Borlase Richmond Webb

Webb was the second son of John Richmond Webb of Biddesden and his first wife Henrietta Borlase, daughter of William Borlase and Joanna Bancks.

As a young child, he received a commission in 1701 as Ensign in the 8th Foot, his father's regiment, and was captain from 1705 to 1715.

[1] Webb was returned with his father as a Tory Member of Parliament for Ludgershall at the 1722 general election.

His father died in 1724 and he succeeded to the family estates to the exclusion of his elder brother Edmund.

He died without issue on 3 March 1738;[1] on his wife's death the estate reverted to his half-brother, also named John Richmond Webb.