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HALSBURY, HARDINGE STANLEY GIFFARD, 1ST EARL OF (1825 ) , English lord chancellor, son of Stanley Lees Giffard, LL.D., was born in London on the 3rd of September 1825. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 185o, joining 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. Mr Giffard twice contested Cardiff in the Conservative interest
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tenure of the office, broken only by the brief Liberal ministries of 1886 and 18921895, being longer than that of any lord chancellor since Lord Eldon. In 1898 he was created earl
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