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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Sir Peter Webster
| office              = [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|Justice of the High Court]]
| education           = 
| birth_name          = Peter Edlin Webster
| birth_place         = [[Walsall]], [[Staffordshire]], [[England]]
| term_start          = 1980
| term_end            = 1992
}}

'''Sir Peter Edlin Webster''' (16 February 1924 – 10 April 2009) was a British [[barrister]] and [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|High Court judge]].<ref>{{Who's Who|title=Webster, Sir Peter (Edlin)|id=39195|type=was}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph">{{Cite web |date=2009-05-06 |title=Sir Peter Webster |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/5286771/Sir-Peter-Webster.html |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-04-22 |title=Sir Peter Webster: barrister and judge |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-peter-webster-barrister-and-judge-h6cdmnljvxm |access-date=2024-04-22 |language=en |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

Born in [[Walsall]], he attended Oakley Hall in Cirencester, and then the [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College]]. In 1943, at the height of [[World War II]], he joined the [[Fleet Air Arm]], and became a pilot, "flying Corsairs from aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean".<ref name="Telegraph"/>

After the war, he entered [[Merton College, Oxford]], in 1946, where he studied law. After a stint working for the [[Imperial Tobacco Company]], he returned to Oxford to teach law.<ref name="Telegraph"/>

Webster was appointed to the bench in 1980, and chaired the Judicial Studies Board from 1980 to 1983. He retired from the bench in 1992, thereafter becoming a mediator.<ref name="Telegraph"/>

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