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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 .
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
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 ...
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1987–97) Law Lord (1985–87) Senator of the College of Justice (1984–85) Lord Advocate (1979–84) The Lord Soley ‡ Labour 19 January 2023: Life peer Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (1997–2001) The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey ‡ Conservative 3 February 2023: Life peer The Viscount ...
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]
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.
Lord Chancellor (1068–present) Lord President of the Council (1678–present) Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1307–present) Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (and preceding positions, 1889–2001) Minister of Technology (1964–1970) First Lord of the Admiralty (1709–1964) See also Admiralty. Paymaster General (1834–present)