William White (journalist)

William White (1807 – 11 February 1882), was a 19th-century British pamphleteer and parliamentary sketch writer.

Biography
The character of Zachariah Coleman in Hale White’s The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane, published in 1887, "is a tribute to William White... [Zachariah Coleman's] love of Byron, and his admiration for Cobbett, came from William White."

William White died in Carshalton, Surrey, on 11 February 1882.