page_title: Fred Whibley
hierarchical_section_title: Fred Whibley
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait photograph of Frederick Geo Whibley
context_page_description: Fred Whibley abandoned a career as clerk in a London bank to escape from the constraints and social expectations of respectability in the Victorian era. He ended up as a copra trader on Niutao in Tuvalu in the central Pacific Ocean.
  Whibley was born in 1855 in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, the youngest son of Ambrose Whibley, silk mercer, and his first wife, Anne Parkes. Educated at Bristol Grammar School.
  After the death of Anne in 1855 Ambrose Whibley married Mary Jean Davy, the daughter of John Davy, an iron merchant of Bristol. Fred Whibley was the half-brother of Charles Whibley, journalist and writer and Leonard Whibley, classical scholar and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1899-1910. Fred’s sister, Eliza Eleanor Whibley, married John T. Arundel, owner of John T Arundel and Company which operated in the Pacific.
context_section_description: Fred Whibley (Fredrick George Whibley, 1855-1919) abandoned a career as clerk in a London bank to escape from the constraints and social expectations of respectability in the Victorian era.  He ended up as a copra trader on Niutao in Tuvalu in the central Pacific Ocean.
  Whibley was born in 1855 in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, the youngest son of Ambrose Whibley, silk mercer, and his first wife, Anne Parkes.  Educated at Bristol Grammar School.
  After the death of Anne in 1855 Ambrose Whibley married Mary Jean Davy,  the daughter of John Davy, an iron merchant of Bristol.  Fred Whibley was the half-brother of Charles Whibley, journalist and writer and Leonard Whibley, classical scholar and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1899-1910.  Fred’s sister, Eliza Eleanor (Lillie) Whibley, married John T. Arundel, owner of John T Arundel and Company which operated in the Pacific.
caption: Fred Whibley, Island trader on Niutao 1898 to 1909 (Fred Whibley c.1888)
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