Whyte notation
The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte, and came into use in the early twentieth century following a December 1900 editorial in "American Engineer and Railroad Journal". The notation counts the number of leading wheels, then the number of driving wheels, and finally the number of trailing wheels, groups of numbers being separated by dashes. Other classification schemes, like UIC classification and the French, Turkish and Swiss systems for steam locomotives, count axles rather than wheels.
William Whyte (historian)
Born in 1975, William Hadden Whyte is the son of Bill and Marian Whyte. He went up to the University of Oxford, where he completed his undergraduate studies at Wadham College (matriculating in 1994); in his third and final year, he completed his undergraduate thesis on the Victorian architect T. G. Jackson, who carried out substantial work at the college (Whyte later told "The Oxford Mail" that he was inspired by Jackson's portrait in Wadham's hall). Whyte came second in his year for his undergraduate degree in 1997 (placing him "proxime accessit" for the Gibbs Prize in History) and was jointly awarded the University's Arnold Modern History Prize. Whyte then completed a Master of Studies (MSt) degree in 1998, and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree at the University of Oxford; his doctorate was awarded in 2002 for his thesis entitled "Oxford Jackson: architecture, education, status and style, 1835–1924".