Background
Whitley was the son of John Whitley of Liverpool and his wife Isabella Greenall, and a nephew of the Conservative politician Gilbert Greenall.
Whitley was the son of John Whitley of Liverpool and his wife Isabella Greenall, and a nephew of the Conservative politician Gilbert Greenall.
He was educated at Rugby School and admitted a solicitor in 1849.
He became a J. P. for Liverpool. He was then elected Member of Parliament for Everton, which he held until his death aged 66. He was buried in Alvanley Churchyard, near Helsby in Cheshire.
In 1878 Whitley married Elizabeth Eleanor Walker.
His residences were The Grange, Halewood, near Liverpool and 185 Piccadilly. Whitley is commemorated by Whitley Street in Liverpool, and by a triangular piece of rocky ground in Everton called Whitley Gardens.
There is a statue of Edward Whitley in Street George"s Hall, Liverpool.
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He became a member of the Corporation of Liverpool in 1866, and was Mayor of Liverpool in 1868. In 1880 Whitley was elected as one of three Members of Parliament (MPs) for Liverpool and held the seat until the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885.