James Webster (priest)
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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]
- ↑ Horn, Joyce M (1996). "Archdeacons: Gloucester". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857. Vol. 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses. London. pp. 47–49 – via British History On-line.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Venn, John; Venn, John Archibald, eds. (1922). 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. Vol. VI (Part II ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 390.
- ↑ Laughton, J. K.; Lambert, Andrew. "Huntley, Sir Henry Vere". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14245. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Robertson, Ian Ross (1976). "Huntley, Sir Henry Vere (baptized Henry Veel)". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IX (1861–1870) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
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