Francis Le Grix White
Rev Francis Le Grix White FRSE FGS (1819–1887) was a 19th-century British vicar remembered as an amateur geologist.
Life[edit]
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[edit]
In 1847, in Rothesay, he was married to Cecilia Catherine Charlotte Sandford (died 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.
Publications[edit]
- Forgotten Seigneurs of the Alenconnais (1880)
References[edit]
- ^ The Heraldic Register 1849/1850 by Bernard Burke
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ The Scottish Guardian 28 December 1872
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ "Search Results". www.bromleyarchives.org.uk.
- ^ "Slektstreet til Rev Francis Le Grix". Geneanet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ The Court Magazine vol 26