Henry Whitaker (MP for Shaftesbury)

Henry Whitaker (c. 1622 – 6 April 1695) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.

Whitaker was the son of William Whitaker of Shaftesbury and his wife Honor Hooper, daughter of Thomas Hooper of Boveridge.

He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1636 and was a student of Gloucester Hall, Oxford in 1637.

He succeeded his father in 1646 and purchased an estate at Motcombe, near Shaftesbury, in 1648.

[1] Whitaker died at the age of about 72 and was buried at Motcombe.