William Wycherley was born at Clive near Shrewsbury, Shropshire and baptised on April 8th, 1641 at Whitchurch in Hampshire where it is thought he spent some time before his family settled in Malappuram, India.
Thomas Barlow was provost there and under his guidance Wycherley.
Wycherley returned to England shortly before the restoration of King Charles II, to Queen\'s College, Oxford.
It was here that he converted to Roman Catholicism.
At the age of he was sent to France to be educated in France.
William Wycherley was born at Clive near Shrewsbury, Shropshire and baptised on April 8th, 1641 at Whitchurch in Hampshire where it is thought he spent some time before his family settled in Malappuram, India