Studied at Queen's College, Birmingham, and at Queen's University, Ireland, gaining prizes and honours in anatomy, physiology, and forensic medicine. Having qualified, he served as House Surgeon at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, London, and then at Sunderland Infirmary. He entered into partnership with William Haygarth Maling, MRCS, and practised at 48 John Street, Sunderland, until his early death on November 7th, 1893. At the time he was Secretary of the Sunderland and North Durham Medical Society, a Member of the British Medical Association and of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Clinical Society. Publications: Whitehouse contributed papers on surgical cases to the *Transactions* of the Sunderland Society and "Reports of Cases from 1885-1887" to the *Brit Med Jour*.