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SIR THOMAS WHITE (1492-1567)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:WHITE (1492-1567)  , founder of St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, was a son of See also:William See also:White, a See also:clothier, and was See also:born at See also:Reading . At an See also:early See also:age he became a See also:merchant in See also:London and was soon a member, and then See also:master of the Merchant Taylors See also:Company; growing wealthier he became an See also:alderman and See also:sheriff of the See also:city of London . One of the promoters of the Muscovy Company, he was knighted in 1553, and in See also:October of the same See also:year he was chosen See also:lord See also:mayor . His See also:term of See also:office See also:fell in a strenuous See also:time . He had to defend the city against See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Wyat and his followers, and he took See also:part in the trial of the rebels, as just previously he had done in the See also:case of See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey . In 1555 White received a See also:licence to found a college at Oxford, which he endowed with lands in the neighbourhood of the city and which, dedicated to the Virgin See also:Mary and St John Baptist, was opened in 156o . Soon after this event Sir Thomas began to lose See also:money, and he was comparatively poor when he died at Oxford on the See also:lath of See also:February 1567 . His later years were mainly spent in Oxford, and he was buried in the See also:chapel of St John's College . White had some See also:share in See also:founding the Merchant Taylors' School in London . He was twice married, but See also:left no See also:children . A portrait of him hangs in the See also:hall of St John's College and one on See also:glass, painted in the 16th See also:century, is in the old library . Several early lives of him are among the college See also:manuscripts .

Sir Thomas must be distinguished from another Sir Thomas White of See also:

South Warnborough, See also:Hampshire, some of whose See also:property, by a curious coincidence, passed also into the See also:possession of St John's College .

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