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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. The title was created on 19 January 1898 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury , [ 2 ] and son of Stanley Lees Giffard , the first editor of the Evening ...
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]
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 ...
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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.
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