SYNOPSIS OF CHIEF EVENTS IN GILBERT WHITE'S LIFE 

 FOR PURPOSES OF REFERENCE. 



Birth at the Vicarage, Selborne 18th July, 1720 



Goes into residence at Oriel College April, 1740 



Takes B. A. degree June, 1742 



Elected Fellow of Oriel 30th March, 1744 



At Thorney, Isle of Ely Spring, 1746 



Takes M.A. degree October, 1746 



Ordained deacon, and becomes curate of Swarraton, Hants. 27th April, 1747 



Laid up with small-pox at Oriel October, 1747 



Visits in Wilts and Devonshire Autumn, 1750 



Commences keeping a Garden Kalendar at Selborne... January, 1751 

 Makes a journey round the N.W. of England to Rutland 



and Stamford July and August, 1751 



Curate-in-charge of Selborne 25th October, 1751 



Junior Proctor at Oxford : Dean of Oriel about this time 8th April, 1752 



Resigns office as Proctor 2nd May, 1753 



Visits Bristol Hot-well July, 1753 



Curate of Durley, Bishop's Waltham, Hants. ... 9th September, 1753 



Resigns Deanship of Oriel October, 1753 



Visits Bristol Hot-well (second time) 1st May, 1755 



Curate of West Dean, Wilts, and Hants. 5th July, 1755 



Also curate of Newton Valence, Hants Autumn, 1755 



Resigns curacy of West Dean Early in 1756 



Resigns curacy of Newton Valence 6th November, 1756 



Curate-in-charge of Selborne (second time) November, 1756 



Unsuccessful candidate for Provostship of Oriel (Mus- 



grave elected) January, 1757 



Resigns curacy of Selborne 4th July, 1757 



Temporary curate of Newton Valence and West Dean 



4th September— 23rd October, 1757 

 Perpetual curate of Moreton Pinkney, Northants, with- 

 out residence December, 1757 



Curate-in-charge of Selborne (third time, on sequestra- 

 tion of the living) July, 1758 



Death of his father, John White, of the Wakes, 



Selborne 29th September, 1758 



Resigns curacy of Selborne to Mr. Etty, the Vicar, and 



goes to London and Rutland for six months ... October, 1759 



Curate of Faringdon, Hants about Midsummer, 1761 



Inherits the Wakes, Selborne, from his Uncle, Charles 



White March, 1763 



Declines the Oriel living of Cholderton, Wilts December, 1764 



Conamences to study botany 1765 



Composes a " Flora Selborniensis " 1766 



