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See also:WEBSTER, See also:ALEXANDER (1707-1784) , Scottish writer and See also:minister, son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Webster, a covenanting minister, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh in 1707. Having become a minister in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Scotland, he propounded a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme in 1742 for providing See also:pensions for the widows of ministers. The tables which he See also:drew up from See also:information obtained from all the presbyteries of Scotland were based on a See also:system of actuarial calculation that supplied a precedent followed by See also:insurance companies in See also:modern times for reckoning averages of See also:longevity. In 1755 the See also:government commissioned Webster to obtain data for the first See also:census of Scotland, which he carried out in the same See also:year. In 1753 he was elected See also:moderator of the See also:General See also:Assembly; in 1771 he was appointed a See also:dean of the See also:Chapel Royal and See also:chaplain to See also:George III. in Scotland; and he died on the 25th of See also:January 1784.
Webster published in 1748 his Calculations, setting forth the principles on which his scheme for widows' pensions was based; he also wrote a See also:defence of the Methodist See also:movement in 1742, and Zeal for the See also:Civil and Religious Interests of Mankind Commended (1754).
End of Article: WEBSTER, ALEXANDER (1707-1784)
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