Ernest White

Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest William White (22 January 1851 – 28 November 1935) was a British psychiatrist.

White was the second son of Richard White of Heathfield House, Norwich, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds. He also trained at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

From 1878 to 1887, he was senior assistant medical officer at the Kent Mental Hospital at Chartham, and from 1887 to 1905 he was resident physician-superintendent of the City of London Mental Hospital near Dartford. but resigned on 28 November 1891. In World War I he served as consultant in mental diseases to Western Command from 1916 to 1921 and to the War Office from 1919 to 1921. and promoted lieutenant-colonel on 12 October 1917. The honorary status of his commission was removed on 1 July 1918. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1919 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 1 January 1920. He resigned his commission on 24 February 1921, but was allowed to retain his rank.

White retired to Betley House in the village of Bayston Hill, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

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