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William White (1807 – 11 February 1882), was a 19th-century British pamphleteer and parliamentary sketch writer.

Biography

The character of Zachariah Coleman in Hale White’s The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane, published in 1887, "is a tribute to William White... love of Byron, and his admiration for Cobbett, came from William White."

William White died in Carshalton, Surrey, on 11 February 1882.

References

1. E. J. Feuchtwanger (2004). "White, William (1807–1882)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
2. Valentine Cunningham, Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1976, pp. 272-273.
3. William White, The Inner Life of the House of Commons, edited with a preface by Justin McCarthy, MP, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. Obituary, The Times, 6 March 1882, p. 7.

• 1807 births
• 1882 deaths
• People educated at Bedford School
• British male journalists
• British political journalists
• 19th-century British journalists
• 19th-century British male writers