Background
He was the son of the barrister George Rivers Blanco White and his wife, the feminist writer, scholar and campaigner Amber Reeves, daughter of William Pember Reeves and his wife Maud Pember Reeves.
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Thomas Anthony Blanco White Queen's Counsel
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He was described in his Times obituary as "the best intellectual property lawyer to have practised in England since Fletcher Moulton" and "cultured, straight-talking lawyer who was without peer on intellectual property issues."
He was educated at University College School and Gresham"s School, before going to his father"s alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge where he read physics. He was called to the bar at Lincoln"s Inn in 1937, and served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1940 to 1946 (service Number 80865), working on the then-new field of radar, primarily in India and Ceylon. He became a specialist in intellectual property law.
He was made Queen"s Counsel in 1969.
He was inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame in 2010. An intellectual property library in Delhi has been named for him.
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