Sporting writer. For many years turf editor of Doncaster Gazette. Author, under pseudonym "Martingale" of Sporting Scenes, and Country Characters, 1840; English Country Life, 1843; Turf Characters, 1851. White was intimately acquainted with the countryside about Doncaster, wrote his friend Henry Hall Dixon, and in his wanderings in the woods loved to weave an old legend into shape.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.