§ The LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Earl Curzon of Kedleston) acquainted the House that His Majesty had been pleased 2 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.