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Surname	White	Alternative Surname
First Name	Richard	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism	c1615	Flourished
Year of Death	1664/5
Biographical Details	He was apprenticed to Nicholas Stone, Master Mason to King Charles I, in 1629-30, under the auspices of the Masons’ Company and is listed among the Company’s yeomanry until his death. In 1638 White subcontracted to him a ‘statua in whitt marbell’, probably the effigy of Penelope, Lady Spencer on Stone’s monument at Great Brington, Northants. He agreed also to complete a Corinthian capital, probably intended for the canopy. There are no recorded works after 1660. Literary References: Knoop and Jones 1935, 24; White 1999, 140-1