Francis Buchanan White

Francis Buchanan White (20 March 1842 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish entomologist and botanist.

Born in Perth, Scotland, White was the eldest son of Francis I.

White and attended a school attached to St Ninian's Cathedral.

[2] After doing a Grand Tour in 1866, he settled in Perth where he would remain his entire life.

He was the author of numerous scientific papers, published in the Scottish Naturalist, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, and The Proceedings and Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science.