Gilbert White

Author Code: EGWX

Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, White was subsequently ordained a minister in 1751. That same year he began keeping a journal of his observations of the gardens at Selborne. In 1765, his journal was published as Calendar of Flora and the Garden. He followed this with the Naturalist's Journal. In 1789, White published The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, a collection of letters to friends over the course of 20 years. The work, which contained a number of important discoveries in natural history, was an immediate success and has become a classic English text.