▶Date of birth:  25 June 1835        Place of birth:  Woolwich, Kent

▶Father: Frederick William Whinyates, of Woolwich, Kent (brother of Wellington’s General Sir Edward Charles Whinyates, who also lived in the same house in Pittville, bequeathing it to his brother)   Mother: Sarah Marianne

▶Spouse(s): Marie Louise Sarah, daughter of Major Ashton RA    Date(s) of marriage:  23 November 1882     Place(s) of marriage:  Christ Church, Cheltenham

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Whinyates was the second son of Frederick and Sarah Whinyates. He attended Rugby School (where he is recorded in the 1851 census, soon after entering the school that year), and Wadham College, Oxford, BA 1858. He was ordained Deacon in 1860, and Priest (both Gloucester and Bristol) in 1861. In 1860 he was appointed Curate of Slimbridge, and remained there, unmarried, until 1866; in 1864 he lived at 10 North Place, Cheltenham and in 1865 with his parents at 4 Blenheim Parade, now 9 Evesham Road).

He was subsequently appointed Curate of Easthampstead, Berkshire and Chaplain of the Easthampstead Union 1870-81; while at Easthampstead he gained some local celebrity for his piano-playing and recitation. At the time of the 1881 census he lived, unmarried and aged 45, with his widowed mother and sister at Dorset Villa, Pittville Lawn. In 1882 he married Marie Louise Sarah, daughter of Major John Thomas Ashton RA (they had two sons and two daughters), and in the following month became Rector of Fretherne with Saul, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire in 1882 (he was still there in 1899).

At the time of the 1901 census, married but without his wife, he had come to visit his sister Amy, still living in the same house in Pittville; he resigned from the rectory of Fretherne in 1902 and died of pneumonia on 12 February 1905, at Fretherne Rectory; his wealth at death was sworn at over £11,500.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Easthampstead, Berkshire    Moved from Pittville to: Fretherne, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire

▶Date of death:  12 February 1905    Place of death:  Fretherne Rectory, Fretherne, Stonehouse

▶Date of burial:  17 February       Place of burial: Fretherne

▶Notes: Rugby School Register       ID: 976

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson