William White (Bishop of Honan)

The Rt Rev William Charles White , DD, FRCS was an Anglican missionary bishop to China and later an academic specializing in the study of that country. [1]

White was born in 1873, educated in Toronto and ordained in 1896.[2]He spent one year at Trinity Church, Toronto before heading to China as a missionary. He was a Canadian Church Missionary in Fuhkien until 1909 when he became the first Bishop of Honan, a post he held for 25 years. [3] From then until 1948 he was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Toronto. He died on 24 January 1960.

References

  1. ^ Amongst others he wrote “Tombs of Old Lo-yang”, 1934; “Tomb Tile Pictures of Ancient China”, 1938; “Chinese Temple Frescoes”, 1940; “ Bone Culture of Ancient China”, 1945; and “Bronze Culture of Ancient China”, 1955 > British Library website accessed 19:09 GMT 31 January 2011
  2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
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