Background
He was born as Herbert James Whiteley, and was the younger son of George Whiteley of Blackburn, Lancashire.
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Herbert James
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Career
Herbert, however, remained a Conservative in politics. They had two sons. Whiteley moved to Thorngrove, near Worcester, and in 1913 was High Sheriff of the county. In 1916 he returned to The Commons at by-election for Droitwich.
In the same month he was created a baronet, "of Grimley in the County of Worcester".
The Droitwich constituency was abolished by the Representation of the People Acting 1918, and Huntington Whiteley retired from parliament. He died at his Worcestershire home in January 1936, aged 78.
He is the great-great grandfather of model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. The latter"s maternal grandfather was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, whose mother Louisa (née Macdonald) was aunt of the poet Rudyard Kipling and sister-in-law of painters Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Sir Edward Poynter.
Membership
26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament. 30th United Kingdom Parliament]
He became a member of Blackburn town council, and in 1892 was mayor of the borough.
In 1895 he was elected as member of parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne, and held the seat for eleven years until defeated in the Liberal landslide election in 1906.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Conservative Party