Arthur Silva White FRSE FRSGS (1859–1932) was a 19th/20th-century British administrator, geographer and travel author.
He was born at 2 Hanover Terrace in Kensington, London on 1 February 1859 one of 15 siblings and (three half-siblings) of Edward Fox White, a surveyor, and his wife, Julia Gomes Silva (1834-1871).
[citation needed] His mother was daughter of Moses Gomes Silva, a Portuguese Jew and (prior to abolition in the British colonies in 1833) prominent slave-owner, who became Marshall General of Jamaica in 1831.
In March 1871 his mother died in childbirth of her 15th child, also Edward Fox White.
His proposers were James Geikie, Sir John Murray, Alexander Buchan, and Hugh Robert Mill.