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

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 (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)

References

  1. ^ The Heraldic Register 1849/1850 by Bernard Burke
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "White, Francis Le Grix" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ The Scottish Guardian 28 December 1872
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Search Results". www.bromleyarchives.org.uk.
  6. ^ "Slektstreet til Rev Francis Le Grix". Geneanet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  7. ^ The Court Magazine vol 26