Luke White (circa 1740 or 1750 – 25 February 1824)[1][2] was an Irish bookseller, operator of a lottery and Whig politician.
Luke White | |
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 portrait by Gilbert Stuart | |
| Born | c. 1740 or 1750 |
| Died | 25 February 1824 |
| Occupation | Politician  |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth de la Mazière, Arabella Fortescue |
| Children | 8, including Samuel, Luke Jr. and Henry |
| Position held | member of the 6th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1818–1820), member of the 7th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1820–1824) |
He started as an impecunious book dealer,[3] first in the streets of Belfast, then from 1778 at an auction house in Dublin buying and reselling around the country.[4] By 1798, during the Irish Rebellion, he helped the Irish government with a loan of 1 million pounds (at £65 per £100 share at 5%).[5]
He then purchased Luttrellstown Castle from Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton in 1800, and changed its name to Woodlands to eradicate the memory of its previous owner.[6] White was High Sheriff of County Dublin for 1804 and High Sheriff of Longford for 1806.[2] He entered the British House of Commons for Leitrim in 1818 and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for it until his death in 1824.[1]
On 7 February 1781, he married Elizabeth de la Mazière, by whom he had four sons and three daughters.[2][7] He later married secondly, in 1800, Arabella Fortescue, daughter of William Fortescue,[2] and had by her one son.[7] White died in Park Street, Mayfair.[4] He left properties worth £175,000 per annum which eventually devolved to his fourth son Henry,[5] who was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Annaly.[8] His second son Samuel represented the same constituency as his father and his third son, Luke White Jr., was MP for Longford.[1]
Titles published by L. White
edit- Charles Vallancey (1786), Collectanea de rebus hibernicis .., L. White, OCLC 21739910, OL 23548813M
- Johann Reinhold Forster (1786), History of the voyages and discoveries made in the North, Dublin: Printed for Luke White ... and Pat. Byrne ..., ISBN 0665351720, OL 24354926M, 0665351720
- Bennett Mrs (1786), Anna; or, Memoirs of a Welch heiress, Dublin: White, OL 24830685M
- Charles Vallancey (1786), A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland: Wherein is Shewn, I. The Descent of Its Old .., for Luke White, no. 86 , Dame – Street, OCLC 2368408, OL 20465641M
- Savary M. (1787), Lettres sur l'Égypte, Dublin: Printed for Luke White ... and P. Byrne ..., OCLC 11231343, OL 17862990M
- William Cullen (1789), A treatise of the materia medica, Dublin: Printed for Luke White, OCLC 14836745, OL 24972327M
- Bryan Edwards (1793), The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, ISBN 0665444591, OL 24614577M, 0665444591
- P. Cornelius Tacitus (1794), The works of Cornelius Tacitus, Dublin: Luke White, OL 23361664M
References
edit- ^ a b c "WHITE, Luke (c. 1750–1824), of Woodlands, (formerly Luttrellstown), co. Dublin and Porters, Shenley, Herts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ a b c d "ThePeerage – Luke White". Retrieved 22 February 2007.
- ^ "Luke White". French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe Project, 1769–1794. University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ^ a b Sylvanus, Urban (1824). The Gentleman's Magazine. London: John Harris and Son. p. 642.
- ^ a b BiblioBazaar (1878). Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science. Vol. 22. London: BiblioBazaar. p. 90. ISBN 1-4264-7699-X.
- ^ "Ongar, Official Website – History" (PDF). Retrieved 4 May 2009. [permanent dead link]
- ^ a b A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain ... 1869.
- ^ Debrett, John (1870). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. London: Odhams Press. p. 20.
External links
edit- Webb, Alfred (1878). . A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son. p. 562.
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Luke White
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