Introduction

Biography

Webb was edu­cat­ed at St. Paul’s School, and at Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, Cam­bridge (BA 1842, MA 1845). Or­dained by the Bi­shop of Glou­ces­ter and Bris­tol, he was as­sist­ant cur­ate at Ke­mer­ton, Glou­ces­ter­shire (now in Wor­ces­ter­shire) (1843–44); Christ Church, St. Pan­cras (1847–49); and Bras­ted, Kent (1849–51). He be­came per­pe­tu­al cur­ate of Sheen, Staf­ford­shire (1851); vi­car of St. An­drews, Wells Street, Lon­don (1862); pre­bend of Port­pool, in St. Paul’s Ca­thed­ral (1881).

Webb was one of the found­ers of the Cam­bridge Cam­den, af­ter­ward the Ec­cle­si­o­lo­gi­cal So­cie­ty; and ed­it­or of the Ec­cle­si­o­lo­gist (1842–68), as well as the Ge­ne­ral Ed­it­or of the So­cie­ty’s pub­li­ca­tions.

Works

His first ap­pearance in print was as joint ed­it­or of Bi­shop Mon­ta­gue’s Ar­ti­cles of In­qui­ry in 1841.

His oth­er works in­clude:

• An Es­say on Sym­bo­lism and A Trans­la­tion of Du­ran­dus, with John Neale, 1843
• Continental Ec­cle­si­o­lo­gy, 1847
• Sermons, by Frank; 1848, with his father-in-law, Dr. Mill, for the Ang­lo-Cat­ho­lic Lib­ra­ry
• Hierurgia Ang­li­ca­na, with J. Full­er-Rus­sell, 1848
• Catechetical Lec­tures, by his fa­ther-in-law, Dr. Mill, 1856 (ed­it­or)
• Mythical In­ter­pre­ta­tion of the Gos­pels, 1861, by Dr. Mill (ed­it­or, se­cond ed­it­ion)
• Sermons on Our Lord’s Temp­ta­tions, 1873, by Dr. Mill (ed­it­or)
• Sarum Mis­sal, Burnt­is­land re­print (ed­it­or)
• Instructions and Pray­ers for Can­di­dates for Con­fir­ma­tion, 1882 (third edi­tion)
• Hymnal Not­ed (joint ed­it­or)
• Hymnary, with W. Cooke, 1872