![]() ![]() He was the first person in this area to grow potatoes for example, and it was this keen, enquiring interest in gardening that led him to begin his first written work, of recording methodically what he sowed and reaped, the weather, temperature and other details. Later he became curate of the Selborne parish, as well as taking up other similar posts, some local, some not.Ī keen gardener from his youth, White increasingly took a close interest in the natural world around him, and grew a wide range of traditional and experimental fruit and vegetables. ![]() In 1746 he was ordained a deacon and became curate for his Uncle Charles who was vicar in the neighbouring Hampshire village of Farringdon, before his full ordination on 1749. He followed his grandfather and uncle into the Church and had a distinguished career as a Fellow of Oriel. Gilbert White started his education in Basingstoke before going to Oriel College, Oxford. Richard Mabey, Naturalist & biographer of Gilbert White "Gilbert White’s book, more than any other, has shaped our everyday view of the relations between humans and nature." ![]()
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