Career
Born at Pouldarrig, near Oylgate, he entered Maynooth College in his fourteenth year. Having added two years on the Dumboyne Establishment to his college course, he was still too young for ordination. He offered his services to Doctor Griffiths, Vicar Apostolic of the London District, who ordained him priest at Saint Edmund"s, Ware, 19 September 1840.
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman showed his appreciation of his priestly zeal by making him provost of the newly appointed metropolitan chapter and his vicar-general in 1850.
In this capacity he was responsible for the publication of the famous pastoral "From the Flaminian Gate", in which English bigotry pretended to discover papal aggression. On his return to England he was appointed professor of canon law in Saint Beunos College, North Wales.
After labouring for some time in Scotland, he was appointed provincial. Subsequently he was assistant to the Father-General Anthony Maria Anderledy.
He filled other important offices, and worked until the end, giving ecclesiastical retreats even in the last summer of his life.
Whitty was brother to Ellen Whitty.