Janus: William Webb and Ann Gould: Papers

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.5781-5783	Robert Sadd: Account Book and Ledgers
MS Add.5784-5861, 5864-5867	James Plumptre: Papers
MS Add.58	John Edwards: Fragment of a discourse against the Church of England
MS Add.5862	Huntingdonshire Collections
MS Add.5863	Praelectio
MS Add.5868-5883	William Webb and Ann Gould: Papers
MS Add.589	John Parnther: Notes and transcripts of lectures
MS Add.5904	Passport of Edward and Alexander Cruickshank for vist to Italy
MS Add.5907	Elias Avery Loew: Sandars Lectures
MS Add.5908-5928	Forncett, Norfolk: Manor Records
MS Add.5931	Commonplace book of a clergyman, c. 1723.
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William Webb and Ann Gould: Papers

Title	William Webb and Ann Gould: Papers
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.5868-5883
Creator	Webb, William, 1775-1856 and Gould, Ann
Covering Dates	1639–1849
Extent and Medium	16 volumes
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

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William Webb (1775-1856) was born in Feburary 1775 at Sutton Coldfield, the son of William Webb, master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School. He entered Clare College, Cambridge, in 1793 (B.A., 1797; M.A., 1800; B.D., 1808; D.D. 1816), and was thereafter fellow (1799), tutor and master (1815-1856). He was ordained deacon in 1800, and priest in 1801, and was the rector of Fornham All Saints, Suffolk, 1815-1816, and vicar of Litlington, Cambridgeshire, 1816-1856. Webb served as vice-chancellor of the university, 1817-1818 and 1832-1833, and was president of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1843-1844. He married Ann, daughter of the Revd T.V. Gould, rector of Fornham, Suffolk. Webb died on 4 January 1856 at Litlington.

Memoranda, notes on sermons, a journal of a journey to Scotland, verse and conundrums.

Presented by Mrs A.J. Edmonds, 1914.

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Manuscripts/MS Add.5868-5883 contains:

MS Add.5868-5871

William Webb: Papers.
Creator: Webb, William, 1775-1856.
4 volumes.

1817–1838

MS Add.5872-5883

Ann Gould: Papers.
Creator: Gould, Ann.
12 volumes.

1639–1849