OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9609, 30 December 1891, Page 5

OBITUARY.

SIR W. A. WHITE. [Special to Press Association.} [Received Dec. 29, at 10.35 a.m.] BERLIN, Dec. 28. Sir W. A. White, British. Ambassador at Constantinople, has died of influenza in this city.

(Sir William Arthur White, K.C.M.6., eon of the late Arthur White, Esq., of the consular and colonial service, was bom in 1824, and educated at King William’s College, Isle of Man, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Ho entered the diplomatic service in 1857 as Clerk to the Consulate-General at Warsaw; was promoted to he Consul at Dantzig m Nov., 1864, and represented French interests at Dantzig during the war between France' and Germany in 1870 and 1871. In 1875 he went to Servia as Agent and Consul-General, and was summoned to Constantinople during the conference held there in December, 1876, and January, 1877. Transferred to Bucharest in 1878, he was promoted to he Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Roumania. Ho served in the same capacity at Constantinople during the absence of the Ambassador in April, 1885, and conducted in a most able manner the Conferences called for settlement of the Serbo-Bulgarian difficulty. Soon afterwards he returned to Bucharest,, and Sir B. Thornton (who had been appointed to succeed Lord Dufferin at Constantinople) came to his post; but in Oot. 1886, on the reopening of the Bulgarian question, leave of absence was granted to the latter, and Sir W. White returned as Ambassador ad interim. He was created K.C.M.G., March 16, 1885.] [Received Dec. 30, at 1.15 a.m.] Dec." 29.

Sir W. A. White was visiting Lis daughter in this city, when he died, LONDON, Dec. 29.

Mr P. CelHer died after finishing tie music to The Mountebank, which is to be produced on Thursday night.