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Herbert Edward Whately MA Oxon (10 August 1876; 7 December 1947) was an Anglican priest: he was Archdeacon of Ludlow from 1939 [1] to his death. [2]

The grandson of Richard Whately (Archbishop of Dublin from 1831 to 1863); and third son of Edward Whately (Archdeacon of Glendalough and Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin), [3] he was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School; Trinity College, Oxford and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. [4] He was ordained in 1900. After curacies at Childwall and St Helens held incumbencies in Wavertree [5] Blackheath an Honor Oak Park. He was Rector of Church Stretton from 1937 and a Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral from 1940.

In 1911, in Halewood, Merseyside, Whateley married Emily Grace Plummer, a daughter of Francis Bowes Plummer, Rector of Halewood. [6] They had three children, Richard F. A. (born 1914), Ellen M. B. (1918), and Kevin H. (1920). Whately died at the Royal Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, on 7 December 1947, while still serving as Rector of Church Stretton. [7] His widow survived him until 1952. [8]

Their oldest son, Richard, became a Royal Navy officer and was the father of the actor Kevin Whately. Kevin Whately appeared on the BBC television documentary Who Do You Think You Are? , broadcast in March 2009, and it traced that the Whatelys are descended from Thomas Whately of Nonsuch Park, father of Thomas Whately, a leading City of London merchant who became a director of the Bank of England. [9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ecclesiastical News. New Archdeacon of Ludlow The Times (London, England), Monday, Sep 11, 1939; pg. 11; Issue 48407
  2. ↑ Obituary The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 08, 1947; pg. 4; Issue 50938
  3. ↑ "Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University" Foster,J (Ed) Vol V p1533 Oxford, Parker & Co,1888
  4. ↑ ‘WHATELY, Ven. Herbert Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 April 2017
  5. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p1382 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
  6. ↑ Marriages solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Halewood in the County of Lancaster, No. 303, August 9th 1911, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 29 December 2022 (subscription required)
  7. ↑ "WHATELY the venerable Herbert Edward of The Rectory Church Stretton died 7 December 1947 at Royal Salop Infirmary Shrewsbury… Effects £6748" in Wills and Administrations 1948 (England and Wales) (1949), p. 284
  8. ↑ "WHATELY Emily Grace of Caradoc Lodge All Stretton Church Stretton Shropshire widow died 30 August 1952… Effects £17559" in Wills and Administrations 1953 (England and Wales) (1954), p. 346
  9. ↑ BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Kevin Whitely, 8 March 2009, BBC, accessed 29 December 2022
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