1-345-402 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, c1890. 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. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.