Francis Le Grix White
Rev Francis Le Grix White FRSE FGS (1819–1887) was a 19th-century British vicar remembered as an amateur geologist.
Life
He was descended from the Norman family of Le Grix de Neuville, and obtained a coat-of-arms to mark this.[1]
He was born in 1819 the only son of John White of Culham Street in London. He was educated at Worcester College then studied Law at Oxford University becoming a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1844. He then took a change in direction, studying Divinity at Oxford, and graduating BA in 1848 and MA in 1849.[2]
In 1857 he became vicar of Croxton, Staffordshire remaining there to 1869. In 1872 he is listed as private chaplain to the Marquess of Drogheda.[3]
In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles Neaves, Henry Cotterill, Daniel Sandford (his brother-in-law), and Andrew Wood.[4]
He died on 17 May 1887[5] in Penrith.[6]
Family
In 1847, in Rothesay, he was married to Cecilia Catherine Charlotte Sandford (d.1898), daughter of Prof Daniel Sandford.[7] They did not have any children. He was uncle to the footballer, Cecil Holden-White, who was an executor of his will.[8]
Publications
- Forgotten Seigneurs of the Alenconnais (1880)
References
- ^ The Heraldic Register 1849/1850 by Bernard Burke
- ^ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Alumni_Oxoniensis_(1715-1886)_volume_4.djvu/342
- ^ The Scottish Guardian 28 December 1872
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5.
- ^ http://www.bromleyarchives.org.uk/Bromley/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=678%2F2%2F24&action=983e26e4
- ^ https://gw.geneanet.org/brynjulf?lang=no&n=white&oc=0&p=francis
- ^ The Court Magazine vol 26
- ^ http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersW/BioWhiteCHH.html
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