Frederick William Whitehouse, born 20 December 1900, was a Queensland geologist. Whitehouse completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Queensland in 1922 and was awarded the Government Gold Medal in Geology that same year. He completed a Master of Science in 1924. Taking a University Travelling Scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, he gained his PhD there in 1925 with a thesis on marine Cretaceous sequences in Australia. Returning to Australia, Whitehouse was appointed Queensland Government Geologist in the Department of Mines in 1925. The following year he took up a position as lecturer at the Department of Geology at the University of Queensland. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Queensland in 1939. In 1941, Whitehouse enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, and primarily applied his knowledge to road-building activities in Queensland and New Guinea. Following the war, Whitehouse was seconded to the Department of Coordinator-General of Public Works and was on the committee of post-war re-construction. In 1948 he returned to lecturing at the University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1949. Whitehouse resigned from the University in 1955 following a charge of committing an act of 'gross indecency' with a minor. After repeated efforts to clear his name, the conviction was overturned by the High Court 1957. Whitehouse continued to work as a consulting geologist until his death on 22 March 1973. His most important work was on the Cambrian faunas of North-Eastern Australia in the 1930s and on the Great Australian Artesian Basin throughout the 1950s.