Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), British barrister, politician and Judge
Lord Alverstone died at Cranleigh, Surrey, in December 1915, aged 72 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery under a Celtic cross.
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When Richard Webster became Chief Justice of England in 1900, he chose the title Lord Alverstone because it was the title he was permitted to choose which was "closest" to Sandown, one of his favourite locales.
Richard Webster writes that the book is a "valuable resource, full of meticulous readings and close study of the development of Freud's ideas", and contains much important material absent from earlier works such as Frank Sulloway's Freud, Biologist of the Mind.
In 1910 in a legal test case ('Betts -v- Stevens') involving an AA patrolman and a potentially speeding motorist, the Chief Justice, Lord Alverston, ruled that where a patrolman signals to a speeding driver to slow down and thereby avoid a speed-trap, then that person would have committed the offence of 'obstructing an officer in the course of his duty' under the Prevention of Crimes Amendment Act 1885.