Career
He started as an impecunious book dealer, first in the streets of Belfast, then from 1778 at an auction house in Dublin buying and reselling around the country. By 1798, during the Irish Rebellion, he helped the Irish government with a loan of 1 million pounds (at £65 per £100 share at 5%). He then purchased Luttrellstown Castle from Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton in 1800, and changed its name to Woodlands to eradicate the memory of its previous owner.
White was High Sheriff of County Dublin for 1804 and High Sheriff of Longford for 1806.
White died in Park Street, Mayfair. Charles Vallancey (1786), Collectanea de rebus hibernicis., L. White, Online Computer Library Center 21739910
Johann Reinhold Forster (1786), History of the voyages and discoveries made in the North, Dublin: Printed for Luke White.. and Pat.
Byrne..,, 0665351720
Bennett Mrs (1786), Anna. Or, Memoirs of a Welch heiress, Dublin: White
Charles Vallancey (1786), A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland: Wherein is Shewn, I. The Descent of Its Old., for Luke White, northern
86, Dame – Street, Online Computer Library Center 2368408
Savary M. (1787), Lettres sur l"Égypte, Dublin: Printed for Luke White.. and P. Byrne.., Online Computer Library Center 11231343
William Cullen (1789), A treatise of the materia medica, Dublin: Printed for Luke White, Online Computer Library Center 14836745
Bryan Edwards (1793), The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White,, 0665444591
P. Cornelius Tacitus (1794), The works of Cornelius Tacitus, Dublin: Luke White.
