W. D. Webster (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Downing Webster (11 May 1868 - 14 January 1913) was a British ethnographic dealer and collector, best known for his collection gathered from material seized by British troops during the Benin Expedition of 1898. Webster was born in 1868 in Greenwich to Robert and Sarah Webster. Although his father was in the potato trade, Webster was initially employed as a stained glass designer in Lancaster before becoming a dealer in ethnographic antiquities in the 1890s.