Richard White (1539–1611) by Lodovico Leoni, 1568 © Copyright The British Museum
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J. W. Binns
White, Richard (1539–1611), antiquary and jurist, was born in Basingstoke in 1539, the son of Henry White, who died at the siege of Boulogne in 1544, and of his wife, Agnes, daughter of Richard Capelin of Southampton. In 1553 White entered Winchester College...