Henry J. Webb
Academic
1846 – 1893
Who was Henry J. Webb?
Henry John Webb was an English scholar, who became a trained botanist before moving into medicine. However, it was eventually agriculture and the training of scientific, practical agriculturalists that eventually caught his imagination. In 1887 he accepted the position of Principal to the Aspatria Agricultural College, a radical institution in the North of England, which a group of enthusiastic amateurs had established in 1874, for the purpose of training the sons of tenant farmers and farm labourers. In 1891 he became sole owner of the College, which he rebuilt and under his guidance it became one of the foremost seats of agricultural learning in England. He was also a successful world record holding cyclist and tricyclist.
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- Born
- 1846
- Also known as
- Henry Webb
- Education
- University College London
- Died
- 1893
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on July 23, 2013
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