Papers of the Webb Family

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 726-7, d. 475-8, d. 1104-32, e. 406-47, e. 1136-96, f. 97-100, f. 644-50, g. 214-30; Eng. lett. d. 474, e. 175-94
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1837-1954
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 187 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of the Webb family, including:

  • Journals of Benjamin Webb, 1837-85
  • Journals of Mildred H. Webb, daughter of Benjamin Webb, 1871-6
  • Holiday journals of Philip G.L. Webb, 1883-1930
  • Journals of C.C.J. Webb, 1877-1954
  • Letters from C.C.J. Webb to his mother, 1885-1904, and to his father, 1885

Administrative / Biographical History

The Webb family included Benjamin Webb (1819-1895), ecclesiologist, and his son Clement Charles Julian Webb (1865-1954), Oriel Professor of the philosophy of the Christian religion at Oxford.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

The papers were bequeathed to the Library by C.C.J. Webb in 1954.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44750-936.

Family Names

Webb family