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White, Thomas, 1589-, former Jesuit Scholastic of the Castellanae Province
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1589-
History
Born: 1589, Clonmel, County Tipperary
Entered: 30 September 1612,
Left Society of Jesus: 12 November 1618
◆ In Chronological Catalogue Sheet as Ent 1612
◆ Francis Finegan SJ Biographical Dictionary 1598-1773
He was the son of Peter White and Margaret Grant, and he was born in 1596, and he entered the Irish College, Salamanca on October 24, 1609. Both the student’s entry book at Salamanca and the entry book of the Jesuit Novitiate state that he was born in Spain. The latter source gives his birthplace more precisely as Bayona. He must have been sent or brought as a child to Ireland to do two years study under the celebrated John Flahy. he did two further years of study in Portugal before his admission at Salamanca.
He entered the Society September 1612, but left the Society on November 12, 1618, when he was studying Theology
◆ Henry Foley - Records of the English province of The Society of Jesus Vol VII
WHITE, THOMAS, Father (Irish), a native of Clonmel; entered the Society 1612; in 1617 he was in the Province of Castile; in 1634 he left the Society. (Irish Ecclesiastical Record, August, 1874.)
◆ Calendar of MacErlean Transcipts Addenda Irishmen who entered Rome and Spain 1561-1772 (Finegan)
Thomas White 17 of Waterford
Son of Peter White and Margaret Grant, Salamanca
23 April 1601 Entered CAST