Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
1837–99
Lawyer. BA, University College London, 1857. Called to the bar (Lincoln’s Inn), 1860. Liberal MP for Durham City, 1874–85. Solicitor general, 1880; lord chancellor, 1886, 1892–5. Created Baron Herschell of the City of Durham, 1886. Knighted, 1880.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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