George Hampden Whalley, later George Hampden White (1851–1917) was a British

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politician and soldier. The son of

George Hammond Whalley George Hammond Whalley (22 January 1813 – 8 October 1878) was a British lawyer and Liberal Party politician. He was the eldest son of James Whalley, a merchant and banker from Gloucester, and a direct descendant of Edward Whalley, the regicid ...

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(MP) for

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, he was born at the family estate of Plas Madoc in 1851. Educated at

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and on the

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''Britannia'', he afterwards entered the

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. Whalley received a

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's commission in the 6th Royal Lancaster Regiment of Militia on 9 March 1871. He resigned his commission on 1 June 1872, and was commissioned a cornet in the

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on 29 June 1872. Whalley was promoted lieutenant, then captain on 4 December 1878. In 1879, Whalley commanded C Troop of Lonsdale's Horse, a local colonial unit, in the

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. A convoy under his command from

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to Fort Chelmsford successfully beat off a Zulu ambush. Whalley was elected

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MP for Peterborough in 1880, like his father (who had occupied the seat until his death in 1878). He resigned by becoming

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in June 1883. He was adjudged

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later that year. In April 1884, Whalley and his wife rented a house in

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. They were evicted in August, after Whalley's draft for the rent had proved uncollectable, but by this time Whalley had broken into a locked room and stolen £200 of the owner's goods and pawned them. He was subsequently convicted of theft at the Old Bailey and sentenced to nine months at hard labour. He subsequently changed his surname to White, and emigrated to

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, with his wife and infant daughter, in 1885 or 1886. He died in

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in 1917.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Whalley, George Hampden 1851 births 1917 deaths British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War British Yeomanry officers Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Royal Navy officers UK MPs 1880–1885 Politics of Peterborough British people convicted of theft British politicians convicted of crimes Denbighshire Hussars officers