Journalist. Educated at Liverpool Institute and in Hanover. Became reporter on provincial press; from 1846 to 1849 wrote the Parliamentary summary of the Times; London correspondent of Liverpool Journal, for some years on staff of the Leader, to which he contributed satirical sketches of Parliamentary proceedings and debates, also sketches of members. Collected some of his Leader articles in History of the Session 1852-1853.

A Parliamentary Retrospect and in The Governing Classes of Great Britain. Political Portraits, both published 1854. Editor, 1857-1858, of Northern Whig. Emigrated to Australia to work on Melbourne Argus. Died in Melbourne. Author of satirical novel, Friends of Bohemia, 1857.

The name attached to "Post to Australia" in the Office Book is "Whitty". The subject is appropriate to the interests of Edward Michael Whitty. The journalist Michael James Whitty, 1795-1873, Edward Michael Whitty's father, began his career in London, but after 1829 was connected with Liverpool as newspaper editor, borough constable, and newspaper proprietor.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.

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