Whitely Stokes | |
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| Born | 1763 |
| Died | 1845 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | Trinity College Dublin |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, mathematician |
| Notable work | Observations on Contagion (1818), Observations on the population and resources of Ireland (1821). |
| Movement | Society of United Irishmen |
Whitley Stokes (1763–1845) was an Irish physician and polymath. A one-time United Irishman, in 1798 he was sanctioned by Trinity College Dublin for his alleged republicanism. In 1821, he published a rebuttal of Robert Malthus's thesis that, as spurs to population growth, in Ireland attempts to improve the general welfare are self-defeating. The country's problem, Stokes argued, was not her "numbers" but her indifferent government.