3-052-436 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Edward Whitley, the new M.P. for Liverpool, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Brown, Barnes, and Bell. 'The polling at Liverpool yesterday week returned Mr. Edward Whitley by a majority of 2221 over Lord Ramsay. The successful candidate, who is in his fifty-fifth year, is a solicitor of that town. His father, the late Mr. John Whitley, was in the same profession there; but Mr. Edward Whitley in his youth was articled to the firm of Messrs. Lowndes, Robinson, and Bateson. Here he obtained an excellent training in the different branches of the legal profession, especially conveyancing and commercial law. After he served his articles he joined his father in business, and the firm was known as J. and E. Whitley and Thompson. On the death of Mr. J. Whitley and Mr. Thompson, Mr. E. Whitley was joined by Mr. Maddock, and since then the firm has been carried on under the style of Whitley and Maddock. For many years Mr. Whitley has taken an active part in Conservative politics. He entered the Council as one of the members for Everton Ward in 1865. In 1867 he was elected Mayor of Liverpool...In November, 1877, he was elected president of the Law Society'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.