William Webster

(1800-1886)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Webster, William 1689-1758 DNB: Webster, William (1689–1758), Church of England clergyman and theological writer LBT ID: WiWebst1758 VIAF ID: 34487806 LOC ID: n85067500	B/BAP: 1800 DIED: 1886-09-23
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Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was a clergyman and editor of the Weekly Miscellany in which he attacked William Warburton, for which he was subsequently enshrined in Pope's Dunciad.
REFERENCES TO William Webster: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 1: ¶ n1