Jonas Webb
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Jonas Webb
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Jonas Webb was an English farmer and stock breeder who was responsible for developing the Southdown breed of sheep into its modern form. Webb was born in Great Thurlow in Suffolk but began farming in Babraham, Cambridgeshire in 1822. He acquired a flock of the then rare Southdowns from John Ellman of Glynde, Sussex and bred them to produce a strain of larger size, earlier maturity and improved fleece quality. By the 1830s, he had become the leading breeder of Southdowns and in the 1840s and 1850
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