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Webbe
Webbe is a surname, and may refer to: In arts and entertainment *Benji Webbe (born 1967), Welsh singer *Samuel Webbe (1740–1816), English composer *Simon Webbe (born 1978), British musician *William James Webbe (1830–1904), English painter In government and politics *Anthony Webbe (English politician) (died 1578?), English politician *Claudia Webbe (born 1965), English politician *George Webbe (MP) (by 1509–1556), English politician *Sir Harold Webbe (1885–1965), English politician * Henry Webbe, 14th-century English politician * James Webbe (by 1528–1557), English politician * John Webbe (died 1557), English politician, MP for Dover * John Webbe (died 1571), English politician, MP for Salisbury *Josiah Webbe (1768–1804), East India Company official * William Webbe alias Kellowe (by 1466–1523), MP for Salisbury * William Webbe (by 1499–1554), MP for Salisbury * William Webbe (by 1508–c. 1547), MP for Huntingdon * William Webbe (fl.1542), MP for Warwick *William Web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Webbe
Simon Solomon Webbe (born 30 March 1979) is a British singer. He is best known as a member of the boy band Blue, forming in 2000 before splitting in 2005 and reforming in 2009, selling over 15 million records. Webbe released three solo studio albums in 2005, 2006 and 2017, sold over 700,000 records worldwide and had five UK Top 40 singles. History Webbe was born on 30 March 1978. His parents are of Saint Kitts and Nevis descent. 2001–2005: Early career and Blue The band released their debut single " All Rise" in May 2001 and it reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart. Blue's second single was released in August with the chart-topping " Too Close", a cover version of Next's US number 1 hit produced by Ray Ruffin. Their second number one came in November with "If You Come Back" also produced by Ray Ruffin and co-written by Nicole Anderson aka Nicole Formescu, Lee Brennan, Ian Hope and Ray Ruffin off the album '' All Rise'', which was released in time for Christmas and rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Webbe
Claudia Naomi Webbe (born 8 March 1965) is a British politician who is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East. Elected to Parliament for Labour in the 2019 general election, she currently sits as an independent. Born in Leicester, Webbe was a councillor in the London Borough of Islington from 2010 until her resignation in March 2021, having served as its cabinet member for environment and transport. She was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 2016 until her election to Parliament. Webbe is the first female MP for Leicester East. She was suspended from the party whip in September 2020 after being charged with harassment of a woman who was having an affair with her then-partner. She was later expelled from the Labour Party on 3 November 2021 after being convicted in October 2021. Webbe lost her appeal on 26 May 2022. Early life and education Webbe has described how she was born and brought up in Leicester to parents of Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Webbe
Glen Webbe is a former Wales national rugby union team, Wales rugby union international player. Webbe is often stated to be the first Black Welsh person to represent the Welsh national rugby union team, and has been described as "Wales first black icon". Early life Webbe was born in Cardiff, the only boy of eight children. His parents, Islyn (a nurse at St David's Hospital, Cardiff, St David's Hospital) and Mike (a Steelworker) were part of the Windrush generation, travelling from St Kitts on the RMS Queen Mary and settling in Ely, Cardiff. Despite growing up in Ely, attended Glan Ely Comprehensive and winning recognition for his abilities in rugby, Welsh baseball and athletics, Webbe was advised by Cardiff RFC players that there were "cliques" in the Cardiff team, and that he may be better off elsewhere. Career At the age of 18, Webbe accepted an offer to play top flight rugby with Bridgend RFC. Webbe would go on to play a total of fourteen seasons for the club, becoming a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Webbe
William James Webbe (or Webb) (born July 13, 1830 in Redruth, Cornwall, England – died 1904 in England) was an early English Pre-Raphaelite painter and illustrator, known for his rustic, religious, and book paintings. Life Webbe was born on 13 July 1830 at Redruth, Cornwall, and baptized on the 23rd of that month at St Austell, Cornwall. He was one of eight children of Wesleyan Church minister Rev. Samuel Webb and Sarah née Stirrup. He married Besse before 1871, the couple had two children, Wilfred Mark Webb and Ethel Alice Webb, and lived in London. He travelled abroad, to Dusseldorf, where he study art, where he was probably influenced by Nazarenes art. Webbe returned to England in 1853, and made his debut at the Royal Academy. He took part in exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Royal Society of British Artists from 1853 to 1878. File:Webbe Two lambs in a barn.png, ''Two lambs in a barn'', signed and dated 'W. J. Webb April 1853' (lower lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benji Webbe
Clive John "Benji" Webbe (born 11 March 1967) is a Welsh singer, best known as the lead vocalist and synthesizer player for the reggae metal band Skindred. Aside from his main project, he is also active in Diamond Spider, Dub War, Mass Mental and his own solo project. He has featured on albums by Bullet for My Valentine and Soulfly. Webbe is a native of Newport, South Wales, and a veteran of the rock explosion of the mid-1990s which led to ''Spin'' magazine dubbing Newport as 'The New Seattle'. Early life Benji Webbe was born Clive John Webbe on 11 March 1967 in Newport to Jamaican immigrant parents. Webbe's father was brought to the UK on the Windrush ship which brought one of the first groups of West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom. Webbe's father arrived in Manchester where he struggled to find a job and moved to Wales instead. He became an orphan at the age of 13 and was raised by his older brother in Newport. Career Webbe first came to prominence with Dub War, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Webbe
