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11 unusual facts about lord chancellor


Baron Westbury

It was created in 1861 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Richard Bethell on his appointment as Lord Chancellor, a post he held until 1865.

Earl of Eldon

It was created in 1821 for the lawyer and politician John Scott, 1st Baron Scott, Lord Chancellor from 1801 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1827.

Eldon Range

It is claimed that Henry Hellyer named the present day Mount Farrell near Tullah with this same name in 1828 after Lord Eldon Lord Chancellor of England, however Charles Gould in 1869 gives this name to the range.

Henry Sutton Dudley

He is not to be confused with the youngest of Northumberland's sons, also named Henry Dudley, who married Margaret, the daughter of Lord Chancellor Thomas Audley.

Laying Down the Law

The poodle has been variously identified as representing Lord Brougham, who had been Lord Chancellor from 1830 to 1834, or Lord Lyndhurst, who had held the post three times (1827–1830, 1834–1835, and 1841–1846).

Lord Speaker election, 2006

The first election for Lord Speaker was held on 28 June 2006 and announced on 6 July 2006, after the House of Lords had determined the name, powers and responsibilities of the office following removal of the speakership from Lord Chancellor by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.

Nando's Coffee House

It was a favourite haunt of Edward Thurlow, who became Lord Chancellor, and was satirised as being enamoured of the attractive landlady's daughter.

Public Record Office

The 1958 act transferred responsibility for the PRO from the Master of the Rolls to the Lord Chancellor; and the title of the chief executive was changed to Keeper of Public Records.

Viscount Buckmaster

It was created in 1933 for the lawyer and Liberal politician and former Lord Chancellor, Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Baron Buckmaster.

Viscount Caldecote

It was created in 1939 for the lawyer and politician Sir Thomas Inskip so that he could sit in the House of Lords and serve as Lord Chancellor.

Viscount Dilhorne

It was created in 1964 for the lawyer, Conservative politician and former Lord Chancellor, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Baron Dilhorne.


11 King's Bench Walk Chambers

The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair was a junior tenant on its foundation in 1981 and appointed its founder, Derry Irvine, Lord Chancellor when Labour came to power in 1997.

Ancient Order of Froth Blowers

Nevertheless, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, described it as "a great charitable organisation", and when Fripp died in 1930 his Times obituary said of the Froth Blowers, "These, by their innocent mirth, assisted by a catchy tune, have contributed largely to charities, and have entertained and brightened the lives of innumerable children".

Baron St Leonards

It was created in 1852 for Sir Edward Sugden, Lord Chancellor in Lord Derby's 1852 administration.

Bedford Square

Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the square has had many distinguished residents, including Lord Eldon, one of Britain's longest serving and most celebrated Lord Chancellors, who lived in the largest house in the square for many years.

Benson Commission

In other ways, however, the report was revolutionary – it recommended a Council of Legal Services to advise the Lord Chancellor (something eventually realised in the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct), a movement of advice services such as the Citizens Advice Bureau into the legal fold, and a single unified body to regulate barristers, rather than a fragmentation between the Bar Council and Inns of Court.

Census in the United Kingdom

Public access to individual census returns in England and Wales is normally restricted under the terms of the 100-year rule (Lord Chancellor's Instrument no.12, issued in 1966 under S.5 (1) of the Public Records Act 1958); until recently, returns made available to researchers were those of the 1901 Census.

Chambers Harrap

The work was lauded by the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Jowitt, as "outstanding proof" of British scholarship, while the Managing Editor, Mrs M.D. Law, commented that she believed the work to be the first major encyclopaedia to be published in Britain since before the First World War.

Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, gave the toast and described the endeavor as "outstanding proof" of British scholarship, while Mrs Law commented that she believed the work to be the first major encyclopaedia to be published in Britain since before the First World War.

Chislehurst

Charles Pratt (1714–1794), Baron Camden from 1765 and 1st Earl Camden from 1786, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor, lived at Camden Place from c.1760.

Clayhall

In the middle of the 17th century, Sir Christopher Hatton, cousin of the Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton, lived at the Manor House, but by the middle of the next century the estate was let to tenant farmers.

Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

Daniel Finch was the son of Heneage Finch (later the first earl of Nottingham and Lord Chancellor of England) and Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of Daniel Harvey.

Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards

In Lord Derby's first government in 1852 be became Lord Chancellor (of Great Britain) and was raised to the peerage as Baron St Leonards, of Slaugham in the County of Sussex.

Elizabeth Hatton

In the early 1590s Elizabeth married firstly, Sir William Newport alias Hatton (1560-1597), the son of John Newport (d.1566) of Hunningham, Warwickshire, and his wife, Dorothy Hatton (d.1566x70), the sister of Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton.

Florence Maybrick

After a public outcry, Henry Matthews, the Home Secretary, and Lord Chancellor Halsbury concluded 'that the evidence clearly establishes that Mrs Maybrick administered poison to her husband with intent to murder; but that there is ground for reasonable doubt whether the arsenic so administered was in fact the cause of his death'.

Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton

From 1998 to 2007, he was Expert and then Special Adviser to the Lord Chancellor, first Lord Irvine of Lairg and then Lord Falconer of Thoroton.

Kiyan Prince

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, in response to the killing, has said that he will discuss with the Home Secretary and the Lord Chancellor about assigning maximum imprisonment sentences for those who carry knives.

Lewis Richard Farnell

In 1893, Farnell married Sylvia (born 1872), youngest daughter of Captain Christopher Baldock Cardew of East Liss, Hampshire, and granddaughter of the Lord Chancellor Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury.

Lord Keeper Act 1562

It made the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal "entitled to like place, pre-eminence, jurisdiction, execution of laws, and all other customs, commodities, and advantages as the Lord Chancellor."

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Sir John Fortescue, was a great medieval jurist and Lord Chancellor of Henry VI of England; Sir William Yelverton was an earlier Lord Chief Justice of England; Sir Roger Manwood was an Elizabethan Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer; and his nephew, John Manwood, Sir Nicholas's great great great grandfather, was the author of 'the Forest Laws'.

Philip Havers

Havers comes from a leading legal family - his grandfather Sir Cecil Havers was a High Court judge, his father Michael Havers, Baron Havers, became Attorney General and then Lord Chancellor.

Radlett murder

Hunt was tried as an accessory to murder; his counsel was Frederic Thesiger, a future lord chancellor (head of the English judiciary).

Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury

On 26 June 1861, on the death of Lord Campbell, he was appointed Lord Chancellor and raised to the peerage as Baron Westbury, of Westbury, in the County of Wiltshire.

Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury

However Salisbury turned to the cause of Richard, Duke of York, who made him Lord Chancellor in 1455.

Rocking Chair Ranche

After Archibald's death in 1900, Elizabeth married Archibald's cousin Douglas Hogg who later became First Viscount Hailsham and Lord Chancellor.

Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet

The current Keeper of the Signet is Lord Mackay of Clashfern, former Lord Advocate of Scotland and Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.

St Mary's Church, Acton Burnell

The church was built between about 1275 and 1280 for Robert Burnell, who became Lord Chancellor of England, and then Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton

Upon the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, he asked Lord Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor, to appoint a commission of inquiry into the disaster.

Thames Ditton Island

Boyle Farm was in the 19th century the property of The First Lord St Leonards (1781—1875), a jurist (legal researcher and publisher), barrister, and Lord Chancellor.

The Bondman

Massinger dedicated the play to Philip Herbert, then the Earl of Montgomery and later Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chancellor.

Theatre Royal, Lincoln

On 18 March 2011, Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke visited the theatre as part of the campaign in the May 2011 referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) system in UK parliamentary elections.

Thomas Chase

Thomas Chase (died 1449) was a 15th-century judge and cleric who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford in England and subsequently held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Weston Coyney

One of the family, Sir Thomas Parker, became Lord Macclesfield and was Lord Chancellor between 1718–1725 before being convicted of corruption.

Wool bale

The existence of bales in ancient times is attested by the custom of the English Lord Chancellor to sit on the so-called Woolsack from which he presides over the House of Lords.