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John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard John Giffard, Baron Giffard of Brimsfield (1232–1299) was an English nobleman prominent in the Second Barons' War and in Wales. His initial gift of land in Oxford led to the foundation of Gloucester College, Oxford. Involvement in military act ...

(1232–1299), English nobleman *

John Giffard (died 1556) Sir John Giffard (c. 1465-13 November 1556), of Chillington in Brewood, was a soldier, courtier, member of the English Parliament and Staffordshire landowner, who made his mark mainly during the reign of Henry VIII. Background and early lif ...

(c. 1465–1556), Tudor courtier, soldier, MP and landowner, of Chillington Hall, Staffordshire *

John Giffard (died 1613) John Giffard (1534–1613) was a Staffordshire landowner and Member of the English Parliament, notable as a leader of Roman Catholic Recusancy in the reigns of Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I and James I of England, James I. Background and ...

(1534–1613), landowner, MP and noted Elizabethan recusant, of Chillington Hall *

John Giffard (1602–1665) Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), (pron. "Jiffard") of Brightley, Chittlehampton, Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England, was a Cavalier, Royalist leader during the English Civil War, Civil War. Giffard commanded the Devon Pi ...

, colonel, Civil War commander, of Brightley, Devon *

John Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury FRS (4 June 1908 – 14 January 2000), was a British crossbencher peer and scientist. Halsbury succeeded to the title in 1943. Early life Giffard was educated at Ludgrove School (where a s ...

(1908–2000), British peer and scientist * John Giffard (MP for Gloucestershire), 14th century, see

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

* John Giffard (MP for Buckinghamshire) (died c. 1436), MP for Buckinghamshire, see

Knights of Buckinghamshire This article contains a list of the known knights of the shire who represented Buckinghamshire in the Parliament of England and similar bodies of lesser status between 1290 and 1660. It also includes details of Parliaments from 1265 to which elec ...

* John Giffard (judge), 14th-century English-born lawyer and cleric in Ireland * John Giffard (police officer) (born 1951/2), British police officer, former chief constable of Staffordshire Police

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