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  Lord Chancellor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lord Chancellor is the Speaker (presiding officer) of the House of Lords.
The Lord Chancellor is also involved in the annual ceremony known as the State Opening of Parliament, during which the Sovereign delivers the Speech from the Throne (also known as the King's or Queen's Speech), outlining the agenda of the Government for the upcoming parliamentary session.
The Lord Chancellor is entitled to an annual emolument of £207,736 and to an annual pension of £103,868.
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 LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR - LoveToKnow Article on LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The lord chancellor is in official rank the highest civil subject in the land outside the royal family, and takes precedence immediately after the archbishop of Canterbury.
In defence, however, of the ministerial connection of the chancellor, it has been said that, while the other judges should be permanent, the head of the law should stand or fall with the ministry, as the best means of securing his effective responsibility to parliament for the proper use of his extensive powers.
Under the Judicature Act 1873 the lord chancellor is a member of the court of appeal, and, when he sits, its president, and he is also a judge of the High Court of Justice.
84.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LORD_HIGH_CHANCELLOR.htm   (703 words)

  
 LORD CHANCELLOR FACTS AND INFORMATION
Custody of the Great_Seal_of_the_Realm is entrusted to the Lord Chancellor.
Under the Regency_Act_1937, the Lord Chancellor is one of the five persons who participate in determining the capacity of the Sovereign to discharge his or her royal duties—the other individuals so empowered are the Sovereign's spouse, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales and the Master_of_the_Rolls.
The position of the Lord Chancellor was also undermined by public outcries against the Lord Chancellor's judicial responsibilities, particularly when the previous Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, refused to rule out sitting judicially (and, in fact, he did sit as a member of the Judicial_Committee_of_the_House_of_Lords).
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 Adam Loftus (Archbishop)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1533- April 5, 1605) was Archbishop of Armagh and Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581.
In 1565 Queen Elizabeth I of England, to supplement the meagre income derivable from the archbishopric in a politically unstable country, appointed Loftus temporarily to the deanery of St Patrick's; and in the same year he became president of the new commission for ecclesiastical causes.
Loftus, who took an important part in the administration of Ireland under successive lords deputy, and whose zeal and efficiency were commended by James I on his accession, died in Dublin.
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 Lord Chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Lord Chancellor's responsibilities are wide-ranging: they include presiding over the House of Lords; participating in the Cabinet of the United KingdomCabinet; acting as the custodian of the Great Seal of the RealmGreat Seal; and heading the judiciary.
Formerly, the Lord Chancellor was almost always an clergyecclesiastic, as during the Middle Ages the clergy were amongst the few literate men of the realm.
The Lord Chancellor is the Speaker (politics)Speaker (presiding officer) of the House of Lords.
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 Chancellors during the Wars of the Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, descended paternally from Edward of Langley, youngest son of King Edward II.
The Duke and his son, the Lord Chancellor, attracted to their side the powerful nobles of the Geraldine party, which, as I have already observed, caused the Ormond party, their hereditary opponents, to side with the opponents of the White Rose.
At her instigation, Worcester was sent to supplant Desmond as Deputy for Ireland; and by assembling the Parliament at Drogheda, remote from the province of Munster, the portion of Ireland in which Desmond's power and influence lay, caused him to be attainted and executed.
www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/chancellors/Chancellors8.htm   (4027 words)

  
 FRANCIS BLACKBURNE - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCIS BLACKBURNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(178 21867), lord chancellor of Ireland, was born at Great Footstown, Co. Meath, Ireland, on the 11th of November 1782.
In 1842 he became master of the rolls in Ireland, in 1846 chief-justice of the queens bench, and in 1852 (and again in 1866) lord chancellor of Ireland.
In 1856 he was made a lord justice of appeal in Ireland.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BL/BLACKBURNE_FRANCIS.htm   (170 words)

  
 Berkshire History: Biographies: Sir Constantine Phipps (1656-1723)
He acted as counsel for Lord Preston in 1691, and was associated with Sir Francis Pemberton in conducting the defence of Sir John Fenwick (1645-1697) in 1696.
A month later, he arrived in Dublin and, on 22nd January 1711, was sworn one of the lords justices of the kingdom in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Ormonde.
His friends in the House of Lords and in convocation, however, rallied to his support and, before long, a counter address was on its way to the Queen, eulogising him as a discerning and vigilant officer, a true lover of the church and a zealous assertor of the prerogative.
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 MS. Carte Calendar 42
Petition of Thomas Bickerton to the Earl of Ossory, Lord Deputy of Ireland.
Fiant, by the Duke of Ormond, as Lord of the Regalities of the County of Tipperary, for the pardon of Christopher Perkins, of Ardmaile, in that county
Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon, to be a Privy-Councillor in Ireland.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/projects/carte/carte42.html   (7895 words)

