Arthur Whittingham

Arthur Herbert Whittingham (20 September 1869 – 20 June 1927) was an Australian grazier, and member of the Queensland Legislative Council.

[3] Around 1871, his family moved to Victoria, Australia where his father became a principal of Whittingham Bros, a pastoral firm that had holdings in several states.

Having been Chairman of the Kargoolnah Shire Council and a member of the Barcoo Marsupial Board,[1] Whittingham's first attempt at entering state politics was at the 1907 state election, where, as an independent Ministerial candidate, he contested the electoral district of Barcoo and was soundly defeated by the sitting member, George Kerr.

[7] They lived at Mayfield in the suburb of Hamilton[3] and in the 1920s it became a centre of Brisbane's social activities with Cecile being described as 'Queensland's best dressed woman'.

[3] Whittingham died of heart disease at the Mater Misericordiae Private Hospital[3] in June 1927.

The Whittingham Homestead at Alice Downs Station, 1908
Mayfield, the Whittingham residence in Brisbane, 1910