Background
White, Herbert Edward was born in 1855. Son of Horace P. White, late His (or Her) Majesty Consul at Tangier.
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Sir Herbert Thirkell White KCIE Computer Society of India was the Lieutenant Governor of the British Indian province of Burma and the author of several books on Burma, the best known of which is the classic, A Civil Servant in Burma, which is based on the 32 years he spent as a civil servant in that province.
Education
Uppingham; Saint John's College, Cambridge (Master of Arts. Honours in Historical Tripos). Clerk to Legation at Tangier, 1882.
Career
White also authored the fourth volume Burma of the four volume series "Provincial Geographies of India" which was published between 1913-1923 from the Cambridge University Press under the editorship of Thomas Henry Holland. The son of Richard White, he was educated at Dulwich College and Brasenose College, Oxford. White joined Indian Civil Service, served in all lower grades of the public service and was posted as Commissioner, Burma-China Boundary, 1897.
Appointed Chief Judge of the Chief Court, Burma, 1900.
Lieutenant-Governor, Burma, 1905–1910. During his time as Lieutenant Governor, he reduced the amount of the annual tributes from the Shan Chiefs and promoted education among them and carried out certain Railway Extensions in the Shan States.
1855–1892: Herbert Thirkell White.
