Errol White

Errol Ivor White CBE FRS[1] FLS FGS (30 June 1901 – 11 January 1985) was a British geologist who was president of the Ray Society from 1956 to 1959 and president of the Linnean Society of London from 1964 to 1967.

Errol Ivor White
Born(1901-06-30)June 30, 1901
London
DiedJanuary 11, 1985(1985-01-11) (aged 83)
London
OccupationPalaeontologist
AwardsMurchison Medal
Linnean Gold Medal

White was educated at Highgate School and King's College London (Tennant Prizeman).[2]

White was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.[1] He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1962 and the Linnean Gold Medal in 1970.

Legacy

A genus of Devonian arthrodire placoderm fish, Errolosteus, a genus of Carboniferous actinopterygian fish, Whiteichthys, a genus of Triassic ray-finned fish, Errolichthys, a genus of Triassic actinistian fish, Whiteia, and two Eocene genera of teleost fish, Whitapodus and Whitephippus, are named in his honour.[1]

References
  1. Stubblefield, J. (1985). "Errol Ivor White. 30 June 1901-11 January 1985". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 31: 634–651. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1985.0022. JSTOR 769939.
  2. ‘White, Errol Ivor’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016


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