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Author: White, John Nesbitt

Biography:

WHITE, John Nesbitt (1788-1805: Poems 1806)

He was born on 18 Aug. 1788 in Calcutta, the son of John White, a merchant in the East India Company, and his wife Matilda Denton who had married in 1784. He was sent to England in August 1793 to be educated. He initially stayed with his grandfather, John White of Lower Brooke Street, Grosvenor Square, then at Penton Lodge, Hampshire, the home of George Nesbitt Thompson, former secretary to Warren Hastings. His parents arrived back in England in 1801 and settled in Doncaster. He was sent to study under the Rev. Robert Evans, Vicar of Everton, Nottinghamshire, with a view to preparing him for Cambridge. However, he came home 22 April 1805, sure in the knowledge that he was in an advanced state of consumption. His parents planned to send him to the Madeiras via Bristol for his health. On 5 Aug. they reached Matlock, Derbyshire, where he died the same day. He was buried at Adwick-le-street church, Doncaster. The Rector, Peter Inchbald, formerly of University College, Oxford, wrote a memoir and edited Poems (1806). The poems are  precocious but quite accomplished for a seventeen-year-old in very poor health. (Poems [1806]; findmypast.co.uk 16 Oct. 2020; ancestry.co.uk 16 Oct. 2020; Northern Star 9 Aug. 1805; York Herald 17 Aug. 1805; CCEd: Peter Inchbald, Thomas Denton, Robert Evans) AA

 

Books written (1):

Doncaster: [no publisher; printed by W. Sheardown], 1806