White joined I.C.S., served in all lower grades of the public service and was posted as Commissioner, Burma-China Boundary, 1897; appointed Chief Judge of the Chief Court, Burma, 1900; Lieutenant-Governor of Burma, 1905–1910.

[1] After his years in Burma, he returned to England and lived in St. Ives, where he died in 1932.

[3] White was the author of several books on Burma, the best known of which is the classic, A Civil Servant in Burma (E. Arnold, 1913), which is based on the 32 years (1878–1910) he spent as a civil servant in that province.

White also authored the fourth volume Burma of the four volume series "Provincial Geographies of India" which was published between 1913 and 1923 from the Cambridge University Press under the editorship of Thomas Henry Holland.

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