Sir Godfrey Webster, fourth baronet

(1748-1800)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Webster, Sir Godfrey, fourth baronet (bap. 1749, d. 1800) LBT ID: GoWebst1800	B/BAP: 1748 DIED: 1800-06-03
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After succeeding to the title in 1780 he was MP for Seaford (1786-90) and Wareham (1796-1800); in 1786 he was unhappily married Elizabeth Vassall who eloped with Henry Richard Fox; he died a suicide.
REFERENCES TO Sir Godfrey Webster, fourth baronet: Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Appendix Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 38 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 6