The origin of Timothy Whites was a ships' chandlers and general store in Portsmouth, started in 1848 by Timothy White.James B. Jefferys, Retail Trading in Britain 1850–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), 385. (Here — George Paaswell, Retaining Walls: Their Design and Construction — at Google Books.) White himself qualified as a pharmacist in 1869.Lesley Richmond, Julie Stevenson, Alison Turton, The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2002; ), 383. (Here at Google Books.) By 1890, Whites was one of four British pharmacists with over ten branches.Stuart Anderson, Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals (London: Pharmaceutical Press, 2005; ), 122. (Here at Google Books.) Whites sold hardware as well as that which was normally found at a retail chemist's.Jefferys 435. (Here at Google Books.) In 1904 he had his company incorporated as Timothy Whites Ltd.Richmond et al. 383. (Here at Google Books.)
