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Hardinge Giffard was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1885 to 1886, 1886 to 1892 and 1895 to 1905, and had already been created Baron Halsbury, of Halsbury in the County of Devon, on 26 June 1885, [3] and was made Viscount Tiverton, of nearby Tiverton, at the same time he was given the earldom. Those titles were also in the Peerage of ...
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, PC (3 September 1823 – 11 December 1921) was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He served three times as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain , for a total of seventeen years, a record not equaled by anyone except Lords Hardwicke and Eldon .
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]
1st Baron Halsbury: 3 August 1886 11 August 1892 Conservative: Salisbury II — Farrer Herschell 1st Baron Herschell: 18 August 1892 21 June 1895 Liberal: Gladstone IV — Rosebery: Hardinge Giffard 1st Baron Halsbury: 29 June 1895 4 December 1905 Conservative: Salisbury (III & IV) (Con.–Lib.U.) Earl of Halsbury in 1898 Edward VII (1901 ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2010) Peerages and baronetcies of Britain and Ireland Extant All Dukes Dukedoms Marquesses Marquessates Earls Earldoms Viscounts Viscountcies Barons Baronies En, Sc, GB, Ir, UK (Law, Life: 1958–1979, 1979–1997, 1997–2010, 2010–2024, 2024–present) Baronets Baronetcies This page, one list of hereditary baronies ...
This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.It does not include extant earldoms which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with marquessates or dukedoms and are today only seen as subsidiary titles.
Earl of Selborne Viscount Wolmer: 30 December 1882 The 1st Baron Selborne: Extant: During Chancellorship [31] Baron Halsbury: 26 June 1885 Sir Hardinge Giffard: Extinct 31 December 2010 [32] Baron Herschell: 8 February 1886 Sir Farrer Herschell: Extinct 26 October 2008 [33] Earl of Halsbury Viscount Tiverton 19 January 1898 The 1st Baron ...