Thomas Sherren Whittaker
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26 January 1868
| Born | Thomas Sherren Whittaker 26 January 1868 Beckenham, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 8 February 1914 (aged 46) Broadstairs, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Rugby School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Trinity College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | barrister | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Sherren Whittaker (26 January 1868 – 8 February 1914)[1] was an English rugby union forward who was a member of the British Isles XV that toured South Africa in 1891. Whittaker was also an original member of invitational touring team, the Barbarians
Whittaker was born in Beckenham, Kent in 1868 to Thomas Earle and Francis Jane Whittaker. He was educated at Rugby School before matriculating to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1887.[1] On 12 June 1888 he began his legal career when he was admitted at the Middle Temple, and in 1890 he was awarded his BA. He was called to the Bar in 1892. At the time of his death in 1914, he was a Barrister of Law, with a practice at Temple in London and a private residence on Callis-Court Road in Broadstairs, Kent.[2]
