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WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 602 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698) , bishop of
Peterborough
 , was born at Aldington in Kent, and educated at St John's College,
Cambridge
 . Having taken hoiy orders, he became
vicar
  of
Newark
 -on-Trent in 1660,
vicar
  of Allhallows the
Great
 , London, in 1666, and vicar of Bottesford, Leicestershire, in 1679. In 1683 he was appointed chaplain to the princess Anne, and in 1685 he was chosen bishop of
Peterborough
 . In 1688 he joined the archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and five of his suffragan bishops in petitioning against the declaration of indulgence issued by James II., sharing the trial and the
triumph
 -ant acquittal of his colleagues. In 1689 he refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary and was deprived of his see, but he did not become very active among the
nonjurors
 . White died on the 3oth of May 1698.
The bishop must be distinguished not only from the founder of Sion College, but also from
Thomas
  White (1593-1676), philosopher and controversialist. Educated at St Omer, Valladolid and Douai, the latter was ordained priest in 1617, and taught for some years in the college at Douai. Later he was president of the English college at Lisbon. He died in London on the 6th
of July 1676. White was a voluminous writer; not only did he engage in controversy with Protestants, but he attacked the personal infallibility of the
pope
 .


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