White joined the staff of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library when he was 18 years old in 1923 at 18.
When Sir Robert Menzies retired as Prime Minister in 1966, he remarked that he "jolly well had to give Harold White the National Library to shut him up".
[2] White was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1962,[3] and knighted in the New Year's Honours of 1970.
[5] White was born in Numurkah, Victoria and educated at Invergordon Primary School and Wesley College, Melbourne.
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