Definition of Lord High Chancellor

1. Noun. The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords.


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Lord's
Lord's Day
Lord's Prayer
Lord's Resistance Army
Lord's Supper
Lord's table
Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
Lord Chancellor
Lord George Gordon Byron
Lord High Chancellor (current term)
Lord Macaulay
Lord Mayor
Lord Mayors
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Lord Nelson
Lord Privy Seal
Lord Rayleigh
Lord be praised
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Lord of Lords
Lord of Misrule
Lord of the Manor
Lord willing
Lord willing and the creek don't rise

Literary usage of Lord High Chancellor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1847)
"... That, for simplifying the proceedings under the said act, and rendering the same inexpensive, it should be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor, ..."

2. On Parliamentary Government in England: Its Origin, Development, and by Alpheus Todd (1869)
"THE Lord High Chancellor. The authority which appertains to this high ... His proper title is 'Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Ireland,' the great ..."

3. Biographia juridica. A biographical dictionary of the judges of England from by Edward Foss (1870)
"He died, at the age of ninety-one, in 1776, having lived to see his son elevated to the peerage and to the dignity of lord high chancellor of Great Britain. ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1827)
"... of Hilary Term 1793, Lord LOUGHBOROUGH, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of this Court, was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. On Monday Feb. 4. ..."

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