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Whittle's episcopate, both as Bishop Johns' assistant and as his successor beginning April 4, 1876. With the help of his wife Emily, Whittle established various charitable institutions in Richmond. In 1875, he established the Protestant
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Llewellyn Fairfax Whittle circa 1880. Surviving children included Lucy Tucker Whittle (b. 6 June 1849 in Charleston and who married John Nottingham Upshure of Norfolk, whose sole child Francis Whittle Upshure became a professor of medicine and pharmacology at the
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Whittle also was active in sending missionaries to Brazil, and one of his last acts was signing a petition of clergymen opposing the war in the Philippines. However, he died disappointed that he had failed to stem the
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