Born: March 21, 1785, Nottingham, England. Died: October 19, 1806, Cambridge, England. Buried: Cambridge, England. The graveyard is opposite St. John’s College, in an area now often used as a market; only slab gravestones survive. |
Son of a butcher, White was a gifted poet. His Clifton Grove, A Sketch In Verse With Other Poems, published when he was 17, reveals his teenage skepticism. After reading Walter Scott’s Force of Truth, he underwent a conversion described metaphorically in his poem “The Star of Bethlehem” (now sung as “When Marshaled on the Nightly Plain”). White enrolled at St. John’s College, Cambridge, planning to become a minister, but he fell ill and died before graduation.
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