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George Henry White [Obituary]

Trans. Devon Assoc., 1889, Vol XXI, p.72.

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Rev. W. Harpley, (Ed.).

Prepared by Michael Steer

 

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1889 Tavistock meeting. Mr George Henry White of Glenthorne, St Marychurch is listed in The Supplement to The London Gazette, February 26, 1880, in connection with the London & River Plate Bank Limited, as a Gentleman.
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George Henry White became a member of the Association in 1876. He never read a paper at any of the annual meetings, but he was a careful reader of the volumes of Transactions as they appeared, and on several occasions detected important errors, and furnished important items to the editor for the table of corrections.

Mr. White was also a proprietary member of the Torquay Natural History Society, served on its committee during the four consecutive official years from 24th May, 1882, to 28th May, 1884, and was a Vice-President during the first of them. He made many very valuable donations to that Society, including upwards of seventy volumes of books, presented at various times, and portraits — framed and glazed; of Spenser, Milton, and Shakspeare, the first two engraved by Alais, and the last by Cousins. He delivered an annual lecture before the Society from the Session of 1883-4 to that of 1888-9; and he was the author of fifteen papers, read at the monthly meetings at various times, from 1881 to 1889. He was also a member of the Committee of the Government School of Art, Torquay, and presented some valuable works to that school. He was himself an artist of no mean attainments. He was also a member and mainly instrumental in erecting the Free Library at St. Marychuch.

He died at his residence, Glenthorne, St. Marychurch, Torquay, 12th May, 1889, aged 71 years.