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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.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
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]
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk also known as Elizabeth Plantagenet (22 April 1444 – c. 1503) was the sixth child and third daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (a great-grandson of King Edward III) and Cecily Neville. [1] She was thus a sister of kings Edward IV and Richard III. [1]
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 ...
Before 1190 – Aaron of York, financier and chief rabbi of England (died after 1253) 1556 – Margaret Clitherow , Catholic saint (martyred 1586) 1564 – 20 March: Thomas Morton , bishop of Durham (died 1659)