Harry de Vere Dawson White (16 December 1853 – 20 January 1941) was an Irish Anglican bishopFryde, E. B; Greenway, D. E; Porter, S; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . in the 20th century.A New History of Ireland (1976) Moody, T.M.; Martin, F.X.; Byrne, F.J.; Cosgrove, F:Oxford, Oxford University Press
He was born in Dublin, the third son of Rev. H. White. He was educated at the Academic Institute and Trinity College, Dublin (whence he gained a Dublin Master of Arts (MA Dubl) and ordained in 1879. He was a curate at Ardbraccan and then went to New Zealand until 1885. He was Rector of Almoritia and KilleskThe Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory (1889). London, Hamilton & Co. and then Secretary of the SPG until 1905. He was Vicar of St Bartholomew's DublinChurch web site and later Archdeacon of Dublin. From 1918 to 1921 he was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin when he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. He retired in 1933.
He married Frances Alice Meredith, with whom he had four sons and a daughter. Two of their sons were killed in the First World War.
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