Francis Le Grix White
British vicar and amateur geologist
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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]
Family
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
- Forgotten Seigneurs of the Alenconnais (1880)