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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 ...
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 ...
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 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.
The senior line of the Denzell family became extinct in the male line on the death of John Denzel (d.1535), serjeant-at-law and Attorney-General to the Queen Consort, Elizabeth of York. He held large estates in Cornwall and left two daughters as his co-heiresses, Ann who married Sir William Holles (1509–91), later Lord Mayor of London , and ...
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 ...
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)
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