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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 775 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALVERSTONE, See also:RICHARD EVERARD See also:WEBSTER, 1ST See also:BARON (1842— ) , See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice of See also:England, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:December 1842, being the second son of See also:Thomas Webster, Q.C. He was educated at See also:King's See also:College and See also:Charter-See also:house See also:schools, and Trinity College, See also:Cambridge; was called to the See also:bar in 1868, and became Q.C. only ten' years afterwards. His practice was chiefly in commercial, railway and patent cases until (See also:June 1885) he was appointed See also:attorney-See also:general in the Conservative See also:Government in the exceptional circumstances of never having been See also:solicitor-general, and not at the See also:time occupying a seat in See also:parliament. He was elected for See also:Launceston in the following See also:month, and in See also:November exchanged this seatfor the Isle of See also:Wight, which he continued to represent until his See also:elevation to the House of Lords. Except under the brief Glad-See also:stone See also:administration of 1886, and the See also:Gladstone-See also:Rosebery See also:cabinet of 1892—1895, See also:Sir Richard Webster was attorney-general from 1885 to 1900. In 1890 he was leading counsel for The Times in the See also:Parnell inquiry; in 1893 he represented See also:Great See also:Britain ip the See also:Bering See also:Sea See also:arbitration; in 1898 he discharged the same See also:function in the See also:matter of the boundary between See also:British See also:Guiana and See also:Venezuela; and in 1903 was one of the members of the See also:Alaska Boundary See also:Commission. He was well known as an See also:athlete in his earlier years, having represented his university as a runner, and his See also:interest in See also:cricket and See also:foot-racirg was kept up in later See also:life. In the House of See also:Commons, and outside it, he was throughout his See also:political career prominently associated with See also:church See also:work; and his speeches were distinguished for gravity and earnestness. In 1900 he succeeded Sir Nathaniel See also:Lindley as See also:Master of the Rolls, being raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Alverstone; and in See also:October of the same See also:year he was elevated to the See also:office of lord chief justice upon the See also:death of Lord See also:Russell of Killowen.

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