Sir Thomas White (25 March 1507 – 2 November 1566) was an English politician.
of South Warnborough,[4] Hampshire (son of Robert White and Margaret Gaynesford[5]), and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Englefield the elder.
[6] He was almost 14 years old when his father died in 1521, and he became the ward of John Morys (Morris), who soon afterwards became Keeper of an episcopal park in Farnham, Surrey.
[8] His sister Sybill married (as his first wife) Sir John White of Aldershot, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London,[9] brother of John White, the Marian Bishop of Lincoln (1554–1556) and Bishop of Winchester (1556–1559).
A strong Catholic, he was knighted at Westminster by the Earl of Arundel on 2 October 1553, the day after the coronation of Queen Mary I,[10] and served as a Master of Requests during Mary's reign from 1553 to 1558.