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 for

Amersham Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, south-east of Aylesbury and north-east of High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt. There ar ...

from 1754 to 1761.

Biography

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

haberdasher __NOTOC__ 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 men's clothing st ...

. 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 and he and fellow Tory candidate, William Drake were elected unopposed. Whittington did not stand at the 1761 general election. Whittington died in April 1773.

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