Rev Francis Le Grix White

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Life

He was descended from the Norman family of Le Grix de Neuville, and obtained a coat of arms to mark this. He was born in 1819, the only son of John White of Culham Street in

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. He was educated at

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then studied law at

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, becoming a barrister at the

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in 1844. He then took a change in direction, studying divinity at Oxford, and graduating BA in 1848 and MA in 1849. In 1857 he became vicar of

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remaining there to 1869. In 1872 he is listed as private chaplain to the Marquess of

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. In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, Daniel Sandford (his brother-in-law), and Andrew Wood. He died on 17 May 1887 in Penrith.

Family

In 1847, in

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, he was married to Cecilia Catherine Charlotte Sandford (died 1898), daughter of Prof Daniel Sandford.The Court Magazine vol 26 They did not have any children. He was uncle to the footballer,

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, who was an executor of his will.

Publications

*''Forgotten Seigneurs of the Alenconnais'' (1880)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:White, Francis Le Grix 1819 births 1887 deaths Amateur geologists Alumni of the University of Oxford Anglican clergy from London English geologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh