Honours Include
- Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George
- Awarded the Order of Merit by King George V.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Five honorary degrees including an LLD from Mount Allison University.
- Mount Webster in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, was named for him
- Governor of Dalhousie University (1934).
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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