Background
The second son of Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Clifton College and University College, Oxford, where he took a First Class degree in History.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
The second son of Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Clifton College and University College, Oxford, where he took a First Class degree in History.
Clifton College; University College.
He was appointed a King"s Counsel in 1910. Ethel was the aunt of the actor, Basil Rathbone. The family lived at White Cross House in Winterbrook near Wallingford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).
28th United Kingdom Parliament]
A Liberal Member of parliament for South East Essex from 1906 to 1910, he was Parliamentary private secretary to Herbert Samuel Member of Parliament from 1906 to 1909, then to the Attorney-General from 1909 to 1910. Outside parliament, Whitehead was a Bencher of Lincoln"s Inn, one of Her Majesty the King"s Lieutenants for the City of London, a member of Berkshire County Council, Chairman of Council of Clifton College, a member of the Committee on Work of National Importance, 1916–1919, and held a commission in the Second Volunteer Battalion of the City of London Regiment.
