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Herbert Edward Whately MA Oxon (10 August 1876; 7 December 1947) was an Anglican priest: he was Archdeacon of Ludlow from 1939 to his death.

The grandson of Richard Whately (Archbishop of Dublin from 1831 to 1863); and third son of Edward Whately (Archdeacon of Glendalough and Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin), he was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School; Trinity College, Oxford and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was ordained in 1900. After curacies at Childwall and St Helens held incumbencies in Wavertree Blackheath an Honor Oak Park. He was Rector of Church Stretton from 1937 and a Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral from 1940.

In 1911, in Halewood, Merseyside, Whateley married Emily Grace Plummer, a daughter of Francis Bowes Plummer, Rector of Halewood. They had three children, Richard F. A. (born 1914), Ellen M. B. (1918), and Kevin H. (1920). Whately died at the Royal Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, on 7 December 1947, while still serving as Rector of Church Stretton. His widow survived him until 1952.

Their oldest son, Richard, became a Royal Navy officer and was the father of the actor Kevin Whately. Kevin Whately appeared on the BBC television documentary Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast in March 2009, and it traced that the Whatelys are descended from Thomas Whately of Nonsuch Park, father of Thomas Whately, a leading City of London merchant who became a director of the Bank of England.

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1. Ecclesiastical News. New Archdeacon of Ludlow The Times (London, England), Monday, Sep 11, 1939; pg. 11; Issue 48407
2. Obituary The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 08, 1947; pg. 4; Issue 50938
3. "Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University" Foster, J (Ed) Vol V p1533 Oxford, Parker & Co,1888
4. ‘WHATELY, Ven. Herbert Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 April 2017
5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p1382 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
6. Marriages solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Halewood in the County of Lancaster, No. 303, August 9th 1911, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 29 December 2022 (subscription required)
7. "WHATELY the venerable Herbert Edward of The Rectory Church Stretton died 7 December 1947 at Royal Salop Infirmary Shrewsbury… Effects £6748" in Wills and Administrations 1948 (England and Wales) (1949), p. 284
8. "WHATELY Emily Grace of Caradoc Lodge All Stretton Church Stretton Shropshire widow died 30 August 1952… Effects £17559" in Wills and Administrations 1953 (England and Wales) (1954), p. 346
9. BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Kevin Whitely, 8 March 2009, BBC, accessed 29 December 2022

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