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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.
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 ...
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]
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.
Andrew Cole, 7th Earl of Enniskillen Ireland Berkeley Cole (first cousin) 108 The Earl Erne: 1789 John Crichton, 7th Earl Erne Ireland Charles Crichton (second cousin once removed) 109 The Earl of Lucan: 1795 George Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan: Ireland Charles Bingham, Lord Bingham: 110 The Earl Belmore: 1797 John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore ...
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. A modest number of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages.Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, on the abolition of which by the Union effective in 1801 by an Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as ...
Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry; Richard White, 2nd Earl of Bantry; William Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of Bantry; Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont; Charles Kirkhoven, 1st Earl of Bellomont; George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere; Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere; Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington; William Stewart, 1st Earl of ...