Everything about Thomas White Merchant totally explained
Sir
Thomas White (
1492 –
12 February 1567) was an
English cloth merchant, civic benefactor and founder of
St John's College, Oxford.
He was born in
Reading, Berkshire, the son of William White, a clothier, and brought up in London. He was twice married, to Avicia (died
1558) and to Joan. A principal member of the guild of
Merchant Taylors, he served as
Sheriff of London in
1547, and was elected
Lord Mayor of London in
1553. He was knighted in the same year by
Queen Mary I. He was a member of the commission for the trial of
Lady Jane Grey.
In
1555, inspired by the example of
Thomas Pope, founder of
Trinity College, Oxford, White obtained a royal licence for the foundation of
St John's College, Oxford, dedicated to the patron saint of the Merchant Taylors and established in the buildings of the dissolved Cistercian College of St Bernard. He was involved in the foundation of
Merchant Taylors' School, and made provision that scholars of the college should be nominated from pupils of the school. A similar arrangement exists with
King Henry VIII School,
Coventry, where one of the school's four houses bears his name. He also purchased
Gloucester Hall and set it up in
1560 as a hall of residence for scholars; this became the basis of the later foundation of
Worcester College. As a result of his philanthropy he was listed in
Richard Johnson's
Nine Worthies of London in 1592.
The Sir Thomas White Loan Charity was founded in
1542 and is still extant. It gives interest-free loans to aspiring businesspeople in
Leicestershire and
Rutland. There are several memorials to White in England and he's honoured on
Leicester's
Clock Tower .
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