WEBB, PHILIP SPEAKMAN (183 1-1915) , British archi tect, was born at Oxford on Jan. 12, 1831. He was educated at Aynho, Northants, and after being articled to a Reading firm, entered the office of G. E. Street, Oxford, where he met William Morris. In 1856 he set up for himself in London, and after the establishment of the firm founded by Morris (Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co.), produced for them many designs for the most varied purposes, house decoration, tiles, jewellery, furniture, etc.
Webb designed many fine houses, and one church, at Bramp ton, Cumberland (1875). His first house was built for William
Morris (Red House, Upton, 1859). He also made additions to old houses, for example Berkeley Castle and Pusey House, Berk shire. Webb was the inventor of a method by which old build ings were strengthened by filling the interior of the walls with new material. This procedure was often used by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, which Webb and Morris jointly organized and founded in 1877. He died at Worth, Sussex, on April 17, 1915.