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 These walks he commenced in 1850 with a month's tramp in Holland, a narrative of which he published under the title of ‘Notes from the Netherlands’ (Chambers's Journal, 1858, vol. xv.)

White resigned the assistant-secretaryship of the Royal Society on 18 Dec. 1884, and received a pension to the full amount of his salary. He resided at Brixton until his death, 18 July 1893. In 1830 he married Maria Hamilton. His domestic lot was not happy. His wife left him in 1845 (Journals, pp. 67, 95), his sons emigrated, and for the last thirty years of his life he lived quite alone.

Besides contributions to magazines, he published: 1. ‘To Mont Blanc and Back Again,’ London, 1854, 12mo. 2. ‘A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End,’ London, 1855, 8vo; 2nd ed. 1861. 3. ‘On Foot through Tyrol in the Summer of 1855,’ London, 1856, 8vo; 2nd ed. 1863. 4. ‘A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia,’ London, 1857, 8vo; 2nd ed. 1863. 5. ‘A Month in Yorkshire,’ London, 1858, 8vo; 4th ed. 1861. 6. ‘Northumberland and the Border,’ London, 1859, 8vo; 2nd ed. 1863. 7. ‘All Round the Wrekin,’ London, 1860, 8vo; 2nd ed. 1860. 8. ‘Eastern England from the Thames to the Humber,’ London, 1865, 2 vols. 8vo. 9. ‘Rhymes,’ 1873. 10. ‘Holidays in Tyrol, Kufstein, Klobenstein, and Paneveggio,’ London, 1876, 8vo. 11. ‘Obladis: a Tyrolese Sour-Spring,’ Birmingham, 1881, 8vo. He edited ‘A Sailor Boy's Log-book from Portsmouth to the Peiho,’ London, 1862, 8vo (the ‘sailor boy’ was his third son, Henry).

[The Journals of Walter White, London, 1898, 8vo; Men of the Time, 1891; Athenæum, 29 July 1893; Minutes of Council of the Royal Society (unpublished); private information.] 

WHITE, WILLIAM (1604–1678), divine, was born of humble parentage at Witney, Oxfordshire, in June 1604. He matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford, on 13 July 1621, graduated B.A. on 25 Feb. 1625 and M.A. on 27 June 1628. In 1632 he became master of Magdalen College school, from which post he was ejected by the parliamentary commissioners in 1648. Several of his pupils there became eminent. Through the influence of Brian Duppa [q. v.], bishop of Salisbury, he obtained about the same time the rectory of Pusey, Berkshire, which Wood says he kept ‘through the favour of his friends and the smallness of its profits.’

After the Restoration, about 1662, the rectory of Appleton was conferred upon him by the efforts of Thomas Pierce [q. v.], president of Magdalen College and a former pupil of White. He kept both livings until his death, at Pusey, on 31 May 1678. He was buried on 5 June in the chancel, where a flat stone records his death. By his will, dated 25 Oct. 1677, he left to his only daughter, Elizabeth, houses and lands at Bampton and West Weale, subject to a charge of 5l. to be paid to the vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, and his successors, for a catechism at evening prayer. The house which he had erected at Pusey he bequeathed to a son. White wrote several works in Latin under the name of ‘Gulielmus Phalerius.’ One, ‘Via ad Pacem Ecclesiasticam,’ London, 1660, 4to, is in the British Museum. Three others are mentioned by Wood.

[Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. iii. 1167; Burrows's Visitation, p. 514; Gardiner's Register of Wadham, p. 62; Bloxam's Hist. of Magd. Coll. iii. 158.] 

WHITE, WILLIAM  ARTHUR (1824–1891), diplomatist, the son of Arthur White, who was in the British consular service, and Eliza Lila, daughter of Lieutenant-general William Gardiner Neville, was born in 1824, and educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the consular service on 9 March 1857 as clerk to the consul-general at Warsaw. He frequently acted as consul-general; and on 9 Jan. 1861 he became vice-consul, again acting as consul-general for the greater part of 1862 and 1863. Here, with strong Polish sympathies, he nevertheless comported himself with such judgment as never to offend Russia. On 9 Nov. 1864 he was appointed consul at Danzig, where in 1866 he acted also for six months as Belgian consul, and during the war of 1870 took charge of French interests. On 27 Feb. 1875 he was transferred to Servia as British agent and consul-general. This post at last gave him some scope for employing the knowledge which for many years past he had been acquiring, and laid the foundation of his great influence in dealing with Eastern nationalities. Within a few months of his arrival in Servia the old Eastern question began to assume an acute phase, and in June 1876 the Servians, following the lead of Herzegovina, declared war against Turkey. Their defeat was followed by the conference at Constantinople in December 1876. There Lord Salisbury was assisted by White, and was deeply impressed by his knowledge and ability. Through the succeeding Russo-Turkish war he remained in Servia, but on the erection of Roumania into a kingdom he was appointed envoy-