Percival Nathan Whitley

Percival was in the BEF during World War I and participated in the attack on Salonika.

Like his grandfather he went into local politics, working mostly in the Education sector. He is credited with starting vocational education in Calderdale.^[3]

He was Mayor of Halifax during World War II between 1941 and 1942^[4] and his sister, Margaret Phyllis, was Mayoress.

He took over the family Cotton Spinning business, S. Whitley and Son, up to his death.

Percival died, unmarried, in 1956 and is buried in the family plot, 456, in Lister Lane Cemetery.^[2]