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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 .
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]
Halsbury Barton in the parish of Parkham, North Devon Setting of Halsbury Road entrance to Halsbury. Halsbury (pron. "Haulsbury" [1]) is a historic manor in the parish of Parkham in North Devon, England. It is situated 2 miles north-east of the village of Parkham and 4 miles south-west of the town of Bideford.
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.
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (1823–1921), English barrister and politician; Henri Giffard, (1825–1882), French engineer and inventor; Henry Giffard (1694–1772), English actor and theatre manager; Henry Wells Giffard (1811–1854), Royal Navy officer, Captain of HMS Tiger (1849) Hugh de Giffard (died 1267), Norman-Scottish feudal ...
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In the House of Lords, he and Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury led the "Die-Hards" or Ditchers in opposition to the Parliament Act 1911. [2] In 1921, Verney sold the family seat, Compton Verney House, to Joseph Watson (d. 1922), a soap manufacturer from Leeds, who was elevated to the peerage in 1922 as 1st Baron Manton of Compton Verney.