THE RET. GILBERT WHITE. Xxi 



IN THS FIFTH GRAVE FROM THIS WALL ARE BURIED THE REMAINS OF 



The Eev. GILBEET WHITE, m.a., 



FIFTY TEARS FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, IN OXFORD, 



AND HISTORIAN OF THIS HIS NATIVE PARISH. 



HE WAS ELDEST SON OF JOHN WHITE, ESQUIRE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, 



AND ANNE, HIS WIFE, ONLY CHILD OF 



THOMAS HOLT, RECTOR OP STREATHAM, IN SURREY, 



VTHICH SAID JOHN WHITE WAS THE ONLY SON OF GILBERT WHITE, 



FORMERLY VICAR OF THIS PARISH. 



HE WAS KIND AND BENEFICENT TO HIS RELATIONS, 



BENEVOLENT TO THE POOR, 



AMD DESERVEDLY RESPECTED BY ALL HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS. 



HE WAS BORN JULY 18tH, 1720, O. S., 



AND DIED JUNE 26tH, 1793. 



NEC BONO QUICQUAM MALI EVENIRE POTEST, 



NEC VIVO, NEC MORTUO. 



Few personal reminiscences of Gilbert White are now to 

 be collected at Selbome. The writer we have quoted states, 

 that " all an old dame, who had nursed several of the family, 

 could teU him of a philosophical old bachelor, was that he 

 was a still, quiet body," and that " there wasn't a bit of harm 

 in him, I '11 assure you, sir, — there wasn't, indeed." Alas! for 

 all the dignity of science, and aU the honour that befalleth 

 " a prophet in his own country." 



Mr. AVhite died, as we have already said, at the advanced 

 age of seventy-three, having passed his life with scarcely 

 any other vicissitudes than those of the seasons. The fol- 

 lowing letter, with which the editor has been favoured by one 

 of Mr. White's family, will show his style of correspond- 

 ence,— it was addressed to his brother Thomas. 



