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Chilgrove to Chichester, and there also he had many Sussex 

 connections. Gilbert White was great-nephew to the great 

 Chichester benefactor, Oliver Whitby, himself great-nephew to 

 Sir Edward Ford, of Uppark, (why were there no Whitby boys at 

 the Selborne pilgrimage, to celebrate their founder's great and 

 greater nephew ?) through whom he inherited lands in three 

 places of Harting. One parcel was 13J- acres of land in the 

 centre of Uppark, which he sold to Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, 

 the signature of G. White being among the archives of Uppark, 

 as my late and gifted friend Mr. Weaver told me. Gilbert's 

 mother, Anne Holt, was of true Sussex blood and a Sussex 

 heiress ; for she brought her son kinship with the Whitbys, 

 Fords, and Hydes. The Benjamin Hydes — father and son, for 

 there were two — were notable citizens of Chichester, connected 

 by marriage with the two Oliver Whitbys. The picture of 

 Benjamin Hyde, by Jansen, formerly at Selborne, and the blue 

 garter and ribbon given him by Charles I., are possessed by 

 Rev. E. Field, M.A., of Lancing College. There is an autograph 

 of G. White, in possession of his nephew, Samuel Barker, Esq., 

 Lyndon Hall, Rutland, wherein Gilbert White sets forth his 

 lineage : — 



"Thomas Holt, father of Anne Holt, afterwards wife of John White 

 (my father) was born at Petersfield in the county of Southampton. He was 

 first Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, but never Fellow. Afterwards pre- 

 ferred by the Duchess of Bedford to Streatham Rectory, where he died. 

 He married Anne, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Hyde, of Chichester, a 

 Russia merchant. The father of that Benjamin Hyde was also a Russia 

 merchant, and according to the custom of the times traded personally to 

 those parts, being called merchant adventurers. They went particularly to 

 the White Sea. The above-mentioned Anne Holt, wife of John White, 

 was born at Streatham, November, 1693 ; and died at Selborne, November, 

 1739.— (Signed) Gil-White." 



It is to be added to this Sussex historical sketch that John 

 White and Anne Holt were married in the parish church of 

 Rogate, in Sussex, September 29th, 1719. Professor Bell also 

 showed me a draft of a codicil to Gilbert White's will in his own 

 handwriting : — 



" Whereas T, the Rev. Gilbert White, of Selborne, in the County of 

 Southampton, Clerk, have duly made and executed my last will and testa- 

 ment in writing, bearing date the second day of November last [1791J. And 



