Wick
A candle wick or lamp wick is usually made of braided cotton that holds the flame of a candle or oil lamp. A candle wick works by capillary action, conveying the fuel to the flame. When the liquid fuel, typically melted candle wax, reaches the flame it then vaporizes and combusts.
People died in Wick (First 49 people) - Page 8
Leonid Khachiyan
Soviet-American mathematician
George Segal
American painter
Jerri Nielsen
American physician
Allenby Chilton
English footballer
John Jabez Edwin Mayall
Photographer
Thomas Hoccleve
Poet
James Dunlop of Dunlop
Military officer
Elizabeth Waldegrave, Countess . . .
Elizabeth Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave
Antony Rowe
Rower
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
Admiral
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton
Soldier
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of . . .
Politician
Alexander Pope
English poet
Terence Fisher
British film director
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
British officer
William Kennedy Dickson
Inventor
Walter de la Mare
British poet
Lilian Lenton
Dancer
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
Former Secretary of State for Scotland
Charlie Chester
Comedian
Eddie Harvey
Jazz musician
Henry McGee
British actor
Sheila Dunn
Actress
Thomas Hudson
English painter
Hugh Welch Diamond
British psychiatrist
William G. Beasley
Author
Manuel II of Portugal
King of Portugal
Ben Warriss
Comedian
Andrzej Panufnik
Polish composer
Lord John Cavendish
British Politician
Ronnie Ronalde
British singer
Kitty Clive
Actress
Mary Martha Sherwood
Writer
Teddy Johnson
British singer
John Russell Hind
Astronomer
Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford
Elizabeth Twining
English painter
Herbert Mills Birdwood
Sir Archibald Sinclair
British politician
George Edmund Butler
Painter
John Rigby Hale
Historian
Henry George Bohn
Publisher
G. J. Renier
Professor
Harry Gosling
British Politician
Christopher Duggan
British historian
Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
1820–1861
