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Richard Everard Webster, British barrister, politician and judge. Webster (1842-1915) became a QC in 1878. In 1890 he was lead counsel for The Times in the Parnell inquiry. He served as a Conservative MP for Launceston (1885) and the Isle of Wight (1885-1890) and was Attorney General in Conservative administrations between 1885 and 1900. He was raised to the peerage in 1900 and appointed Master of the Rolls before being elevated to Lord Chief Justice of England later the same year, a post he held until 1913. From The Life and Times of The Right Honourable The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., published by J. S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., 1896.