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Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury. Earl of Halsbury, in the County of Devon, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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.
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]
The Lord Halsbury: Succeeded by: The Lord Halsbury: Solicitor General for England; In office 3 May 1880 – 9 June 1885: Prime Minister: William Ewart Gladstone: Preceded by: Hardinge Giffard (later Lord Halsbury) Succeeded by: Sir John Eldon Gorst: Personal details; Born 2 November 1837 Brampton, Hampshire, England: Died: 1 March 1899 (aged 61)
3 September – Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, lawyer, Lord Chancellor (died 1921) 26 October – Sir Frederick Peel, politician (died 1906) 24 December – William Brighty Rands, writer, author of nursery rhymes (died 1882) 28 December – Augusta Theodosia Drane, religious writer and Catholic prioress (died 1894)
Dublin Science and Art Museum Act 1877 [9] c. ccxxxiv; Metropolitan Street Improvement Act 1877 [9] c. ccxxxv; Limerick Gas Act 1877 [9] c. ccxxxvi; Galway and Salthill Tramways Act 1877 [9] c. ccxxxvii; Cambrian Railways Act 1877 [9] c. ccxxxviii; London, Essex, and Kent Coast Junction Railway (Abandonment) Act 1877 [9] c. ccxxxix
Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), (pron. "Jiffard") of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England, was a Royalist leader during the Civil War. Giffard commanded the Devon Pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne [ 1 ] in 1643, in which his 3rd cousin [ 2 ] the Royalist commander of the Cornish forces Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643 ...