Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury PC, QC (3 September 1823-11 December 1921) was a leading barrister, politician and government minister. He served thrice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
Born in London, Halsbury was the third son of Stanley Lees Giffard, editor of the Standard newspaper, by his wife Susanna, daughter of Francis Moran. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 185...
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Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury PC, QC (3 September 1823-11 December 1921) was a leading barrister, politician and government minister. He served thrice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
Born in London, Halsbury was the third son of Stanley Lees Giffard, editor of the Standard newspaper, by his wife Susanna, daughter of Francis Moran. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1850.
Halsbury joined the North Wales and Chester circuit. Afterwards he had a large practice at the central criminal court and the Middlesex sessions, and he was for several years junior prosecuting counsel to the Treasury. He was engaged in most of the celebrated trials of his time, including the Overend and Gurney and the Tichborne cases. He became Queen's Counsel in 1865, and a bencher of the Inner Temple.
Giffard twice contested Cardiff in the Conservative interest, in 1868 and 1874, but he was still without a seat in the House of Commons...
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