[1] As a youth Webb entered the office of William Brodie Gurney,[1] the famous parliamentary shorthand writer, and soon became proficient in stenography.
Having decided to embrace the legal profession, he attended the lectures on law given at the University of Melbourne by Henry Samuel Chapman and Wilberforce Stephen and subsequently read in the latter's chambers.
[2] Having for a long period been recognised as the leader of the Equity Bar in Victoria, he was in 1874 offered the puisne judgeship rendered vacant by the retirement of Edward Williams.
and continued to practise with unrivalled success, he was elevated to the Bench on 4 May 1886 in place of the retiring Sir Robert Molesworth,[1] and fulfilled his judicial functions down to the time of his death.
[2] Webb, who was a member of the Congregational body, died at his residence, Caulfield, Victoria, near Melbourne, on 26 September 1891, at the age of sixty-four.