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Webb, Philip, son of Clifford Ernest Webb AMIEE, SSO Dept. of Industrial & Scientific Research, and Jocelyne, d. of Edgar Edward Samson of Braeside, Ayrshire; b. 14 Sept. 1930; adm. Sept. 1943 (KS); Public Schools Foils Champion 1948; left July 1948; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1948; UAU Foils Champion and Capt. OUFC 1949; drowned on holiday in France 25 July 1949.

WEBB, PHILIP GEORGE LANCELOT, brother of Edmund James Webb (qv); b. 4 Aug 1856; adm. 30 Sep 1867 (James'), exhibitioner 1870; QS 1871; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1875, matr. 20 May 1875; BA 1879; MA 1890; Higher Division Clerk, Patent Office 1880; Private Secretary to Comptroller-Gen., 1883-8; Chief Clerk 1898; Assistant Comptroller of Patents 1920-1; served during First World War as Establishment Officer, Ministry of Munitions 1915-6 and Deputy Controller of Petrol, Board of Trade 1916-9; CBE 1 Jan 1918; CB 1 Jan 1919; Hon. Secretary, Handel Society 1882-1934, Keats-Shelley Memorial Association 1922-32; author, Poems, 1927, and other works; d. 5 May 1937.

WEBB, MICHAEL; b. ; adm. ; KS 1681.

WEBB, JOHN, son of John Webb, London; b.; adm.; KS 1765; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1769 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 23 May 1769, aged 18, scholar 4 May 1770, matr. 1769; ordained deacon (London) 7 Mar 1773.

WEBB, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1742; left 1746.

WEBB, JOHN ERNEST ROBERTSON, son of John Craske Webb MD MRCS LSA, Lower Belgrave Street, Eaton Square, London, and Alicia J. S. Robertson (IGI); b. 20 Feb 1864; adm. 4 Jun 1877 (H); left May 1881; bequeathed £250 to the School; d. 16 Jan 1934.

WEBB, HENRY, brother of Edward Webb (qv); b. 19 Feb 1809; adm. 14 Jul 1818; adm. solicitor 1830; practised in London; of Redstone Manor, Reigate, Surrey; a well-known collector of English coins (sales at Sotheby’s 1885, 1894, 1895); m. (by c. 1841); d. 24 Mar 1894.

WEBB, EDWARD, son of Charles Tarr Webb, and Ann, dau. of Henry Aston; b. 13 Jul 1805; adm. 14 Jul 1818; water-colour painter and engraver; father of Sir Aston Webb RA, architect; m. 27 Nov 1844 Anne, dau. of John Evans, Stoke Newington, Middlesex; d. 4 Oct 1854.

WEBB, EDMUND JAMES, second son of Rev. Benjamin Webb, Vicar of St. Andrew’s, Well Street, London, and Prebendary of St. Paul’s, ecclesiologist, and Maria Elphinstone, dau. of Rev. William Hodge Mill, Canon of Ely and Regius Prof. of Hebrew, Cambridge Univ.; b. 15 Oct 1852; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (James'); QS (Capt. ) 1867; Capt. of the School 1870; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1871, matr. 27 May 1871; BA 1875; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jan 1875; law student (1881 Census), writer (1901 Census); author, A History of England for the use of Schools and Colleges, 1889; m. 25 Nov 1913 Katharine, only dau. of Rev. William Fulford Adams, Rector of Weston-sub-Edge, Gloucs.; d. 17 Nov 1945.