White died at Exeter last month, at the age of 75. He wax a grandson Jof Reur-Admiral R. D. White, c.. Born on February 20, 1849, he entered the Royal Navy in i862. He had been promoted to sub-Hieutenant when in 1874 he served fin the cruiser Charybdis during the operations in the Lingie and Lukat rivers against Malays in the Straits jof Malacca, for which he received the Perak medal with clasp. From February 1884, to January 1888, he was Assistant' Director of' Naval Ordnance, and wax then in comand of H. M. S. Porpoise till 1801, which year he was promoted pain. in January, 1892, he took the command of the naval forces of victoria, and held. that post till November, 1895, when he returned to England and' was appointed \ssistant Director of Naval telligence. In 1897 he commission-jed H. M.S. Vulcan, and three years later served as District Captain at Queensferry in H. Mf. S. Rodney and Anson. From 1901 te 1903 he commanded the battleship Ocean, which iwas transferred from the Mediterranean Fleet to China station. On return he was appointed Superntendent of contract-built ships on ithe Tyne and the Thames. He tired in February, 1904, and in the following April was promoted Rear-'Admiral, and in 1908 Vice-Admiral, Jon the retired list
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