He subsequently went to London and studied architecture, the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street being built from his design, and where in 1830 he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture.
[2] He was an accomplished water-colour painter and was elected an honorary member of the Sketch Society.
[citation needed] An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, a comprehensive guide to running a household which Webster had compiled with the help of a Mrs. Parkes, was published after his death in 1844.
[4] Sir Henry Charles Englefield was indebted to him for the geological descriptions and the effective geological views and sections of the Isle of Wight and Dorset that enriched his Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight (1816).
He died in London on 26 December 1844 and is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.