THE PRINTING TIMES AND LITHOGRAPHER, April 15, 1887 Page 76
Whatman,—Mr. James Whatman died on the ll th ult., after a long and painful illness, at Vinter’s, Kent, at the age of seventy-three. The deceased was a Deputy-Lieutenant of London and a Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P. of Kent. In 1852 Mr. Whatman was returned M.P. for Maidstone. In April, 1857, Mr. Whatman retired from the representation of the borough and was returned for West Kent, but lost his seat two years later. In 1865 he was, however, re-elected for Maidstone. In 1874, on the eve of the general election, Mr. Whatman retired in favour of Sir Sydney II. Waterlow. The late Mr. James Whatman could trace his ancestry back to Edward I. Burke’s “Landed Gentry” says that “Whateman or Hwateman is a Saxon family of the Weald of Kent, and their Saxon name, Hwateman, is but little changed by the more modern orthography. Subsequently they were amongst the independent yeomen of Kent, and remained until the sixteenth century near Romney and Hawkhurst, in both of which parishes they had good property, and left much of the land to the monasteries.” Vinter’s, the residence of the deceased gentleman, was originally the residence of a family of that name, and, after passing through other hands, it was purchased in 1738 by James Whatman, a descendant of an ancient family belonging to the Weald of Kent, who was also the owner of Turkey Paper Mill, and was the manufacturer of the celebrated paper bearing his IumUC. This gentleman rebuilt the mansion, but the late James Whatman (grandson of the former) transformed and greatly enlarged it in 1849.
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