Father Robert Whitty, S. J. (January 7, 1817 – September 1, 1895) was an Irish Jesuit priest. Born at , near , he entered Maynooth College in his fourteenth year. Having added two years on the Dumboyne Establishment to his college course, he was still too young for ordination. He offered his services to Dr. Griffiths, Vicar Apostolic of the London District, who ordained him priest at St. Edmund's, Ware, 19 September 1840. From the first he showed a warm sympathy with the Oxford converts and formed a friendship with John Henry Newman and Frederick Oakeley before they had become Catholics. Nicholas Patrick Wiseman showed his appreciation of his priestly zeal by making him provost of the newly appointed metropolitan chapter and his vicar-general in 1850. In this capacity he was responsible fo