Constituency : County Dublin 1823-32, County Longford 1837-47, 1857-61
Henry was the son of the Dublin bookseller and lottery operator Luke White. He had an army career and fought in the Peninsular Wars at the Siege of Badajoz and the Battle of Salamanca eventually rising to Colonel. He entered Parliament in 1823 for Dublin where he was seen as favourable to the Catholics and endorsed by Daniel O' Connell and sat till 1832. He supported Catholic Emancipation and parliamentary reform. He resigned the seat in 1832 possibly on health grounds.In 1837 he returned for County Longford where he sat for 10 years, the first five of them alongside his brother Luke. A decade later he was back in the same seat.
Henry was raised to the peerage in 1861 as first Baron Annaly facilitating his son Luke's return to Parliament in the seat.
Henry died in 1873 aged 82.
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