Robert Webb (MP)

Robert Webb (ca. 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)
  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
Percy Wyndham-O'Brien
Sir John Chapman		 Member of Parliament for Taunton
1747–1754
With: Sir Charles Wyndham (1747–1750)
Admiral William Rowley (1750–1754)		 Succeeded by
John Halliday
Lord Carpenter


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