Graham White (priest)
Appearance
Graham White, OBE, MA (1884 - 8 May 1945) was Archdeacon of Singapore[1] from 1931 until 1945.
White was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford;[2] and ordained in 1908. He held curacies in South Shields, Staindrop and West Hartlepool[3][4] after which he was a Chaplain to the Forces during the First World War. He was Vicar of Dawdon from 1920 to 1925 when he went to be the Chaplain at Ipoh.
He died on 8 May 1945. His grave is located at the side of St. Andrew's Cathedral. (Near Padang) [5]
Graham White Drive, which is located off Jalan Toa Payoh near the Pan Island Expressway within St. Andrew's Village, is named after him.
References
[edit]- ^ SGE Books Archived 2014-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ‘WHITE, Ven. Graham’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013; online edn, June 2013 accessed 27 Sept 2013
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p 1388: London, OUP, 1929
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ Obituary The Times (London, England), Friday, May 11, 1945; pg. 7; Issue 50139