| Arthur Whetham | |
| Birth Date: | c.1783 |
| Death Date: | 13 May 1853 |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Rank: | Major-General |
| Branch: | British Army |
| Battles: | French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
Major-General Arthur Whetham (c.1783 – 13 May 1853) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth.
Arthur Whetham was born in 1783 the son of John Whetham.
It is known that he was a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Whetham, and Arthur was a brother of a different Colonel John Whetham,[1] an officer in the 12th Regiment of Foot, who died during a Siege of Gibraltar.
There was also a cousin of his named Lieutenant General Arthur Whetham (1753[2] -1813), who was the Governor of Portsmouth.
His great uncle, Thomas Whetham, was also a general who commanded the 12th Regiment of Foot[3] from 1725 to 1741.
Whetham was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 40th Regiment of Foot in 1799.[4] He took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799 and was wounded at the Battle of Montevideo in February 1807 during the British invasions of the River Plate.[4] He became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in January 1808. He was also colonel of the 60th Regiment of Foot.[5]
He died on 13 May 1853.