Hubert Eustace "Hughie" Webb (30 May 1927 — 8 November 2010) was a pioneering and internationally renowned professor of neurovirology at St Thomas's Hospital in London.
The son of Indian Army Political Service official Wilfred Webb and Kathleen du Boulay, he was born in British India at Tonk in May 1927.
As a result, he was invited by Montgomery to accompany his son on a visit to his headquarters in the British occupation zone in Germany, as well as meeting Vasily Chuikov, the Soviet general who captured the Führerbunker.
[1] He undertook his National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, gaining a short-service commission as a lieutenant in September 1953,[7] with promotion to captain following in November of the same year.
His success treating tick-borne encephalitis earned him an invitation to the National Research Council in Kuala Lumpur, where he worked in 1957 and 1958, following his discharge from the British Army.
Webb noted similarities between cases in India and those in Soviet Russia, establishing a possible link to migratory birds;[1] this led to the first in a long series of learned papers in medical journals and a lifelong career in neurovirology.
[2] He later turned down a further offer of employment from the Rockefeller Foundation, and returned to England, where he was appointed a neurology registrar at St Thomas’.