John White (Welsh politician)

John White (1590 – 29 January 1645) was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1645.

White was from a family of merchants from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. He was the second son of Henry and Jane (née Fletcher) White. He matriculated (together with his elder brother Griffith) at Jesus College, Oxford in 1607.

He entered the Middle Temple in 1610 and was called to the bar in 1626. He was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1626, like his father and grandfather before him. In November 1640, White was elected Member of Parliament for Southwark in the Long Parliament.^[1]

White died in 1645 and was buried in the Temple Church.^[2] He had married three times: firstly Janet, the daughter of John ap Griffith Eynon of Jeffreston, Pembrokeshire; secondly Winifred daughter of Richard Blackwell of Bushey, Herts with whom he had nine children ; thirdly Mary the eldest daughter of Thomas Style of Little Mussenden, Bucks.

References

^ Browne Willis Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences 1750 pp229-239
^ Eales, Jacqueline (2004). "White, John (1590–1645)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition) (subscription access). Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29254. Retrieved 2007-08-17.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Robert Holborne Richard Tuffnell	Member of Parliament for Southwark 1640 - 1645 With: Edward Bagshawe	Succeeded by George Thomson George Snelling

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Name	White, John
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Short description	British politician
Date of birth	1590
Place of birth
Date of death	29 January 1645
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