[3] This came at the beginning of the academic year in which he would need to subscribe to the Church of England's Thirty-Nine Articles to take his degree.

[3] Whitaker was elected a foundation fellow of his college in 1834[3][6] and the next year became a university lecturer in classics.

[1] After ending his career in Toronto, Whitaker retired to his home county of Wiltshire as Rector of Newton Toney, near Salisbury, England.

[1] On 22 October 1844, at Bath, Somerset, George Whitaker married Arundel Charlotte Burton, the daughter of the Rev.

Richard Burton, born in Sumatra, where her father had been a Baptist missionary, and brought up in Somerset in the west of England.