Paul Chapple Whitehouse (born September 26, 1944) was, between 1993 and 2001, the Chief Constable of

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, resigning after criticism by the

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,''Whitehouse does Blunkett's bidding and goes - but with a broadside''-Special report: policing crime Sussex's liberal maverick - ''The Guardian'' Wednesday 27 June 2001
The Guardian after a career starting in 1967. He was Chairman of the

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from 2005-2011. In 1972 he founded Starehe UK, a charity which supports boys and girls at the two Starehe schools in

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. He was the vice-chairman of

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until the end of 2007 when he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of

Sidcot School Sidcot School is a British co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils, associated with the Religious Society of Friends. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England. The school is based in the Mendip Hills near the village of ...

. From November 2011 to February 2014 he was Chair of Trustees at

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. He is a Director of Friends Trusts Limited, the denominational trust corporation of the

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, and a Trustee of Tim Field Foundation. Whitehouse retired to

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in 2007, where having been involved in heritage railways since 1988, he is active on the

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as a signalman and member of the S&T Gang.

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