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
  1. British History on-line
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Richard Hurd		 Archdeacon of Gloucester
1774–1804		 Succeeded by
Timothy Stonhouse Vigor


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