Edward Elihu Whitfield

Does anyone know any more about him?

I've added the article from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia and the dates of birth and death. The latter is probably published here for the first time; I recently ordered Whitfield's death record from the General Register Office ("1911 Deaths in the Sub-District of Chiswick, in the County of Middlesex", No. 26).

Edward Elihu Whitfield’s parents were Quakers. Edward Whitfield, a ship-owner, shipbroker and colliery agent, of Elswick Villas, Newcastle (c.1813-?c.1870) and Mary Sutton (daughter of Elihu and Hannah Sutton of Scotby, Cumberland) were married in the Friends Meeting House at Benfieldside, nr. Shotley Bridge.
EEW had two older sisters and in 1851 they were all living at home in Newcastle with a governess and two servants, but by 1861 his father is not around. His mother (described as ‘married’ rather than ‘widow’) is lodging with the family of Joseph Sutton, (in Morpeth) a son by her first marriage. Meanwhile (in 1861) EEW and his sisters were students at Sidcot School, a Quaker boarding school, in Winscombe, Somerset.
EEW matriculated at Oxford from Oriel College in 1869, but, for reasons unknown, his name was removed from the college register in 1870. His BA in 1874 was therefore described as a non-collegiate degree. His name was restored to the register in 1875, so his MA was an Oxford degree from Oriel College. There is a letter written by JND to EEW when he was studying at Oxford in 1870 in JND's ‘Letters' iii. 410-412. In 1871 when EEW was at Oriel College Oxford, his mother and one of his sisters were lodging not so far away in Cheltenham, but in 1881, EEW was still a batchelor, living in Oxford (described as a solicitor) with his mother and one of his sisters, in his household.
By 1891 he was married to Mary (?maiden name unknown) and his son Lewis Edward (born c. 1886) was living with them in Rochester. At the time of the census in 1901 the three of them were visiting a family (named Hatchett) in Stafford, and in 1911 (the year of his death the three of them were living (son aged 25) in Chiswick, West London.
Henry Pickering, the editor of 'Chief Men among the Brethren' entrusted EEW with writing the articles on JND, JGB, GVW, WK and Clarence Esme Stuart (the last of which was altered slightly, in the 2nd edition of the volume.) In the first article EEW described Darby as 'the Tertullian of these last days'! Timothy Stunt.

Thanks a lot Michael / Timothy .. DeceasedOnline have a record for him as being buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, plot number 43197 - Sir Robert Anderson and Lord Congleton are buried there too, so must make a trip sometime.