Francis Le Grix White

Rev Francis Le Grix White FRSE FGS (18191887) was a 19th-century British vicar remembered as an amateur geologist.

Life

He was descended from the Norman family of Le Grix de Neuville, and obtained a coat-of-arms to mark this.[1]

He was born in 1819 the only son of John White of Culham Street in London. He was educated at Worcester College then studied Law at Oxford University becoming a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1844. He then took a change in direction, studying Divinity at Oxford, and graduating BA in 1848 and MA in 1849.[2]

In 1857 he became vicar of Croxton, Staffordshire remaining there to 1869. In 1872 he is listed as private chaplain to the Marquess of Drogheda.[3]

In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles Neaves, Henry Cotterill, Daniel Sandford (his brother-in-law), and Andrew Wood.[4]

He died on 17 May 1887[5] in Penrith.[6]

Family

In 1847, in Rothesay, he was married to Cecilia Catherine Charlotte Sandford (d.1898), daughter of Prof Daniel Sandford.[7] They did not have any children. He was uncle to the footballer, Cecil Holden-White, who was an executor of his will.[8]

Publications

  • Forgotten Seigneurs of the Alenconnais (1880)

References


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