F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead: Biography from Answers.com Mobile

Frederick Edwin Smith 1st earl of Birkenhead

(born July 12, 1872, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng. — died Sept. 30, 1930, London) British politician. Elected to the House of Commons in 1906, he became noted as an orator and soon became a leader of the Conservative Party. As attorney general (1915 – 18), he successfully prosecuted Roger Casement. As lord chancellor (1919 – 22), he secured passage of the Law of Property Act (1922) and subsequent real-property statutes (1925) that replaced a convoluted system of land law. He also helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

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