George Webster

Early life

George Webster came from a family of builders who later became architects, his father Francis (1767–1827) being described as a " mason, builder, and architect" whose speciality was the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments. It is not known how George received his architectural training, but he joined his father's business as a partner, and in 1818, he designed for the country house of Read Hall in Lancashire. Kendal Town Hall (1859), commercial buildings, such as banks in Kendal (1834–35), and Ulverston (1836–38), and the Elba Monument near Burneside, Cumbria (1814).

Family life and later career

In 1827 Webster married Eleanor Lowrey, with whom he had one son and four daughters. He was involved in the public life of Kendal, serving as mayor in 1829–30. One of his hobbies was collecting Roman coins, medals and antiquities, which possibly developed as a result of his visits to Italy from 1836. In 1845 he took his assistant of many years, Miles Thompson, into partnership, and then he supposedly retired from the practice.

Webster built his home "Eller How" in Lindale, Lancashire, in 1827 and lived there until his death. He left an estate of "under £25,000" (equivalent to £ as of ). He is buried at St Paul's church in Lindale.