W. W. R. Whitridge

William Whitridge Roberts Whitridge (ca.1824 – 26 May 1861) was a newspaper editor in the early days of South Australia.

Whitridge emigrated from England on the Panama, arriving in South Australia in October 1850. A fellow passenger, with whom he was to found a lasting friendship, was John Lorenzo Young, founder in 1852 of the Adelaide Educational Institution.

Whitridge worked for the Austral Examiner before taking a job as editor with the South Australian Register around 1859. He was a member of the Free Rifles corps and a foundation member of the Philosophical Society and the South Australian Society of Arts. He was married and had a home "Kurltoparinga", Inman Valley (which served as the local church), then "Pine Villa", Enfield, where he died suddenly, aged 36.

He had created a sufficient impression among art and literature lovers of Adelaide that a well-attended lecture was given in White's Assembly Rooms by W. Townsend for the benefit of his widow and family.

He was married to Charlotte Elizabeth (ca.1821 – 7 March 1910) ; they had five children:

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