Thomas Johnstone Carlyle Gifford (14 January 1881 – 24 January 1975) was one of the founders of

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, one of the United Kingdom's largest investment management firms.

Career

Born at Ingleston near

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and educated at

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and the

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, Carlyle Gifford trained with the firm of W.S. Cook and became a

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in 1905.Carlyle Gifford at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
/ref> In 1907 he co-founded the legal firm of Baillie Gifford WS which in 1909 formed and then acted as manager of the Scottish Mortgage and Trust Company Limited. He specialised in land law and in stock exchange rules. He served on the boards of

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and the

. He helped set up the Association of Investment Trust Companies in 1929 and served as chairman from 1934 to 1936. During

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he worked in the United States where he acted as an agent for

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selling

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overseas investments. He lived in

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and died there in 1975.Carlyle Gifford at the Peerage.com
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Family

In 1907 he married Maud Oriel Riata Pearson daughter of

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and together they had two sons, including Charles Henry Pearson Gifford

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(1909–1994). In 1960 he married again to Sophia Mary Wharton Millar who survived him.

References

1881 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Scottish businesspeople People from Dumfries and Galloway People educated at George Watson's College Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish solicitors {{UK-business-bio-1880s-stub