The house of Charles White on King Street, Manchester. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio after J. Ralston, 1823.

"Not the least interesting of the views in Ralston's work is that of Mr. White's house in King-street, a stately residence of brick, which occupied the site of the present Town-hall. Charles White, F.R.S., a son of Dr. Thomas White, is justly accounted one of the worthies of Manchester : he was an eminent surgeon and author, long resident in the town, and the co-founder, with Mr. Joseph Bancroft, of the Manchester Infirmary. He was one of the first Vice-presidents of the Literary and Philosophical Society on its origination in 1781, and in the third volume of its "Memoirs" (new series) there is a lengthy biographical notice of him from the pen of Mr. Thomas Henry, F.R.S. After a long life of unremitting exertion and public usefulness, he died, February 20th, 1813, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, and was buried at Ashton-upon-Mersey. Thomas, the eldest of his three sons, who was alike eminent in his day for the practice of surgery, was the father of the late John White, Esq., of Sale Hall, Ashton- upon-Mersey, who was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1823, and famous for his fox-hunting and equestrian exploits. A view of the house in King-street is given in Casson and Berrey's maps of the town in 1746, 1751, and 1755, and it is there named as Mr. Croxton's. Mr. George Croxton was an opulent merchant of Manchester; in 1743 he purchased the estate of Birch Hall, in Rusholme, from Humphrey Birch, a grandson of the famous parliamentary commander Colonel Birch, a property he sold two years later to Mr. John Dickinson, of Market-street-lane, who in the same year lodged Charles Edward Stuart during his stay in Manchester."--Croston, loc. cit.