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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.
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 .
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]
Robert Fiennes-Clinton, 19th Earl of Lincoln England William Howson (brother) 7 The Earl of Suffolk: 1603 Alexander Howard, 22nd Earl of Suffolk: England Earl of Berkshire (England 1626) Arthur Howard, Viscount Andover: 8 The Earl of Denbigh: 1622 Alexander Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh: England Earl of Desmond (Ireland 1628) Peregrine ...
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 ...
Halsbury's Laws of England is an encyclopaedia of the law in England and Wales. [1] It has an alphabetised title scheme for the areas of law, drawing on authorities including Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom, Measures of the Welsh Assembly, UK case law and European law. It is written by or in consultation with experts in the relevant ...
1st Baron Halsbury: 3 August 1886 11 August 1892 Conservative: Salisbury II — Farrer Herschell 1st Baron Herschell: 18 August 1892 21 June 1895 Liberal: Gladstone IV — Rosebery: Hardinge Giffard 1st Baron Halsbury: 29 June 1895 4 December 1905 Conservative: Salisbury (III & IV) (Con.–Lib.U.) Earl of Halsbury in 1898 Edward VII (1901 ...