William Frederick Webb

[1] Ultimately, William Frederick Webb inherited estates in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and County Durham, making him a wealthy man.

[2] A big-game hunter, particularly of rhinoceros, Webb spent time in Africa with a friend, Captain William Codrington.

He moved his family into the Abbey, and set about improvements, installing heating and gas lighting and also redecorating the old chapel.

Webb's hunting trophies remain in Newstead today: the tusks, skins and heads of the animals he killed while in Africa.

[5] In 1889, his wife Emilia became ill with tuberculosis and journeyed to Africa in October that year, in hope that the warm climate would help her recovery.