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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Richmond Webb |
| Gender |
Male |
| Marriage |
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to Anne _____ |
| Will[3] |
18 Dec 1734 |
London, England'Will of Richmond Webb of Rochester, Kent' > "I Richmond Webb of the City of Rochester in the County of Kent Esqr being Sick and weak but of Sound and Disposing mind and memory praised be God for the same do for the quiet of my mind Settle my Estate . . . I the Said Richmond Webb Set my hand and Seal in the twenty Eighth day of August in the Eighth year of the reign of King George and So forth and in the year of Our lord One thousand Seven hundred and thirty four — Richmd Webb — Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the above Testator to be his last Will and Testament ...." |
| Death[1][2][3] |
Abt 1734 |
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| Burial[1][2] |
1734 |
Rochester, Kent, England"... Captain Richmond Webb, was buried at Rochester in 1734. ...." |
Captain Richmond Webb
—of Rochester, Kent—
- « ... Richmond Webb, captain in the Guards, descended from the family of Richmond alias Webb of Wiltshire, .... » S2
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dictionary of National Biography by Sir Stephen Leslie (1832-1904), published 1885-1900, 'Watson - Whewell', p. 103.
« The Colonel Richmond Webb who died on 27 May 1785, aged 70, and was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey, was a kinsman second cousin of the half-blood of the general (they were both great great-grandsons of Edmund Webb of Rodbourne Cheney, who died in 1621, and his wife, Catherine St. John) ; his father, Captain Richmond Webb, was buried at Rochester in 1734. Richmond Webb the younger, born in 1714, a cornet in the queen's own royal dragoons in 1735, became captain in Moreton's regiment in 1741, commanded a company for King George at Culloden, and retired from the army in 1758. He was survived four years by his widow, Sarah (Griffiths), who was buried beside her husband in June 1789. Their daughter Amelia (1757-1810), the godmother of ' Emmy ' in ' Vanity Fair,' married at St. John's Cathedral, Calcutta, on 31 Jan. 1776, William Makepeace Thackeray (1749-1813), the grandfather of the great novelist. Another daughter, Sarah, married Peter Moore [q. v.], the friend of Sheridan (BAYNE, Memorials of the Thackeray Family ; cf. HUNTEK, The Thackerays in India, 1897, pp. 97, 179).. »
Accessed at archive.org
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Westminster Abbey website > 'Richmond Webb'.
« Colonel Richmond Webb and his wife are buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey. The tablet to him, over the door into the Pyx Chamber, has now lost its inscription. A record had been made of it and it read:
"Near this monument are interred the remains of Lieut. Colonel Richmond Webb who was born of a distinguish'd family of soldiers, served his King and country with honour, truth, humanity and bravery. He was the best of fathers, most affectionate of husbands, and most amiable of men: he was sensible, modest, kind and good, and united the softest heart with the strongest mind. He departed this life on the 27th May 1785, aged 70 years. In the same grave are deposited the remains of Sarah his inconsolable window, who only surviv'd his melancholy loss four years, and died on the 8th June 1789 aged 66 years. She was the tender, faithful and worthy partner of his distinguish'd virtues. In all goodness they were truly one!"
« He was the only son of Richmond Webb, captain in the Guards, descended from the family of Richmond alias Webb of Wiltshire, and his wife Anne. Sarah was the daughter of J. Griffyths. Their children were Sarah who married Peter Moore, Richmond, Charlotte, Augusta who married Thomas Evans, and Amelia who married W.M. Thackeray and was grandmother of the famous author of that name. »
Accessed at Westminster Abbey Commemorations: Richmond Webb
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 'Will of Richmond Webb of Rochester, Kent' - written 28 August, 1734; proved at London 18 December, 1734. National Archives Ref: PROB 11/668/355.
« I Richmond Webb of the City of Rochester in the County of Kent Esqr being Sick and weak but of Sound and Disposing mind and memory praised be God for the same do for the quiet of my mind Settle my Estate ...
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... I the Said Richmond Webb Set my hand and Seal in the twenty Eighth day of August in the Eighth year of the reign of King George and So forth and in the year of Our lord One thousand Seven hundred and thirty four — Richmd Webb — Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the above Testator to be his last Will and Testament .... »
Accessed at nationalarchives.gov.uk, from where a copy may be ordered and downloaded in pdf format.
It may also be found at ancestry.co.uk > England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 for Richmond Webb. PROB 11: Will Registers > 1730-1736 > Piece 668: Ockham, Quire Numbers 232-276 (1734)
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