Ray Whitney

Sir Raymond William Whitney OBE (28 November 1930-15 August 2012) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Whitney was elected as Member of Parliament for Wycombe in a by-election in 1978 and stepped down at the 2001 general election when he was replaced by Paul Goodman.

Before being elected to parliament, he was head of the Information Research Department, the Foreign Office's covert propaganda department. He was a junior minister in the Department of Health and Social Security as well as a junior Foreign Office Minister.

Affiliations

• Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies

External Resources

• Sir Ray Whitney, Telegraph, 15 August 2012.
• Paul Goodman, Sir Ray Whitney - an officer in the Thatcher army who helped make its victory happen., ConservativeHome, 17 August 2012.