Hugh Mccalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
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Hugh Mccalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
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Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, British statesman, 1881. Born in Ireland, Cairns (1810-1885) entered Parliament as a member for Belfast in 1852. A lawyer, he was appointed Solicitor-General in 1858, and in Disraeli's short-lived Conservative government of 1868, Cairns served as Lord Chancellor, a position he again held in Disraeli's second administration between 1874 and 1880. He was made 1st Earl Cairns in 1878. An engraving from Alexander Charles Ewald's The Right Hon Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, and His Times, William Mackenzie, (London, 1881). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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