George Rivers Blanco White QC (8 May 1883 – 26 March 1966) was an English judge,

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from 1940–56, and a member of the Special Divorce Commission, from 1948–1957. The son of Thomas and Margaret Elizabeth Blanco White, he was educated at

St Paul's School, London (''By Faith and By Learning'') , established = , closed = , type = Independent school Public school , religion = Church of England , president = , h ...

and

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, from where he graduated second wrangler behind Arthur Eddington in 1904, and was awarded Smith's Prize in 1906. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1907. On 7 May 1909, he married

Amber Reeves Amber Blanco White (' Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a New Zealand-born British feminist writer and scholar. Early life Reeves was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, the eldest of three children of Fabian feminist Maud Pember Re ...

, feminist writer, scholar and campaigner. She was the daughter of

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and his wife

Maud Pember Reeves Maud Pember Reeves (24 December 1865 – 13 September 1953) (born Magdalene Stuart Robison) was a suffragist, socialist, feminist, writer and member of the Fabian Society. She spent most of her life in New Zealand and Britain. Early life Re ...

. She bore a daughter Anna-Jane in December that year whose biological father was the author H.G. Wells (though Blanco White was Anna's legal father). The Blanco-Whites later had daughter

Margaret Justin Blanco White Margaret Justin Blanco White OBE ARIBA (11 December 1911 – 1 November 2001) was a Scottish architect. Early life and education Margaret Justin Blanco White was born at 30 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London, on 11 December 1911. Her father ...

(1911–2001), who became an architect, and a son Thomas Blanco White (1915–2006), a patent lawyer. Through Margaret he was the grandfather of anthropologist

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and mathematician

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. He served in the

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with the

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. He stood for the Labour Party at the

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, coming second to Liberal

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. He was made King's Counsel in 1936. He became a

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of Lincoln's Inn in 1940 in replacement of Henry Chartres Biron.The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 08, 1940; pg. 5; Issue 48559. (417 words) He died in 1966 and received obituaries in ''The Times'' and ''The Guardian''.

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