He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 28 January 1830, was elected an exhibitioner in the same year, and graduated B.A.
[1] White was appointed reader at St. Stephen Walbrook in 1836, and acted as assistant master at Christ's Hospital from 1836 to 1869.
[1] White published editions of Greek and Latin authors, including the Grammar School Texts.
With Joseph Esmond Riddle he brought out in 1862 A Latin-English Dictionary, London, based on Ethan Allen Andrews's translation of Wilhelm Freund's Wörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache.
[1] White also edited Robert Lynam's History of the Roman Emperors (London, 1850, 2 vols.).