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{{Short description|English cricketer, professor, and neurovirologist (1927–2010)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Hubert Webb
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Hubert Eustace Webb
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|5|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Tonk, India|Tonk]], Rajasthan, India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|11|8|1927|5|30|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = [[Leg break]]
| family = [[Moray Macpherson]] (Nephew), [[Arthur du Boulay]] (Uncle)
| club1 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]
| year1 = 1954
| clubnumber1 =
| club2 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]]
| year2 = 1946–1948
| clubnumber2 =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches1 = 15
| runs1 = 461
| bat avg1 = 20.95
| 100s/50s1 = 1/3
| top score1 = 145[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 24
| wickets1 = 1
| bowl avg1 = 15.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 1/10
| catches/stumpings1 = 7/–
| date = 1 February
| year = 2010
| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22351.html Cricinfo
}}
'''Hubert Eustace "Hughie" Webb''' (30 May 1927 – 8 November 2010) was a pioneering professor of [[neurovirology]] at [[St Thomas's Hospital]] in London who was an outstanding sportsman in his student days.<ref name="biog">{{cite web|url = http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6465 |title = Lives of the Fellows: Hubert Eustace Webb | publisher = Royal College of Physicians | accessdate = 2 May 2013}}</ref>

==Sporting career==
Webb was born in India, the son of Indian Army Political Service official Wilfred Webb and Kathleen du Boulay.<ref name="biog"/> He was sent to school at [[Winchester College]] where he was an outstanding sports player: his [[Royal College of Physicians]] biography states that [[Bernard Montgomery|Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery]] was so impressed by Webb's captaincy in the Winchester–[[Eton College|Eton]] match of 1945 that he took him with a friend to Germany for two weeks. Webb went to [[New College, Oxford]] on a scholarship and then trained in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital in London.

At [[Oxford University]], Webb won [[Blue (university sport)|Blues]] in four sports: golf, cricket, [[squash (sport)|squash]] and [[rackets (sport)|rackets]]. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed [[Batsman (cricket)|batsman]] who bowled occasional [[leg break]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6918/6918.html |title = Player Profile: Hubert Webb | publisher = cricketarchive| accessdate = 3 May 2013}}</ref>

Webb made his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut for [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] against [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] in the 1946 season, but had little success that season and was dropped after three games; he did not play any first-class cricket in 1947.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6918/First-Class_Matches.html |title = First-Class Matches Played by Hubert Webb | publisher = cricketarchive| accessdate = 3 May 2013}}</ref> He returned to the Oxford team in 1948 making 36 and 59 in his first match and scoring usefully if unspectacularly in county matches, with a batting average of just 18 before the [[University Match (cricket)|University Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18420.html |title = Scorecard: Oxford University v Yorkshire | date = 8 May 1948 | publisher = cricketarchive| accessdate = 3 May 2013}}</ref> In the University Match against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]], however, Webb's batting was sensational: he made an unbeaten 145 in 170 minutes, including an eighth wicket partnership of 112 in 50 minutes in which, ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]'' wrote, "Webb was supreme".<ref>{{Cite book | title = [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]] | edition = 1949 | publisher = [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]] | chapter = Other Matches at Lord's | page = 273}}</ref> Oxford, having been beaten by an innings by Cambridge in each of the previous two seasons, won the match themselves by an innings, their first innings victory in the series since 1923.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/18/18561.html |title = Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University | date = 3 July 1948 | publisher = cricketarchive| accessdate = 3 May 2013}}</ref>

With medical studies then taking up his life, that innings was almost the end of Webb in first-class cricket: he reappeared in non-first-class matches for [[British Army cricket team|The Army]] in 1954 and also played one further first-class match that year, representing [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] against Oxford University.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21091.html |title = Scorecard: Oxford University v Hampshire | date = 2 June 1954 | publisher = cricketarchive| accessdate = 3 May 2013}}</ref>

==Medical career==
Webb qualified as a physician at St Thomas's Hospital in 1951 and was appointed as a house surgeon. He took a short-service commission in the British Army as his [[National Service]] and was posted to Singapore where he worked in the British Military Hospital.<ref name="biog"/> After his discharge from the army, he stayed in [[Peninsular Malaysia|Malaya]] and then moved to work at [[Pune|Poona]] in India where he made a study of the [[Kyasanur Forest disease]] which affected both monkeys and humans; this led to the first in a long series of learned papers in medical journals and a lifelong career in neurovirology.<ref name="biog"/> In 1964 he was appointed as a neurology consultant at St Thomas's Hospital, and he was later promoted to professor of neurovirology, remaining there for the rest of his career.<ref name="biog"/> He died on 8 November 2010.

==Family==
Webb married Monica Macpherson in 1950; they had a son and a daughter.<ref name="biog"/> His nephew [[Moray Macpherson]] and his uncle, [[Arthur du Boulay]] both played first-class cricket.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22351.html Hubert Webb] at [[Cricinfo]]
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6918/6918.html Hubert Webb] at CricketArchive
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6918/statistics_lists.html Matches and detailed statistics for Hubert Webb]

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