Alverstone, Richard Everard Webster (1842–1915)

British politician and lawyer. He became attorney general in the Conservative government 1885 and represented Britain in international arbitration cases. He became Lord Chief Justice in 1900, and was made viscount in 1913.

He led as counsel for The Times against the Irish party before the Parnell Commission 1889; he was British representative in the Bering Sea arbitration 1893; and leading counsel in the Venezuela arbitration 1899. In May 1900 he became master of the Rolls and was raised to the peerage, and in 1903 he was one of the three arbitrators on the Alaska Boundary question.