James Webster (priest) explained

James Webster (1734 - 1804) was Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1774 until 1804.^[1]

Webster was born in Rampside, educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1758.^[2] After a curacy in Grantham he was the incumbent at Much Cowarne.

His grandson^[3] was Lieutenant Governor of The Gambia from 1840 to 1841; and then of Prince Edward Island until 1847.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol8/pp47-49 British History on-line
2. [John Venn|Venn, John]
3. J. K. Laughton, ‘Huntley, Sir Henry Vere (1795–1864)’, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 13 Feb 2017
4. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=4503 Dictionary of Canadian Biography