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Up for sale a RARE "1st Baron Herschell" Farrer Herschell Hand Written Letter Dated 1888.

from 1892 to 1895. His parents were Helen Skirving Mowbray and the Rev. Ridley Haim Herschell, who

was a native of Strzelno, in Prussian Poland. When Ridley was a young Christianity and took a leading part in

founding the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews.

He eventually settled down to the charge of a Nonconformist chapel

near the Edgware Road, in London,

where he ministered to a large congregation. Farrer was educated at a private

school and at University College London.

In 1857 he took his BA degree at University College London, University of London. He

was regarded as the best speaker at the University College London

Union Debating Society. Herschell's reputation

persisted after he became a law student at Lincoln's Inn. In 1858 he entered the chambers of Thomas Chitty, the famous special pleader. His fellow pupils included Archibald Levin Smith,

subsequently Master of the Rolls, and

Arthur Charles who became a judge of the Queen's Bench. He subsequently read with James Hannen, who went on

to become Lord Hannen. His fellow pupils gave him because of his air of superiority. In 1860 he was called to the bar and joined the northern circuit.

For four or five years he did not obtain much work. He was financially

secure, however. Herschell soon made himself useful to Edward James, the then

leader of the northern circuit, and to John Richard Quain, the

leading stuffgownsman. For the

latter he noted briefs and drafted legal opinions. When, in 1866, Quain took silk, Herschell inherited much of his junior practice.

In 1872, Herschell took silk. By 1874, his business had become so good that

he turned his thoughts to politics and election to Parliament. In

February of that year there was a general

election, with the result that the Conservative Party came

into power with a parliamentary majority of fifty. The two Radicals, Thomas Charles Thompson and John Henderson who had been returned for City of

Durham were unseated, and an attack was then made on the seats

of two other Radicals, Isaac Lowthian Bell and Charles Mark Palmer who

had been returned for North Durham.

Herschell was briefed for one of the latter. He made such an impression on the

local Radical leaders that they asked him to stand for City of Durham. After

two weeks' electioneering, he was

elected as junior member. Between 1874 and 1880, Herschell was assiduous in his

attendance of the House of Commons. He was

not a frequent speaker, but his few efforts garnered him a favourable

reputation as a debater. On one occasion, he carried a resolution in favour of

abolishing actions for breach of promise of

marriage except when actual pecuniary loss had ensued,

the damages in such cases to be measured by the amount of

such loss. He was noticed by Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone,

who in 1880 appointed was knighted within weeks of his appointment as Solicitor

General, a position he was to hold until 1885. He

drafted multiple bills, most notably the Irish Land

Act of 1881, the Corrupt Practices and Bankruptcy Acts of 1883, the County Franchise Act of 1884 and the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885. This last one halved the

representation of Durham City, thus requiring him to quit his seat. Betting on

the local support of the Cavendish family, he contested the North

Lonsdale division of Lancashire, but in spite of the powerful influence of Lord Hartington, he was badly beaten at the poll. Gladstone,

however, again obtained a majority in parliament. Herschell felt the Solicitor

General's post slipping away from him, and along with it all prospects Henry

James, however, successively declined Gladstone's offer of the Woolsack, and in 1886 Herschell suddenly found himself Lord Chancellor. He was also given the honorary post of Captain of Deal Castle in

1890. Herschell's chancellorship lasted barely six months, because in June 1886

Gladstone's Home Rule Bill was

rejected in the Commons and his administration fell. In August 1892, when

Gladstone returned to power, Herschell again became Lord Chancellor. As a

result, he was sworn of the Privy

Council that year. In May 1893, he was appointed to the Order of the Bath as a Knight Grand Cross (GCB). In September 1893, when the second Home Rule

BiIl came on for second reading in

the House of Lords, Herschell

took advantage of the opportunity to justify his own 1885 sudden conversion

to Home Rule, and that of his colleagues, by comparing it to

the Duke of

Wellington's conversion to Catholic Emancipation in