1450 Frederick Whitley-Thompson

Constituency  : Skipton 1900-06

Frederick  recaptured  Skipton  from  the  Liberal  Unionists'  Walter  Morrison  by  132  votes.

Frederick's  father  was  a  merchant  while  his  mother  was  one  of  the  Whitleys  of  Halifax. He  was  educated  at  Glasgow  Academy  and  the  Andersonian  University  there. He  came  to  be  head  of  J  Whitley  and  Sons, card  manufacturers  and  a  director  of  the  English  Card-clothing  Company.

Frederick  stood  down  in  1906  but  later  decided  he  wanted  to  resume  his  parliamentary  career. He  stood  for  Ross  in  a  by-election  in  1908  but  lost  to  the  Liberal  Unionist,  Percy  Clive  by  over  1,000  votes.

In  1908  Frederick  became  an  alderman of  Halifax  Borough  Council and  then  Mayor  from  1908  to  1911

In  January  1910,  Frederick  stood  for  Colchester  but  failed  to  hold  it  for  the  Liberals.

Frderick  helped  to  raise  funds  for  the  Royal  Halifax  Infirmary  and  the  Halifax  District  Nursing Association  in  memory  of  Edward  VII. He  was  President  of  the  Halifax  Chamber  of  Commerce  from  1912  to  1914  and  chair  of  the  council's  Finance  Committee  from  1913  to  1919. He  chaired  the  Halifax  War  Refugees  Committee  and  received  a  medal  from  the  King  of  Belgium  after  the  War.  He  was  knighted  in  1916.

He  died  in  1924  aged  72.