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WHITE, JOHN, son of John White, London; b.; adm. 6 Jun 1774; KS (aged 13) 1775; Writer, EICS Bengal 1778; arrived in India 14 Jul 1778; Assistant in Secretary’s Office, General Dept., 1779; Sub-Secretary and Sub-Accountant to Commissioner of Customs 1782; attended OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); Junior Merchant, Deputy Secretary, Public Dept., and Remembrancer in Criminal Courts 1788; Sub-Secretary, Public Dept., and member, Supreme Council 1790; Second Judge of Provincial Court of Appeal and Circuit, Calcutta; res. from EICS 1801 [check]; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. in Bengal, India (IGI) 4 Nov 1784 Matilda Denton.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.