The Story of Rackety Tanner (cont.). Hardinge Stanley Giffard, The Earl of Halsbury (1823-1921) - Three times Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Sir Henry David Erskine (1838-1921), Sergeant-at-Arms in the House of Commons try in vain to control the Commons rantings of Dr Charles Kearns Deane Tanner (1849-1901) - an Irish surgeon and politician.