I wasn’t able to find out anything about Hubert Whatley’s life and not even when he was born and when he died. The Victoria and Albert Museum owns a very small collection of pen and ink and watercolour drawings for a calendar, which were produced for Ernest Nister around 1900, but no information about the artist is provided. At least two of these drawing were also issued as postcards by Nister, but since they are unsigned they are not usually recognised as Whatley’s work. Most British collectors will have come across postcards that Whatley designed for Raphael Tuck. TuckDB Postcards lists 14. However, he actually designed many more. There is at least one set of six published in the “Select” Series by an unknown publisher in 1908 and eleven sets of six hand-coloured cards each by M. Munk (M.M. Vienne) in Vienna. These are not very well known and they have as far as I know not been attributed by anyone to Whatley. This is understandable since most of them are signed “H.A.W.”, and their style is very different from Whatley’s work for Tuck or the “Select” Series. So why do I think they are in fact Whatley’s work? Because I found one postcard published by E.W. Savory in their “Clifton” Series that is signed “H.A. Whatley”, and the style of that card is also much closer to the cards issued by Munk. Since Munk often published postcards that were originally issued by E.W. Savory (for instance many of F.G. Lewin’s hand-coloured sets) and some of H.A.W.’s cards published by Munk were also published by Savory, I would be very surprised if H.A.W. turned out to be not Hubert Whatley.