Comes now Lord Birkenhead. " When the American Bar Association convenes in Minneapolis in August it will be addressed by the former Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Birkenhead, who began life as F. S. Smith; also by Charles E. Hughes."
Birkenhead, since Oxford days, has been tagged with one inevitable adjective: brilliant. Distrusted, and extravagantly admired, he established a record by reaching the Lord High Chancellor's woolsack at the age of 45. Lloyd George was then (1919) his chief, and three years later Birkenhead, although a Tory, followed his chief into the so-called wilderness....
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