Background
He was born at Ravensworth to overseer James White and Sarah Crossman.
He was born at Ravensworth to overseer James White and Sarah Crossman.
Educated at Maitland, he became a surveyor and inherited his father"s estate, Edinglassie, near Muswellbrook. He acquired land near Scone in 1853, and later bought further land in the Liverpool Plains and New England. In 1874 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Upper Hunter, but he died the following year.
