William Frederick Webb [SEP] date of death
William Frederick Webb
William Frederick Webb (1829–1899) was a High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and officer in the British Army.
Background and early life.
William Frederick Webb was born in Sussex in March 1829, one of four children of Frederick Webb and Mary Shiel. His father, who died on 4 February 1846, was an illegitimate son of Sir John Webb, having a brother John who had been declared a lunatic. John Webb, who stood to inherit an income from the estates of Sir John, was at
completed by this firm. The ceiling decoration of the chancel is by William Morris and Philip Webb. The altar wall displays the "Adoration of the Magi" by Edward Burne-Jones. The reredos and rood-screen date from 1889, a later addition by George Frederick Bodley; the artist was Charles Edgar Buckeridge. The paintings on the Bodley organ case were done by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope.
On 16 December 1914, the church was one of many buildings in Scarborough which were damaged during the German bombardment of the