Background
Her father was George Rivers Blanco White KC, and her mother the writer Amber Reeves.
Her father was George Rivers Blanco White KC, and her mother the writer Amber Reeves.
Her brother was Thomas Blanco White, an intellectual property lawyer They had two daughters, Caroline (married name Humphrey, subsequently Dame and Lady Rees, since 1943), an anthropologist, and Dusa (married name McDuff, since 1945), a mathematician. Blanco White trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
She worked on low cost housing, housing for the elderly, and hospitals when she was Superintending Architect of the Scottish Office.
In the 1973 Birthday Honours she was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her work.