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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, 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. He also served as solicitor general and attorney general in H.H. Asquith’s World War I coalition government.
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May 9, 2018 · Smith, Frederick E., 1st Lord Birkenhead (1872–1930). Lord chancellor. Educated at Birkenhead and Oxford, Smith made a name for himself as a barrister in Liverpool where (1906) he was elected as a Conservative MP. His rhetorical onslaughts against the Liberal government brought him to the attention of the Tory die-hards, and in 1911 he joined ...
This short biographical piece explores the life and work of the first of our Liverpool Lord Chancellors, Frederick Edwin (FE) Smith, later the first Earl of Birkenhead GCSI PC KC (12th July 1872 – 30th September 1930). FE Smith attended the University of Liverpool (then University College, Liverpool) in 1889 for a period of two years having ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
