Baron Gifford, of St Leonard's in the County of Devon, is a title in the

Peerage of the United Kingdom The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...

. It was created on 30 January 1824 for the lawyer Sir Robert Gifford, who later served as

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. His grandson, the third Baron, was a soldier and colonial administrator and was awarded the

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in 1874. On his death the title passed to his younger brother, the fourth Baron, and then to their nephew, the fifth Baron. the title is held by the latter's son, the sixth Baron, who succeeded in 1961. He is a barrister. The Hon.

Maurice Gifford Hon. Maurice Raymond Gifford CMG (5 May 1859 – 1 July 1910) was a British military officer. Biography Born at Ampney Park, Gloucester, he was the son of Robert Francis Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford, and the brother of Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron G ...

, fourth son of the second Baron, was a soldier. The family surname and the title of the barony are pronounced "Jifford".

Barons Gifford (1824)

Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (24 February 1779 – 4 September 1826), was a British lawyer, judge and politician. Gifford was born in Exeter, and entered the Middle Temple in 1800. He was Call ...

(1779–1826) *

Robert Francis Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford Robert Francis Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford (19 March 1817 – 13 May 1872) was a British peer. He was the son of Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and served as an officer in the British Army. He ...

(1817–1872) * Edric Frederick Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford (1849–1911) * Edgar Berkeley Gifford, 4th Baron Gifford (1857–1937) * Charles Maurice Elton Gifford, 5th Baron Gifford (1899–1961) *

Anthony Maurice Gifford, 6th Baron Gifford Anthony Maurice Gifford, 6th Baron Gifford, KC (born 1 May 1940), is a British hereditary peer and senior barrister. He inherited the title of Baron Gifford on the death of his father, the 5th Baron, in April 1961.heir apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...

is the present holder's son, the Hon. Thomas Adam Gifford (b. 1967). There are no other heirs to the barony.

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