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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.
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.
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 .
This is a list of Irish theatres and theatre companies past and present. It includes organizations of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
When Ali Came to Ireland: Ross Whitaker: Muhammad Ali, Alvin Lewis, Cathal O'Shannon: Documentary: Describes Muhammad Ali's first visit to Ireland in July 1972, and his fight there against Al Lewis. Eliot & Me: Fintan Connolly: Ella Connolly, Renée Weldon, David Wilmot and Gerard Mannix Flynn: Family: King of the Travellers: Mark O'Conner
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.
This is a list of films set in Ireland, meaning the films in this list depict their characters as being located in Ireland. While the majority of the films listed are Irish films, others are not, such as Hungry Hill (1947) (British), The Black Sheep (1960) (German), The Craic (1999) (Australian), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) (United ...
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 ...