Earl of Halsbury, in the County of Devon, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Halsbury is a manor long held by the Giffard family (also of Brightley, Chittlehampton) about 3/4 mile NW of Buckland Brewer, Bideford. It was created in 1898 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Hardinge Giffard, 1st Baron Halsbury. He was Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1886, 1886 to 1892 and 1895 to 1905. Giffard had already been created Baron Halsbury, of Halsbury in the County of Devon, in 1885, and was made Viscount Tiverton, of Tiverton in the County of Devon, at the same time he was given the earldom. Those titles were also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Halsbury's grandson, the third Earl (who succeeded his father), was a scientist and the first Chancellor of Brunel University. The fourth Earl did not use his title and did not use the courtesy title of Viscount Tiverton which he was entitled to from 1943 to 2000. All the titles became extinct on his death in 2010.
Stanley Lees Giffard, father of the first Earl, was the first editor of the Standard newspaper.
The title of the earldom was pronounced "Hauls-bry".
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