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DEVONSHIRE CHARACTERS
"He was a little man, dumped up together, and so ill made as to seem almost deformed, but with a singular expression of talent in his countenance."
Gifford was buried in Westminster Abbey, and his schoolfellow and lifelong friend, Dean Ireland, was afterwards buried in the same grave.
The authorities for his life are his own biographical account of his early life, and Smiles's Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray, the Publisher. London, 1891.
Also a "Life," by Mr. J. S. Amery, in the now extinct Ashburtonian, 1891.
Also a brief account by the Rev. Treasurer Hawker in "Two Ashburton Scholars," in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1876.
