Rev Francis Le Grix White FRSE FGS (1819–1887) was a 19th-century British vicar remembered as an amateur geologist.

He was descended from the Norman family of Le Grix de Neuville, and obtained a coat of arms to mark this.^[1]

He was born in 1819, the only son of John White of Culham Street in London. He was educated at Worcester College then studied law at Oxford University, becoming a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1844. He then took a change in direction, studying divinity at Oxford, and graduating BA in 1848 and MA in 1849.^[2]

In 1857 he became vicar of Croxton, Staffordshire remaining there to 1869. In 1872 he is listed as private chaplain to the Marquess of Drogheda.^[3]

In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles Neaves, Henry Cotterill, Daniel Sandford (his brother-in-law), and Andrew Wood.^[4]

He died on 17 May 1887^[5] in Penrith.^[6]

In 1847, in Rothesay, he was married to Cecilia Catherine Charlotte Sandford (died 1898), daughter of Prof Daniel Sandford.^[7] They did not have any children. He was uncle to the footballer, Cecil Holden-White, who was an executor of his will.

• Forgotten Seigneurs of the Alenconnais (1880)