John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst,, was a British lawyer and politician. He was three times Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord Lyndhurst wearing the parliamentary robes of a baron, portrait by Felix Rogge c.1836
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst in the late 1850s.
Grave of John Singleton Copley in Highgate Cemetery (west)
The lord chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The lord chancellor is the minister of justic
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
…John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, (21 May 1772 – 12 October 1863), was a British lawyer and politician. He was three times Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Copley was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of painter John Singleton Copley and his wife Susanna Farnham (née Clarke), granddaughter of silversmith…
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The Lord High Chancellor (Viscount Hailsham), as depicted on a cigarette card produced for the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937. His ceremonial purse would once have contained the Great Seal of the Realm.
The Lord High Chancellor (Shabana Mahmood) wearing full ceremonial dress at the 2024 State Opening of Parliament, preceded by her purse-bearer and a serjeant-at-arms.
Heraldic banner of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was the archbishop of York and lord chancellor, showing the arms of the See of York impaling his personal arms, with a cardinal's hat above. The griffin supporter holds the lord chancellor's mace.