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THOMAS WHITE (c. 1550-1624)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:WHITE (c. 1550-1624)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Bristol about 1550, the son of a See also:clothier . He graduated from Magdalen See also:Hall (now See also:Hertford See also:College), See also:Oxford, in 1570; took See also:holy orders, and, coming to See also:London, became See also:rector of St See also:Gregory by St See also:Paul's and shortly after See also:vicar of St See also:Dunstan's in the See also:West . Several of his sermons, attacking See also:play-going and the vices of the See also:metropolis, were printed . He was made a See also:prebendary of St Paul's, treasurer of See also:Salisbury, See also:canon of See also:Christ See also:Church, Oxford, and canon of See also:Windsor . In 1613 he built and endowed an See also:almshouse, called the See also:Temple See also:Hospital, in Bristol . In 1621 he founded what is now known as See also:White's See also:chair of moral See also:philosophy at Oxford, with a See also:salary of £See also:loo per annum .for the reader, and several small exhibitions for scholars of Magdalen Hall . He died on the 1st of See also:March 1624, bequeathing £3000 for the See also:establishment of a college of " all the ministers, See also:parsons, vicars, lecturers and curates in London and its suburbs " (afterwards See also:Sion College (q.v.)), and an almshouse, now abolished, and leaving bequests for lectureships at St Paul's, St Dunstan's and at Newgate .

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