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 Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford, 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 called to the bar in 1808, and joined the Weste ...

. He was educated at

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and served as an officer in the

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. He succeeded in the barony on 4 September 1826 and assumed his seat in the

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. On 2 April 1845, he married the Hon. Frederica-Charlotte-Fitz-Hardinge (b. 15 April 1825, d. 25 November 1920), eldest daughter of

Maurice Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral Maurice Frederick FitzHardinge Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge, (3 January 1788 – 17 October 1867) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he commanded gunboats on the Tagus, reinforcing the Lines of Torre ...

, and had issue: * Eva Gifford (21 February 1846 – 6 April 1915), married 24 May 1866, Major-General Sir Henry Trotter, Grenadier Guards * Harriet Ella Gifford (24 January 1847 – 12 February 1942), married 5 January 1865, Lt-Col. the Hon. Archibald-Henry Douglas-Pennant * Emily Gifford (19 December 1847 – 28 January 1926), married 2 June 1868, Robert-Thomas-Napier Speir, Esq., of Guidées, Perthshire * Edric Frederick Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford, VC (5 July 1849 – 5 June 1911) * Evelyn Mary Gifford (20 November 1850 – 2 April 1947), married 31 August 1872, Thomas Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote, Esq., 3rd son of Thomas Henry Kingscote, Esq., by his 2nd wife, the Hon. Harriet Mary Anne Bloomfield, eldest dau. of Benjamin, 1st Lord Bloomfield * Eleanor Gifford (21 March 1852 – 8 February 1939), married 5 November 1873, Edward-M. Dansey, Esq., Capt. 1st Life Guards. * Edward Robert Gifford, R.N. (3 November 1853 – 24 March 1878) * Elspeth Fitz Hardinge Gifford (25 July 1855 – 10 December 1913) * Edgar Berkeley Gifford, 4th Baron Gifford, Lieut. S. Gloucester Militia (8 March 1857 – 29 January 1937) * Maurice Raymond Gifford, CMG, Col. (5 May 1859 – 1 July 1910), married Marguerite Thorold, the daughter of Capt Thorold of Boothby * Elton-Vivian (14 April 1861 – 1893)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gifford, Robert Gifford, 2nd Baron 1817 births 1872 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom