Whiteley, George Derek Pepys, 1906-1989 (barrister, librarian and art historian)
Biography
Derek Pepys Whiteley was born in 1906, the son of Gerard Tarver Whiteley and the Hon. Amy Theresa Pepys. He was educated at Sherborne and King's College, and was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1931. He became senior legal assistant in the Treasury Solicitor's Department, retiring in 1957; and from 1959 to 1970 was Keeper of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College. An expert on Victorian art history, he wrote a life of George du Maurier, and articles for DNB.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Derek Pepys Whiteley: Index to Arthur Christopher Benson's Diaries
The index, compiled by Whiteley, covers Benson's diaries of 1897-1902.