It is with very great regret that we record the
sudden death of Sir William White, the distinguished naval architect and ex-Director of Naval Construction, which took place in London on Thursday as the result of a stroke. Though when he resigned from his post at the Admiralty Sir William White was close on sixty, he continued in active life, having joined the firm of Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson as director and consulting architect, and with them he worked for five years. Besides being one of the soundest and most skilful of naval architects, Sir William White was a man of singularly high character, and may be truthfully said to have won the hearts as well as the confidence of all who knew him. His loss will be deeply regretted, and by none more than by ourselves, for he was a not infrequent and always welcome contributor to the Spectator. Only a fortnight ago we pub- lished a review from his pen.
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