About Michael Whitley
Lived 1872 – 1959 (aged 87). Michael Whitley was a judge.
Sir Michael Henry Whitley (26 September 1872 – 14 October 1959) was a British colonial administrator who became a senior judge and later Attorney General in the Straits Settlements.
Education Whitley was educated at Cranleigh School and then Blundell's School in Tiverton and read physics at King's College, London.
Career Whitley joined the civil service of the Federated Malay States in 1896 and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. In 1918 he was appointed a Puisne Judge of the Straits Settlements, where he remained until his appointment as Attorney-General of Singapore in 1925.
Whitley retired and became a knight bachelor in 1929. He returned to England and was made a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire.
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British attorney General
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Michael Whitley was born on 26 September 1872.
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Michael Whitley died on 14 October 1959.
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Michael Whitley was a judge.
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