Charles Fox Webster
(1828-1866)
8 February 1861

Volume 2, page 198, sitting number 2084. 

Born in 1828, Charles Fox Webster was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Vassall Webster and his wife Grace, only daughter and heir of the Anglo-Irish politician Samuel Boddington, whose father had been a director of the South Sea Company, 

He was baptised on 4 March 1828 at St George’s, Hanover Square. 

On 11 November 1856 at St George’s, Hanover Square, he married Louisa Alice Frances Calder, daughter of Sir Henry Rodham Calder, 5h Bt. Their marriage produced four daughters and a son. 

The family appear on the 1861 census living at 52 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, on the south side of Hyde Park. Ten live-in servants were present on the night of the census, including a butler and two footmen. 

Charles Fox Webster died, aged 37, on 7 September 1866 at Gayton Lodge, Wimbledon. His death certificate gives the cause of death as ‘Disease of the Brain, 2 years’ and ‘Apoplexy, 18 hours.’ 

His estate was left unadministered by his widow. Administration was granted in 1875 to the deceased’s brother Henry Boddington Webster, the uncle and guardian of Charles’s five children. 

[From an album compiled by Lady Augusta Frances Hoare, wife of Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th Baronet.]