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Wadham College, Oxford. Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, PC, DL (12 July 1872 – 30 September 1930) was a British Conservative politician and barrister who attained high office in the early 20th century, in particular as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a skilled orator, noted for his staunch opposition to ...
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of Birkenhead (born July 12, 1872, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England—died September 30, 1930, London) was a British statesman, lawyer, and noted orator. As lord chancellor (1919–22), he sponsored major legal reforms and helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.
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Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. (1872-1930), Lord Chancellor. Sitter associated with 16 portraits. Sir Frederick, 'F.E.', Smith was Attorney-General and Director of Public Prosecutions when he took on the brief at the first hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court as Counsel for the Prosecution. Smith was Conservative Unionist MP ...
F. E. : the life of F. E. Smith, first earl of Birkenhead by Birkenhead, Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, Earl of, 1907-1975. Publication date 1965 Topics
Jul 19, 2019 · First of all, a rather odd conjuncture had made his old political opponent, F.E. Smith, Attorney General of England and Prosecutor for the Crown at the trial; this might well cast a doubt as to the justice being rendered — and the circumstance is all the more shocking since F.E. Smith, only two years before, had been on the point of committing the very act of treason for which he was now ...
F. E. Smith was the most brilliant political personality to emerge in the Edwardian era. Beaverbrook called him simply 'the cleverest man in the kingdom'. Coming from a modest provincial background, he acquired an extraordinary reputation at Oxford and an unprecedented fortune at the Liverpool Bar before exploding into the House of Commons in 1906 with the most famous maiden speech ever ...
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1907-19: letters (11) to RD Blumenfeld. Parliamentary Archives. BLU. NRA 13874. 6. 1910-29: corresp with 17th Earl of Derby. Liverpool Record Office. 920 DER. NRA 20761.
