Author: Webb, William
Biography:
WEBB, William (c. 1770-1845: ancestry.co.uk)
No biographical information about his early life has come to light, but his father may have been the William Webb, antiquary, who published An Analysis of the History and Antiquities of Ireland (1791). He married Jane Blackburne on 30 Mar. 1803 (her brother, Francis Blackburne, served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland); they had at least four sons and one daughter, Elizabeth, who died in 1827. Webb served as Deputy Commissary General for the armed forces in Ireland. Lakelands, the south Dublin house commemorated in his 1805 poem, was occupied but not owned by the Webb family until 1821 when they travelled to Europe. He wrote Minutes of remarks on subjects picturesque, moral and miscellaneous, made in a course along the Rhine…1822 and 1823 (1827). He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy. At the time of his death on 8 Feb. 1845, he and Jane were living in Lower Mount Street, Dublin. He was buried at St. Ann’s, Dublin. He sent a copy of Lakelands with ms annotations to Walter Scott; it is in the Abbotsford collection of the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. (W. Maziere Brady, Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross 2 [1864]; “Lakelands, Kilmacud” in youwho.ie/grandhouses.html 17 Dec. 2021; churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie 17 Dec. 2021; advocates.org.uk/faculty-of-advocates/the-advocates-library 17 Dec. 2021) SR