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The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom.The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ranking Great Officer of State in Scotland [a] and England, [b] nominally outranking the prime minister.
The following is a list of lord chancellors and lord keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum .
Although as Lord Keeper he presided over the House of Lords, he was not made a peer until 1760 when he became Baron Henley of Grange in the County of Southampton. [3] When George III ascended to power, Henley was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1761 and made Earl of Northington in 1764. [4] [1]
The Lord Chancellor (formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain) is the most senior of the Great Officers other than the Lord High Steward (who is appointed only on a temporary basis for coronations): he is the cabinet minister responsible for the Ministry of Justice (formerly the Lord Chancellor's Department and the Department for ...
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Lord High Chancellor of England (1068–1707) Shabana Mahmood MP for Birmingham Ladywood (Secretary of State for Justice) [5] — — 3 Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom. Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain (1714–1817) Lord High Treasurer of England (c. 1126 –1714) — [b] Prime Minister of ...
Name of Chancellor (including peerage title, if any) and heraldic blazon William Cowper, 1st Baron Cowper, Lord Chancellor 1707–1710 and 1714-1718 Escutcheon: Argent three martlets Gules on a chief engrailed of the last three annulets Or. Crest: A lion's jamb erased Or holding a cherry branch Vert fructed Gules.
Articles about individuals who have held the office of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain since the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707. For holders of the predecessor offices see: Category:Lord chancellors of England; Category:Lord chancellors of Scotland
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, PC (1 December 1690 – 6 March 1764) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1756 and 1757 until 1762.