HALSBURY CLUB

• Meetings of the committee, 19th January 1912 to 25th June 1912.
• Drafts and working papers including Schemes for the Reform of the House of Lords by Lord Robert Cecil, the Duke of Northumberland, Colonel Welby, the Earl of Galloway and the Duke of Marlborough (in brackets F.E. Smith).
• Reports of the Committee including Memorandum on the Reconstruction of the Second Chamber, two versions of the Confidential Report of the Sub-Committee dealing with the Second Chamber, Population statistics of the proposed constituencies.

Halsbury Club

The objectives of the Halsbury Club were to reform the powers and membership of the House of Lords. Its members were Baron Rankeillour (1870 - 1949), the geographer Sir Halford John Mackinder (1861 - 1947), the 1st Earl of Plymouth (1857 - 1923), the Earl of Selborne (1859 - 1942), Viscount Cecil (1864 - 1958), the 1st Earl of Halsbury (1823 - 1921) and the 8th Duke of Northumberland (1880 - 1930).

Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury 1823 - 1921

Giffard qualified as a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1850. He became a QC in 1863. In 1881 Giffard became Treasurer of the Inner Temple. From 1875 - 1880 he was Solicitor-General. He was Lord Chancellor 1885 - 1886, 1886 - 1892, 1895 - 1905, and Conservative MP for Launceston, 1877 - 1885. Giffard was also President of the Royal Society of Literature, Grand Warden of English Freemasons, and High Steward of University of Oxford since 1896. Giffard presided over the production of the complete digest of Laws of England (1905 - 1916).

His publications include:

• Halsbury's laws of England (1949)
• Halsbury's statutes of England and Wales (1985)
• Halsbury's statutory instruments (1951)
• The Laws of England : being a complete statement of the whole law of England (1907)

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Mackinder, H.J.

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