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Alfred Webb
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Irish Parliamentary Party MP who was involved with Irish and Indian nationalist politics
Other names
Alfred John Webb
Place of birth
Place of death
Shetland Islands
About
Alfred Webb was an Irish nationalist. He was elected MP for West Waterford in 1890 for the Irish Parliamentary Party. Waterford West was a UK parliamentary constituency for Ireland from 1885 to 1918. Webb was elected again in 1892 on an anti-Parnell ticket. He became a member of the Indian parliamentary party set up by William Wedderburn following the election of Dadabhai Naoroji.
Webb resigned from Parliament in 1895 but remained involved in Irish and Indian nationalist politics. During a visit to India in 1898 he was elected President of the Indian National Congress.
Legg, Marie-Louise (ed.) Alfred Webb: The Autobiography of a Quaker Nationalist (Cork: Cork University Press, 1999)
O'Donoghue, D. J., ‘Webb, Alfred John (1834–1908)’, rev. Alan O'Day, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36793]
Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire: Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
National Library, Ireland
Religious Society of Friends, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
