Whitfield was ed­u­cat­ed at Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Dub­lin, Ire­land (BA 1859). Af­ter tak­ing Ho­ly Or­ders, he was suc­ces­sive­ly Cur­ate of Ot­ley, Vi­car of Kir­by-Ra­vens­croft, sen­ior Cu­rate of Green­wich, and Vi­car of St. John’s, Bex­ley. In 1875, he went to St. Mary’s, Hast­ings. Whitf­ield wrote over 30 prose and po­et­ic works, in­clud­ing:

• Spiritual Un­fold­ing from the Word of Life
• Voices from the Val­ley Tes­ti­fy­ing of Je­sus
• The Word Un­veiled
• Gleanings from Scrip­ture
• Sac­red Po­ems and Prose, 1861 & 1864
• The Cas­ket
• Quiet Hours in the Sanc­tu­a­ry

• Julian, p. 1276

1. I Have a Great High Priest Above
2. I Need Thee, Pre­cious Je­sus
3. I Saw the Cross of Je­sus
4. In Spir­it, Lord, We Meet Thee Now
5. Jesus, Thou Name of Ma­gic Pow­er
6. O How I Love Je­sus
7. Sprinkled Blood Is Soak­ing, The
8. There Is a Day I Long to See
9. There’s Naught on Earth to Rest Up­on
10. When Dead in Sin and Far from God