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Engraving of Newstead Abbey, 1860. Augusta Zelia Webb was born in 1857 or 1858, the eldest daughter of a wealthy family of minor gentry. [1] [3] [4] The family's principal seat, which Augusta's father purchased in 1861 from the family of Thomas Wildman, was Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire.
Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England, was formerly an Augustinian priory. Converted to a domestic home following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it is now ...
Name and location Photograph Date Notes Grade Newstead Abbey and walls: Late 13th century: Originally an Augustinian priory, it was converted into a country house in 1539, and there have been later alterations and restorations.
converted into a mansion named 'Newstead Abbey'; restored by George Gordon Byron , poet, c. 1800; restored by John Shaw for Col. Wildman 1819; further altered c. 1862 for William Frederick Webb , African explorer, upon whose death, 1899, estate passed via his surviving children to his grandson Charles Ian Fraser who sold Newstead to ...
White Ladies Priory (often Whiteladies Priory), once the Priory of St Leonard at Brewood, [1] was an English priory of Augustinian canonesses, now in ruins, in Shropshire, in the parish of Boscobel, some eight miles (13 km) northwest of Wolverhampton, near Junction 3 of the M54 motorway.
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The white marble grave is still in good condition as at 2009 and states her age at death as being 55. It features a design on it that reflects motifs seen throughout Newstead Abbey. Ten years later, in 1899, Webb contracted laryngitis while in Africa. He died from it and is buried at Luxor in Egypt.
Augusta Maria Leigh (née Byron; 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851) was the only surviving daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his first wife, Amelia, née Darcy (Lady Conyers in her own right and the divorced wife of Francis, Marquis of Carmarthen).