Hubert Webb (neurovirologist)
English cricketer, professor, and neurovirologist (1927-2010)
Hubert Eustace "Hughie" Webb (30 May 1927 — 8 November 2010) was a pioneering and internationally renowned professor of neurovirology at St Thomas's Hospital in London. During his youth, he was an outstanding sportsman who played cricket at first-class level for both Oxford University and Hampshire.
Early life and varsity cricket
The son of Indian Army Political Service official Wilfred Webb and Kathleen du Boulay, he was born in British India at Tonk in May 1927. He was educated in England at Winchester College, where he excelled at sport. During the summer term of his final year at Winchester, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery came to visit his son, David, where he was impressed by Webb's captaincy of the college cricket team in their match against Eton College. As a result, he was invited by Montgomery to accompany his son on a visit to his headquarters in the British occupation zone in Germany, as well as meeting Vasily Chuikov, the Soviet general who captured the Führerbunker. From Winchester, he matriculated to study medicine at New College, Oxford. His medical training was undertaken at St Thomas' Hospital, having gained a scholarship there in 1948.
At Oxford, Webb again excelled in sport and won blues in four sports: golf, cricket, squash and rackets. In cricket, he made his debut in first-class for Oxford University Cricket Club against Lancashire at Oxford in 1946; however, he had little success that season and was dropped after three games, and did not play any first-class cricket in 1947.
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