Wèi Dàzhōng 魏大中 (1575–1625), original given name Tínggěng 廷鯁, zì Kǒngshí 孔時, hào Kuòyuán 廓園, posthumous title Zhōngjié 忠節 (granted Chóngzhēn 1 / 1628 on the rehabilitation of the Dōnglín martyrs); native of Jiāshàn 嘉善 (Jiāxìng, Zhèjiāng). Jìnshì of Wànlì 44 / bǐngchén (1616); served successively in the central administration, rising to Lǐkē jǐshìzhōng (Supervising Secretary, Office of Scrutiny for Rites). He was one of the Dōnglín liù jūnzǐ 東林六君子 — the six who, in the Tiānqǐ 5 / 1625 Yáng Hào / Xióng Tíngbì fabricated-bribery case engineered by Wèi Zhōngxián 魏忠賢 and Xǔ Xiǎnchún 許顯純, were charged with having accepted bribes (in Wèi Dàzhōng’s case, 3,300 liǎng of silver); tortured under the yánxíng of the Dōngchǎng prison, he died of the wounds aged fifty-one. His eldest son 魏學洢 (1596–1625; hào Máoyán) followed him to the capital in disguise to seek his rescue, brought the coffin home, and himself died of grief later in the same year; younger son Wèi Xuélián 魏學濂 (1608–1644) lived to memorialise the rehabilitation under Chóngzhēn and himself died for the dynasty in 1644. CBDB 34758. Míngshǐ j. 244.