biography
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Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of
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| biography:
| Lawyer and statesman, born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied at Oxford (becoming a fellow of Merton in 1896), and was called to the bar in 1899. He entered parliament in 1906 as a Conservative and established himself as a brilliant orator and wit. He was attorney general in 1915, and Lord Chancellor in 1919. He played a major part in the Irish settlement of 1921 and was created earl. He was also secretary of state for India (1924–8). His greatest achievement as a lawyer was the preparation of the series of Acts reforming land law. |
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