Jardine Bell Whyte (5 March 1880 – 8 July 1954) was a British consulting engineer and naval architect, who later served a single term in Parliament as a Conservative.
[2] His wife, who was from a New York City family but became prominent in British society: she gave a private dance for Claudia Crichton Stuart, daughter of Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart.
[6] On election day, Whyte prevailed over the sitting Labour MP Frank Lee with a majority of 1,334 votes (a candidate from Sir Oswald Mosley's New Party lost his deposit).
[7] He took more than a year to make his maiden speech which defended the 1923 settlement of war debts to the United States as the best obtainable.
[11] He also joined with other Conservative MPs in putting down an amendment to the Loyal Address after the King's Speech which called for the construction of elevated roadways in major cities to relieve road congestion.