Memorial to William Charles Fynes Webber, MA

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Memorial to William Charles Fynes Webber

W. F. Woodington jnr. (1831-1922

1895

Described in the St Paul's Collection site as a "[w]hite marble roundel with portrait of bearded man facing left; the roundel is inset in a grey striated marble rectangular panel with Alpha, Omega, Chi and Rho inscribed in the four spandrels."

The Crypt, St. Paul's Cathedral

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With thanks to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral

Photograph 2011 and formatting by George P. Landow. Text by Landow and Jacqueline Banerjee.

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According to Alumni Oxonienses, Webber, a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, served as Rector of St. Botolph's Aldersgate (1845-76), Minor Canon of the Cathedral (1850), Precentor (1856-76), and Sub-Dean (1859).

Woodington's father was the earlier sculptor of the same name.

Bibliography

Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford. Vol 4. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888. GoogleBooks. Web. 4 August 2014/

William Frank Woodington" (search). The Genealogist.co.uk. Web. 4 August 2014. (Note: Wikipedia gives 1830 for his year of birth, but both agree on the year of death).

Object Collection No. 437. St. Paul's Cathedral. Web. 4 August 2014.

Last modified 4 August 2014