William Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of Bantry

William Henry Hare Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of Bantry (10 November 1801 – 15 January 1884) was an Anglo-Irish Conservative peer.

He was the second son of Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry and Lady Margaret Anne Hare. In 1840 he took the additional surname of Hedges after inheriting the estates of his great-uncle, Robert Hedges Eyre.^[1] He served as High Sheriff of County Cork in 1848. He was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel of the West Cork Artillery Militia when that regiment was raised on 30 November 1854.^[2]

He succeeded his elder brother as Earl of Bantry following the latter's death in 1868. On 6 July 1869 Lord Bantry was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords as a Conservative.

On 16 April 1845 he married Jane Herbert, who was the granddaughter of Nathaniel Middleton and sister of Henry Arthur Herbert, MP. Together they had six children. His daughter Olivia Charlotte married Sir Arthur Guinness. He died in 1884 and was succeeded by his only son, William Hedges-White.^[3]