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  Cabinet papers reveal lost fight for science ministry - 06 January 1990 - New Scientist
Lord Hailsham, who was then Lord President, was later given the title of Minister of Science, but without a department.
Meanwhile Hailsham, who as Lord President was already responsible for the five research councils, told Macmillan: 'There is ground for thinking that the government apparatus for dealing with scientific matters is inadequate.
Hailsham added that if, as he expected, Brook's study of setting up a Ministry of Science proved to be impracticable he would make other proposals.
www.newscientist.com /article/mg12516980.300-cabinet-papers-reveal-lost-fight-for-science-ministry-.html   (564 words)

  
  Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lord Hailsham brought the contest into public view by announcing that he would use the Peerage Act to disclaim his title and fight a byelection to get back into the House of Commons.
Hailsham's choice of Lord Widgery as Lord Chief Justice was much criticized, although he later redeemed himself in the eyes of the profession by appointing Lord Lane to succeed Widgery.
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1975 and became a Knight of the Garter in 1988.
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 Stanley Baldwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Cecil of Chelwood - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1927 - Lord Cushendun succeeded Lord Cecil of Chelwood as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Hailsham's successor as Attorney-General was not in the Cabinet.
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 Stanley Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Cecil - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1927 - Lord Cushendun succeeded Lord Cecil as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Hailsham's successor as Attorney-General was not in the Cabinet.
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 Alec Douglas-Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He was the last member of the House of Lords to be appointed Prime Minister, the only Prime Minister to resign from the Lords and contest a by-election to enter the House of Commons and to date the last Prime Minister to be actively chosen by a British monarch.
This did not blunt his political aspirations, though, as Lord Home, as he then was, served not only as Commonwealth Secretary from 1955 but, from 1957, also as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council (the latter twice; briefly in 1957 and subsequently from 1959).
Home, the first British prime minister born in the 20th century, believed it impractical to serve as Prime Minister from the Lords (it was widely believed that Lord Curzon had not been invited to become prime minister in the 1920s because of his position in the Lords).
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 Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search
Hailsham's mother came from Nashville, Tennessee; she was the daughter of a judge and Hailsham adored her.
Hailsham had been Macmillan's choice to succeed him in 1963, and, on the basis of Macmillan's private preference, he had declared he would renounce his peerage to return to the Commons.
Hailsham's first marriage, in 1931, ended in divorce, but in 1944 he was married again, to Mary Martin, by whom he had two sons and three daughters, one of whom became, in 1992, a high court judge.
www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4277077,00.html   (1627 words)

  
 Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hogg was a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and served as Lord Chancellor in the UK Conservative government of 1928-9.
He was one of the foremost advocates of his age, and as Attorney-General piloted through the House of Commons the Trade Disputes Act of 1927, which reaffirmed and fortified the rule of law after the general strike.
He was the father of Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone.
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 Lord Hailsham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hailsham Pavilion Cinema Local cinema owned and run by the community - re-opened in 2000 after 30 years dereliction.
Tolkien Verse: The Lord of the Rings Watch a slide show of scenes from the Lord of the Rings.
Lord of the Rings Soundtracks Offers an analysis of each song on the Lord of the Rings CDs.
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 CNN.com - Former Lord Chancellor dies - October 14, 2001
Lord Hailsham served as Lord Chancellor from 1970 to 1974, and again from 1979 to 1987.
Hailsham breezed in and out of Conservative administrations for half a century serving under six prime ministers from Churchill's wartime government to Margaret's Thatcher's first term.
Under Thatcher he served a record 12 years in office as Lord Chancellor combining a respect for the traditions of law with a programme of extensive reform aimed at cutting costs and delays.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/10/14/uk.hailsham   (309 words)

  
 BBC News | UK POLITICS | Tory grandee Lord Hailsham dies
Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith paid tribute to Lord Hailsham, describing him as "a superb Conservative politician, lawyer and statesman whose place in the Party and in national politics was unrivalled and whose counsels will be sorely missed".
Lord Hailsham's career as both a politician and lawyer was long and eventful.
Lord Hailsham sat on the Woolsack in three Conservative governments, following in the footsteps of his father who was also Lord Chancellor.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1598865.stm   (387 words)

