Robert White

Robert Winthrop White (September 19, 1921 – September 21, 2002) was an American sculptor and educator who lived for much of his life in St. James, Long Island, New York. He was a grandson of the architect Stanford White.

Early life White was born in New York on September 19, 1921. He was the third of eight children born to architect Lawrence Grant White (1887–1956) and his wife, Laura Astor (née Chanler) White (1887–1984).

His father was the only surviving child of architect Stanford White. His mother was the eldest child of sportsman Winthrop Astor Chanler and Margaret Louisa (née Terry) Chanler, and a descendant of the Ward, Astor, Dudley–Winthrop, Livingston and Stuyvesant families.

He attended the Portsmouth Priory School (now Portsmouth Abbey School) in Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Claire was the daughter of a Dutch stained-glass painter, Joep Nicolas, the niece of English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley, and the cousin of Matthew Huxley. They lived at his grandfather's former Italianate mansion and subdivided 60-acre estate, known as Box Hill, on Long Island.

He died on September 21, 2002, at a hospital in Smithtown on Long Island. He was survived by his wife, two sons (Sebastian and Christian), one (Stephanie) of his two daughters, and seven grandchildren.