Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns

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The Right Honourable The Earl Cairns PC
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office 29 February 1868 – 1 December 1868
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	Benjamin Disraeli
Preceded by	The Lord Chelmsford
Succeeded by	The Lord Hatherley
In office 21 February 1874 – 21 April 1880
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Beaconsfield
Preceded by	The Lord Selborne
Succeeded by	The Lord Selborne
Personal details
Born	(1819-12-27)27 December 1819 Cultra, County Down, Ireland
Died	2 April 1885(1885-04-02) (aged 65) Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
Nationality	Anglo-Irish
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Mary Harriet MacNeile ​ ​ (m. 1856)​
Children	7
Alma mater	Trinity College Dublin

Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns PC (27 December 1819 – 2 April 1885) was an Anglo-Irish statesman who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain during the first two ministries of Benjamin Disraeli. He was one of the most prominent Conservative statesmen in the House of Lords during this period of Victorian politics. He served as the seventeenth Chancellor of the University of Dublin between 1867 and 1885.