New Britain herald., 1915-12-15
VISCOUNT ALYERSTONE
 0F ENGLAND DEAD
His Vote Gave U. s. Practi. cal Victory in Alaskan
 Boundary Dispute.

London, Dec. IS, 1:19 D. m.-vis-
 count Alverstone, former lord chief
 justice of England, is dead.
 Viscount Alverstone, for nearly thirteen years lord chief justice of
 England, was one of the most popular,
 human and many sided men in British public life. While on circuit at New castle in February, 1912, Lord Aver stone was seized with a serious heart attack, and his continued ill health led to his resignation.
 Tall, athletically modelled .-s and vigorous. he was splendid specimen of the old school of English gentlemen. At Cambridge, where the finishing touches were put to his education, he was noted as a distance runner, being in fact ''the best of his year. His interest in sports he carried into the world and won many trophies on the cinder track. Until his seventieth year he was an enthusiastic rider and a good hand at golf, and in the earlier days of the big ring contests was a frequent visitor to the National Sporting club.
 He came into prominence before the American public as the represen- tative of England on the Alaskan Boundary commission. His vote in support of the chief claims of the United States gave America the prac- tical victory Many Canadians pro- fessed to believe, and with bitterness asserted, that the American govern ment went into the arbitration only after it had reached an understanding that the American case should win, and that A1verstone was put forward to carry out the diplomatic bargain.
 No confirmation of that theory has ever appeared but Lord Alverstone was for months bitterly attacked by Canadians, particularly in the west,
 where it was thought that England,
 as in the case of the Oregon boundary case years before, was giving up what
 she thought useless territory, but
 which Canadians knew to be rich,
 simply to placate America. Previous to the Alaskan commission! Lord Alverstone, then Richard Evereard
 Webster, rendered good service to his government as one of the British counsel before the Venezuelan Boun- diary commission, which met in Paris as a result of President Cleveland's famous war message.
 These were the pleasanter incidents of his professional career. He had had one case at least that was far from
 pleasant. When attorney general in the conservative administration at the time, he appeared as leading counsel for the Times before the Parnell com
 mission, and it fell to his lot to pick
 up the pieces after the breakdown of Pigott The storm settled fiercely about the head of the counsel for the Times for weeks and for once Aver stones remarkable physique showed signs of wear and tear.
 Lord Alverstone, however, had done good work for his party and his country, was considered one of the
 leading lawyers of his time, and had a keen sympathy, acute knowledge of men and great insight into affairs, and a wide knowledge of his profession, all obtained by hard work. He was born on December 22, 1S42. His l father was Thomas Webster, Q. C., 1 we'll known at Westminster, where he had a large practice, especially in patent cases.
 Lord Alverstone was widower. His wife died in 1875, and his only son in 1910, after an operation for appendicitis. There is no heir to the | title