Thomas Lonsdale Webster

{{Short description|British civil servant}}

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| office = Clerk of the House of Commons

| term_start = 1921

| term_end = 1930

| predecessor = Courtenay Ilbert

| successor = Horace Dawkins

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Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster {{post-nominals|KCB}} (1868–1930) was a British civil servant who served as a clerk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Webster entered public service as a clerk in the General Post Office in 1887.{{London Gazette|issue=25697|date=3 May 1887|page=2458 |supp= }}

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1912 Birthday Honours.{{Edinburgh Gazette|issue=12469|date=18 June 1912|page=628 |supp= }} Webster served as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1921 until his death in 1930. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1922 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=32716|date=3 June 1922|page=4322 |supp=y }}

He was the father of the classicist T. B. L. Webster.

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