“ In 1621 he founded what is now known as White's chair of moral philosophy at Oxford, with a salary of £100 per annum for the reader, and several small exhibitions for scholars of Magdalen Hall. He died on the 1st of March 1624, bequeathing £3000 for the establishment of a college of “all the ministers, parsons, vicars, lecturers and curates in London and its suburbs” (afterwards Sion College (q.v.) ) , and an almshouse, now abolished; and leaving bequests for lectureships at St Paul's, St Dunstan's and at Newgate. ”