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WEBSTER, ALEXANDER (1707-1784)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 459 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WEBSTER, ALEXANDER (1707-1784) , Scottish writer and minister, son of James
Webster
 , a covenanting minister, was born in Edinburgh in 1707. Having become a minister in the
church
  of
Scotland
 , he propounded a
scheme
  in 1742 for providing pensions for the widows of ministers. The tables which he drew up from information obtained from all the presbyteries of
Scotland
  were based on a
system
  of actuarial calculation that supplied a precedent followed by insurance companies in modern times for reckoning averages of longevity. In 1755 the government commissioned
Webster
  to obtain data for the first
census
  of Scotland, which he carried out in the same year. In 1753 he was elected
moderator
  of the General Assembly; in 1771 he was appointed a dean of the Chapel Royal and chaplain to George III. in Scotland; and he died on the 25th of 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 defence of the Methodist
movement
  in 1742, and Zeal for the Civil and Religious Interests of Mankind Commended (1754).


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