Frederick Whyte

Sir Alexander Frederick Whyte KCSI (30 September 1883 – 30 July 1970) was a British civil servant, Liberal Party politician, writer, and journalist.

From 1920 to 1925 he served as the first President of the new Central Legislative Assembly of British India.

Alexander Frederick Whyte was born on 30 September 1883, the second of eight children, and eldest son born to the Reverend Alexander Whyte DD, and Jane Elizabeth Barbour, who married in 1881.

Whyte attended Edinburgh Academy and read modern languages at Jena University and at Edinburgh University, graduating with a first class. During this time he was President of Edinburgh University Union, and after graduation was warden of the Edinburgh University Settlement in 1907–8.

He entered Parliament as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth (1910–1918), during which time he had been parliamentary private secretary (1910–1915) to Winston Churchill, who was Home Secretary (1910–1911), and then First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–15) at the time. During the Great War, Whyte was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on special service (1914–17).

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