John Giffard may refer to: *

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) (c. 1465–1556), Tudor courtier, soldier, MP and landowner, of Chillington Hall, Staffordshire * John Giffard (died 1613) (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 sc ...

(1908–2000), British peer and scientist *

John Giffard (MP for Gloucestershire) John Giffard may refer to: *John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard (1232–1299), English nobleman *John Giffard (died 1556) (c. 1465–1556), Tudor courtier, soldier, MP and landowner, of Chillington Hall, Staffordshire *John Giffard (died 1613) (1534–1 ...

, 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) John Giffard may refer to: *John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard (1232–1299), English nobleman *John Giffard (died 1556) (c. 1465–1556), Tudor courtier, soldier, MP and landowner, of Chillington Hall, Staffordshire *John Giffard (died 1613) (1534–1 ...

(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) John Giffard, or Gyffard (died after 1396) was an English-born lawyer and cleric in Ireland in the late fourteenth century, who served briefly as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Little is known of his life before 1377, when he appeared in ...

, 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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