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Halsbury is a historic manor in the parish of Parkham, near Bideford, Devon, long the seat of the Giffard family and sold by them in the 18th. century. The title was created on 19 January 1898 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury , [ 2 ] and son of Stanley Lees Giffard , the first editor of the Evening ...
Image of Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury from Halsbury's Laws of England, 1st ed, Vol 1. In 1885, Giffard was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain [ 2 ] in Lord Salisbury 's first administration, and was created Baron Halsbury , of Halsbury in the County of Devon, thus forming a remarkable exception to the rule that no ...
Halsbury was long a seat of the ancient Giffard family, a distant descendant of which was the celebrated lawyer Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (1823–1921), who adopted the name Halsbury for his earldom and was the author of the essential legal reference books Halsbury's Statutes.
John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury FRS (4 June 1908 – 14 January 2000), was a British crossbencher peer and scientist, succeeding to his title in 1943. [1]
Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey: England Earl of Abingdon (England 1682) Henry Bertie, Lord Norreys: 11 The Earl of Winchilsea: 1628 Daniel Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea: England Earl of Nottingham (England 1681) Tobias Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone: 12 The Earl of Sandwich: 1660 John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich: England Luke ...
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
The senior line of the Denzell family became extinct in the male line on the death of John Denzel (d.1535), serjeant-at-law and Attorney-General to the Queen Consort, Elizabeth of York. He held large estates in Cornwall and left two daughters as his co-heiresses, Ann who married Sir William Holles (1509–91), later Lord Mayor of London , and ...
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (1823–1921), English barrister and politician; Henri Giffard, (1825–1882), French engineer and inventor; Henry Giffard (1694–1772), English actor and theatre manager; Henry Wells Giffard (1811–1854), Royal Navy officer, Captain of HMS Tiger (1849) Hugh de Giffard (died 1267), Norman-Scottish feudal ...