Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...anniversary banquet was held in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, and so great was the number of guests that special trains were run from London for their accommodation. Lord Selborne, Lord High Chancellor, presided, and among the company, which comprised many of England's most distinguished men, were the Bishop of Oxford, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Manning, Mr. Cardwell, of the Cabinet, and Matthew Arnold. The after-dinner speeches were many in number, and one distinguished gentleman after another acknowledged how much good he had derived from the Union in his younger days. We quote from...
...sixty-seventh year, - an event which has elicited hardly an expression of regret from our leading journals. From a Boston paper we learn that Sir Edward was the son of General Bulwer, entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at an early age, and was graduated at Trinity Hall; he delivered the Chancellor's prize poem, and began his literary life when quite young. From the same source we learn that he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal, and afterwards as a Reform candidate, - the date of his being raised to the peerage, etc. For this the said journal deserves much thanks...