Education
He matriculated at Queens" College, Cambridge, in 1829 and graduated Bachelor in 1833 and Master of Arts in 1836.
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George Whitaker
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Career
Born into a Baptist farming family in Bratton, Wiltshire, England, he received his early education at Frome Grammar School and Charterhouse School. He was ordained a deacon on 4 June 1837. He took the orders of a priest on 27 May the following year.
In 1840 he was appointed Vicar of Oakington, Cambridgeshire, a living in the gift of his college.
He served as the first provost and professor of divinity of the University of Trinity College, now federated with the University of Toronto, from its opening in 1852 (when it had just thirty students) until his retirement in 1881. From 1875 he was also Archdeacon of York, Toronto.
After ending his career in Toronto, Whitaker retired to his home county of Wiltshire as Rector of Newton Toney, near Salisbury, England. He died in August 1882 and was buried at Newton Toney.
Two of the couple"s older sons, Alfred and Edward, became solicitors, Alfred at Frome and Edward in London.
On 22 October 1844, at Bath, Somerset, George Whitaker married Arundel Charlotte Burton, the daughter of the Review Richard Burton, born in Sumatra, where her father had been a Baptist missionary, and brought up in Somerset in the west of England. George and Arundel Whitaker had at least eight children.
Membership
An eighteenth-century member of the same Whitaker family of Bratton was Jeffery Whitaker, a local schoolmaster who left a diary for the years 1739-1741 which was published by the Wiltshire Record Society in 1993.
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United Kingdom