James Webster (priest)
James Webster (1734 - 1804) was Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1774 until 1804.[1]
Webster was born in Rampside, educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1758.[2] After a curacy in Grantham he was the incumbent at Much Cowarne.
His grandson[3] was Lieutenant Governor of The Gambia from 1840 to 1841; and then of Prince Edward Island until 1847.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ British History on-line
- ^ Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part II vol. vi p390
- ^ J. K. Laughton, ‘Huntley, Sir Henry Vere (1795–1864)’, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 13 Feb 2017
- ^ Dictionary of Canadian Biography
