George Whitaker

George Whitaker (9 October 1811 – 27 August 1882) was an English-Canadian clergyman and educator.

Early life Whitaker was born into a Baptist family in Bratton, Wiltshire, the eighth child of Philip Whitaker, a farmer, and his wife Anne Andrews. and Edward in London.

Whitaker received his early education at Frome Grammar School and then joined Charterhouse School, then in Charterhouse Square near the City of London. He attended the school as a day boy while living with his brother Edward. He matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1829 and graduated BA in 1833 and MA in 1836. In 1832, while a student, he was baptized into the Church of England at Bratton Parish Church. This came at the beginning of the academic year in which he would need to subscribe to the Church of England's Thirty-Nine Articles to take his degree. and the next year became a university lecturer in classics. George and Arundel Whitaker had at least eight children.