Edward P. Whineray, M.P.S.

Born: 1861.

Died: 1924.

Edward Whineray was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, about a year after Saddler William Whineray married Betsy Hodgson. He became an apprentice of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1875 and helped found the Chemist's Assistants' Union in 1898, after which he became managing director at pharmaceutical chemists W. E. Lowe Co. Ltd. on 8 Stafford Street, building a distinguished clientele.

He was one of Crowley's main sources for intoxicating drugs and ingredients for his incense formulas and later introduced him to the George Montagu Bennet, the 7th Earl of Tankerville.

Whineray also contributed "The Pharmacy of Hashish" to Crowley's first volume of The Equinox. He later contributed a review of The Chronicles of Pharmacy by A. C. Wooten, Macmillan & Co., in The Equinox, Volume 1, No. 6.