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Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Hugh Cairns was the second son, and was educated at Belfast Academy and at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a senior moderatorship in classics in 1838. |
 | | In 1858 Cairns was appointed Solicitor-General, and was knighted, and in May of that year made two of his most brilliant and best-remembered speeches in the House of Commons. |
 | | Cairns was a great lawyer, with an immense grasp of first principles and the power to express them; his judgments taking the form of luminous expositions or treatises upon the law governing the case before him, rather than of controversial discussions of the arguments adduced by counsel or of analysis of his own reasons. |
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