Entries for the tag ‘Webster, Richard Everard (1842–1915)’
1st Viscount Alverstone, barrister, politician and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices
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- 15 May 1890: A Liverpudlian company – now ruined – finds on appeal that the consent of its Halifax lender isn’t needed to sue the Sowerby Bridge flour coop for patent piracy
- 14 December 1892: Experts tell the High Court that electromagnetic interference from Leeds’s 1891 overhead electric tramway to Roundhay – the nation’s first – has brought down the local telephone service
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