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He was the eldest son of [[James Webbe (planter)|James Webbe]] of [[Bristol]] and his first wife Elizabeth Webbe; [[George Webbe (Royal Navy officer)|George Webbe]] and [[John Tobin (dramatist)|John Tobin]] were his brothers.<ref name="ODNB"/> His father was in business with [[John Pretor Pinney]], from 1783.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=50514|first=Kenneth|last=Morgan|title=Pinney, John Pretor}}</ref> |
He was the eldest son of [[James Webbe (planter)|James Webbe]] of [[Bristol]] and his first wife Elizabeth Webbe; [[George Webbe (Royal Navy officer)|George Webbe]] and [[John Tobin (dramatist)|John Tobin]] were his brothers.<ref name="ODNB"/> His father was in business with [[John Pretor Pinney]], from 1783.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=50514|first=Kenneth|last=Morgan|title=Pinney, John Pretor}}</ref> |
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Tobin was educated at [[King Edward VI School, Southampton]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford]], where he matriculated in 1787, and graduated B.A. in 1792.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>[[s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/212]]</ref> In the 1790s he befriended [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[William Wordsworth]] |
Tobin was educated at [[King Edward VI School, Southampton]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford]], where he matriculated in 1787, and graduated B.A. in 1792.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>[[s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/212]]</ref> In the 1790s he befriended [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[William Wordsworth]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rc.umd.edu/node/105346|title=''Tobin, James Webbe'' (1767–1814), Romantic Circles|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> Wordsworth knew, through [[Basil Montagu]] and [[Francis Wrangham]], the sons of John Pretor Pinney, and may have met Tobin through Montagu, or the Pinneys.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Charles Gill|title=William Wordsworth: a life|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-IpbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92|date=1 June 1989|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-812828-1|page=92}}</ref> During 1799 he took part in the [[nitrous oxide]] experiments of [[Humphry Davy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Humphry Davy|title=The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide ... and its respiration|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0psEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA295|year=1839|publisher=Smith, Elder and Company|pages=295–7}}</ref> |
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From 1807 Tobin and his family were on Nevis.<ref name="ODNB"/> He took a leading part in the cruelty case brought in 1810 against the plantation owner [[Edward Huggins]]; Huggins had bought the Montravers estate on Nevis from the Pretor Pinney family in 1808.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=53032|first=David|last=Small|title=Huggins, Edward}}</ref> Huggins was acquitted; Tobin made his views known, writing in particular to the [[Governor of Nevis]] claiming that the jury was packed.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Andrew Knapp|author2=William Baldwin|title=The New Newgate Calendar|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0O5fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA268|date=1811*|publisher=J. and J. Cundee|pages=268–}}</ref>The ''Christian Observer'' noted that Tobin's blindness meant he could not be challenged to a duel for his stand.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Christian Observer|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mNZGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA434|year=1812|publisher=Hatchard and Company|page=434}}</ref> [[James Stephen (British politician)|James Stephen]] wrote that others who backed him did not escape feuds.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Stephen|title=The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, Antient and Modern|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HYPgCD-qsUEC&pg=PA118|date=30 September 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02082-4|page=118}}</ref> |
From 1807 Tobin and his family were on Nevis.<ref name="ODNB"/> He took a leading part in the cruelty case brought in 1810 against the plantation owner [[Edward Huggins]]; Huggins had bought the Montravers estate on Nevis from the Pretor Pinney family in 1808.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=53032|first=David|last=Small|title=Huggins, Edward}}</ref> Huggins was acquitted; Tobin made his views known, writing in particular to the [[Governor of Nevis]] claiming that the jury was packed.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Andrew Knapp|author2=William Baldwin|title=The New Newgate Calendar|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0O5fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA268|date=1811*|publisher=J. and J. Cundee|pages=268–}}</ref>The ''Christian Observer'' noted that Tobin's blindness meant he could not be challenged to a duel for his stand.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Christian Observer|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mNZGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA434|year=1812|publisher=Hatchard and Company|page=434}}</ref> [[James Stephen (British politician)|James Stephen]] wrote that others who backed him did not escape feuds.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Stephen|title=The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, Antient and Modern|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HYPgCD-qsUEC&pg=PA118|date=30 September 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02082-4|page=118}}</ref> |
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James Webbe Tobin (1767–1814) was an English abolitionist, the son of a plantation owner on Nevis. He was a political radical, and friend of leading literary men.[1]
Life
He was the eldest son of James Webbe of Bristol and his first wife Elizabeth Webbe; George Webbe and John Tobin were his brothers.[1] His father was in business with John Pretor Pinney, from 1783.[2]
Tobin was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Wadham College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1787, and graduated B.A. in 1792.[1][3] In the 1790s he befriended Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth;[4] Wordsworth knew, through Basil Montagu and Francis Wrangham, the sons of John Pretor Pinney, and may have met Tobin through Montagu, or the Pinneys.[1][5] During 1799 he took part in the nitrous oxide experiments of Humphry Davy.[6]
From 1807 Tobin and his family were on Nevis.[1] He took a leading part in the cruelty case brought in 1810 against the plantation owner Edward Huggins; Huggins had bought the Montravers estate on Nevis from the Pretor Pinney family in 1808.[7] Huggins was acquitted; Tobin made his views known, writing in particular to the Governor of Nevis claiming that the jury was packed.[1][8]The Christian Observer noted that Tobin's blindness meant he could not be challenged to a duel for his stand.[9] James Stephen wrote that others who backed him did not escape feuds.[10]
Works
Tobin contributed to The Annual Anthology edited by Robert Southey. In 1812 he wrote a Reply to the pamphlet A plain statement of the motives which gave rise to the public punishment of several negroes (1811), by Thomas John Cottle, son-in-law of Edward Huggins.[11]
Family
Tobin married Jane Mallet or Mullett (1784–1837) in 1807.[1][12][13] She was the daughter of Thomas Mullett (1745–1814), a Bristol stationer connected by marriage to Caleb Evans, a Particular Baptist minister in Bristol.[14] They had at least four children.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Small, David. "Tobin, James Webbe". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58446. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Morgan, Kenneth. "Pinney, John Pretor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50514. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/212
- ^ "Tobin, James Webbe (1767–1814), Romantic Circles". Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ Stephen Charles Gill (1 June 1989). William Wordsworth: a life. Clarendon Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-19-812828-1.
- ^ Sir Humphry Davy (1839). The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide ... and its respiration. Smith, Elder and Company. pp. 295–7.
- ^ Small, David. "Huggins, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53032. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Andrew Knapp; William Baldwin (1811*). The New Newgate Calendar. J. and J. Cundee. pp. 268–.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ The Christian Observer. Hatchard and Company. 1812. p. 434.
- ^ James Stephen (30 September 2010). The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, Antient and Modern. Cambridge University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-108-02082-4.
- ^ "Fanny Cottle (née Huggins), Summary of Individual, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ T. Whelan (2 February 2016). Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-137-34361-1.
- ^ George Manners; William Jerdan (1808). Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor. S. Tipper. p. 103.
- ^ Timothy D. Whelan (2009). Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845. Mercer University Press. p. 423. ISBN 978-0-88146-144-2.