Samuel Webbe (1740 – 25 May 1816) was an English composer. Life Born in Menorca in 1740, Webbe was brought up in London. His father died when he was still an infant, and his mother returned to London where she raised Webbe in difficult circumstances. At the age of 11 he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, and during the first year of his apprenticeship his mother died. Webbe was an autodidact. He first discovered his aptitude for music when called on to repair the case of a harpsichord. During the course of the repair work he taught himself to play the instrument. Near the end of the job he was overheard playing it. As a result of this incident he turned to the study of music under Carl Barbandt. A Roman Catholic, in 1776 Webbe succeeded George Paxton as organist of the Sardinian Embassy Chapel, a position which he held until 1795: he was also organist and choirmaster of chapel of the Portuguese Embassy in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the only place in London where the Catholi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiah Webbe
Josiah Webbe (April 1767 – 9 November 1804) was an English East India Company servant who worked as Chief Secretary at Madras and as a Resident at Mysore and later in the court of the Maharaja of Scindia. Webbe was the son of George Webbe of Nevis and Mary Fenton Dasent and entered the service of the East India Company as a writer on July 26, 1783. His ability to deal with Indian languages made him popular. He advised against hostile actions towards Tipu Sultan which displeased Lord Mornington and the directors of the East India Company leading to his removal from the service of Arthur Wellesley. In 1803, he was posted Resident to the newly acquired kingdom of Mysore and the next year, he was posted by Wellesley to the Court of the Maharaja of Scindia in Gwalior. He died at Hussainabad on the banks of Narmada. A monolithic granite obelisk to him was erected at Srirangapatnam by Dewan Purnaiah. A monument by John Flaxman John Flaxman (6 July 1755 – 7 December 1826) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrance Webbe
Terrance Godfrey Webbe (born 30 April 1969) is a former West Indian cricketer. Webbe was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. In February 2006, Webbe played for the United States Virgin Islands in the 2006 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official Twenty20 status. He made two appearances in the tournament, in a preliminary round victory against St Maarten and in a first-round defeat against St Vincent and the Grenadines. He later played for the United States Virgin Islands in their second appearance in the Stanford 20/20 in 2008, making two appearances in a preliminary round victory against St Kitts and in a first-round defeat against Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign country in the West Indies. It lies at the juncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, at 17°N latitude. The country consists of two maj .... In his four appearances, he scored a total of 12 runs at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Webbe (fl
William Webbe (fl. 1568–1591) was an English critic and translator. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a tutor for distinguished families, including the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex, and later the children of Henry Grey of Pirgo, also in Essex. Webbe wrote a '' Discourse of English Poetrie'' (1586), dedicated to Sulyard, in which he discusses prosody and reviews English poetry up to his own day. He argued that the dearth of good English poetry since Chaucer's day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the language, but to the want of a proper system of prosody. He decried rhyming verse, showed enthusiasm for Spenser's ''The Shepheardes Calender'', and urged the adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse He also translated Virgil's first two ''Eclogues.'' A letter by Webbe to Robert Wilmot (fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Webbe (by 1508–c
William Webbe (fl. 1568–1591) was an English critic and translator. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a tutor for distinguished families, including the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex, and later the children of Henry Grey of Pirgo, also in Essex. Webbe wrote a '' Discourse of English Poetrie'' (1586), dedicated to Sulyard, in which he discusses prosody and reviews English poetry up to his own day. He argued that the dearth of good English poetry since Chaucer's day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the language, but to the want of a proper system of prosody. He decried rhyming verse, showed enthusiasm for Spenser's ''The Shepheardes Calender'', and urged the adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse He also translated Virgil's first two ''Eclogues.'' A letter by Webbe to Robert Wilmot (fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Webbe
Sir William Harold Webbe, Order of the British Empire, CBE Deputy Lieutenant, DL (30 September 1885 – 22 April 1965) was a British politician. He was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) from 1939 to 1959. Born in Solihull, Webbe was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Queens' College, Cambridge, which he attended from 1904 to 1907. During World War I, he worked at the Minister of Munitions, Ministry of Munitions. He worked as a director of several companies. Webbe was a member of the London County Council from 1925 to 1949, representing Camberwell North West (London County Council constituency), Camberwell North West and then serving as an alderman, and he led the Municipal Reform Party on the council for 12 years. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London. On 17 May 1939, he was first elected to House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Parliament in a 1939 Westminster Abbey by-election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Webbe (by 1499–1554)
William Webbe (fl. 1568–1591) was an English critic and translator. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a tutor for distinguished families, including the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex, and later the children of Henry Grey of Pirgo, also in Essex. Webbe wrote a '' Discourse of English Poetrie'' (1586), dedicated to Sulyard, in which he discusses prosody and reviews English poetry up to his own day. He argued that the dearth of good English poetry since Chaucer's day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the language, but to the want of a proper system of prosody. He decried rhyming verse, showed enthusiasm for Spenser's ''The Shepheardes Calender'', and urged the adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse He also translated Virgil's first two ''Eclogues.'' A letter by Webbe to Robert Wilmot (fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
