James Wedderburn-Webster

His father changed his name in accordance with the will of his business partner James Webster (died 1789) with an interest in the Richmond Vale estate in Jamaica (the family relationship being that James Webster was a son by a second marriage of David Wedderburn's maternal grandmother Beatrix Proctor).

[6] The family home in Shenley, Hertfordshire was sold, and Langham House in Suffolk, was rented.

[12][13] As a young man, before reaching the age of majority in 1809, he performed in the Corinthian fashion as a sporting amateur.

Other guests were Scrope Davies, John Cam Hobhouse and Charles Skinner Matthews, and the entertainment was mostly boyish pranks.

There Webster and the Marquess of Tweeddale met in January 1811 the prizefighter Heskin Rimmer, who shortly was stopped in a bout at Moulsey Hurst by the African-American Tom Molineaux.

[24] At the end of 1813 Byron published The Bride of Abydos, and there is a critical consensus that it reflects his feelings for both Augusta Leigh, his half-sister, and Frances Webster, with whom there was an "intense relationship".

[25] In the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, Webster and his wife Frances attended the Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve of the battle.

[27] At the beginning of April 1821, Webster administered a public thrashing to Viscount Petersham, the future Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington, in St James's Street, London.

[28] Both survived an exchange of shots unharmed, and Webster, attempting to save his marriage (Lady Frances was pregnant at the time), moved to Boulogne with her.

[31] (She in turn was at that time conducting "a kind of love affair on paper" with Byron, a distant relative of hers.

The couple brought a libel action against the St James Chronicle in 1815, with John Campbell acting for them, over repeated hints that Frances was having an affair with the Duke of Wellington.