Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Herschell, Farrer, Lord Herschell

by Joseph Foster

Herschell, Farrer, Lord Herschell, creaied D.C.L. 30 June, 1886; lord high chancellor of Great Britain 1886, created Baron Herschell of Durham 8 Feb., 1886, M.P. Durham (city) June, 1874-85, solicitor-general 1880-5, recorder of Carlisle 1873-80, B.A. (honours) University Coll., London, 1857, created D.C.L. Durham, 1882, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1858, Q.C. and a bencher 1872, son of Rev. Ridley Herschell. See Foster's Men at the Bar.