THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway,Thursday, April 8, 1824 WILL OF LUKE WHITE, ESQ. (From the Weekly Globe) The remains of this Gentleman, one of the Representatives for the county of Leitrim, who lately died at his house Park-lane, have been conveyed to Dublin for interment. His property amounted to 30,000l. a year real estate, and 100,000l. in money and securities. This, which remained after the enormous sum of 200,000l. expended upon election, he has bequeathed by will as follows: To his eldest son, Colonel Thomas White, of Woodlands, county of Dublin, who, in 1819 married Juliana, daughter of Viscount Gort, 5,000l. a year. This includes the estate of Buttvell's town, (now Woodlands) near Dublin, purchased from the late Earl of Carhampton, for a sum of 100,000l. To his second son, married to Miss Rothe, 7,000l. a year. To his third son, not married, 4,500l. a year. To his fourth son, Colonel Henry White, not married, the present Representative for the county of Dublin, 13,000l. a year. To his son, by his second wife, 500l. a year for a certain time, and then 10,000 in lieu of that annuity. To his three daughters, 10,000l. each. The marriage settlement on his widow is 1,000l. a year. It is said that his eldest son offended him by refusing to offer himself a candidate for Dublin, with a promise to support the Catholic cause. Mr. White was the artist of his own fortune.- He began his career in Dublin sale clerk to a Mr. Valence, an eminent book auctioneer-then became a bookseller, and afterwards a lottery office keeper. In this latter line he is supposed to have acquired a considerable part of his wealth. When Mr. Corry was Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland; Mr. White became the contractor of the Irish loan, on which he paid instalments to the amount of 75,000l. which he forfeited, having thought fit to decline the completion of his bargain. At a critical period of his country, when the public money was exhausted, he came forward and advanced a loan to a considerable amount to Government. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/