Donnachie, Ian
(2004). Alexander Webster.
In: Rutherford, Donald; Backhouse, Roger; Brewer, Anthony; Capie, Forrest; Clarkson, Leslie; Eltis, Walter; Gilbert, Geoffrey; Groenewegen, Peter; Harcourt, G. C.; Littlechild, Stephen; Lloyd, T. H.; Maas, Harro; Thompson, Noel and Waterman, A. M. C. eds.
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, Volume 2.
Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 1265–1266.
Webster (1707-84) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, clergyman, royal chaplain, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, demographer, managing the first informal census of Scotland, 1755.