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