Frank Richard White (born 11 November 1939) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He is the son of Edna Mead and Arthur Leslie White, a sapper with the Royal Engineers, who died in 1943 as a Japanese Prisoner of War while working on the infamous Burma-Siam Railway.
Instead he stood in the new Bury North seat, but lost to the Conservative candidate Alistair Burt.
[5] In 1986, he was elected as a councillor to Bolton Metropolitan Borough council, once again representing the Tonge ward.
[1] He attempted to re-enter Parliament in the 1987 general election for Bolton North East, but failed by 813 votes.