Walter Whittingham
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Education
Whittingham was educated at the City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.[6]
Career
Ordained in 1886,[7] Whittingham began his career with curacies at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and St Thomas the Apostle's, South Wigston. He subsequently held incumbencies at Weedon, Buckinghamshire, Knighton, Leicestershire[8] and Glaston, Rutland. He was Archdeacon of Oakham from 1918 to 1923 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the third Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, a post he held for 17 years.[9][10] He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury;[11]
Death
Whittingham died on 17 June 1941.[12]