  
 Department for Constitutional Affairs - Publications - Written Evidence to the House of Lords Committee on the ...
As Lord Mackay of Clashfern wrote in Current Legal Problems in 1991, the Lord Chancellor must be accountable for this expenditure so that “Parliament is able to satisfy itself that public funds voted for the administration of justice are properly expended and that the courts are being efficiently and effectively managed” [endnote2].
Lord Hailsham, for example, argued that sitting regularly was “the only factor ensuring that a politically motivated Prime Minister does not give the office to a no-good lawyer [endnote3].
A letter written in 1955 by Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor, to the Director General of the BBC in which he stated that it was “undesirable for members of the judiciary to broadcast on the wireless or to appear on television”.
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 Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He was Leader of the House of Lords when Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdomprime minister, announced his sudden resignation for health reasons at the start of the 1963/ Conservative Party conference.
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone's choice of John WidgeryLord Widgery/ as Lord Chief Justice was much criticized.
As a result of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic link between peeragepeerages and the right to sit in the House of Lords, the 3rd Viscount has not had to disclaim the title in order to continue to sit as an Member of ParliamentMP/.
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 Eastern Book Company - Practical Lawyer
Lord Hailsham had some excellent views on the above subject when he delivered the second Nehru Memorial Lectures on 5th January at Vithalbhai Patel House under the auspices of the Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies.
Lord Hailsham queried whether it was a coincidence that revolt seemed to be commonest where the talented young congregated most.
As to the place of law in a democracy, Lord Hailsham said that to command respect, law must be enduring, and to have moral authority it must be compatible with objective moral standards.
www.ebc-india.com /lawyer/articles/71v1a5.htm   (3031 words)

  
 Harold Macmillan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Home: Lord President of the Council and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
Lord Hailsham: Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Science
Lord Hailsham: Lord President of the Council and Minister of Science
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 Guardian | Lord Hailsham dies aged 94
Lord Hailsham, twice a distinguished lord chancellor, a stalwart against Thatcherite radicalism, and a dominant figure in postwar Conservative politics, has died at the age of 94.
Lord Carrington, a former cabinet colleague, said last night: "He is one of the very few politicians I have dealt with who with one speech could turn people's minds.
The Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith, described Lord Hailsham as "a superb Conservative politician, lawyer and statesman whose place in the party and in national politics was unrivalled and whose counsel will be sorely missed".
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4277241-103685,00.html   (294 words)

  
 Douglas Martin Hogg 3rd Viscount Hailsham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, PC (born February 2, 1945), is a British politician and barrister.
He is the son of Lord Hailsham, a former Lord Chancellor.
He inherited the title Viscount Hailsham in 2001 upon the death of his father.
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 ipedia.com: Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Denning was a judge for 38 years, retiring at the age of 83 in 1982.
Only four years later he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal as well as a Privy Counsellor, and in 1957 he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary with a life peerage as Baron Denning, of Whitchurch in the County of Southampton.
Eulogising Denning's death, a former Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone, said that Denning would go down in history as "one of the great and controversial judges of the 20th century".
www.ipedia.com /alfred_denning__baron_denning.html   (1666 words)

  
 LawAfrica -Hot From The Bench   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Acidly commenting on Lord Devlin’s decision in Rookes v Barnard that sought to limit the award of exemplary damages in tort, Lord Denning’s obiter in Broome v Cassell stands proudly erect as a monument to the epic battle between the gods and the Titans on the judicial Mount Olympus.
In his innovative ratio, Lord Devlin clarified the precise meaning of terms used to refer to damages ‘at large.’ Juries were instructed to give a sum for compensation of the plaintiff’s injury, which sum may be aggravated because of the defendant’s conduct.
Lord Denning in Ward v James [1965] 1 All ER 563 was of the contrary opinion, urging trial judges not to refer juries to other awards in personal injury cases.
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 BBC NEWS | Politics | Return to conference nightmare?
As the news sank in, Lord Hailsham was the first to declare his hand.
That evening, Hailsham finished a lecture to Conservative activists by saying he intended to renounce his peerage so he could run for the leadership.
Lord Howe believes there are no direct lessons to be learnt but says it is sad that a conference that should be about the party's aims will be overshadowed by leadership implications being read into everything.
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 Contemporary Review: Lord Hailsham: The reluctant peer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
THERE is a melancholy symmetry that Lord Longford and his contemporary Lord Hailsham (born Quintin McGarel Hogg in 1907) should pass away within a few months of each other.
His staunch support for Chamberlain's Munich Settlement with Hitler seemed to fly in the face of honour and even good sense, although he always maintained that the settlement was a necessary one for a beleaguered Britain on the brink of a war she was almost wholly unprepared for.
In the latter years of the War, before his entry into government, Hailsham worked as a diligent backbencher, and was one of the founding members (along with such other M.P.s as Peter Thorneycroft) of the Tory Reform Committee, a group of 'Wet' Tories who pressed the government to adopt the precepts of the Beveridge Report.
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 CNN.com - Former Lord Chancellor dies - October 14, 2001
Lord Hailsham served as Lord Chancellor from 1970 to 1974, and again from 1979 to 1987.
Hailsham breezed in and out of Conservative administrations for half a century serving under six prime ministers from Churchill's wartime government to Margaret's Thatcher's first term.
Under Thatcher he served a record 12 years in office as Lord Chancellor combining a respect for the traditions of law with a programme of extensive reform aimed at cutting costs and delays.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/10/14/uk.hailsham   (309 words)

