INDEX 



297 



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"Wakes, The," I. 28, 125; building 

 of the "great parlour," II. 50; 

 cost, 51 ; bequeathed to Benjamin 

 White, 273 ; purchased by Prof. 

 Bell, 282, 



Wall-creeper, or Certhia muraria, 

 II. 250, 254. 



Warnford, Mr. John, I. 235, 243. 



Warton, Joseph, I. 29, 38. 



Warton, Rev. Thomas, Headmaster 

 of Basingstoke Grammar School, 



I. 29. 



Warton, Thomas, I. 30 ; his second 

 volume on the 'History of Englisn 

 Poetry,' II. 55 note. 



Wasps, verses on, II. 107. 



Waverley, history of, II. 167. 



Weather, verses on the, II. 112. 



Webb, Dr., I. 220, II. 270. 



Wells, Rev. Nathan, I. 60. 



West Dene, curacy at, I. 83. 



Westmoreland, Earl of, I. 127 note. 



Weyhill Fair, II. 109 note. 



Whiston, Mr., I. 20, 70. 



Whitchurch living, I. 158, II. 119. 



White, Ann, I. 281 note. 



White, Anne, I. 23 ; her marriage, 

 23, 62. 



White, Benjamin, I. 20 ; publisher, 

 20 ; marriage, 74 ; on the republi- 

 cation of the 'British Zoology,' 

 152 ; his house at S. Lambeth, 306 ; 

 death of his wife, II. 34 ; second 

 marriage, 160 note ; retires from 

 business, 239 ; at Mareland, 248 ; 

 death, 281. 



White, Mrs. Benjamin, her marriage, 



II. 145 ; portrait, 154 note ; letters 

 from Gilbert White, 147 et seq. 



White, Rev. Charles, Rector of 

 Bradley and Swarraton, I. 15, 48 ; 

 failing health, 124 ; death, 125. 



White, Rev. Charles Henry, Rector 

 of Shalden, II. 193 note ; ordina- 

 tion, 197. 



White, Mrs. Charles, her death, I. 

 74. 



White, Dorothea, I. 15. 



White, Edmund, Vicar of Newton 

 Valence, I. 21, 68, II. 97, 143; 

 advice from his Uncle on reading 

 aloud, 98 ; marriage, 157, 158 

 note. 



White, Elizabeth, I. 15. 



White, Francis, b.d., I. 13. 



White, Francis, I. 22 ; raamage and 

 death, 23. 



White, Francis, d.d., Rector of 

 Christian Malford, 60. 



White, Gilbert, I. 13 ; Vicar of Sel- 

 borne, 14 ; marriage, 15 ; children, 

 15 ; his will, 104. 



White, Gilbert, of Selborne, I. 8 ; his 

 ancestors, 8 ; birth, 17 ; brothers 

 and sisters, 19-24; early years, 29 ; 

 at Basingstoke Grammar School, 

 29; taste for natural history, 31, 

 115 ; list of books, 31-33; at Oriel 

 College, 33; B.A. degree, 34; 

 elected a Fellow, 35 ; scliolarship, 

 35 ; probationary year, 37 ; friend- 

 ship with Mulso, 37 ; at Thorney, 



42, 44 ; his poem, * The Invitation 

 to Selborne,' 42; in Essex, 43; 

 letters to his father, 43, 44; in 

 Lincolnshire, 45 ; coach-sickness, 

 46 ; M.A. degree, 47 ; ordained 

 Deacon, 47 ; Curate of Swarraton, 

 48, 51 ; attack of small-pox, 48 ; 

 his portrait, 49; verses on, 50; 

 ordained priest, 53 ; his pony 

 *' Mouse," 53; habit of saving, 53; 

 visits Devonshire, 60; begins the 

 Garden Kalendar, 62; Curate-in- 

 charge of Selborne, 66, 90, 11. 136 ; 

 resigns his Curacy, I. 67 ; Junior 

 Proctor at Oxford, 67; Dean of 

 Oriel, 70 ; subscriptions for the 

 zigzag path, 71 ; the obelisk, 73 ; 

 at the Hot Well, Bristol, 74, 84; 

 Curate of Durley, 76 ; resigns 

 Deanship, 77 ; at Sunbury, 80, 88 ; 

 accident to his knee, 81 ; death of 

 his grandmother, 83 ; Curate of 

 West Dene and Newton, 83, 85, 

 93 ; improvements at Selborne, 87, 

 95, 108, 119, 124; relations with 

 the members of his college, 89; 

 Perpetual Curate of Moreton Pink- 

 ney, 91, 94 ; unsuccessful candidate 

 for the Provost of Oriel, 91 ; death 

 of his father, 98 ; question of re- 

 taining his Fellowship, 101, II. 



43, 47; attack on his reputation, 

 103; pecuniary position, 104-7; at 

 Lyndon, 115; Curate of Faring- 

 don, 123; inherits "The Wakes," 

 125 ; applies for the living of 

 Bradley, 125; reason for the re- 

 fusal, 127 ; his verses *0n Selborne 

 Hanger, a Winter Piece,' 139 ; 

 * Kitty's Farewell,' 139; visits 

 Fyfield, 143, 257 ; writes verses, 

 143; thoughts of matrimony, 144; 

 declines the living of Cholderton, 

 145 ; suffers from coach-sickness, 

 147, 168 ; studies botany, 147, 149 ; 

 at Ringmer, 148, 233; 'Flora Sel- 

 borniensis,' 151 ; correspondence 



