Frederick Whitley-Thomson

Sir Frederick Whitley Whitley-Thomson (2 September 1851 – 21 June 1925) was a British Liberal Party politician and businessman.

He was the son of Jonathan Thomson, merchant of Glasgow, and Emma Whitley of Halifax.

He was the head of J. Whitley and Sons, card manufacturers of Brunswick Mills, Halifax and a Director of the English Card-clothing Company, Ltd.

In 1900, standing for parliament for the first time, he surprisingly gained the seat from the Liberal Unionists.

He was chairman of the Halifax War Refugees Committee, and received from King Albert I of Belgium the Medaille du Roi in recognition of services to Belgian refugees, resident in Halifax and district during the First World War.