Date: 1885
G. S. W. WEBB, FRANCIS WILLIAM (1836 1906), civil engineer, born at TixaU rectory, Staffordshire, on 21 May 1836, was second son of WUUam Webb, rector of Tixall.  Showing at an early age a liking for mechan ical pursuits, he became at fifteen a pupU of Francis Trevithick, then locomotive superintendent of the London and North Western railway.  With that raUway he was, save for an interval of five years, as sociated for Use.