Born: November 28, 1819, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: No­vem­ber 27, 1885, Lon­don, Eng­land.

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 (1843-44); of Christ Church, St. Pan­cras (1847-49); and Bras­ted, Kent (1849-51). He be­came PC 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 (1842-1868), as well as the Gen­er­al Ed­it­or of the So­ci­e­ty’s pub­li­ca­tions. 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, co-au­thored with John Ma­son Neale, 1843
• Continental Ecclesiology, 1847
• Sermons, by Frank; 1848 (joint ed­it­or with his fa­ther-in-law, Dr. Mill, for the Anglo-Ca­tho­lic Lib­rary
• Hierurgia Ang­li­ca­na, 1848 (joint ed­it­or with J. Ful­ler-Rus­sell)
• 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, 1872 (joint ed­it­or with W. Cooke)

Sources

Hymns & Transla­tions

1. Assessor to Thy King
2. Behold He Comes, Thy King Most Ho­ly
3. Hymn of Glo­ry Let Us Sing, A
4. O Love, How Deep
5. Praise God, the Ho­ly Trin­i­ty
6. Praise the Rock of Our Salva­tion
7. Sing We Tri­umph­ant Hymns of Praise
8. Ye Angel Hosts Above