Isaac Whittington (1709 – 25 April 1773) was a British politician and lawyer. A member of the

Tory Party The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, when they opposed ...

, he was

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for

Amersham Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, from Aylesbury and from High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt. ...

from 1754 to 1761.

Biography

Whittington was born in 1709, the son of Isaac Whittington, a

haberdasher In British English, a haberdasher is a business or person who sells small articles for sewing, dressmaking and knitting, such as buttons, ribbons, and zippers; in the United States, the term refers instead to a retailer who sells men's clothing, ...

. He first stood at the 1754 Amersham by-election as a candidate for the

and was elected unopposed. He stood for re-election for the Amersham constituency in the

1754 general election Events January–March * January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word ''serendipity''. * February 22 – Expecting an attack by Portuguese-speaking militias in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Pla ...

and he and fellow Tory candidate, William Drake were elected unopposed. Whittington did not stand at the

1761 general election The 1761 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of Great Britain, House of Commons of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Sco ...

. Whittington died in April 1773.

References

1709 births 1761 deaths British MPs 1754–1761 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub