James Webbe Tobin
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] During 1799 he took part in the nitrous oxide experiments of Humphry Davy.[5]
From 1807 Tobin and his family were on Nevis.[1] He took a leading part in the cruelty case brougght in 1810 against the plantation owner Edward Huggins; Huggins had bought the Montravers estate on Nevis from the Pretor Pinney family in 1808.[6]
Works
Tobin contributed to The Annual Anthology.
Family
Tobin married Jane Mallet or Mullett (1784–1837) in 1807.[1][7][8] She was the daughter of Thomas Mullett (1745–1814), a Bristol stationer connected by marriage to Caleb Evans, a Particular Baptist minister in Bristol.[9] They had at least four children.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f 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.
- ^ 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.)
- ^ 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.