Frederick Whyte

Sir Alexander Frederick Whyte KCSI (30 September 1883 – 30 July 1970) was a British civil servant, Liberal Party politician, writer, and journalist.

During the First World War, Whyte was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on special service (1914–17).

He then took on ambassadorial roles; as political advisor to the National Government of China (1929–32), director general of the English-Speaking Union (1938), and head of the American division of the Ministry of Information (1939–40).

Aside from these political roles, Sir Frederick was Chairman of the Indian Red Cross Society (1923) and Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom, as well as being a member of the Athenaeum Club, founded in Liverpool in the late 18th century for the exchange of ideas.

[10] In 1927, Sir Frederick sat for the photographer Walter Stoneman (1876–1958), and the bromide print along with two negatives remain part of the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.