White, Robert

WHITE, Robert, a great English musician of the 16th cent., of whose life no particulars seem obtainable. In an organ-book at Ely Cathedral there is a list of organists, according to which White was organist there from 1562 to 1567, and died in the last-named year. The official register of the organists commences with John Farrant on Dec. 9, 1567. An old MS. in the possession of the Rev. Sir F. A. G. Ouseley may be understood to say...