“ Whyte was born in 1867 and educated at Stonyhurst. Besides his biography of Stead, he wrote a memoir of William Heinemann, "A Wayfarer in Sweden" (1926) and several other books. He had worked for Cassell's and Methuen's, and was a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In 1916 he married Karin Lilja, of Jönköping, Sweden, and had one son. ”