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Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll. About 100 of the realm's approximate total of 860 peers had arrived, this making an unusually large House of Lords...
...blow up Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, reading the King's Speech of grieving George V. This began: "My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, I deeply regret I am not addressing you in person...
...most important reaction came from Britain's Minister of War, round-faced Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. As firm a Tory as Winston Churchill, whom he slightly resembles, Lord Hailsham, former Lord Chancellor of Britain, said...
Smart U. S. Citizens hummed thus, last week, as they perused a private letter or two containing delicious details of the recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
People mostly remember Baron Hailsham as Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg (TIME, May 16, 1927). With the inferior title he made a great name for himself in the House of Commons as Attorney General; and for years Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin depended on Sir Douglas to carry the brunt of many a debate, silence hecklers, sit tight...