Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns was an Scot-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.
- Occupation
- politician, judge, barrister
- Position held
- Lord Chancellor, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
