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  2. Earl of Halsbury - Wikipedia

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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 ...

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

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    In 1898 he was created Earl of Halsbury and Viscount Tiverton, of Tiverton, Devon. Halsbury was an opponent of the British trade union movement and used his position to appoint anti-union justices in the judicial system , leading to decisions such as Taff Vale Rly Co v Amalgamated Society of Rly Servants and Quinn v Leathem which restricted the ...

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

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    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]

  5. Halsbury - Wikipedia

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    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.

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

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    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.

  7. Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell - Wikipedia

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    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)

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

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    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.