Name
- Waters, P F V, of Chorleywood Hertfordshire1
- Watson, Andrew, of University College London1
- Webb, R K, Managing Editor 'American Historical Review'1
- Webber, R, of the Oxford University Press1
- Whittingham, J S, of Manchester1
- Wilson, David Mackenzie, Knight, Director, British Museum, b 19311
- Wood, Anthony, Warwickshire County Archivist1
- Wragg, T S, Keeper Devonshire Collections Chatsworth House1
- Wright, Ruth Cadogan, née Lancaster scholar, wife of Dr C E Wright1
- Yonge, Theodore, of Cambridge Mass1
- van der Loon, P, of Cambridge1