Errol Ivor White CBE FRS FLS FGS (30 June 1901 – 11 January 1985) was a British geologist. He was President of the

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from 1956 to 1959 and President of the Linnean Society of London from 1964 to 1967. He was educated at

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and

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(Tennant Prizeman).‘WHITE, Errol Ivor’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956. He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1962 and the Linnean Gold Medal in 1970.

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1901 births 1985 deaths People educated at Highgate School Alumni of King's College London Fellows of King's College London Presidents of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Geological Society of London Fellows of the Linnean Society of London 20th-century British geologists {{UK-geologist-stub