Whitehouse, Henry John, D.D., D.C.L., a Prot- estant Episcopal clergyman, was born in New York city in August, 1803. He graduated at Columbia College in 1821, and at the General Theological Seminary (Epis- copal) in 1824 ; was ordained deacon the same year, and priest iu 1827 ; was rector of St. Luke's Church, Roches- ter, from 1829 to 1844, and of St. Thomas's, New York, from 1844 to 1851 ; was consecrated assistant bishop of Illinois, Nov. 20, 1851 ; was chosen to succeed bishop Chase in that diocese at the death of the latter in 1852 ; preached the sermon before the Pan-Anglican Council, London, in 1867, and died Aug. 10, 1874. His only pub- lications are in the form o{ Sermons, Addresses, etc.
"Whitgift, John, D.D., an eminent English prelate, was born at Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1530. He was educated at Queen's College, and Pembroke Hall, Cam- bridge, where he graduated in 1554; was chosen fellow of Peterhouse in 1555; entered into holy orders in 1560, and w-as appointed chaplain to Cox, bishop of Ely, who gave him the rectory of Feversham, in Cambridgesliire; was appointed lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge in 1653; became chaplain to the queen in 1565; was president of Peterhouse in 1567; became master of Pembroke Hall in April of the same year; was appointed regius professor of divinity, and yet the same year became master of Trinity College; became prebendary of Ely in 1568; vice-chancellor of the L'ni- versity of Cambridge in 1570; dean of Lincoln in 1571 ; prebendary of Lincoln in 1572; bishop of Worcester, and vice-president of the Jlarches of Wales in 1577; was chosen the successor of Edmund Grindal as archbishop of Canterbury in l.o83; was very severe in his prosecu- tion of Nonconformists, both Puritans and Catholics, and was noted for his strenuous advocacy of the constitution of the English Church ; obtained a decree against liber- ty of printing in 1585; became privy -councillor in 1586; founded a hospital and grammar-school at Croydon iu 1595; joined in the deliberations of the conferences at Hampton Court in January, 1604; and died at Lambeth Palace, Feb. 29, of the same year. The Works of John Whilrjift, Ai-ckbiskop of Canterhitrij (Cambridge, 1851- 54, 3 vols.), were edited for the Parker Society by the Kev. John Ayre. Biofjraphies have been written by Sir George Panic (1612) and John Strype (1718). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
Wlliton, John Mii.ton, D.D., a Presbyterian di- vine, was born at Winchendon, Mass., Aug. 1, 1785. He graduated at Yale College in 1805; taught an academic school iu Litchfield, Conn., for one year; studied theol- ogy privately; was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Antrim, N. II., Sept. 28, 1808; resigned Jan. 1, 1853, and becatne acting pastor of a Congregational Church in Bennington, N. IL, where he continued till his death, Sept. 28, 1856. He published several single sermons, and contributed Brief Notices of the Town of Antrim to the New Hampshire Hist. Coll. iv. 216-224, and to the Rejyository an .1 ccount of the Min-
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isters of Hillsborough, N. //. See Spragiie, .-1 nnals of the A mer. Pulpit, iv, 413, note ; Allibonc, Did. of Brit, and Amer. A uthors, s. v.
"Whittaker, John Williasi, D.D., an English di- vine, was born at Manchester in 1790. He was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, of which he became a fel- low ; was made vicar of St. Mary's, Blackburn, and in 1852 honorary canon of Manchester. He died Aug. 3, 1854. He published. An Historical and Critical Enqniri/ into the Interpretation of the Ilebreio Scripfurfs (1819): — Supplement to the same (1820) : — Justification hij Faith : Fire Sermons, etc. (1825) : — The Catholic Church: Five Sermons (1835) : — and other sermons and papers.
■Whittemore, Thomas, D.D., an American Uni- versalist minister, was born in Boston in 1800. He was apprenticed successively as a morocco -dresser, brass- founder, and boot-maker; studied theology, and in April, 1821, was settled as pastor of the Church at Milford, Mass.; removed to a Church at Cambridgeport in 1822; resigned this pastorate in 1831, but remained in Cam- bridge the rest of his life; was joint editor of the Uni- versalist Magazine ; established The Trumpet, a Uni- versalist newspaper, in 1828, and was sole editor and proprietor of it for thirty years; was a member of the JIassachnsetts Legislature, president of the Cambridge bank, and president of the Vermont and Massachusetts Kailroad, and died in Cambridge, March 21, 18G1. He was the author of, Modern History of Unicersalism (1830) : — ,4 Commentary on the Revelation of St. John (1838): — Commentary on the Book of Daniel: — Plain Guide to Universalism (1840): — Autobiography (1859): — and other works.
"Whittingham, William Rollinson, D.D., LL.D.,
a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in New York city, Dec. 2, 1805. He graduated in 1825 from the General Theological Seminary in New York city, and was ordained two years later. St. Mark's, Or- ange, N. J., was his first pastoral charge, which he held from 1828 for a year and a half. In 1831 he became rector of St. Luke's parish, New York city. While there his health failed, and he made a trip to Italy, returning much benefited. In 1835 he was elected to the chair of ecclesiastical history in the General Tiieological Semi- nary. In 1846 he was elected bishop of Maryland, and was consecrated in Baltimore, Sept. 17 of that year. He died at West Orange, N. J., Oct. 17, 1879. The Parish Library, 13 vols., was edited by him, and he was also editor of The Churchman, a well-known Episcopal peri- odical. The Family Visitor and Children's Magazine were also under his editorial supervision. Bishop Whit- tingham's library was considered one of the finest col- lections in America. See A me?: Church liev. xxxi, 470.