title: Cuthbert Whitaker
text: # Cuthbert Whitaker
  
  Sir Cuthbert Wilfred Whitaker (26 May 1873 – 1950) was editor of Whitaker's Almanack. He held the position for fifty-five years, succeeding his father Joseph Whitaker when he died in 1895, and was in turn succeeded by a nephew on his death.[citation needed]
  
  He was Chairman of the City of London Food Control Committee during the Second World War, and was knighted in 1946 for services to the City of London Corporation.
  
  Whitaker was a Councilman for the ward of Farringdon Within from 1905. In 1944 he led the initiative to found the Guildhall Historical Association on 16 June 1944.
  
  