The title Earl Loreburn was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1911 for Robert Reid, 1st Baron Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor. The title became extinct upon his death in 1923. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn (3 April 1846–30 November 1923) was a Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor and in former times Chancellor of England, is one of the most senior and important functionaries in the government of the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Lord Loreburn held the subsidiary title Baron Loreburn, of Dumfries in the County of Dumfries (1906). Jump to: navigation, search 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
"ROBERT THRESHIE REID LOREBURN, 1ST Earl (1846), British lawyer and politician, was born at Corfu April 3 1846, and was educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, winning the Ireland scholarship in 1868.
On the formation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Government in 1905, Sir Robert Reid became Lord Chancellor, and was raised to the peerage as BaronLoreburn.
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