Together with his younger brother Leonard, they left England on board the William Hyde on 21 October 1851.
[1] In the 1881 general election, White contested the newly created Sydenham electorate against Charles Clark, James Treadwell and J. R. Andrew.
[5] In the 1884 general election, White and Scott contested the Sydenham electorate, receiving 776 and 462 votes.
[6] He resigned in March 1886 following medical advice that he ought to retire from public life for one or two years.
[11] His father built this road, which is these days one of the busiest recreational trails up into the Port Hills, in order to give better access to the Mount Pleasant run that he owned in partnership with Richard May Morten.