enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Earl of Halsbury - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Halsbury

    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 ...

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardinge_Giffard,_1st_Earl...

    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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halsbury

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earls_in_the...

    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 ...

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Giffard,_3rd_Earl_of...

    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. Earl of York - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_York

    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 ...

  8. List of earldoms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earldoms

    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.

  9. John Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/?title=John_Giffard,_3rd_Earl...

    Tony Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.