  
 Conservative Christian Fellowship -- news site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone has for over fifty years been a prominent political figure in Britain.
Lord Hailsham explained in his book, The Door Wherein I Went, this progress from the virtual agnosticism of his youth to Christianity, which became and has continued to be the abiding religious background to his personal, family and public life.
Lord Hailsham concludes in his memoirs A Sparrow's Flight, 'As I approach the throne of the ineffable, the more mere words fail to express my inmost feelings, and I take refuge in metaphor, in poetry, in music, in admiration for beauty in a landscape...
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 A Cringing Lord, by Professor Revilo P. Oliver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is true that the Lords sometimes failed when they should have acted, but the decline of Great Britain may be measured by the successive reductions in the power of the House of Lords.
Lord Hailsham may be certain that his Jewish "friends" regard him with special contempt because he, an Englishman, citizen of a nation which has for centuries coddled its invaders, feels guilt for what he imagines the Germans did to the Kikes who had invaded their country.
But of all the real guilt that Lord Hailsham could have taken as a crushing burden on his own shoulders, he said not a word, but preferred to feel an idiotic guilt for something that had never happened and in which Britain was not even said to have had a part!
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 Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He continued as a leader of the Conservative party, becoming First Lord of the Admiralty in 1956, and held a number of ministerial posts in the years prior to the crisis of 1963 which forced the then prime minister, Harold Macmillan, to resign.
Having failed to win the leadership of the party, which eventually went to Edward Heath, he continued in ministerial office until 1970, when he was created a life peer and became Lord Chancellor in Heath's government.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone.
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 BBC News | UK POLITICS | Lord Hailsham: The passionate peer
In a frenzied atmosphere, Hailsham renounced his peerage indicating he was ready and willing to lead the nation.
He accepted a life peerage and returned to the Lords where he served three terms, reforming the administration of justice but without making the radical changes of his successors.
Lord Hailsham was a man of contrasts: a fine mind, extrovert, eccentric, quick-tempered, sometimes arrogant, and not often given to compromise.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/319002.stm   (463 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 3 Jul 1995 (150703-06)
My Lords, I am not quite sure whether this is the right time for one of the mothballs to stand up to support the amendment moved by my noble and learned friend Lord Ackner.
My Lords, deluded by my own inexperience, when I saw the Minister's amendment I thought for a moment or two that the Government were accepting the general principle of the suggested amendment moved by my noble and learned friend last week.
Surely the logical thing to do, if one is to allow an increase in the recommended tariff period when an appeal is brought, is to provide some mechanism to enable an inadequately recommended tariff by the trial judge to be corrected when a defendant does not appeal.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199495/ldhansrd/vo950703/text/50703-06.htm   (2183 words)

  
 Lord Hailsham: The reluctant peer Contemporary Review - Find Articles
THERE is a melancholy symmetry that Lord Longford and his contemporary Lord Hailsham (born Quintin McGarel Hogg in 1907) should pass away within a few months of each other.
His staunch support for Chamberlain's Munich Settlement with Hitler seemed to fly in the face of honour and even good sense, although he always maintained that the settlement was a necessary one for a beleaguered Britain on the brink of a war she was almost wholly unprepared for.
Hailsham declined, saying that as a young man he should take his risks alongside his contemporaries in combat.
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