Background
The son of Peter White, vicar of Saint Neots, Huntingdonshire, and of the neighbouring parish of Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire, he was born at Eaton Socon. Francis White was his brother.
The son of Peter White, vicar of Saint Neots, Huntingdonshire, and of the neighbouring parish of Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire, he was born at Eaton Socon. Francis White was his brother.
White was educated at Saint Neots grammar school. He was admitted a sizar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on 15 February 1586, was scholar from Lady-day 1588 to Michaelmas 1592, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1590, Master of Arts
In 1593, and Doctor of Divinity in 1612. White was appointed vicar of Leyland, then of Eccles, Lancashire, and fellow of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, in 1606. He resigned these offices in 1609 on being presented by Sir John Crofts to the rectory of Barsham in Suffolk.
In 1614 or 1615 he was made chaplain in ordinary to James I.
White died, at the age of 45, in 1615, in Lombard Street, London.
He was buried on 28 May 1615 at the church of Street Mary Woolnoth. He left seven children.
The eldest, John, entered Gonville and Caius College in 1611, aged 16, and became vicar of Eaton Socon. Another son is mentioned by Thomas Fuller as a druggist in Lombard Street.