Earl of Halsbury, in the County of Devon, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1898 for the lawyer and Conservative

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 politician Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury

Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury

Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury PC, QC was a leading barrister, politician and government minister. He served thrice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...

. He was Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1886, 1886 to 1892 and 1895 to 1905. Giffard had already been created Baron Halsbury, of Halsbury in the County of Devon, in 1885, and was made Viscount Tiverton, of Tiverton in the County of Devon, at the same time he was given the earldom. Those titles were also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Halsbury's grandson, the third Earl (who succeeded his father), was a scientist and the first Chancellor of Brunel University

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. The fourth Earl did not use his title and did not use the courtesy title

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 of Viscount Tiverton which he was entitled to from 1943 to 2000. All the titles became extinct on his death in 2010.

Stanley Lees Giffard

Stanley Lees Giffard

Stanley Lees Giffard was founder and first editor of a London newspaper, The Standard.Stanley Lees Giffard was brought up in Ireland, the son of John Giffard and Sarah Morton of Dromartin Castle...

, father of the first Earl, was the first editor of the Standard

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newspaper.

The title of the earldom was pronounced "Hauls-bry".

Earls of Halsbury (1898-2010)

• Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
  Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
  Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury PC, QC was a leading barrister, politician and government minister. He served thrice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...
  
   (1823–1921)
• Hardinge Goulburn Giffard, 2nd Earl of Halsbury (1880–1943)
• John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury
  John Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury
  John Anthony Hardinge Giffard 3rd Earl of Halsbury FRS, British peer and scientist, succeeded to the title in 1943. He was Managing Director of the National Research Development Corporation 1949–1959, after having been Director of Research of Decca Record Company 1947–1949, and previously worked...
  
  (1908–2000)
• Adam Edward Giffard, 4th Earl of Halsbury (1934–2010)