Career
He was elected unopposed at a by-election in 1939, after the sitting Member of Parliament Thomas Inskip was elevated to peerage as Viscount Caldecote. Fareham had been a safe Conservative seat since the constituency was established in 1885, with a Conservative returned unopposed as recently as 1931, and where contested elections had produced huge Conservative majorities of (the Tories" 30% majority in 1939 was a lowpoint by Fareham standards). The Fareham constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, and White did not contest the new Gosport and Fareham constituency.
