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WHITE, GILBERT, third son of Sir Sampson White, Kt, draper, Mayor of Oxford, and Mary, dau. of Richard Soper, East Oakley, Hampshire; b. 15 Feb 1650; adm.; KS 1666; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 10 Jul 1668; migrated to Magdalen Coll., demy 1668-72; BA 1672; MA 6 Feb 1674/5; Fellow, Magdalen Coll. 1672-81; ordained priest (Oxford) 26 May 1678; Rector of Brandeston, Norfolk 14 Jun 1680; Rector of Selborne, Hampshire, from 14 Mar 1680/1; m. Rebecca Luckin, Nore Hill, Newton Valence, Hampshire; d. 13 Feb 1727/8.

WHITE, GEORGE TOWRY, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv); b. 14 Mar 1814; adm. 16 Jan 1824; KS 1827; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1831, adm. pens. 26 May 1831, scholar 1832; 18th Wrangler 1835; BA 1835; MA 1838; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb 1835, called to bar 19 Nov 1838; m. 14 Aug 1848 Euphemia Anne, only dau. of Maj. Robert Williams Shirriff, Assistant Commissary-Gen., EICS Madras; d. 14 Dec 1867.

WHITE, FRANCIS, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv); b. 5 May 1803; adm. 17 Sep 1812; KS 1816; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1820, adm. pens. 18 May 1820, scholar 1821; BA 1824; MA 1827; Norrisian Prize 1826; ordained priest (Peterborough) 10 Jun 1827; Curate, Broughton, Northants 1836; d. 13 May 1876.

White, Francis Sheldon, son of Charles Francis White CBE MD DPH, Chief MO to the PLA, and Edith Celia, d. of Richard James Reynolds of Heaton Mersey, Lancs; b. 4 June 1917; adm. Jan. 1931 (A); left July 1936; Exeter Coll. Oxf., matric. 1936; joined Air Ministry 1940, p. a. to the librarian 1953-8; d. Jan. 1998.

WHITE, FRANCIS SELLON, brother of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv); b. 22 Aug 1780; in school list 1795; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1800; Ensign, 4th Native Infantry 28 Nov 1801; Lieut., 30 Sep 1803; Brevet Capt., 6 Jan 1816; 4th Native Infantry 22 Jun 1816; ret. 6 Feb 1819; latterly of Kensington, Middlesex; author, A History of Inventions and Discoveries, 1827; m. 18 Nov 1818 Joanna, dau. of Charles Goldney Rees, Cross Hall, Chorley, Lancs., calico printer; d. 19 Jul 1850.

White, Ernest Frederick Anselm Farren, son of William Ernest Crabtree White LLD, solicitor, of Ealing, and Alice, d. of Frederick D'Olbert Bullock, Judge of the High Court Lahore; b. 24 Dec. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (KS); left July 1929; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1929, BA 1933; has assumed the additional Christian name of Anselm; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1937; 2nd Lieut. Rov. Signals (TA) July 1937, transf. Tower Hamlets Rifles July 1938 (Lieut.), reverted Roy. Signals Feb. 1942; d. 1970.

WHITE, CHARLES, son of Fitzwilliam White, Louth, Lincs., and his first wife Mary ---; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1743 (Bourne's); left 1745; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Aug 1748, but did not matr.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Jul 1746, called to bar 6 Feb 1752; of The Close, Lincoln; m. 1774 Jane, sister of Sir Francis Bernard, Bart. (qv); d. 7 Feb 1810, said in GM to have been aged 83. [will proved PCC 2 Mar 1810]

WHITE, CHARLES BEST, son of William Archibald Armstrong White (qv); b. 7 Oct 1812; adm. 16 Jan 1824; probably “young White”, who in 1834 interviewed William IV and obtained his permission for the performance of the Latin Play, which had been abandoned owing to the death of the Duke of Gloucester (Elizabethan xiv, 29); of Castor House, Northamptonshire; m. 6 Jul 1841 Anne Aglae Josephine, dau. of Adm. --- Ferrand, French Navy; d. 29 Mar 1859.

WHITE, CHARLES BARRETT, elder surviving son of William Henry White, Parliament Place, Old Palace Yard, Westminster, Deputy Receiver of Crown Rents, and Anne, sister of Samuel Browne Tuffnell Barrett (qv); b. 20 Dec 1799; adm. 27 Apr 1809; left 1813; living 1838.

WHITE, BLAZE, “cler. fil. ” (i. e. son of a Church of England clergyman); b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1648, matr. 13 Mar 1650/1, Westminster Student; BA 26 Feb 1651/2; MA 1654; ordained; Rector of St. George’s, Canterbury, Kent 7 May 1661-6; Minor Canon of Canterbury (by 1662); Rector of Stonar, Isle of Thanet, from 15 Aug 1663; a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal 14 Mar 1663/4 – 10 Jul 1675 (still priest there 1691); Vicar Choral, Lichfield Cathedral; m. 1st, 6 May 1662 Susanna Wright, widow; m. 2nd, 27 Jun 1665 Anne, dau. of William Burges, Westminster; d. 24 Feb 1699, aged 69.