John Tahourdin White (1809–1893) was an English classical scholar.

Life

He was the second son of John White of

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in Hampshire. He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 28 January 1830, was elected an exhibitioner in the same year, and graduated B.A. in 1834, M.A. in 1839, and B.D. and D.D. in 1866. He was ordained deacon in 1834 as curate at

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. White was appointed reader at St. Stephen Walbrook in 1836, and acted as assistant master at Christ's Hospital from 1836 to 1869. In 1837 he became curate at St. Ann, Blackfriars, was ordained priest in 1839, and in 1841 was appointed curate at

St. Martin Ludgate St Martin, Ludgate, also known as St Martin within Ludgate, is an Anglican church on Ludgate Hill in the ward of Farringdon, in the City of London. The church is of medieval origin, but the present building dates from 1677 to 1684 and was design ...

, serving until 1868, when he was instituted rector. White died at 17 Cambridge Road,

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, on 17 December 1893.

Works

White published editions of Greek and Latin authors, including the ''Grammar School Texts''. With

Joseph Esmond Riddle Joseph Esmond Riddle (1804–1859) was an English cleric, scholar and lexicographer. Life The eldest of the eight children of Joseph Riddle of Old Market Street, Bristol, he was born there on 7 April 1804. From Mr. Porter's school in Bristol he wa ...

he brought out in 1862 ''A Latin-English Dictionary'', London, based on Ethan Allen Andrews's translation of

Wilhelm Freund Wilhelm Freund (January 27, 1806June 4, 1894) was a German Jewish philologist, born at Kempen. He received his education at Berlin and Breslau. For twenty years he was chiefly engaged in private tuition, but from 1855 to 1870, he was director of ...

's ''Wörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache''. Freund's ''Wörterbuch'' was published at Leipzig between 1834 and 1845, and Andrews's translation at New York in 1852. White and Riddle's ''Dictionary'' was later largely superseded by that of Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879). A ''College Latin-English Dictionary'' of intermediate size appeared in 1865, and a ''Junior Student's Complete Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary'' in 1869. White also edited Robert Lynam's ''History of the Roman Emperors'' (London, 1850, 2 vols.).

Theological publications

* '' St. Matthew's Gospel: with a vocabulary'', London, 1887. * '' St. Mark's Gospel: with a vocabulary'', London, 1887. * '' St. Luke's Gospel: with a vocabulary'', London, 1888. * '' St. John's Gospel: with a vocabulary'', London, 1885. * '' The Acts of the Apostles: with a vocabulary'', London, 1885. * '' St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: with a vocabulary'', London, 1886.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:White, John Tahourdin 1809 births 1893 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests English lexicographers English classical scholars People from Selborne 19th-century lexicographers