| Description | William White (1820 -1900) was a Birmingham town councillor from 1873, alderman from 1883, Lord Mayor in 1893, chair of Birmingham Corporation's Improvements Committee and of the Municipal Works, Baths and Parks Committees. He was also chair of the Birmingham Coffee House Company and a magistrate. He was committed to adult school work, being instrumental in the development of the adult school movement throughout Birmingham, and across the country, as well as founding member and President of the Midlands Adult School Union. He was also active in the temperance movement and in 1852 he was key in starting Bands of Hope (temperance societies for children under the age of 16) in Birmingham.
See also MS 703/1/5/4 William White Memorial Charity and MS 703/3/27 Windsor Street Adult School, previously the William White Memorial School. |