| 词条 | Alfred Webb |
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Early lifeAlfred Webb was the first child and only son of the three children of Richard Davis Webb and Hannah Waring Webb (1810–1862). The family ran a printing shop in Dublin and belonged to a Quaker group that supported reforms such as suffrage, the abolition of slavery and anti-imperialism. The family press printed booklets for many of these causes and, in turn, their regular customers grew to include other similar organisations, including the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association and the Ladies’ Land League, an organisation founded by Fanny and Anna Parnell in 1880 that advocated on behalf of poor tenant farmers.[2] CareerAlfred Webb was interested in literature and history and began to write a Compendium of Irish Biography. In 1865, he began to take a more active interest in Irish politics. He was inspired by the Fenians, although he believed in non-violence and the Fenians of that time believed that Ireland could only gain independence through an armed revolution.[3] He was first elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 24 February 1890, when he won a by-election for the West Waterford constituency. He was again returned for West Waterford in the 1892 general election, this time as an anti-Parnellite MP. His family had taken an interest in the welfare of British colonies and had been outspoken opponents of the opium traffic into China. Webb was a close friend of Dadabhai Naoroji, a key member of the Indian National Congress, who was also a friend of other Irish nationalists including Michael Davitt and Frank Hugh O’Donnell. While they attempted to involve Naoroji in Irish politics, Webb was invited by Naoroji to preside over the Indian National Congress in 1894.[3] Webb was a supporter of Anti-Caste, Britain's first anti-racism journal which fellow Quaker activist Catherine Impey founded in 1888. Webb was able to rally subscribers and activists for the journal around the world.[4] For example, although he was not a regular subscriber, Webb and Dadabhai Naoroji co-signed a letter with others to request support for a new association: ‘The Society for the Furtherance of Human Brotherhood’. See also
Notes1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.congresssandesh.com/AICC/history/presidents/alfred_webb.htm|title=Alfred Webb President - Madras, 1894|work=Past Presidents of Indian National Congress|publisher=Indian National Congress|accessdate=5 April 2010}} 2. ^Broderick, Marian. Wild Irish Women Extraordinary Lives from History. New York: O'Brien, 2002. {{ISBN|0-86278-703-3}} (p.169) 3. ^1 {{cite book| title=Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb|first=Jennifer |last=Regan-Lefebvre|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2009}} 4. ^Dr Caroline Bressey, Anti-Caste: Britain’s First Anti-racist Journal, synopsis on ESRC website {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312040416/http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Plain_English_Summaries/social_stability_exclusion/social_exclusion/index589.aspx?ComponentId=13749&SourcePageId=11719 |date=2007-03-12 }} (RES-000-22-0522). Retrieved 26 July 2006. References
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| title = Member of Parliament for West Waterford | years = 1890 – 1895 | before = Douglas Pyne | after = James John O'Shee }}{{s-end}}{{Indian National Congress Presidents | state=collapsed}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Webb}} 11 : 1834 births|1908 deaths|Irish Quakers|Protestant Irish nationalists|Irish Parliamentary Party MPs|Anti-Parnellite MPs|Presidents of the Indian National Congress|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Waterford constituencies (1801–1922)|UK MPs 1886–92|UK MPs 1892–95|Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography |
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