Francis Le Grix White

Rev Francis Le Grix White FRSE FGS (1819–1887) was a 19th-century British vicar remembered as an amateur geologist.

He was descended from the Norman family of Le Grix de Neuville, and obtained a coat of arms to mark this.

He was educated at Worcester College then studied law at Oxford University, becoming a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1844.

He then took a change in direction, studying divinity at Oxford, and graduating BA in 1848 and MA in 1849.

His proposers were Charles Neaves, Henry Cotterill, Daniel Sandford (his brother-in-law), and Andrew Wood.