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By his death Bristol and the West of England loses its 
leading systematic botanist, and England one of the best of 
the old type of field- botanists. He was always happy when 
collecting and examining plants in the field, both in the 
British Isles and on the Continent, where in the company of 
his friend Cedric Bucknall, and once or twice with David Fry 
or C. E. Salmon, he made a number of visits to the Alps, the 
Riviera, Spain, the Eastern Pyrenees and the Balearic Isles. 
Born in London, August 8, 1846, White went to Dorchester 
in 1851, and was at school under William Barnes the Dorset 
poet. At about 14 he was apprenticed to T. B. Groves, 
pharmaceutical chemist at Weymouth, where he came under 
the influence of W. B. Barrett, the botanist. Thence he went 
as an assistant at Allen and Hanbury’s, where Daniel Hanbury 
was encouraging and sometimes invited him to his house at 
Clapham Common. A few years later he started in business 
himself at Hampton-on-Thames, and on his 25th birthday was 
married to Miss Mary Naldrett, who, with their seven sons 
and four daughters, survives him. In 1931 Mr. and Mrs. White 
celebrated their Diamond Wedding. 
In 1874 he was invited by a fellow-student at Hanbury’s 
to take over the important chemist’s business at Clifton of 
Giles & Sons, since well-known as Giles, Schacht & Co. In his 
student days White had won the Pharmaceutical Society’s 
medal for the best herbarium. Numerous British and 
Continental botanists have appreciated his beautifully 
prepared specimens ; and readers of the ‘ Pharmaceutical 
Journal ’ and other periodicals have enjoyed his racy articles, 
including those descriptive of botanical tours abroad. 
White joined the Bristol Naturalist’s Society in 1878, and 
was President 1907—09. He wrote for the Jubilee Report 
lifty Tears of Botany in Bristol.” Reference is made there 
to the Botanical Club founded in 1903 by the late G. Brebner. 
1 he informal meetings of this little Club were held for a number 
of years at Mr. White’s house in Woodland Road. 
His /' lora of the Bristol Coal-field appeared in six yearly 
parts of the Bristol Nats. Soc. Proc. from 1881 ; and in 1886 
it was published in book form. Many papers subsequently 
appeared in the above Proceedings and in the Journal of 
Botany. Some of the earlier were in collaboration with D. 
Jry, and afterwards often with Bucknall. 
All this and much more work culminated in his magnum 
