, founder of Sion college, London, the.son of John White, was born in
, founder of Sion college, London,
the.son of John White, was born in Temple parish, in the
city of Bristol. His family was a branch of the Whites
of Bedfordshire. He was entered of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, about 1566, took his degrees in arts, was ordained,
and became a noted and frequent preacher. He afterwards
settled in London, where he had the living of St. Gregory’s, near St. Paul’s, and in 1575 was made vicar of St.
Dunstan’s, Fleet-street, where his pulpit services were much
admired. In 1584 he was licensed to proceed in divinity,
and commenced doctor in that faculty. In 1588 he had the
prebend of Mora/ in the church of St. Paul, conferred
upon him, and in 1590 was made treasurer of the church of
Sarum by the queen’s letters. In 1591 he was made canon
of Christ Church, and in 1593, canon of Windsor. He
died March 1, 1623-4, according to Reading, but Wood
says 1622-3; and was buried in the chancel of St.
DunStan’s church. In his will he ordered a grave-stone to be
placed over his remains, with a short inscription, but this
was either neglected, or has been destroyed. As soon as
an account of his death arrived at Oxford, the heads of the
university, in honour of his memory as a benefactor, appointed Mr. Price, trie first reader of the moral philosophy
lecture, to deliver an oration, which, with several encomiastic verses by other members of the university, was
printed under the title of “Schola Moralis Philosophise
Oxon. in funere Whiti pullata,
” Oxon.