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to natural history, and prospered in business, retir- 

 ing to the then rural village of South Lambeth 

 about the same time as his brother Thomas, near 

 whom he lived there, and ultimately to a house 

 which he hired of Lord Stawell, Marelands, in the 

 parish of Bentley, Hants, a few miles from Selborne. 

 Here he died in March, 1794, and was buried at 

 Selborne near his brother Gilbert. He married 

 first, in 1753, Anne Yalden, a sister of the Rev. 

 R. Yalden, Vicar of Newton Valence ; and secondly, 

 in 1786, Mary, the widow of the Rev. R. Yalden. 

 By his first wife he had a numerous family, and was 

 succeeded in business by his sons Benjamin and 

 John, the latter of whom records that his father 

 was " citizen and Merchant Taylor, drank to as 

 Sheriff* in Alderman Sainsbury's mayoralty, 1787." 

 His son Edmund became Vicar of Newton Valence 

 in 1784, after the death of his uncle, Richard 

 Yalden. 



Reheccay the eldest daughter of John White who 

 grew up, was born at Compton on October 24th, 

 1726. In 1761 she married Mr. Henry Woods, a 

 merchant in London, son of John Woods, Esq., of 

 Chilgrove, near Chichester, Sussex. The house of 

 his relations (by marriage) at Chilgrove is frequently 

 mentioned by Gilbert White, who used often to stay 

 there on his annual journey along the Downs to his 

 aunt at Ringmer. Mrs. Woods died in 1771. 



John, the next brother, born at Compton on 

 September 20th, 1727, was probably little inferior 



