Background
The youngest son of Edwin Whitman, a grocer, and his wife Fanny, he was born at Hammersmith on 12 October 1860, and was educated at Saint Mark"s College School, Chelsea.
The youngest son of Edwin Whitman, a grocer, and his wife Fanny, he was born at Hammersmith on 12 October 1860, and was educated at Saint Mark"s College School, Chelsea.
On leaving school he was employed by the London firm of Henry Dawson & Sons, typo-etching company, of Farringdon Street and Chiswick, with whom he remained till he was appointed on 21 December 1885 an attendant in the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Whitman was promoted to the office of departmental clerk in the print department on 20 May 1903. His health began to fail in the autumn of 1908, and he died in London after a long illness, on 2 February 1910.
On 12 August 1885 Whitman married Helena Mary Bing at Hammersmith.