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HALSBURY, See also:HARDINGE See also:STANLEY See also:GIFFARD, 1ST See also:EARL OF (1825– ) , See also:English See also:lord See also:chancellor, son of Stanley Lees Giffard, LL.D., was See also:born in See also:London on the 3rd of See also:September 1825. He was educated at Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, and was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple in 185o, joining the See also:North See also:Wales and See also:Chester See also:circuit. Afterwards he had a large practice at the central criminal See also:court and the See also:Middlesex sessions, and he was for several years junior prosecuting counsel to the See also:treasury. He was engaged in most of the celebrated trials of his See also:time, including the Overend and See also:Gurney and the Tichborne cases. He became See also:queen's counsel in 1865, and a bencher of the Inner Temple. Mr Giffard twice contested See also:Cardiff in the Conservative See also:interest, in 1868 and 1874, but he was still without a seat in the See also:House of See also:Commons when he was appointed See also:solicitor-See also:general by Disraeli in 1875 and received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood. In 1877 he succeeded in obtaining a seat, when he was returned for See also:Launceston, which See also:borough he continued to represent until his See also:elevation to the See also:peerage in 1885. He was then created See also:Baron Halsbury and appointed lord chancellor, thus forming a remark-able exception to the See also:rule that no criminal lawyer ever reaches the See also:woolsack.. Lord Halsbury resumed the position in 1886 and held it until 1892 and again from 1895 to 1905, his See also:tenure of the See also:office, broken only by the brief Liberal ministries of 1886 and 1892–1895, being longer than that of any lord chancellor since Lord See also:Eldon. In 1898 he was created earl of Halsbury and See also:Viscount See also:Tiverton. Among Conservative lord chancellors Lord Halsbury must always hold a high See also:place, his grasp of legal principles and mastery in applying them being pre-eminent among the See also:judges of his See also:day.

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