# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-cairns-1st-earl-cairns
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:45:29.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-cairns-1st-earl-cairns"
name: "Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns"
slug: "hugh-cairns-1st-earl-cairns"
description: "Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns 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."
tagline: "British statesman who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1819–1885)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugh_Cairns%2C_1st_Earl_Cairns_-_1860s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1819-12-27"
deathDate: "1885-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.277106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hugh Cairns, 1:e earl Cairns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "هوج كايرنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cairns%2C_1._Earl_Cairns"
    title: "Hugh Cairns, 1. Earl Cairns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cairns%2C_1st_Earl_Cairns"
    title: "Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cairns_(1er_comte_Cairns)"
    title: "Hugh Cairns (1er comte Cairns)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cairns%2C_I_conte_Cairns"
    title: "Hugh Cairns, I conte Cairns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA_(%E5%88%9D%E4%BB%A3%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E4%BC%AF%E7%88%B5)"
    title: "ヒュー・ケアンズ (初代ケアンズ伯爵)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cairns"
    title: "Hugh Cairns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A5%D1%8C%D1%8E%2C_1-%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Кэрнс, Хью, 1-й граф Кэрнс"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump