2-709-281 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sir Richard Everard Webster', c1895, (c1907). Portrait of Richard Everard Webster QC, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842-1915), British barrister, politician and judge. In 1890 Webster 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 "Our Conservative and Unionist Statesmen", Volume II. [Newman, Graham & Co, London, c1907]