Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns

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Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, was a prominent 19th-century British Conservative politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom.

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Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns canonical 2
1st Earl Cairns 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
Conservative Party politician
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
barrister
human
peer
countryOfCitizenship Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
createdPeerageTitle Earl Cairns
dateOfBirth 1819-12-27
dateOfDeath 1885-04-02
educatedAt Belfast Royal Academy
surface form: Belfast Academy

King's Inns
Middle Temple
Trinity College Dublin
familyName Cairns
fieldOfWork law
politics
givenName Hugh
honorificPrefix The Right Honourable
memberOf House of Commons of the United Kingdom
House of Lords
memberOfPoliticalParty Conservative Party (UK)
monarchDuringTerm Queen Victoria
nobleRank Earl
nobleTitle Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns self-linksurface differs
surface form: 1st Earl Cairns
notableWork Judicature Act reforms (influence)
numberOfChildren 7
occupation judge
lawyer
politician
peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
placeOfBirth Belfast
County Antrim
Island of Ireland
surface form: Ireland
placeOfDeath England
Hampshire
Lyndhurst
positionHeld Attorney General for England and Wales
Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
surface form: Lord Chancellor of Great Britain

Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
Lord Justice of Appeal
Member of Parliament
Solicitor General for England and Wales
religion Anglicanism
sexOrGender male
spouse Mary Harriet McNeill

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1st Earl of Selborne precededByInOffice Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
subject surface form: Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
1st Earl of Selborne succeededByInOffice Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
subject surface form: Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns nobleTitle Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 1st Earl Cairns