Edmund Webb (c. 1639 – 13 December 1705) was the member of

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for

Cricklade Cricklade is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in north Wiltshire, England, midway between Swindon and Cirencester. It is the first downstream town on the Thames. The parish population at the 2011 census was 4,227. History Cricklade ...

for several parliaments from 1679 to 1698, and the member for Ludgershall in 1701 and 1702.WEBB, Edmund (c.1639-1705), of Rodbourne Cheney and Fifield, Wilts.
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''. Retrieved 1 December 2017. His son John, later

John Richmond Webb General (United Kingdom), General John Richmond Webb (26 December 1667 – 5 September 1724), of Biddesden House, Ludgershall, Wiltshire, was a British general and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1695 to 1724. Politically ...

(1667–1724), who rose to the rank of General in the army, was also returned as an MP and was the builder of

Biddesden House Biddesden House (or Biddesden Park) is a Listed building, Grade I listed English country house in east Wiltshire, about north-west of Andover, Hampshire. The house stands in parkland about east of Ludgershall, Wiltshire, Ludgershall village, ...

near Ludgershall.

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