Background
WHITTAKER, Thomas was born on September 25, 1856. Son of late James Whittaker, Consulting Engineer, Accrington.
WHITTAKER, Thomas was born on September 25, 1856. Son of late James Whittaker, Consulting Engineer, Accrington.
Studied at Private School. Royal College of Science, Dublin. Exeter College, Oxford (Scholarship in Natural Science), 1877.
2nd Class Honours (Biology), 1880. Bachelor of Arts, 1881. Contributed first article to Mind, 1881.
Assisted Professor Croom Robertson, then editor, by writing a large proportion of the Notices of New Books, 1885-91. Edited, jointly with Professor A. Bain, Croom Robertson’s Philosophical Remains, 1894.