White Hall, Ballymena, County Antrim 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London. 

p. 284. “(White/LGI1912) A gable-ended Georgian house of three storeys over basement. Three bay front with Wyatt windows in both storeys, as well as in the basement; fanlighted doorway. Steps with good ironwork railings up to entrance door; an eagle at each end of the roofline. The house of Field Marshal Sir George White, VC, the defender of Ladysmith.” 

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THE WHITES OWNED 2,897 ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY ANTRIM  

 
The family of WHITE, though long settled in Ulster, was of English extraction. 
 
In the reign of CHARLES I, the family owned considerable property in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and they were seated at Hudson Hall. 
 
During the English Civil War, they threw in their lot with the King, on whose behalf they raised and maintained, at their own expense, a troop of dragoons. 
 

 
When the King’s cause was lost, they were involved in its ruin; and one of the family, Fulke White, or Whyte, for so he spelt his name, took refuge in Ulster. 
 

This Fulke settled, it would appear, in the town of Antrim, where he maintained himself for many years by “teaching a classical school”; but in 1687, being then a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, he was invited by the Presbyterians of Broughshane, a village in the valley of the Braid, to become their minister. 

 
THE REV FULKE WHITE, of White Hall, County Antrim, Minister of Broughshane, 1687, father of 
 
THE REV JAMES WHITE (-1761), of White Hall, father of 
 
JOHN WHITE (-1770), of White Hall, father of 
 
JAMES WHITE, of White Hall, Deputy Governor of County Antrim, 1793, who had issue, two sons, 
 

JOHN, his heir; 
JAMES ROBERT, succeeded his brother. 

Mr White died in 1804, and was succeeded by his elder son, 
 
JOHN WHITE, of White Hall, High Sheriff of Antrim, 1845, who died in 1857, and was succeeded by his brother,  
 
JAMES ROBERT WHITE, of White Hall, Barrister, who wedded Frances, daughter of George Stuart, of Donaghey, County Tyrone, Surgeon-General of the Army in Ireland, and had issue, 
 

GEORGE STUART, his heir; 
John, CB (1902), of Innispollen, County Antrim; 
Frances Avone; Jane. 

His eldest son, 
 

FIELD-MARSHAL SIR GEORGE STUART WHITE VC GCB OM GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO (1835-1912), of White Hall, born at LOW ROCK CASTLE, Portstewart, County Londonderry, married, in 1874, Amelia Maria, daughter of Joseph Daly, at Bengal, India, and had issue, 
 

JAMES ROBERT, his successor; 
Rose Frances b 1876;  
May Constance (1884-1937). 

His only son,  
 
CAPTAIN JAMES ROBERT (Jack) WHITE DSO (1879-1946), of White Hall, had issue,  
 
DERRICK O’CLANCY WHITE (1942-2007).