Robert Webb (MP)

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Robert Webb (c.1719 – 9 September 1765)[1] was the Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1747 to 1754. He was a prominent sugar merchant, owning plantations on Montserrat.[2]

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
  2. Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775, Richard B. Sheridan. p. 65.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Taunton
1747–1754
With: Sir Charles Wyndham (1747–1750)
Admiral William Rowley (1750–1754)
Succeeded by
John Halliday
Lord Carpenter


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>