Background
The son of Thomas Whately, twice mayor of Banbury, Oxfordshire, and Joyce his wife, he was born at Banbury on 21 May 1583. As his father-in-law suggested, Whately went to Oxford to study for the ministry, and was incorporated at Saint Edmund Hall on 15 July 1602.
Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1601, known as a logician and orator. He graduated Master of Arts
Career
At fourteen he entered Christ"s College, Cambridge, where he had Thomas Potman for his tutor. on 26 June 1604. Shortly Whately was chosen lecturer in Banbury. And was instituted on 9 February 1610, on the king"s presentation, to the vicarage of Banbury.
His preaching attracted some from Oxford to hear him.
With other ministers he delivered lectures at Stratford-on-Avon. Whately died at Banbury on 10 May 1639.
He was buried in the churchyard under a raised monument, now destroyed, with an inscription preserved by a copy made on 13 July 1660. He was popular in Banbury, a fact referred to ironically by Richard Corbet, in his Iter Boreale, written about 1625, in referring to the neglected condition of his church.
Whately married Martha, daughter of George Hunt, fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and for 51 years rector of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire.
William (d 24 January 1647), who was perhaps the William Whately who became mayor of Banbury. And
Thomas, vicar of Sutton-under-Brailes, Warwickshire, an ejected minister of 1662. He later preached at Milton, Woodstock, and Long Combe, Oxfordshire, and was buried at Banbury on 27 January 1698.