William Wilfrid Webb
Major William Wilfrid Webb was an English officer and physician in the Indian Medical Service, Bengal Army. He was Superintendent of Gaols and Dispensaries for the Meywar and Bikanir States and guardian to the Maharaja of Bikanir.
Origins
William Wilfrid Webb of Netley Abbey, county Hants, was born on 28 November 1857, and baptised at St. George's, Bloomsbury, London, on 20 May 1858.Career
He received the degree of M.D., and was appointed F.S.A. He resided for some years at Netley, and was appointed Curator of the Natural History Museum at the Royal Victoria Hospital, being awarded the Marin Memorial Gold Medal and the Sir Joseph Fayrer's prize for pathology at Netley in 1883. He also obtained several prizes in his medical training at Aberdeen University and at Charing-cross Hospital. At the university he was a prizeman in anatomy and chemistry, while at the hospital he was a silver medallist in botany and a prizeman in anatomy, medicine, and surgery.He rose to the rank of Major in the Indian Medical Service, Bengal Army, and served in the 14th Sikhs, 29th Punjab Native Infantry, 2nd Regiment of Central India Horse, and Meywar Bhil Corps, and as Residency Surgeon at the Courts of the Maharana of Udaipur and the Maharaja of Bikanir, to the latter of whom he was guardian.