Hugh McCalmont Cairns, politician and 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.
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