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LORD CHANCELLOR HALSBURY.

THE LORD CHANCE! .LOR OF ENGLAND. TTARDINGE STANLEY GTFFARD, ■* Baron Halsbury, the present Lord Chancellor of England, is the third son of the late Stanley Lees Giffard, LL.D., — for more than a quarter of a century the editor of the "Standard " newspaper, — and was born in 1825. "Early Struggles," " Silk," " Office," "Knighthood," and " The Woolsack," — these are the necessary chapters in the biography

of a Lord Chancellor; and the external facts in Lord Halsbury's career range themselves under the usual headings naturally and ap propriately. He was admitted as a student of the Inner Temple in 1847, was called to the bar in 1850, assumed the silk robes of a Queen's Counsel in 1865, was raised to the Solicitor-Generalship and received the honor of knighthood in 1875, and just ten years later became Lord Chancellor. After

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