| T. R. G. | Terrot Reaveley Glover, M.A.- Fellow and Classical Lecturer at St John’s College, Cambridge. Professor of Latin, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 1896-1901. Author of Studies in Virgil; &c.
| | Virgil (in part). |
| T. W.-D. | Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton.- See the biographical article: Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore.
| | Wycherley, William. |
| T. W. F. | Thomas William Fox.- Professor of Textiles in the University of Manchester. Author of Mechanics of Weaving.
| | Weaving; Yarn. |
| U. B. | Count Ugo Balzani, Litt.D.- Member of the Reale Accademia dei Lincei. Sometime President of the Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria. Corresponding Member Of the British Academy; Author of The Popes and the Hohenstaufen; &c.
| | Villani, Giovanni. |
| W. Ay. | Wilfrid Airy, M.Inst.C.E.- Sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Technical Adviser to the Standards Department of the Board of Trade. Author of Levelling and Geodesy; &c.
| | Weighing Machines. |
| W. A. B. C. | Rev. William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge, M.A., F.R.G.S., Ph.D.- Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Professor of English History, St David’s College, Lampeter, 1880-1881. Author of Guide du Haut Dauphiné; The Range of the Todi; Guide to Grindelwald; Guide to Switzerland; The Alps in Nature and in History; &c. Editor of the Alpine Journal, 1880-1881; &c.
| | Vevey; Vienne: Town; Vorarlberg; Walensee; Winkelried, Arnold von; Winterthur; Zug: Canton; Zug: Town; Zug, Lake of; Zürich: Canton; Zürich: Town; Zürich, Lake of. |
| W. A. J. F. | Walter Armitage Justice Ford.- Sometime Scholar of King’s College, Cambridge. Teacher of Singing at the Royal College of Music, London.
| | Wolf, Hugo. |
| W. A. P. | Walter Alison Phillips, M.A.- Formerly Exhibitioner of Merton College and Senior Scholar of St John’s College, Oxford. Author of Modern Europe; &c.
| | Walther von der Vogelweide; Wycliffe (in part). |
| W. B.* | William Burton, M.A., F.C.S.- Chairman of the Joint Committee of Pottery Manufacturers of Great Britain. Author of English Stoneware and Earthenware; &c.
| | Wedgwood, Josiah. |
| W. C. U. | William Cawthorne Unwin, F.R.S., LL.D., M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.M.E.- Emeritus Professor, Central Technical College, City and Guilds of London Institute. Author of Wrought Iron Bridges and Roofs; Treatise on Hydraulics; &c.
| | Windmill. |
| W. E. G. | Sir William Edmund Garstin, G.C.M.G.- British Government Director, Suez Canal Co. Formerly Inspector-General of Irrigation, Egypt. Adviser to the Ministry of Public Works in Egypt, 1904-1908.
| | Victoria Nyanza (in part). |
| W. F. C. | William Feilden Craies, M.A.- Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple. Lecturer on Criminal Law, King’s College, London. Editor of Archbold’s Criminal Pleading (23rd edition).
| | Wager; Warrant; Witness. |
| W. Hy. | William Henry.- Founder and Chief Secretary of the Royal Life Saving Society. Associate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Joint Author of Swimming (Badminton Library); &c.
| | Water Polo. |
| W. H. F. | Sir William Henry Flower, F.R.S.- See the biographical article: Flower, Sir W. H.
| | Walrus (in part); Whale (in part); Wolf (in part); Zebra (in part). |
| W. L. G. | William Lawson Grant, M.A.- Professor of Colonial History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Formerly Beit Lecturer on Colonial History, Oxford University. Editor of Acts of the Privy Council (Canadian Series).
| | Wilson, Sir Daniel. |
| W. M. | William Minto, M.A.- See the biographical article: Minto, William.
| | Wordsworth, William (in part). |
| W. MacD.* | William MacDonald, LL.D., Ph.D.- Professor of American History in Brown University, Providence, R.I. Formerly Professor of History and Political Science, Bowdoin. Member of the American Historical Association, &c. Author of History and Government of Maine; &c. Editor of Select Charters and other documents illustrative of American History.
| | Washington, George. |
| W. M. F. P. | William Matthew Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., D.C.L., Litt.D.- See the biographical article: Petrie, W. M. Flinders.
| | Weights and Measures: Ancient Historical. |
| W. M. R. | William Michael Rossetti.- See the biographical article: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.
| | Vivarini; Zurbaran, Francisco. |
| W. O. S. | William Oscar Scroggs, Ph.D.- Assistant Professor of History and Economics at Louisiana State University. Formerly Goodwin and Austin Fellow, Harvard University.
| | Walker, William. |
| W. P. C. | William Prideaux Courtney.- See the biographical article: Courtney, L. H. Baron.
| | Walpole, Horatio; Wilkes, John. |
| W. P. J. | William Price James.- Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple. High Bailiff, Cardiff County Court. Author of Romantic Professions; &c.
| | Watson, William (poet). |