Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone

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Richard Webster (before 1895)

Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone GCMG QC (born December 22, 1842 in London , † December 15, 1915 in Cranleigh ) was a British lawyer and politician .

Life

Webster was the second son of Thomas Webster. He attended King's College School , Charterhouse School and Trinity College (Cambridge) .

In his early years he was known as an excellent athlete. He later retained an interest in cricket and running sports. From 1895 until his death he was President of the Surrey County Cricket Club and in 1903 of the Marylebone Cricket Club .

After Webster had become a barrister in 1868 , he became Crown Attorney 10 years later . In June 1885 he was appointed Attorney General . A month later he was elected to the House of Commons . In the following years he repeatedly represented British interests in arbitration commissions that arbitrated international border conflicts. He retained the office of Attorney General until 1900.

In 1900 he succeeded Sir Nathaniel Lindley as Master of the Rolls . On June 18, 1900 he was raised to the hereditary nobility with the title Baron Alverstone , of Alverstone in the County of Southampton . In October of the same year he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of England . He succeeded the late Lord Russell of Killowen . Webster retired in 1913 and was given the title Viscount Alverstone , of Alverstone in the County of Southampton on November 24, 1913 .

He died in Cranleigh , Surrey and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery . With his death, his titles of nobility expired because he had no male descendants.

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Webster, Richard Everard . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 6 : Square – Zupitza . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1954, pp. 391 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Webster, Richard, 1st Viscount Alverstone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Webster, Richard Everard, 1st Baron Alverstone; Webster, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English lawyer, politician, member of the House of Commons and judge
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1915
Place of death Cranleigh , Surrey