Hugh McCalmont Cairns, politician and statesman Finish:Single Interior of the Ford works

Interior of the Ford works

Queen Elizabeth pictured here with the Mayor of Salford

'The Irish Inferno'

from the south-east

Hugh McCalmont Cairns, politician and statesman Finish:Single Interior of the Ford worksHugh McCalmont Cairns, politician and statesman, 1881. Born in Ireland, Cairns (1810 1885) entered Parliament as a member for Belfast in 1852. A lawyer, he was appointed Solicitor General in 1858, and in Disraeli's short lived Conservative government of 1868, Cairns served as Lord Chancellor, a position he again held in Disraeli's second administration between 1874 and 1880. He was made 1st Earl Cairns in 1878. From Men of Mark: a gallery of