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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.
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]
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England; Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1520–c.1590) – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century; George Gower (1540–1596) – English portrait painter
This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.It does not include extant earldoms which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with marquessates or dukedoms and are today only seen as subsidiary titles.
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 ...
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury; Tony Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury; K. David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir; L. Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom;
List of artists from the Isle of Man; S. List of St Ives artists; V. List of Vanity Fair artists This page was last edited on 18 April 2023, at 13:50 (UTC). Text is ...