OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15464, 17 December 1915, Page 5

OBITUARY.

9 LORD ALTEKSTOXE." (By Cable—Frc«« Association.— CopjiifM^ LONDON", lfecvmber 15. * The dcatn is announced or Lord , Alvcrstono, formerly J>ord Chief Justice or Jir.^land.

Richard Everard "Webster, Lord"v Alverstone, was born on i»4i'. ana received his education *; at King's College < and Uuarterhouse 1 Schools, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where ho gained a Foundation 5 Scholarship and graduated in both the '4 Mathematical and Classical Tripos. He % was a fino athlete, being one of the best t | middle-distance runners in England. He I was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn «' in 18(53, and joined tho South-Ea&tcra", (thou home) circuit. He was afterwards "' appointed to the ancient but honorary r pfßces of Tubman and Postman in the - Court of Exchequer at Westminster. * Ho was made Queen's Counsel in 1878. Ho had been extensively engaged i Q t, most or the heavy commercial and rail-A" way cases of the day, and besides ha>->£«* iug a large general practice, he had"-?]] appeared in numerous appeal cages mlgj the House of Lords. He contested ||| Bcwdley at tho election of 1880, but-W without succets. Ju June, 1885, he Wilis' appointed Attornej'-General in the firrt?P& Government of Lord SaHsbury^noi ing up to that date been in Parliament., 3jM He held the same office frem'lßSV tftgH 1892, and was reappointed in From July to November. 1885, ho presented Lnunceston in the Houso °'s!§M Commons, and at the general clectiott^M

of 18&5 he successfully stood for tJie;s| Isle of "Wight, and in 1886 he j again returned, and represented ! constituency till IGOO. Wifoen Attornej-';|| General in the Salisbury Government,- 1 ! he appeared on behalf of ''Tho Times'' ■% before the Painell Commission. In 1893-1 he was one of the British represent** tires in the Behrin-; Sea arbitration •£ ease. He was appointed Ma§tcr of tho ' 5 Rolls in 1000. and in the same year ',<£ became Lord Chief JufHcc of England ■% in succession to Lord Russell of KH-?'~< lowen. which nosition he occupied till* £ ho retired in 1913. \% MR MARK JUDSON*. t A well-known resident of Woodend, ■* Mr. Mark Judson. died yesterday at the .> nursing home, Kaiapoi, in his SOthA vear. He was a native of Trenthani/Jlv Lincoln, England, and arrived by the*j/-" shio Maori (Cantain Peterbridge), in%.': July. 1858. Shortly after ; > Canterbury he took up his residence at' V Woodend, and was amon e: tho early' f; * sawyers in the bush near that township. *3bi and contracted for tho formation of ••] carts of the main road. Afterward* he took up farming. He leaves sons and about twelve grandchildren.'-,va His wife predeceased him about threa "$9 years ago. • Y*i