[2] He was also the author of a number of books on Medieval and Renaissance art, as well as on the artist Duccio of Siena.
White went straight from Ampleforth College to the Royal Air Force, where he became a Spitfire flying instructor based in Canada.
After the war he returned to the United Kingdom and became a student of Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1947.
White subsequently gained his doctorate as a junior research fellow at the Warburg Institute in London.
He flew at The London Gliding Club, Dunstable and held the diamond certificate for glider pilots, having completed 500 km and 25.000 in altitude (achieved after his 80th birthday).