Arthur Whetham

Major-General Arthur Whetham was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth.

Family and early life

Arthur Whetham was born in 1783 the son of John Whetham.
It is known that he was a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, and Arthur was a brother of a different Colonel John Whetham, an officer in the 12th Regiment of Foot, who died during a Siege of Gibraltar.
There was also a cousin of his named Lieutenant General Arthur Whetham, who was the Governor of Portsmouth.
His great uncle, Thomas Whetham, was also a general who commanded the 12th Regiment of Foot from 1725 to 1741.

Military career

Whetham was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 40th Regiment of Foot in 1799. He took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799 and was wounded at the Battle of Montevideo in February 1807 during the British invasions of the River Plate. He became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in January 1808. He was also colonel of the 60th Regiment of Foot.
He died on 13 May 1853.