BIOGRAPHICAL RECORDS 



THE AUTHOR. 



BACK VIEW OF THE RESIDENCE, AT SELBOIINE, OF THE REV. GILBERT WH1TI 



GILBERT WHITE was the eldest son of John White 

 of Selborne, Esq. and of Anne the daughter of 

 Thomas Holt, rector of Streatham in Surrey. He 

 was born at Selborne on July 18, 1720; and re- 

 ceived his school-education at Basingstoke, under 

 the Rev. Thomas Warton, vicar of that place, 

 and father of those two distinguished literary 

 characters, Dr. Joseph War ion, master of Win- 



