Selby Whittingham (born 8 August 1941 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is an art expert in London who has specialized in the work of J. M. W.
She was involved in politics with Randolph Churchill, and subsequently worked in journalism and as a historian, but died aged 51.
[9][10] [See 2021 Wikipedia entry on mother, Barbara Whittingham-Jones] Whittingham was educated at Shrewsbury School and Oriel College, Oxford, then at University of Manchester.
After Shrewsbury he filled his semi-gap year by attending the French Civilisation Course at the Sorbonne, University of Paris, and as an assistant at the National Portrait Gallery at the invitation of the Director.
His father had the same name as his ancestor, Henry Oppenheim, a neighbour of Benjamin Godfrey Windus, whose correspondence with Turner and John Ruskin Selby Whittingham discovered and published.
Henry Moore became its president, and vice-presidents included the Earl of Harewood, John Piper, Victor Pasmore etc.