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.
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