Lord High Chancellor
Britishnoun
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Quiet was only restored when the saturnine, sarcastic Earl of Birkenhead, onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, onetime Secretary of State for India, was introduced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll.
From Time Magazine Archive
His task done, Gerald Austin Gardiner, 64, the Labor Government's Lord High Chancellor, returned to the 20th century and a tough legal challenge: a complete reformation of outdated British law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Third was the two-coach procession of learned Sankey, the Lord High Chancellor, who outranks the Prime Minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Winston insisted the Lord High Chancellor try to improve the efficiency of the courts.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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