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Smith (FREDERICK EDWIN Baron)

FREDERICK EDWIN, Baron Birkenhead, British Lord Chancellor, born at Birkenhead, England, in 1872. He was educated at Birkenhead School and Wadham College, Oxford, and was president of the Oxford Union Society in 1893. He was conservative candidate for the Scotland Division of Liverpool in 1903-4 and for the Walton Division in 1905. He was an associate of Sir Edward Carson in the opposition to Irish Home Rule, threatening to take the field, but became Solicitor-General when the European War broke out. He became Lord Chancellor in 1919. He wrote "International Law," "My American Visit."