Roger Whitley (1618 – 17 July 1697) was a royalist officer in the English Civil War, attaining the rank of Major General (2nd in command of their forces in the battle for the Isle of Anglesey) and was closely involved throughout the 1650s in plans for a royalist uprising against the Interregnum and Protectorate regimes.
He was a younger son of Thomas Whitley, of Hawarden, Flintshire and educated at Christ Church, Oxford and entered Gray's Inn in 1637.
[1] He was a supernumerary Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber from 1644 and held a number of public offices including that of Quarter-Master General (1667), Knight Harbinger in attendance to the Prince of Orange (1670–71) and of Deputy Postmaster-General from 1672 until 1677.
He was made a Freeman of Chester in 1666, an alderman from 1680 to 1684 and from August 1688 to his death, treasurer for 1688–89 and mayor in 1692–1696.
He was also appointed Custos Rotulorum of Flintshire for October–November 1689 and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from the same year until his death.