Walter Godfrey Whittingham (5 October 1861 – 17 June 1941) was a Church of England bishop.Norfolk Record OfficeNational Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and ArchivesNational Archives"Handbook of British Chronology" Fryde, E.B;Greenway D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I Cambridge, CUP, 1996 “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007
Education Whittingham was educated at the City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Career Ordained in 1886,The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, Hamilton & Co 1889 Whittingham began his career with curacies at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and St Thomas the Apostle's, South Wigston. He subsequently held incumbencies at Weedon, Buckinghamshire, Knighton, LeicestershireLeicestershire Archaeological Society and Glaston, Rutland. He was Archdeacon of Oakham from 1918 to 1923 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the third Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, a post he held for 17 years."Ecclesiastical News. Consecration Of Three Bishops", The Times, 2 November 1923, p. 15.The Times, Monday, Aug 19, 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48698; col D Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of St. Edmundsbury to resign He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury;
Death Whittingham died on 17 June 1941.Obituary Dr W.G. Whittingham The Times Thursday, Jun 19, 1941; pg. 7; Issue 48956; col E
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