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He then went to England where he received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London.
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He was also editor for publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1978. From 1951 to 1972 Whitehill was a professor at Harvard University. Whitehill"s father of the same name was an Episcopalian minister.
The younger Whitehill received his Bachelor of Arts and Department of Administration and Management degrees from Harvard in 1926 and 1929.
In 1932 he did in Santiago de Compostela the first full transcription of the medieval Codex Calixtinus. Whitehill was selected to deliver an important televised address about the history and development of Boston on the occasion of the Bicentennial Celebration of the United States.
On July 11, 1976, he spoke at the Old State House in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, the Mayor of Boston, the Governor of Massachusetts, and a large audience. The text of his address was printed in a publication by the Bostonian Society, which operates the Old State House on behalf of the National Park Service.
He delivered the commencement address in 1974 at the College of William and Mary.
Although Whitehill"s publishing career focused on Bostoniana, his significant work on Spanish medieval topics represented the first American interest in the subject.
