Lords Sitting of 4 February 1919

PARLIAMENT.
Opened by Commission (the Royal Commissioners being the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of CRAWFORD, the Earl of DONOUGHMORE, Viscount FARQUHAR, and Viscount SANDHURST); and the Commons (who were sent for) being at the Bar, were directed to proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and to present such person whom they should so choose here to-morrow, at a quarter before three o'clock, for His Majesty's Royal approbation.
The Right Honourable Sir FREDERICK EDWIN SMITH, Baronet, having been appointed LORD CHANCELLOR—Sat Speaker.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
The LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Earl Curzon of Kedleston) acquainted the House that His Majesty had been pleased
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to create the Right Honourable Sir Frederick Edwin Smith, Baronet (Lord Chancellor of Great Britain), a Peer of this Realm, by the title of Baron Birkenhead of Birkenhead in the County of Chester, and his Lordship, having retired to robe—Was introduced in the usual manner.

Certificate of the Election of Sixteen Representative Peers for Scotland—Delivered, and read.

ROLL OF THE LORDS.
GARTER KING OF ARMS attending, delivered at the Table (in the usual manner) a List of the Lords Temporal in the First Session of the Thirty-first Parliament of the United Kingdom: The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
The Lord GAINFORD—Affirmed.
House adjourned at ten minutes before four o'clock until tomorrow, a quarter before three o'clock.