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Surname	White	Alternative Surname
First Name	Simon, of Oxford	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism	1619	Flourished
Year of Death
Biographical Details	Baptised in 1619, the son of Abraham White, he was the principal stone-carver working on the library and chapel at Brasenose College, Oxford, both before the Restoration and later. He was described as a carver for marbles when he received a payment of £30 from the College in 1665. A year later he was paid a further £52 for laying the marbles (Allfrey 1909, 3, 20-22). In 1669 White received £5 for a marble altar (1), which was placed with the Arundel Marbles. Literary References: Cole 1949, 64; Gunnis 1968, 430