George Hamilton-Gordon,4th Earl of Aberdeen,styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801,was a British statesman,diplomat and landowner,successively a Tory,Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He served as Prime Minister from 1852 until 1855 in a coalition between the Whigs and Peelites,with Radical and Irish support. The Aberdeen ministry was filled with powerful and talented politicians,whom Aberdeen was largely unable to control and direct. Despite his trying to avoid this happening,it took Britain into the Crimean War,and fell when its conduct became unpopular,after which Aberdeen retired from politics.
Granville George Leveson-Gower,2nd Earl Granville,,styled Lord Leveson until 1846,was a British Liberal statesman and diplomat from the Leveson-Gower family. He is best remembered for his service as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
John Singleton Copley,1st Baron Lyndhurst,was a British lawyer and politician. He was three times Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Richard Bethell,1st Baron Westbury,was a British lawyer,judge and Liberal politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1861 and 1865. He was knighted in 1852 and raised to the peerage in 1861.
William Page Wood,1st Baron Hatherley,PC was a British lawyer and statesman who served as a Liberal Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1868 and 1872 in William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry.
Roundell Palmer,1st Earl of Selborne,was an English lawyer and politician. He served twice as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Baron Cranworth is a title that has been created twice,both times in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1850 when the lawyer and Liberal politician Sir Robert Rolfe was made Baron Cranworth,of Cranworth in the County of Norfolk. He later served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. This creation became extinct on his death in 1868.
Edward Strutt,1st Baron Belper PC FRS,was a British Whig Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1852 to 1854 under Lord Aberdeen.
Sir Frederick Peel,was a British Liberal Party politician and railway commissioner.
Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue,2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford,known as Chichester Fortescue until 1863 and as Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue between 1863 and 1874 and Lord Carlingford after 1874,was a British Liberal politician of the 19th century.
Lord Alfred Hervey,known before 1826 as Alfred Hervey,was a British politician.
Matthew Talbot Baines was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He most notably served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in Lord Palmerston's 1855 to 1858 administration.
Edward George Fitzalan-Howard,1st Baron Howard of Glossop PC,styled Lord Edward Howard between 1842 and 1869,was a British Liberal politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under Lord John Russell from 1846 to 1852.
Robert Thornhagh Gurdon,1st Baron Cranworth,was a British Member of Parliament.
Thomas Henry Foley,4th Baron Foley of Kidderminster DL,was a British peer and Liberal politician. He held office in every Whig/Liberal government between 1833 and 1869.
Luke White,2nd Baron Annaly KP,was an Anglo-Irish Liberal politician.
The Statute Law Revision Act 1861 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed statutes that had ceased to be in force.
The Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856,also known as the Statute Law Revision Act 1856,was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed 120 statutes,which had been described as "obsolete".
The Board for the Revision of the Statute Law was a commission from 1853 to 1854 to consolidate a significant portion of the statute law of the United Kingdom.
The Royal Commission for Consolidating the Statute Law was a royal commission that ran from 1854 to 1859 to consolidate existing statutes and enactments of English law.
