Honorific-Prefix: | The Hon |
John Webber | |
Office1: | Member of the Queensland Legislative Council |
Term Start1: | 9 May 1899 |
Term End1: | 12 March 1904 |
Birth Date: | 1841 |
Birth Place: | Kingsbrompton, Somerset, England |
Death Place: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Restingplace: | Toowong Cemetery, later Thargomindah |
Birthname: | John Webber |
Nationality: | English Australian |
Spouse: | Henrietta Wills (m.1869 d.1896) |
John Webber (1841 - 12 March 1904) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council.[1]
Webber was born in Kingsbrompton, Somerset, in 1841 to Thomas Webber and his wife Ann (née Burston). Webber married Henrietta Wells, in 1869 at Wanganella, New South Wales.
Webber was a member of the Bulloo Divisional Board,[2] the Rabbit Board, and from May 1899 till his death a member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
Webber died on 12 March 1904 at St Helen's Private Hospital in Brisbane, following a long illness.., and was buried in Toowong Cemetery but later exhumed for burial in Thargomindah with his wife.[3] [4]