Gilbert White
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Rushlight...candles." One of the earliest printed descriptions of rushlights was written by English antiquary John Aubrey in 1673. Gilbert White gave a detailed description of rushlight making in his book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne... In this article: Gilbert White, Bacon grease, Fulmars, Tin, World War II, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Wheaton College, and William Cobbett |
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
Selborne
...frequent trains on the Portsmouth-Waterloo line. Selborne is famous for its association with the 18th-century naturalist , Gilbert White (1720-1793), who wrote The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. First published in 1789, the...
In this article: Frank Oates, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Lawrence Oates, and Robert Falcon Scott
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
Ringmer
...is run by Freedom Leisure. The symbol of Ringmer is a tortoise named Timothy, after the female tortoise that the naturalist Gilbert White carried back to Selborne in Hampshire in 1780. White's aunt Rebecca Snooke lived in Delves House...
In this article: Ringmer Community College, Lewes, Racine, Harvard University, Audrey Callaghan, and Wendy James
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Wikipedia | October 16, 2009
Newton Valence
...comprising a series of three contour lynchets extending for nearly 1.6 km. The village features in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne . White's brother, John, used to live in Newton Valence. Gilbert would cross Selborne...
In this article: Newton Valence, Maize, South Downs, and Liss
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Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
Thomas Warton the elder
...year he became vicar of Basingstoke, Hampshire, and master of the grammar school there. Among his pupils was the naturalist Gilbert White He remained at Basingstoke till his death, but with the living he held successively the vicarages of...
In this article: Thomas Warton, Jacobite, Basingstoke, Oxford, Hart Hall, Oxford, and Magdalen College
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Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
Timothy (tortoise)
...place of her demise, Powderham Castle, the Earl of Devon's home. Timothy was also the name of a pet tortoise owned by Gilbert White. White's tortoise was also eventually revealed to be a female. Rory Knight Bruce - Timothy the Tortoise...
In this article: Crimean War, Royal Navy, HMS Queen, and Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Wikipedia | September 08, 2009
Thomas Pennant
...of which were published posthumously. He died at Downing. The correspondence he received from Gilbert White was the basis for White's book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Unfortunately Pennant's letters to White have...
In this article: Thomas Pennant, William Borlase, Carolus Linnaeus, Oxford, Scotland, London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and BBC Two
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washingtonpost.com | September 02, 2009
All the Garden's a Stage: 97-Year-Old Sculptor's Yard Comes Alive With Characters She Has Crafted and Cultivated
...name is too long," she says. "I call him Timothy," after the tortoise kept by legendary 18th-century English naturalist Gilbert White. The back of the house, which was enlarged, now features a deck with transparent railings as part of...
In this article: Walnut, London, Titanic, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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Wikipedia | July 04, 2009
Farringdon, Hampshire
...village church of All Saints, and his pulpit still survives. One of the parish registers contains entries in his handwriting. Gilbert White's house, now a museum, is a little over three miles west of Farringdon. All Saints has Norman and...
In this article: Farringdon, Hampshire, Jane Austen, River Wey, Domesday Book, Trajan, and BBC TV
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Wikipedia | April 07, 2009
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
...of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne was a book by pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White first published in 1789. It has been continuously in print since then, with nearly 300 editions up to Thames...
In this article: The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, James Fisher, Chiffchaff, Wood Warbler, Willow Warbler, Stone Curlew, Lesser Whitethroat, and Common Swift
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Times Online | January 11, 2009
Weather Eye: high-pressure system keeps Britain dry
...if you walk up a mountain it gets colder, which is why mountaintops are often capped with snow. In December 1784 the naturalist Gilbert White, in Selborne, Hampshire, recorded temperatures that were vastly out of place. He asked an...
In this article: Hibiscus, Britain, Newton Valence, and England
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Gilbert White (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) was a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.
White was born in his grandfather's vicarage at Selborne in Hampshire. He was educated by a private tutor in Basingstoke before going to Oriel College, Oxford. He obtained his deacon's orders in 1746, being fully ordained in 1749, and subsequently held several curacies in Hampshire and Wiltshire, including Selborne's neighbouring parishes of Newton Valence and Farringdon, as well as Selborne itself on four separate occasions. In 1752/53 White held the office of Junior Proctor at Oxford and was Dean of Oriel. In 1757 he became non-resident perpetual curate of Moreton Pinkney in Northamptonshire. After the death of his father in 1758, White moved back into the family home at The Wakes in Selborne, which he eventually inherited in 1763. In 1784 he became curate of Selborne for the fourth time, remaining so until his death. Having studied at Oriel at the behest of his uncle, he was ineligible to be considered for the permanent living of Selborne, which was in the gift of Magdalen College.
White is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). This was a compilation of his letters to Thomas Pennant, the leading British zoologist of the day, and the Hon. Daines Barrington, an English barrister and another Fellow of the Royal Society. These letters contained White's discoveries about local birds, animals and plants. He believed in distinguishing birds by observation rather than by collecting specimens, and was thus one of the first people to separate the similar-looking Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Wood Warbler by means of their song.
- Birth Date:
- July 18, 1720
- Birthplace:
- Selborne, Hampshire
- Death Date:
- June 26, 1793
- Nationality:
- United Kingdom
- Field:
- naturalist
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