Hampden Whalley

George Hampden Whalley was a British politician and soldier.

The son of George Hammond Whalley, Member of Parliament for Peterborough, he was born at the family estate of Plas Madoc in 1851. Educated on the training ship "Britannia", he afterwards entered the Royal Navy.cite book | title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion | first=Charles Roger | last=Dod | coauthors=Robert Phipps Dod | page=325 | publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, ltd. | year=1881 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PlENAAAAYAAJ | accessdate=2008-08-30]

Whalley received a lieutenant's commission in the 6th Royal Lancaster Regiment of Militia on 9 March 1871. [LondonGazette | issue=23718 | startpage=1497 | date=21 March 1871] He resigned his commission on 1 June 1872, [LondonGazette | issue=23863 | startpage=2577 | date=31 May 1871] and was commissioned a cornet in the Denbighshire Yeomanry on 29 June 1872. [LondonGazette | issue=23871 | startpage=2976 | date=28 June 1871] Whalley was promoted lieutenant, then captain on 4 December 1878. [LondonGazette | issue=24652 | startpage=6917 | date=3 December 1878] In 1879, Whalley commanded C Troop of Lonsdale's Horse in the Anglo-Zulu War. A convoy under his command from Fort Tenedos to Fort Chelmsford successfully beat off a Zulu ambush [cite book | title=The Story of the Zulu campaign | first=Walter | last=Ashe | coauthors=Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell | page=232 | publisher=S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington | year=1880 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wB8PAAAAYAAJ | accessdate=2008-08-30]

Whalley was elected Liberal MP for Peterborough in 1880, like his father (who had occupied the seat until his death in 1878). He resigned by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead in June 1883. He was adjudged bankrupt later that year. [LondonGazette | issue=25312 | startpage=418 | date=25 January 1884]

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