A clerk at the East India House where he was a friend and colleague of Charles Lamb; he was an amateur painter and connoisseur of art.

REFERENCES TO Edward White:

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [Autumn 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [22 October 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Peter George Patmore, 19 July 1827 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Peter George Patmore, 19 July 1827 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Charles Lamb to Leigh Hunt, [11? December 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)