Major-General Arthur Whetham (c.1783 – 13 May 1853) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth.
Arthur Whetham was born in 1783[a] the son of John Whetham.[1]
It is known that he was a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham,[1] and Arthur was a brother of a different Colonel John Whetham,[2] an officer in the 12th Regiment of Foot, who died during a Siege of Gibraltar.[2]
There was also a cousin of his[1] named Lieutenant General Arthur Whetham (1753[3]-1813[3][1]), who was the Governor of Portsmouth.[1][3]
His great uncle, Thomas Whetham,[1] was also a general who commanded the 12th Regiment of Foot[4][1] from 1725 to 1741.[4]
Whetham was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 40th Regiment of Foot in 1799.[1] He took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799 and was wounded at the Battle of Montevideo in February 1807 during the British invasions of the River Plate.[1] He became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in January 1808.[5] He was also colonel of the 60th Regiment of Foot.[6]
He died on 13 May 1853.[1][b]