4 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE 



of Winchester in Queen Mary's reign, and of Sir 

 John White, Lord Mayor of London in 1563. Sir 

 Thomas's eldest son Henry possessed the manor of 

 South Warnborough; but with him the family became 

 extinct at South Warnborough in the male line, as 

 his only children were three daughters, coheiresses, 

 who married respectively Thomas Scudamore, Walter 

 Gifford of Chillington, Stafford, and Henry Ferrers 

 of Badisley Clinton, Warwickshire. John White, a 

 grandson of Sir Thomas, was declared chief heir 

 male. ^ 



The manor-house of South Warnborough, though 

 now much reduced in size and altered, existed in 

 its original state until about 1830, and was a fine 

 red -brick Tudor mansion. The chancel of South 

 Warnborough Church is filled with brasses and monu- 

 ments, some of them fine and interesting, of the 

 White family, which intermarried with the Paulet, 

 Gaynsford, Tichborne, and other old Hampshire 

 families, and evidently occupied a position of some 

 importance in the county. 



In the church windows are several coats-of-arms, 

 in stained glass, of the family and its alliances, 

 which were formerly in the manor-house — probably 



• MS. Harl, 1,544. He was living in 1593. In "Nature Notes," vol. 

 iv. p. 106, this John White is represented as identical with John White of 

 Coggs, near Witney, the father of Sir Sampson White ; but this is an error, 

 since Thomas (not Richard, as stated in *' Nature Notes") White, the father 

 of the former, in his will dated September 1st, 1558, describes himself as 

 "of Downton in Wilts gentleman," and speaks of his son John as his only 

 child, whereas John White of Coggs mentions a brother Henry in his vnll. 



