Frederick Wallingford Whitridge (August 8, 1852 – December 30, 1916) was an American industrialist who served as president of the Third Avenue Railway Company.
Biography He was born on August 8, 1852, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to John C. Whitridge. He married the daughter of Matthew Arnold. He died on December 30, 1916, three days after his appendix operation.
In 1919, Whitridge’s daughter Eleanor Lucia married Lt. Col. Norman Thwaites, Director of the British Mission, New York.“Thwaites, Lt.-Col. N. G., C.B.E., M.V.O., M.C.” in The Anglo-American Year Book (1934), p. 243: “Thwaites, Lt.-Col. N. G., C.B.E., M.V.O., M.C.” (Editor of The National), and Mrs. (Eleanor, d. of Fredk. W. Whitridge, New York), Barley End, Tring, Herts, and 34, Hyde Park Gate.” and they had two sons and two daughters.Social Register, New York (1947), p. 749
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