G. R. Blanco White

George Rivers Blanco White QC (8 May 1883 – 26 March 1966) was an English judge, Recorder of Croydon from 1940 to 1956, and a member of the Special Divorce Commission, from 1948 to 1957.

[1][2][3] The son of Thomas and Margaret Elizabeth Blanco White, he was born in Fulham, London.

[4] He was educated at St Paul's School, London and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated second wrangler behind Arthur Eddington in 1904, and was awarded Smith's Prize in 1906.

Through Margaret he was the grandfather of anthropologist Caroline Humphrey and mathematician Dusa McDuff.

He stood for the Labour Party at the 1929 Holland with Boston by-election, coming second to Liberal James Blindell.