Frederick W. Whitridge

Frederick Wallingford Whitridge (August 8, 1852 – December 30, 1916) was President of the Third Avenue Railway Company.

[1] He was born on August 8, 1852, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to John C. Whitridge.

He married the daughter of Matthew Arnold.

[2] He died on December 30, 1916, three days after his appendix operation.

[3][4] In 1919, Whitridge’s daughter Eleanor Lucia married Lt. Col. Norman Thwaites, Director of the British Mission, New York.