  
 New Catholic Dictionary: chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the recent German Empire, the chancellor was president of the federal council and so, under the emperor, was charged with the direction of imperial affairs.
In England, the lord high chancellor is the keeper of the state seal; as the highest law officer he is the speaker of the House of Lords, a member of the cabinet, and appoints all the judges and justices of the peace, and, among other duties, supervises the interests of minors and lunatics.
Catholics are excluded from the office of lord chancellor in England, on the grounds that this dignitary is the patron of many Church of England livings, but, however, it may be held by Jews and freethinkers.
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 de_ros.htm
He and Coningsby, as Lords Justices, had been charged with misconduct in the government of Ireland, and attempts were made by their enemies to prevent their getting a pardon.
Lord Henry Fitzgerald and his elder brother, Charles, who died in 1810, were endowed by their elder brother, William, 2nd Duke of Leinster, with the northern part of the family estates, mainly consisting of the barony of Lecale, Co. Down.
Charlotte Fitzgerald and John Henry, Duke of Rutland, to be presented to the House of Lords, 1804; and the King's patent, 30 July 1806, terminating the abeyance of the barony by declaring Lady Henry Fitzgerald, Baroness Roos.
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 Lord Lifford
It would be hard that the poor classes should suffer and those who trade on their follies go free...Suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, and deal with the source, and not the stream, from which flow poverty, lawlessness, and crime.
He was one of the most eminent and respected barristers to live and work in Ireland during the heyday of the English landlord system.
He is buried in the lee of the beautiful little St Anne's Church of Ireland, Crossroads, Killygordon.
finnvalley.ie /history/lordlifford   (1002 words)

  
 :::: Clan Cleary - Cusack Pedigree ::::
In 1361 he was knighted along with Lord Gormanstown, in the field, by Lionel, Duke of Clarence and Earl of Ulster, who was the King's son and governor of Ireland, during an Autumn campaign against the O Byrnes.
Ringerstown, Belpere and Ditherick.a knight by 1347 and was seneschal to Roger Mortimer, lord of Trim, in 1348-49, and was summoned to parliament in Dublin in 1359.
He was Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer in 1533 and Second Justice of the Common Bench in 1544 but the next year resigned the position and became an M.P. He drafted the legislation to establish the King's supremacy in the church and to dissolve the monasteries, and in 1540 was knighted for his services.
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 The Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921
Senate and House of Commons of Northern Ireland were elected in 1921 and continued until 1972.
The Government of Ireland Act stipulated that if fewer than half the members of the House of Commons came to its first meeting on June 28, the institutions would lapse and Southern Ireland would be ruled as a Crown Colony.
The House of Commons of Southern Ireland had a curious resurrection a few months later, when as part of the process of ratification of the December 1921 Ango-Irish Treaty its members were called together to approve it and appoint the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State on 14 January 1922.
www.ark.ac.uk /elections/h1921.htm   (939 words)

  
 The Domvilles of Southern Ireland
Gilbert married the daughter of the Archbishop of Dublin, Thomas Jones, who was also Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
Though the elder Sir William (born 1608) left Loughlinstown to his eldest son, he seems to have left the greater part of his property to his younger son Thomas (1650-1721), who was created a baronet by James II, and settled at Templeogue.
The eldest son of his third marriage was Sir Thomas Compton Domvile (1696-1768), to whom the Lordship of Santry was left by his disgraced nephew, the fourth Lord Barry of Santry (qv) who had been sentenced to death for murder.
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Writs for the election of the Irish representative peers were issued by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
No election has taken place since 1919 and the post of Lord Chancellor of Ireland was abolished after the establishment of the Irish Free State.
Prior to this Act, an Irish peer was not permitted to be elected for a constituency in Northern Ireland.
www.angeltowns.com /town/peerage/reppeersireland.htm   (196 words)

  
 Catholic Emacipation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To supporters of Catholic Emancipation, it was only just that their Catholic compatriots should have the political right to sit in the British Parliament.
Thus the Duke of York argued in the House of Lords that
The Duke of York then went on to voice a common concern - - that the emancipation of the Catholics was a vioation of the Crown's Coronation Oath and thus of the constitution.
www.victorianweb.org /religion/cath2.html   (250 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thomas O'Hagan
Admitted to the inner Bar in 1849, and made a bencher of King's Inn in 1859, in 1860 he was appointed Solicitor General for Ireland, and, in the following year Attorney General, being also called to the Irish Privy Council.
In 1868 he was made Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the first Catholic in the office since Chancellor Fitton under James II.
In 1880 he was re-appointed Lord Chancellor by Gladstone, but resigned in November, 1881.
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 The Thomas Gray Archive : Materials : Biography
Richard West (1716-42), whose father was a Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Thomas Ashton (1716-1775).
Lord Bute for the professorship of history and modern languages at Cambridge, founded by George I in 1724, and then vacant by the death of Hallett Turner in 1762.
The ode was set to music by J. Randall, the professor of music at the university, performed at the Senate House on 1 July 1769, and printed by the university.
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 lord chancellor information.
JUSTICE press release 8 February 2000 The role of the Lord...
The House of Commons - Committee on the Lord Chancellor's...
House of Lords Journal Volume 18: 23 December 1708
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 Find in a Library: Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland sometime also Master of ...
Find in a Library: Life of the Right Hon.
Francis Blackburne, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland sometime also Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief-Justice of the Queen's Bench, and Lord Justice of Appeal, chiefly in connection with his public and political career
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 John Bowes, Baron Bowes (1690-1767), Lord Chancellor of Ireland
John Bowes, Baron Bowes (1690-1767), Lord Chancellor of Ireland
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