White, Joseph (2) (called in Spain Don Jose Ma- rya Blanco i Crespo), a Roman Catholic priest, descends
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ed from an Irish Catholic family which had settled in Spain, was born at Seville, July 11, 1775. Being dis- satisfied with mercantile life, lie was educated for the Church, and was ordained a priest in 1799; soon lost confidence in Koman Catholicism, renouncing his ad- lierence to it in 1810, when he removed to England; joined the English Ciiurch, but did not take orders in it; became a tutor in the family of Lord Holland; set- tled in London, where he conducted for some years a Spanish paper called El Espanol; received, in 1814, a jiension for life of £250 per annum, on account of ser- vices rendered the government by tliis paper; lived subsequently in London as a man of letters ; edited for three years (1822-25) another Spanish journal, ins Variedades; was editor of the London Rec'mu (1829); served as tutor in the family of archbishop Whately at Dublin, from 1832 to 1835 ; removed to Liverpool, where he joined the Unitarian Society, of which the liev, Jolni Hamilton was then pastor ; and died Jlay 20, 18-11. He was tlic author of a great many works, among which are rirparatory Observations on the Study of Relifjion (1817) : — Letters from Spain (1822) : — Practical and In- ternal Evidence ar/ainst Catholicism (1825) : — Poor Claris Preservative against Poj^ery (1825) : — Dialogues con- cerning the Church of Rome (1827) -.—Letter to Protes- tants Converted from Romanism (1827): — Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (1833): — and Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White, Written hg Himself, with Portions of his Correspondence ; edited by John Hamilton Thorn (1845, 3 vols.). "This book, at the time of its appearance, excited a good deal of inter- est, and is still eminently worth referring to. The cu- rious picture it presents of a mind at once pious and sceptical, longing and sorrowing after a truth which it can nowhere find, or, finding, contrive to rest in, has, in the present unsettled state of religious opinion, a very particular significance. Poor White's life-long search for a religion seems not to have been a successful one, and to have landed him at the last in a condition of nearly entire scepticism."
"White, Robert Meadovr-s, D.D., an English clergyman and philologist, was born about 1798. He graduated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1819 ; was ordained in 1821; became a tutor at Oxford in 1832; Kawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1834; visited Denmark in the interests of philology in 1837 ; became vice-president of INIagdalen College in 1838 ; gave con- siderable attention to local antiquarian research ; was the annalist of his college ; and was regarded a leading authority in English philology. During the latter por- tion of his life he was rector of Slimbridge, Gloucester- shire, where he died, Jan. 31, 18G5. He devoted a large part of his time, for twenty years, to the editing of The Ormulum, Semi-Saxon Homilies in Verse, notv first ed- ited from the Original MSS., icith Notes and Glossary (Oxford, 1852).
White, Thomas (1), D.D., an English clergyman, was born at Bristol about 1550; was educated at JMag- dalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated about 1570; took holy orders, and preached frequently; received the living of St. (iregory's in London; became vicar of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, in 1575; was made prebendary of Mora, St. I'aul's, in 1588, treasurer of Salisbury in 1590; canon of Christ Church in 1591, and canon of AVindsor in 1593. He died March 1, 1624. He was noted for his benefactions in founding hospitals and almshouses, but especially for the founding of Sion Col- lege, London. His published works consist of a few sermons. See Chalmers, Biog. J)ict. s. v.
White (Lat. Anglns ex Albis, Candidus, or Vitus; otherwise called Bianchi, Rirhworth, and BlacJdoe), Thomas (2), an eminent English philosopher and Itoman Catholic priest, was born at Ilalton, Essex, in 1582; was educated abroad and became a priest in 1()17; was employed in teaching philosophy and divin- ity, residing at Douay, Rome, and Paris with occasional
interruptions until 1G33, when he was elected princi- pal of the English College at Lisbon ; served the duty of the P^nglish mission for some years; resided for a considerable time in the house of Sir Kenelm Digby, whose philosophy he supported; became a professor at Douaj' .again in 1650, and vice-principal of the English College; spent his latter years in England, and died at Drury Lane, London, July 6, 1676. He was a volumi- nous writer, and among his numerous works the follow- ing deserve mention : iJialogues concerning the Judg- ment of Common Sense in the Choice of Religion (1640) : — De Mundo Dialogi Tres (1642) : — Institutionum Peri- jKtteticarum ad Mentem, etc. (1646) •.—Instilutiones The- ologicce super Fundamentis in Peripatetica Dighmin jac- tis Exstructw (1652) : — Questiones Theologicce, etc. (1653): — Contemplation of Heaven, etc. (1654): — The Grounds of Obedience and Government (1655) : — Religion and Rea- son Mutually Corresponding and A ssisting Each Other (1659) -.—The Middle State of Souls from the Hour of Death to the Day of Judgment (eod.). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v. ; Allibone, IHct. of Brit, and A mer. Authors, s. v.