Webb, John (1611–1672)

English architect, born in London. He became a pupil of Inigo Jones in 1628, and had a substantial but uncertain share in designing a new royal palace at Whitehall around 1634. He also assisted Jones at Wilton House, Wiltshire. After Jones's death in 1652 he was busily employed as an architect on his own account. Among his surviving buildings are Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire (1654–7); and the ‘King Charles II Block’ at Greenwich Palace (later Greenwich Hospital; 1662–9).