Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
Politician
1819 – 1885
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Who was Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns?
Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns PC, QC was a British statesman who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom during the first two ministries of Benjamin Disraeli. He was one of the most prominent Conservative statesmen in the House of Lords during this period of Victorian politics. He served as the seventeenth Chancellor of the University of Dublin between 1867 and 1885.
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- Born
- Dec 27, 1819
Cultra - Spouses
- Religion
- Baptists
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Belfast Royal Academy
- Lived in
- County Down
- Died
- Apr 2, 1885
Bournemouth
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on July 23, 2013
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