20 GILBEET WHITE OF SELBOENE 



years of his life he was a constant contributor upon 

 the most varied subjects to the " Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine," as already stated, chiefly under the signature 

 of " T. H. W.," a series of articles upon " The Trees 

 of Great Britain " being said to be " particularly 

 deserving of notice for the extensive information, 

 good taste, and variety of reading which they dis- 

 play." ^ In conjunction with his brother-in-law, 

 Thomas Barker, he communicated several papers to 

 the Eoyal Society. A good botanist, an Anglo- 

 Saxon scholar, and interested in antiquities, he 

 assisted his brother in the preparation of his book ; 

 indeed, it was largely at his instance and owing 

 to his solicitations that ''The Natural History and 

 Antiquities of Selborne" was prepared for publica-| 

 tion. He died in February, 1797. 



Benjamin, the next brother, born at Compton on 

 September 15th, 1725, was also educated at Bishop's 

 Waltham. Presumably through the circumstance of 

 the marriage of his sister Anne to Mr. Barker, who 

 was a grandson on his mother's side of the celebrated 

 William Whiston, he entered into partnership with 

 a Mr. Whiston, who was a relation of the last-named, 

 as a publisher and bookseller at the sign of the 

 "Horace's Head," No. 51, Fleet Street. He became 

 the chief publisher of his time of works relating 



* The late Thomas Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, the pomologist, ' 

 struck with the knowledge displayed in these essays on trees, which wer< 

 shown to him in 1855 by their author's grandson, the late Algernon Holt 

 White. 



