Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Giffard, Hardinge Stanley
Giffard, Hardinge Stanley, 3s. Stanley, of Clerkenwell, Middlesex, doctor. Merton Coll., matric. 19 March, 1842, aged 18; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1856, Baron Halsbury, of Halsbury, Devon, so created 26 June, 1885, lord high chancellor of Great Britain June, 1885, to Feb., 1886, and since July, 1886, solicitor-general 1875-80, and knighted 28 Nov., 1875, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1850, Q.C. and a bencher 1865, M.P. Launceston 1877-85, and constable of Launceston Castle 1883. See Foster's Men at the Bar.