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Sir William Webb Follett
[S139]
Birth Date 2 DEC 1796 [S169]
Death Date 28 JUN 1845 [S169]
Burial Date JUN 1845
Burial Place Temple Church, London, Middlesex, England [S171]
Baptism Date 6 JAN 1797
Baptism Place Parish Church, Topsham, Devon, England [S147]
Spouses of William Webb Follett
1
Jane Mary Giffard
Birth Date 24 APR 1809
Death Date SEP 1847
Death Place Weybridge, Surrey, England
Father Sir Ambrose Hardinge Giffard Kt. (1771 - 30 APR 1827)
Mother Harriet Pennell (6 APR 1787 - 13 MAY 1865)
Marriage Date 11 OCT 1830
Marriage Place Kensington, London, England
Family Notes 1253

William Webb Follett and Jane Mary Giffard had the following children
1 Anna Follett
2 George Follett
3 Hardinge Giffard Follett
4 Richard Bright Follett
5 Edward Charles Follett
6 Robert William Webb Follett
Notes for Sir William Webb Follett
WWF Born 7 Ferry Rd, Topsham now called Follett Lodge.

1809 WWF at Dr. Lampriere's school in Exeter.

1810 WWF at Mr. Hutchinson's school, Heavitree, Exeter.

1814 WWF in chambers of Robert Bailey & Geoffrey Sykes, Inner Temple. Said to be "tall. slim with a fine brow, large mouth & grey eyes.

1818 WWF BA Trinity College, Cambridge. MA 1830.

1821 WWF Special Pleader of 2, Inner Temple.

1824 WWF ill with lung problem. Called to Bar at Inner Temple for Western Circuit. WWF contestant to be MP for Exeter but not elected until 1835.

1821 Is he the WF Special Pleader of 2 Inner Temple. Robson's Dir.

Subscribed to James Carrington's book published posthumously.

Solicitor General for Robert Peel. Later Attorney General.

1836 WWF Counsel to Cambridge University.

1837-45 WWF MP for Exeter 1837-45. WWF stayed a lot with John Wilson Croker whose ward was WWF's wife, Jane Mary Giffard.

1838 WWF Barrister of 10 King's Walk.

1837-41 Solicitor General 1837-41 for Lord Melbourne. While SG secured Deeds of Presbyterian Meeting House, Topsham.

1842 Royal Blue Book. Sir WWF MP. QC. 6 Park St. Westminster.

1844 -5 Attorney General 1844-5 under Robert Peel. Partly paralysed in lower limbs.

1845 WWF to Europe for health. Returned same year & died June. Probated property £160,000.

MI Westminster Abbey (statue)

Also sometime of Duke St Westminster & Culm Davy, Devon.

After death of his wife, their children were reared by Jane Mary PENNELL, his sister, at his residence at Hurst House. East Molesey, Surrey.

Descendants of Sir William Webb Follett and Jane Mary Giffard

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