Baron Birkenhead

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Baron Birkenhead is a British peerage title most famously associated with F. E. Smith, a prominent early 20th-century Conservative politician and Lord Chancellor.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf hereditary title
associatedCentury 20th century
associatedWithChamber House of Lords NERFINISHED
associatedWithChancellorshipReforms F. E. Smith NERFINISHED
associatedWithGovernmentBranch executive branch
judicial branch
associatedWithHistoricalEra interwar period
associatedWithHistoricalEvent post-World War I British politics
associatedWithLegalProfession bar
barristers
associatedWithLegalSystem English law
United Kingdom law
associatedWithPoliticalIdeology British conservatism
associatedWithRegion England NERFINISHED
Great Britain NERFINISHED
country United Kingdom
createdFor F. E. Smith NERFINISHED
creationMonarch George V NERFINISHED
hasGenderRestriction male-preference (historical norm)
hasNobilityType peerage title
hasNotableHolderOccupation judge
lawyer
politician
hasNotableHolderPoliticalParty Conservative Party (UK) NERFINISHED
hasStyle The Right Honourable
hasTitleHolder F. E. Smith NERFINISHED
Frederick Smith, 1st Baron Birkenhead NERFINISHED
honourType noble title
jurisdiction United Kingdom Parliament NERFINISHED
languageOfTitle English
legalTraditionContext common law
mostFamouslyHeldBy F. E. Smith NERFINISHED
namedAfter Birkenhead NERFINISHED
namedAfterLocatedIn England NERFINISHED
Merseyside NERFINISHED
namedAfterType place
nobleRank Baron
notableOfficeHeldByTitleHolder Attorney General for England and Wales NERFINISHED
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain NERFINISHED
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain NERFINISHED
Secretary of State for India NERFINISHED
peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
politicalAssociation Conservative Party (UK) NERFINISHED
seatChamberType upper house
status extant (as a title in the peerage system)
successionType hereditary succession

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Frederick Edwin Smith honorificTitle Baron Birkenhead
Lord Birkenhead title Baron Birkenhead