Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, was a British barrister, politician and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices.
Portrait of Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone
Webster in the 1890s
Alverstone caricatured by WH for Vanity Fair, 1913
Alaska boundary dispute
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The Alaska boundary dispute was a territorial dispute between the United States and the British Empire over the Canada–United States border regarding Alaska between the 1890s and 1900s. As Canada was
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone
…late 1902 he was in South Africa as part of a commission looking into the use of martial law sentences during the Second Boer War. In 1903 during the Alaska boundary dispute he was one of the members of the Boundary Commission. Against the wishes of the Canadians it was his swing vote that settled the matter, roughly splitting…
Varying claims in Southeast Alaska during the dispute