Luke White (English politician)

[2] In the 1886 general election he was agent to the Liberal candidate for the Buckrose constituency in the east of Yorkshire, William Alexander McArthur.

[3] At that election, McArthur was declared the victor over his Conservative opponent Christopher Sykes by a single vote, 3,742 to 3,741.

During 1918 White's health began to worsen and as a result in July of that year he announced he would not be seeking re-election at the 1918 general election.

[11] White was called to appear before the Scarborough Bankruptcy Court but failed to attend citing his poor health.

[12] A warrant for his arrest on fraud charges, jointly with a local solicitor, Herbert Brown described in the press as White's clerk, was later issued but the court was told that White's physical and mental health would not allow him to be moved and the warrant was suspended.