Gelasius Leo Webster

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## Office/Position

**Member of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace from the House of Lords constituency of Sheffield*** January 1, 1910 - September 25, 2005 (his death)
* **Predecessor** Patrick Morrison
* **Successor** Charles Leo Webster

## Biographical Details

### Born

January 18, 1880Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

### Died

September 25, 2005 (aged 125)Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

### Chawoparty

* Social Democratic Labour Party (1977-his death)
* Chawallian Communist Party (1950-1977)
* Coalition Party (1946-1950)
* U.K. Liberal Party (before 1946)

### Ethnicity

British (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh), and Swedish

### Parents

* Phineas Valarius Webster
* Victoria MacKenzie Webster

### Children

* Jonathan Leolin Webster
* Grace Eva Webster
* Thomas Leo Webster †
* Joseph Patrick Webster
* Charles Leo Webster
* Gloria Ann Webster

### Other relatives

* Webster family
	+ Eugene MacKenzie Webster (brother)
	+ Sakarias Lucas Webster (adopted brother)
	+ Theresa Elizabeth Webster (sister)
	+ Ronald MacKenzie Webster (brother)
	+ Olympia Valeria Webster (sister)
	+ Galusha Lucius Webster (paternal grandfather)
	+ Nicola Mary Potter (paternal grandmother)
	+ George Lucas Webster (paternal uncle)
	+ Elisabeth D'Alesandro (paternal aunt by marriage)
	+ Garfield Lucas Webster (paternal first cousin)
	+ Garfield Lucas Webster II (paternal first cousin once removed)
	+ Eleanora McClellan Webster (paternal first cousin once removed by marriage)
	+ Sydney Lucas Webster (paternal first cousin twice removed)
* MacKenzie family (maternal family)
* Van Belleghem family (other relatives)
* Bismarck family (in-laws)
* Berks family (in-laws)

## Physical Details

### Eye Color

Sky blue

**Gelasius Leo Webster** (January 18, 1880 - September 25, 2005), also known as **Gelasius Sheffield** or **Sheffield Webster** and simply known as **Gelasius Webster** or **Gelasius**, was a British socialite who served as a Chawosaurian member of parliament from 1910 to his death in 2005. A member of the Webster family, Gelasius Leo Webster was the paternal first cousin of Chawosaurian Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, paternal grandson of Galusha Lucius Webster and Nicola Mary Potter, the brother of fellow MP Ronald MacKenzie Webster and Minister of Education Olympia Valeria Webster. Gelasius Webster is widely known for his advocacy of progressivism and social democracy, much like his cousin Garfield. Gelasius was a strong advocate for civil rights of all Chawosaurians, including Chawosaurian Jews.

Gelasius was born in Victorian Britain in 1880 to Phineas and Victoria Webster as their youngest son, he was raised into an affectionate and loving family. Gelasius graduated from Oxford in 1901, and he married an American woman, Joyce Ann Berks, a member of the Berks family, in 1905. Between 1910 to 1921, Gelasius and Joyce had five surviving children, one died in infancy, totaling six children. He was elected to the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace in the first elected in the 1909 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and would serve in parliament for 16 terms, one of the longest tenures of service of any member of parliament in Chawosaurian history.

As a member of parliament, Gelasius staunchly supported Garfield Webster's prime ministership with the exception of its policy on civil rights, and criticized successive Prime Ministers Theodore McClellan and Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X as being too soft on Chawosauria's elites. During the conservative prime ministership of Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, Gelasius opposed the rule of the Bismarck family as a typical Webster, and made numerous threats to Bismarck's prime ministership by threatening to run against him in prime ministerial elections, which often scared the Bismarck administration due to their desire to hold on to power and their fear of the increasing influence of the Websters since Garfield Webster's prime ministership. During the world wars, Gelasius promoted anti-German sentiment and propaganda. During the Cold War, Gelasius was overly-sympathetic to communism, though he refused to call himself such, but he gained popularity amongst the increasingly left-wing Chawosaurian public, but suffered from political rifts between him and the anti-communist minority in parliament and he often voted with the Chawallian Communist Party on most issues over his own anti-communist side of the political aisle. Gelasius opposed the Wars in Korea and Vietnam, he supported the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, the women's rights movement, and the LGBT rights movement. Gelasius has repeatedly proposed and attempted to impeach Bismarck.

In his later life in parliament, Gelasius led the charge in Chawosauria in condemning the worldwide shift to neoliberal economics, he opposed U.S. President Bill Clinton, and the USSR's collapse. Gelasius died on September 25, 2005, at age 125, just near the average Chawosaurian lifespan. Gelasius was laid to rest in the Chawopolis Palace alongside his sister Olympia Valeria Webster and brother Ronald MacKenzie Webster, whom both died earlier.

Gelasius Webster has been widely seen in a positive light and he contributes to the popularity of the Webster family, Chawosaurians rank Gelasius as someone who should have become an imperial leader much like his cousin was.

