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his uncle Gilbert, it is stated that Francis White 

 married and had one daughter, who died an 

 infant, and that he died in 1750 and was buried 

 at Islington. 



Anne, the next daughter of John White, was 

 born at Selborne on April 2nd, 1731. She married 

 Thomas Barker, of Lyndon Hall, Rutland, the repre- 

 sentative of a collateral branch of an ancient family, 

 of which Sir Abel Barker, Bart., of Hambleton, in 

 the same county, was the head. Mrs. Barker had 

 one son and three daughters. Frequent visits and 

 much correspondence were exchanged between the 

 Barker family and Gilbert White, Mr. Barker himself 

 being a man of some literary and scientific know- 

 ledge, and his only son, Samuel, an apt disciple of 

 his uncle in natural history researches. Mr. Barker 

 died in 1809, and his wife in 1807. 



The youngest son, Henry, was born at Selborne 

 on June 25th, 1733. He was educated by Dr. 

 Woodeson at Kingston-on-Thames, and under his 

 eldest brother s auspices proceeded to Oriel College, 

 Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree. He took 

 Orders and obtained the (Chancellor's) living of 

 Tidworth, Wilts. In 1762 he became Eector of 

 Fyfield, and also subsequently Vicar of Uphaven, 

 Wilts. His brother Gilbert was a frequent visitor 

 at Fyfield, from which place some of his letters to 

 Pennant are dated. Henry White married a Miss 

 Cooper, of Oxford, by whom he had a numerous 

 family. Several of his nephews and a few strangers 



