The Earldom of Halsbury was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1898. The subsidiary titles of the Earldom are Viscount Tiverton (created 1898) and Baron Halsbury (1885). Both of the subsidiary titles are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ...
The family seat is New Mills House, near Barnstaple, Devon. Location within the British Isles. ... The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...
The heir presumptive to the earldom is the earl's third cousin twice removed, a resident of Canada. 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (3 September 1825 - 1921) was a leading barrister, politician and government minister, serving as Solicitor General and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. ... 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... John Anthony Hardinge Giffard (1908-2000) was the third Earl of Halsbury, succeeding to the title in 1943. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Hardinge Giffard was the son of Stanley Lees Giffard, LL.D., and was born in London.
In 1898 he was created Earl of Halsbury and Viscount Tiverton, of Tiverton in the County of Devon.
During the crisis over the Parliament Act of 1911, Halsbury was one of the principal leaders of the rebel faction of Tory peers that resolved on all out opposition to the government's bill.