Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/White, John (4)

by Joseph Foster

White, John, (brother to Sir John Whyte, lord mayor of London 1563, sons of Robert, of Farnham, Surrey); fellow New Coll. 1525-34, from Wykeham's school, B.A. 13 Dec., 1529, M.A. 30 Jan., 1533-4; incorporated as D.D. 1 Oct., 1555, prelector of New Coll., master of Wykeham's school about 1534, and warden 1541, rector of Cheriton, Hants, 1543, and of Chawton 1550, imprisoned in the Tower 1551, bishop of Lincoln 1554, and of Winchester 1556, until deprived and again committed to the Tower 3 April, 1559; died at South Wanborough, Hants, 11 Jan., 1559-60. See Ath. i. 311; Lansdowne MS. 980, ff. 313, 315; Foster's Index Eccl.; & O.H.S. i. 130, 356.