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] curacy in Grantham he was the incumbent at Much Cowarne .
His grandson [ 3] Lieutenant Governor of The Gambia from 1840 to 1841; and then of Prince Edward Island until 1847.[ 4]
References
^ 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
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