Charles Whyte

The Rev Charles Whyte FRSE FRAS LLD (c. 1866–27 March 1949) was a 20th-century Scottish minister and astronomer.

[2] While in Shetland, he served a brief term on the Zetland County Council, representing the Dunrossness North parish in 1898.

From 1917 he preached at the United Free Church of Scotland at Countesswells, in the Kingswells district west of Aberdeen, replacing Rev Walter Calder of Dyce.

His proposers were Alexander Moffat, George Forbes, Sir Frank Watson Dyson, Ralph Allan Sampson, Peter Redford Scott Lang and Hector Macpherson.

[5] His second wife, Grace Christie, married in 1924 and later died in a car accident in Aberdeen, 27 Dec 1966 aged 82.