Whitley Stokes believed this latter spelling was a due to a false etymology popular at the time.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

He was born in what is now Whitley County, Indiana, at either a small Miami village by Devil's Lake, or at a larger nearby village known as Turtletown.

Whitley, the Father of Hollywood, was the General Manager of the Syndicate.

Whitley County was created on January 17, 1818 from adjacent Knox County, Kentucky.

The namesake of the county, Colonel William Whitley, is famous locally for fighting many of these battles within the area, safeguarding the Wilderness Road, as well as for his service in the War of 1812, where he was killed at the Battle of the Thames.

A Whitley County special grand jury returned a 21-count indictment against Sheriff Hodge while he was still Sheriff ( November 8, 2010 ).

The majority of the county was carved out of Wayne and Whitley Counties, with a large center strip following the rail line and roadway from Pulaski County.

Until a road was built from Whitley County in 1931, the primary access to the Falls what through McCreary.

Laurel County, the eighteenth county to be organized in Kentucky, was established by an act of the general assembly, December 12, 1825, from parts of Rockcastle, Clay, Knox and Whitley Counties.

David " Stringbean " Akeman, country music star who was born and raised in AnnvilleFreddie LangdonRandy Hays ( guitar player in the Keith Whitley Band ) Woody Brooks ( has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ) Andrew N. Johnson, Prohibition Party's 1944 nominee for vice president of the United States

Corcoran was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a prominent land developer from southern California, promoter who platted some 150 towns in the West, who took the lead in building Corcoran ( the main street of the community is named in his honor ).

The Whitley County Courthouse was designed ( 1888 – 1891 ) by Brentwood S. Tolan, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

* Janie Fricke, country music artist, was born in South Whitley in 1947.

* Will Cuppy ( 1884 – 1949 ), humorist and journalist, spent summers when he was a boy at the farm of his grandmother, Sarah Collins Cuppy, near South Whitley.

* Hugo Fox ( born February 2, 1897 in South Whitley ; died December 29, 1969 in South Whitley ) was the principal bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to 1949.

A statue of Whitley playing his guitar can be seen in the local cemetery, and a local street was renamed " Keith Whitley Boulevard.

The city was founded in 1818 and named after William Whitley.

The town was then known at Whitley Courthouse.

It is governed by Mayor Elbert L. " Whit " Whitley, Jr. ( who was re-elected in 2005 after a 28-year hiatus from the same position ) and a seven-member City Council.

Medford was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a land developer, banker, farmer and Rock Island Railroad executive.

The new section was long, with locks at Ferrybridge, Whitley, Pollington and Goole.

Pertwee's brother James Raymond " Jiggy " Pertwee was an RAF Whitley Bomber pilot who was killed in a crash on a hillside close to a disused quarry above Bank Foot, Ingleby Greenhow, following a leaflet drop over Dortmund, Germany in June 1941.

The Green Party of England and Wales had one member of the ( unelected ) House of Lords, the Upper Chamber of Parliament, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, who died in 2008.

Whitley moved a member of his real estate firm, J. W. Guiberson, to the area.

Jenny Jones AM ( a Green member of the London Assembly ), the late Lord Beaumont of Whitley ( Green member of the House of Lords ), prominent human rights campaigner and Green member Peter Tatchell, Noel Lynch ( London Green Party Coordinator and former London Assembly member ), councillors from Scarborough, Lewisham, York, Norwich and Hackney, and members of the Green Party Executive ( GPEx ), including Campaigns Coordinator, Tim Summers, and Pete McAskie ( Management Coordinator ).

Gene Johnson, the oldest member of the group, plays mandolin, fiddle, and guitar, had previously worked with David Bromberg, Keith Whitley and J. D. Crowe before joining Diamond Rio in 1985.

Embury is the only member left who has been in the band since the Scum tour, replacing previous bassist Jim Whitley in 1987.

Whitley was also an inaugural member of The Independent Music Awards ' judging panel to support independent artists.

Archer served as a governor of Battersea Polytechnic, President of the Nine Elms Swimming Club, Chair of the Whitley Council Staff Committee and a member of the Wandsworth Board of Guardians.

He was a member of the official side of the National Whitley Council for the Civil Service ;

Sir Norman Henry Pownall Whitley KCB MC ( 7 April 1890 – 31 January 1982 ) was a British Army officer, judge and silver medalist in Lacrosse at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Whitley Bay Ladies recently merged with the local men's team, Tynemouth Hockey Club in 2007, to form Whitely Bay & Tynemouth Hockey Club.

The airborne troops were delivered by converted Armstrong Whitworth Whitley medium bombers to the target on 10 February, but equipment failures and navigational errors meant that a significant portion of the troops explosives, and a team of Royal Engineer sappers, landed in the wrong area.

Whitley Bay are the first team to win the FA Vase three times in successive seasons.

The first team was known as Whitley and Monkseaton F. C, it was later renamed to Monkseaton FC and then again renamed to Whitley Bay Athletic in 1950, after many years in the minor leagues.

* In 2011 Whitley Bay won the FA Vase for an unprecedented fourth time, and became the first team to win three FA Vases in succession and the first team to win three trophies consecutively at Wembley.

The technical side was the responsibility of the engineering team in Ryton, while the styling was the responsibility of Chrysler's Whitley design studio in Coventry, led by Roy Axe ( who would leave the UK for Chrysler's headquarters in the USA before the car was launched ).

Despite being Zambian born, due to Whitley living in England since he was a child, he was eligible to, and played for the England under-17 team.

In the 1950s, Icy, inspired by the Wasps and the Riverside, started another ice rink at Whitley Bay, their hockey team called the Bees to start with, then the Braves, and then the Warriors, the name which still survives.

The plans for a new rink in Newcastle came to nothing so a deal was made which resulted in the Whitley Warriors being evicted from the Telewest Arena to make way for the team.

Having also had various professional basketball and ice hockey teams as tenants for much of its history, since 2009 it has had no ice hockey team after the departure of the Newcastle Vipers to the Whitley Bay Ice Rink, and no basketball team since the departure of the Newcastle Eagles to Northumbria University's Sport Central arena in 2010.

The first ice-hockey team to take residence at the arena was the Whitley Warriors, but they left after just a few months.