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  2. Earl of Halsbury - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Halsbury - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Weare Giffard - Wikipedia

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    Weare Giffard Church and Weare Giffard Hall, viewed from the southwest across the River Torridge on the Tarka Trail.The main modern settlement is situated to the right, some 1/2-mile upstream along the Torridge valley Weare Giffard Hall, manor house of Weare Giffard, North Devon.

  6. Tony Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of earldoms - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of earls in the peerages of Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh: England Earl of Desmond (Ireland 1628) Peregrine Feilding, Viscount Feilding: 9 The Earl of Westmorland: 1624 Anthony Fane, 16th Earl of Westmorland: England Sam Fane (nephew) 10 The Earl of Lindsey: 1626 Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey: England Earl of Abingdon (England 1682) Henry Bertie, Lord ...

  9. List of English Heritage properties - Wikipedia

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    One of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, built by Earl Odda, and rediscovered in 1865 subsumed into a farmhouse. Offa's Dyke: Defensive earthwork: 8th century Remains A three-mile section of the great earthwork boundary dyke built along the Anglo-Welsh border by Offa, King of Mercia.