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Jonas Webb

1796–1862

Agriculturist and livestock breeder. Began business as a farmer in Babraham, Cambridgeshire, in 1822. Devoted himself to breeding Southdown sheep; a leading exhibitor from 1840. Developed an important herd of shorthorn cattle, 1838–62.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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