## Early Life, Marriage, and Family

> *Main articles: Webster family, MacKenzie family, Phineas Valarius Webster, Victoria MacKenzie Webster, Olympia Valeria Webster*
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### Childhood

Gelasius Leo Webster was delivered at Shrewsbury Hospital on January 18, 1880, in the Yorkshire steel town of Sheffield, to Phineas Valarius Webster and Victoria Lynn MacKenzie Webster, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, during the later reign of Queen Victoria, Phineas had to be present so the nurses will know that Victoria is married. The Websters owned a ranch in the Yorkshire Dales, they also owned a beach house in Whitby, Gelasius had an exciting and happy childhood in Yorkshire, where he and his siblings enjoyed playing in the fields. Gelasius was British (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish) and Swedish. Though Gelasius was baptized into the Church of England, he had never been interested in religion. Gelasius was three years old when his paternal grandfather Galusha Lucius Webster passed away in 1883, which was how Gelasius first learned about death and that itself had been a traumatizing but sad childhood memory.

The values Gelasius chose to uphold is bravery and courage, sparking a rather close bond with his mother. In his time in Chapeltown, Gelasius was homeschooled but also educated by religious circles, but his rejection of religion would cause conflicts, his mother accepted his choices while his father did not. Gelasius grew an interest in politics, starting in the 1892 general election, his father favored the Conservative Party, his mother held liberal views but never been associated with a party. Gelasius fell under the influence of his mother's progressive viewpoints. Gelasius has been to London a few times, where he was once able to meet Queen Victoria, that being from an 1887 visit to London. Gelasius' father enjoyed minstrelsy, and he would travel to the United States to watch some. Gelasius enjoyed being the youngest son due to the amount of attention he would receive, but his elder half-brother Charlus assaulted him for taking too much of their father's time.

Halloween and St. Patrick's Day were Gelasius' favorite holidays due to them being parts of his partial Celtic heritage. Gelasius, as he got older, turns out to be a good looking young man, giving him the ability to attract women. Gelasius has three scars on his right face due to being accidentally hit in the face by a three-prong rake, he startled his mother who was raking the family garden and she swung the rake at his right face, and she felt extremely awful as Gelasius lies on the ground in pain and bleeding. Victoria, scared and confused, frantically rushes to patch Gelasius up and the family nurse was called to care for him. Victoria felt remorseful for months. Victoria made it up to Gelasius by offering that he comes with her and Olympia to Whitby to see the beach, Olympia was excited to have her favorite brother with them and Gelasius had long wanted to visit the Yorkshire Coast.

### Marriage and Family

Gelasius, in a trip to the United States, met Joyce Ann Berks (1881-1985), a member of the Berks family and the first cousin of Joseph Wallace Berks. Gelasius and his father Phineas were meeting with Garfield Lucas Webster, in 1903 in Saranac Lake at a dinner reception, Joseph Berks brought his cousin Joyce and brother-in-law Thomas Mifflin Burton. After the dinner, Gelasius made his move towards Joyce, asking her out and she agreed. They spend the night together all over Saranac Lake, and upon going to Joyce's home, they had a liaison. Gelasius and Joyce dated since then.

After two years of dating, Gelasius proposed to Joyce, in which she accepted his proposal. After planning, Gelasius and Joyce wedded in Sheffield, England, on September 20, 1905, which was Joyce's first time in Britain. Now husband and wife, whose marriage was officiated by Garfield Lucas Webster, who once had his own liaisons with Joyce a while back, Gelasius and Joyce Webster settled in Sheffield. In the spring of 1909, Joyce announced to the Webster family that she was expecting, Gelasius was excited but nervous to be a father of his own, and he asked his mother for parental advice, which she was happy to give as well as offering to babysit. Gelasius and Joyce's first born child was born on January 31, 1910, it was a boy and Joyce named him herself, Jonathan Leolin Webster, whom they basically call Jonny for short. It is oblivious where the surname Webster is from, but the middle name "Leolin" was given by Joyce to the baby as an honor to her maternal grandfather Leolin Iolo Owsley VII, who remained living until his death in 1945, and the name Jonathan, Joyce never herself explained why, but it is theorized that it is originated from Joyce's favorite Bible story Jonathan, other speculate that it is influenced by the name's immense popularity in Chawosauria.

In 1913, Gelasius and Joyce welcomed their first daughter, Grace Eva Webster, who was named in response to her birth, which Joyce said after being handed the baby Grace by a nurse that the newborn baby girl was "full of grace", resulting in her first name, Grace's middle name Eva was her maternal grandmother's name, Juliet Eva Owsley Berks, Joyce granted Grace her middle name to honor her mother, and Grace's surname was because she was born into the Webster family.

In 1915, Gelasius and Joyce had their second son and third child overall, given the name Thomas after American inventor Thomas Edison, and received his father's middle name and surname. Sadly for Gelasius and Joyce, Thomas was born gravely sick and he died shortly after Christmas when he was only three months old, giving Gelasius and Joyce paralyzed with immense grief and stricken with psychological pain for the rest of their lives.

On August 29, 1917, Gelasius and Joyce's grief was somewhat shattered by the birth of another child, Joseph Patrick Webster, named in honor of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who would become the U.S. Ambassador to Britain under the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Joyce met Kennedy on few but rare occasions and found interest in the Kennedy family.

On January 20, 1920, Gelasius and Joyce had their youngest son, Charles Leo Webster.

### Attitudes on Jews

Gelasius shared the Webster family's antisemitism, but he often refused to support antisemitic policies. Gelasius rejected and opposed Zionism and criticized Theodor Herzl as a separatist, Gelasius wrote works accusing Zionists of promoting racial and religious segregation and compared the movement to the Back to Africa movement, in which he also criticized.

## Member of Parliament

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