Thomas Whittaker (politician)

Sir Thomas Palmer Whittaker PC (7 January 1850 – 9 November 1919) was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.

[1] Following education at Huddersfield College he entered business at the age of 16, selling hardware and iron goods.

[1][2] Outside Parliament Whittaker continued to have a number of business interests including being chairman and managing director of the Life Assurance Institution.

[1][2] He found himself criticising his own party's budget in 1909 as he felt the taxation measures would erode the savings of many small investors in industrial and provident societies.

[2] Whittaker died suddenly in November 1919 aged 69, while visiting Lady Hartington in Eastbourne, Sussex.