1-625-923 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, 19th century British statesman, (1900). 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 print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900.