He held the position for fifty-five years, succeeding his father Joseph Whitaker when he died in 1895, and was in turn succeeded by a nephew on his death.
[citation needed] He was Chairman of the City of London Food Control Committee during the Second World War, and was knighted in 1946 for services to the City of London Corporation.
Whitaker was a Councilman for the ward of Farringdon Within from 1905.
In 1944 he led the initiative to found the Guildhall Historical Association on 16 June 1944.
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