and printed in the ‘Transactions’ of the society. In 1858 an essay on ‘Metropolitan Hygiene of the Past’ was written by Webb for the ‘Sanitary Review;’ it was published in the January number and reprinted separately in the same year. It is a brief and a masterly survey of the sanitary condition of London from the time of the Norman conquest until our own era. When in the ‘Dental Review’ the great work of John Hunter on the teeth was published, Webb contributed notes to the text embodying results of modern research on the subject, and designed to bring Hunter's work up to the point of knowledge of the present day. ‘Hunter's Natural History of the Human Teeth,’ with notes by Webb and R. T. Hulme, appeared in 1865. A few years later Webb became one of the editors of the ‘Medical Times and Gazette,’ and for the last years of his life he was editor-in-chief.
He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 22 May 1856, of the Linnean Society on 21 Jan. 1858, and of other learned bodies. He was an accomplished musician.
He died on 24 Dec. 1873, and was buried at Highgate cemetery. On 10 Feb. 1852 he married Sarah Schröder, daughter of Joseph Croucher of Great James's Street, Buckingham Gate, and by her had twelve children, ten of whom survived him. A bust, exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1874, is in the possession of his widow, and an oil painting, done shortly before his death, is now at Odstock, Netley Abbey, Hampshire; both works were executed by Charles Bell Birch.
Besides the above-mentioned papers, Webb published ‘Biographies of Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., and of P. C. Price, Surgeon to King's College Hospital,’ London, 1865.
[Medical Times and Gazette, 1873–4; Times, December 1873 and January 1874; family papers; Records of the Society of Antiquaries; Records of Royal College of Physicians; Cat. Brit. Mus. Library.]
WEBB, GEORGE (1581–1642), bishop of Limerick, born in 1581, was third son of Hugh Webb, rector of Bromham, Wiltshire. He entered New College, Oxford, in April 1598, and migrated to Corpus Christi as scholar. He was admitted B.A. in February 1601–2, and M.A. in June 1605, when he was already in orders and vicar of Steeple-Aston, Oxfordshire, on Lord Pembroke's presentation. He kept a grammar school at Steeple-Aston and also at Bath, where he became rector of SS. Peter and Paul in 1621. He enjoyed the friendship of Chief-justice Sir Henry Hobart [q. v.] Webb was made D.D. 1624, and appointed chaplain to the Prince of Wales. He was a man of strict life and conversation, and a distinguished preacher. Charles himself, with Laud's approval, selected him for promotion to the bench (Strafford Letters, i. 330), and he was consecrated bishop of Limerick in St. Patrick's, Dublin, 18 Dec. 1634.
When the confederate catholics entered Limerick in June 1642, Webb had already died of gaol fever, having been imprisoned by their sympathisers within the city. He was buried in St. Munchin's churchyard, dug up twenty-four hours later by persons in hope of finding jewels, and reinterred in the same place. We learn from a casual remark in his ‘Practice of Quietness’ that Webb was happily married.
Webb published:
- ‘A Brief Exposition of the Principles of the Christian Religion,’ London, 1612.
- ‘The Pathway to Honour. Preached at Paul's Cross, 21 June 1612,’ London, 1612.
- ‘The Bride-royal, or the Speculative Marriage between Christ and his Church,’ London, 1613.
- ‘The Araignment of an Unruly Tongue,’ London, 1619.
- ‘Agur's Prayer, or the Christian Choice,’ London, 1621.
- ‘Catalogus Protestantium, or the Protestant's Calendar, containing a Surview of the Protestant's Religion long before Luther's Days’ (Preface by John Gee [q. v.]), London, 1624.
- ‘Lessons and Exercises out of Cicero ad Atticum,’ London, 1624.
- ‘Pueriles confabulatiunculæ,’ London, 1624.
- ‘The Practice of Quietness,’ 6th edit. (amplified), London, 1633; to an edition published in 1705 an engraved portrait of Webb is prefixed. Webb also translated during 1629 the ‘Andria’ and ‘Eunuchus’ of Terence.
[Ware's Bishops and Writers, ed. Harris; Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ; Lenihan's Hist. of Limerick; Fowler's Hist. of Corpus Christi College.]
WEBB or WEBBE, JOHN (1611–1672), architect, came of a Somerset family, but was born in London in 1611. He was educated from 1625 to 1628 at Merchant Taylors' school (Robinson, Register, i. 114), and was a pupil and executor, and a connection by birth and marriage, of Inigo Jones [q. v.] (Wood, Athenæ, iii. 806, iv. 753–4). His architectural works were largely in connection with or in continuation of those of his master. When Inigo Jones laid out Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Webb designed (circ. 1640) the large brick house on the south side, and there exists among Jones's drawings at Worcester College, Oxford, a design by Webb of a house in the Strand for
