Career
Educated at Lausanne and Paris, he trained as a mining engineer and became a director of several South Wales collieries. He was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1921 and a Justice of the Peace in three counties. During World War I, he raised and commanded the 13th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and the 14th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.
He also commanded the 23rd (Works) Battalion, the King"s Regiment (Liverpool) and the Western Command Labour Centre.
On 28 January 1916 he was made a baronet, of Llwynarthen, Monmouth. On his death the baronetcy became extinct.
Basil Webb had been the model for the famous Welsh sculptor Sir William Goscombe John Research Associate when he produced the bronze sculpture, "The Boy Scout" in 1910. At the age of 12, Basil also composed the Refectory Prayer for Chester Cathedral, which remains in use today.