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Halsbury's grandson, the third Earl (who succeeded his father), was a scientist and the first Chancellor of Brunel University, the coat of arms of which to this day includes an element, an ermine lozenge, alluding to the role of the Earl in its founding as a university. [7] [8]
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 .
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.
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]
Robert Fiennes-Clinton, 19th Earl of Lincoln England William Howson (brother) 7 The Earl of Suffolk: 1603 Alexander Howard, 22nd Earl of Suffolk: England Earl of Berkshire (England 1626) Arthur Howard, Viscount Andover: 8 The Earl of Denbigh: 1622 Alexander Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh: England Earl of Desmond (Ireland 1628) Peregrine ...
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.
In Anglo-Saxon England, the Earl of York or Ealdorman of York was the ruler of the southern half of Northumbria.The titles ealdorman and earl both come from Old English. The ealdormanry (earldom) seems to have been created in 966 following a period when the region was under the control of Oswulf, already high-reeve of Bamburgh in northern Northumbria, from about 954, when Norse rule at York ...
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 ...