Joseph Blanco White

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Pencil sketch by Joseph Slater

Joseph Blanco White, born José María Blanco y Crespo (11 July 1775 – 20 May 1841), was an Anglo-Spanish political thinker, theologian, and poet.

Life

Blanco White was born in

Fernando VI
) and María Gertrudis Crespo y Neve.

Blanco White was educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood. In Seville, Spain, he had worked with

Anglican Church, having studied theology at Oxford and made the friendship of Thomas Arnold, John Henry Newman the Reverend E.T. Daniell and Richard Whately. He became tutor in Whately's family when Whately became the Archbishop of Dublin in 1831. While in this position White embraced Unitarian views. He found asylum amongst the Unitarians of Liverpool, and he died in the city on 20 May 1841.[2]

Pro-Spanish America writings

Blanco White edited

Ferdinand VII and Napoleon's placement of his brother Joseph on the throne. He also was in favor of free trade, not just the closed Spanish system of comercio libre that allowed free trade ports in Spain with Spanish America and all ports within Spanish America.[4]

Other works

Plaque commemorating Blanco White's place of birth in Seville

His other principal writings include Doblado's Letters from Spain (1822) (under the pseudonym of "Don Leucado Doblado", and written in part at

Holland House in London[5]), Evidence against Catholicism (1825), Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (2 vols., 1834)[6] (a riposte to Thomas Moore's satirical commentary upon the conceits of the Second Reformation),[7] and Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy (1835). They all show literary ability and were extensively read in their day. He also translated Paley's Evidences and the Book of Common Prayer
into Spanish.

White is also remembered for his sonnet "Night and Death" ("Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew"), which was dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge on its appearance in the Bijou for 1828 and has since found its way into several anthologies. Three versions are given in the Academy of 12 September 1891.

References

  1. ^ D.A. Brading, The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State 1492 - 1867. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991, p. 544.
  2. ^ "Joseph Blanco White | Spanish-English writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  3. ^ El Español, en la Hemeroteca Digital de la Biblioteca Nacional de España accessed 15 July 2020
  4. ^ D.A. Brading, The First America pp. 545-47.
  5. OL 25199401M
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  6. ^ White, Joseph Blanco (1833). Second travels of an Irish gentleman in search of a religion /. Dublin: R. Milliken.
  7. ^ Whelan, Brian (2017). "The Faith Journey of Joseph Blanco White". Church of Ireland. Retrieved 11 April 2023.

Further reading

  • Goytisolo, Juan, ed. Obra inglesa de D. José María Blanco White. Buenos Aires 1972.
  • Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White, written by himself, with portions of his Correspondence, edited by John Hamilton Thom (London, 3 vols., 1845).
  • Martin Murphy, Blanco White: Self-banished Spaniard, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "White, Joseph Blanco". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 600.

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