Thomas Webb (judge)

Thomas Prout Webb (22 January 1845 – 22 November 1916) was an Australian barrister and judge.

[1] Webb was the fourth son of Robert Saunders Webb, the first collector of customs at Port Phillip, by his wife Ann, daughter of Lieutenant Fisher, R.N., was born at Newtown (now called Fitzroy), Melbourne.

[1] He then studied at King's College London, entered at Lincoln's Inn in November 1867, and was called to the Bar in June 1870, having won the Inns of Court Exhibition in Constitutional Law and Legal History in the previous year.

Webb published in 1872 a successful work on the Imperial law in force in the colony.

[2] Webb died on 22 November 1916 of heart disease, he was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.