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Benjamin Webb (other)
Benjamin Webb may refer to: * Benjamin Webb (clergyman) (1819–1885), English clergyman * Benjamin Joseph Webb (1814–1897), United States senator, historian, and editor See also *Ben Webb (other) *Benji Webbe (born 1967), Welsh singer {{hndis, Webb, Benjamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Webb (clergyman)
Benjamin Webb (28 November 1819 – 27 November 1885) was an English clergyman and co-founder of the Cambridge Camden Society; he was known as a leading authority on questions of ecclesiastical art. Life Webb was born in London at Addle Hill, Doctor's Commons, on 28 November 1819, eldest son of Benjamin Webb, of the firm of Webb & Sons, wheelwrights. In 1828 he was admitted to St Paul's School under Dr John Sleath, and proceeded with an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1838. He graduated B.A. in 1842, M.A. in 1845. While still an undergraduate he, together with his somewhat older friend, John Mason Neale, founded the Cambridge Camden Society, which played an important part in the ecclesiological revival consequent upon the Tractarian movement, and of which Webb continued to be secretary, both at Cambridge and afterwards in London (where it continued from 1848 under the name of the Ecclesiological Society), from its beginning to its extinction in 1863. With Web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
