Timeline

1831
December 22: William Hale White born at 5 High Street, Bedford.

1840
Enters English School, Angel Street (now Harpur Street), Bedford

1848
February: "Admitted" to congregation of Bunyan Meeting, Bedford
Autumn: Enters Countess of Huntingdon's College, Cheshunt.

1850
Writes to Carlyle

1851
October: Attends New College, St, John's Wood
Visits the Great Exhibition
Reads Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads"

1852
February: Living at 40 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
March 17: Expelled from New College for questioning the authority of the scriptures
March: Living at 11 Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, London
Summer: Living in Portsmouth
Autumn: Works as schoolmaster in Stoke Newington for two days
Winter: Works for publisher John Chapman (142 The Strand) where he meets Marian Evans (George Eliot)

1854
February: Leaves Chapman's and Becomes clerk in Registrar General's Office, Somerset House

1855
Father appointed Doorkeeper of the House of Commons

1856
December 22: Marries Harriet Arthur at Congregational Church, Kentish Town

1856-1857
Preaches on some Sundays at Unitarian Meeting House, Ditchling, Sussex

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1857
March 12: Appointed Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for St. Marylebone
March 15: Preaches for the last time at Ditchling
March 25: Moves to 69 Marylebone Road, (corner of Baker Street, now Bickenhall Mansions)
November 7: William Hale White Junior, his first son, born at 69 Marylebone Road

1858
March 6: Article about Somerset House published in Chambers Journal
December 23: Becomes Third Class Clerk in the Accountant General's Department in the Admiralty

1859
February 13 and 27, March 13, October 16: Preaches at Little Portland Street Unitarian Chapel

1860
August 24: Son, Samuel Arthur, born

1861
September: First visit to Germany
September: Begins writing for Aberdeen Herald
October 23: Son, John Harry, born

1862
Spring: Moves to Carshalton, Surrey

1865
Living at Stream House, Carshalton
Becomes Parliamentary Correspondent for the Morning Star
Moves to Worple Road, Epsom.

1866
Begins writing "Sketches in Parliament" for the Birmingham Daily Post and Journal
March: Publishes "An Argument for the Extension of the Franchise."
April 17: Son, Ernest Victor, born

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1867
Moves to 4 Park Villas, Spring Grove, Isleworth
January: Begins writing Letters by a Radical for the Rochdale Observer

1868
Moves to 19 Park Hill, Carshalton
March 21: Visit to Carlyle (described in Pages from a Journal)

1873
Begins to write "London Letter" for The Scotsman

1881
March 1: The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford published

1882
February 26: Father dies aged 85 He is buried at Carshalton

1883
July: Visits the Black Forest
Translation of Spinoza's Ethics published

1884
"A Dream of Two Dimensions" printed for private circulation (Originally entitled Flatland)

1885
January 2: "Mark Rutherford's Deliverance" published

1887
"The Revolution in Tanner's Lane" published

1888
July: Visits Stonehenge

1889
February: Moves to Street Farm, Ashtead, Surrey

1890
June: "Miriam's Schooling" published

1891
June 1: Wife, Harriet Arthur, dies; She is buried at Carshalton

1892
Retires from the Admiralty
April: Moves to 9, High Wickham, Hastings

1893
December: "Catharine Furze" published

1894
"Nurse Jane" (Mrs. Evis) dies at 12 Sterndale Road, Hammersmith

1895
Moves to 5 High Wickham, Hastings
Publishes translation of Spinoza's "Emendation of the Intellect"

1896
July 9: "Claudius Clear"(William Robertson Nicoll) reveals the identity of Mark Rutherford
"March: Clara Hopgood" published

1898
February 28: "An Examination of the Charge of Apostacy Against Wordsworth" published

1900
May 8: Moves to Lords Well Lane, Crowborough, Sussex
December: "Pages from a Journal" published

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1903
June 14: Moves to The Cottage, Groombridge, Sussex

1904
"John Bunyan" published (Note that the book is dated 1905)

1906
Contributes to Jubilee edition of the Heywood Advertiser

1907
October 3: Meets Dorothy Vernon Horace Smith for the first time at Groombridge railway station.
"The Life of John Sterling" published, with introduction by WHW

1908
Dorothy Vernon Horace Smith begins writing "The Groombridge Diary"

1910
"More Pages from a Journal" published

1911
April 8th Marries Dorothy Horace Smith at Groombridge Church

1913
"Early Life of Mark Rutherford" published
March 14: Dies, aged 81, in Groombridge, where he is buried.

1914
June: Tablet in Hastings unveiled

1915
July 8: "Last Pages from a Journal" published

1924
"The Groombridge Diary" published
"Letters to Three Friends" published

1930
Hans Klinke's thesis completed

1931
July: Simon Nowell Smith proposes a biography of WHW. His son,William Hale-White, refuses
Plaque unveiled in Bedford at 5 High Street
December 3: The Swindon Evening Advertiser marks the centenary of WHW's birth with the memorable headline "Expelled Student who Became Famous"

1932
John Ernest Thorrington Wright's thesis completed

1935
Sir William Hale-White publishes "Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century" (Arnold)

1938
Stephen Merton proposes biography

1954
Wilfred Stone's "Religion and Art of William Hale White" published

1955
Catherine Macdonald Maclean's "Mark Rutherford: A Biography of William Hale White" published

1956
Irvin Stock's "William Hale White (Mark Rutherford): A Critical Study" published

1956
Third Programme radio series on "Unread authors". Mark Rutherford was the first

1967
Stephen Merton's "Mark Rutherford (William Hale White)" published

1967
Death of Dorothy Vernon Horace Smith

1981
October: Seminar and exhibition at Bedford Public Library to mark the 150th anniversary of WHW's birth

1988
Catherine R. Harland's "Mark Rutherford: The Mind and Art of William Hale White" published

2003
Mark Rutherford Society formed

2013
Symposium held to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of William Hale White's death

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