greeks and Romans; The Roman Festivals of the Republican Period; &c.
| | Pontifex. |
| W. Y. | Rev. William Young.- Minister, Higher Broughton Presbyterian Church, Manchester, 1877-1901, and Association Secretary for the Religious Tract Society in the North of England.
| | Presbyterianism. |