Sir Godfrey Vassall Webster, 5th Baronet (6 October 1789 – 17 July 1836) was an English

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Member of Parliament (MP). Webster succeeded to the

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in May 1800. He was elected at the 1812 general election as an MP for

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. He was re-elected in

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, and held the seat until the 1820 general election, when he did not stand again in Sussex. In 1815 he was one of the Original Members of the

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* 1789 births 1836 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Tory MPs (pre-1834) Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 {{England-baronet-stub