Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (22 December 1842 to 15 December 1915) was a British lawyer and politician who served three terms as Attorney General for England and Wales between 1885 and 1900, sat as a Member of Parliament for Launceston and then the Isle of Wight, and rose to Master of the Rolls in 1900 before serving as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1900 to 1913. Called to the bar in 1868 and made a Queen's Counsel within ten years, he represented British interests in major international arbitrations including the Bering Sea dispute of 1893 and the Alaska boundary dispute of 1903, a case in which his swing vote made him deeply unpopular in Canada, and as Lord Chief Justice he presided over the trial of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. An accomplished athlete in his youth who represented Cambridge in steeplechase, he served as president of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1895 until his death and published Recollections of Bar and Bench in 1914. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Why did Lord Alverstone become unpopular in Canada?
His swing vote on the 1903 Alaska boundary commission went against Canadian wishes.
In 1903 Richard Webster, then Lord Alverstone, was one of the members of the Boundary Commission in the Alaska boundary dispute. Against the wishes of the Canadians, it was his swing vote that settled the matter, roughly splitting the disputed territory. As a result he became extremely unpopular in Canada.
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Vanity Fair caricature 1913 Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, (22 December 1842 - 15 December 1915) was a British barrister, politician and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices.
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Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (22 December 1842 to 15 December 1915) was a British lawyer and politician who served three terms as Attorney General for England and Wales between 1885 and 1900, sat as a Member of Parliament for Launceston and then the Isle of Wight, and rose to Master of the Rolls in 1900 before serving as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1900 to 1913.
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was a British barrister
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Wikidata Q334251, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1842
Wikidata Q334251, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1842-12-22
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P570 (date of death): 1915
Wikidata Q334251, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1915-12-15
Wikidata Q334251, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): London
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P20 (place of death): Surrey
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