GIFFORD. 21 the Earl (A Lancaster against tho Kiug (and tlie Despencers) was defeated and taken prisoner at Boroughbridge, 16 March 1322, and was hung, as a traitor, at Gloucester. He d. unm, and, being attainted, his honours were forfeited, but all proceedings against the Karl of Lancaster "and his adherents'" (of whom he was one) were reversed iu (1327), 1 Ed. III.(«) GIFFORD. i,e. t "Gifford " Earldom [S.] {Hay), cr. 1694, with the Marquessate of Twkeddale [S.], which see. GIFFORD OF ST. LEONARD'S. Barony. jr. Robert Gifford, ysfc. s. of Robert G., of Exeter, I 1824 "Grocer and LineudrapeiV'C 1 ) by his second wife, 6. 2 1 Feb. 1779 ; ed. at Alphington grammar school ; sometime articled to an Attorney at Exeter, but entered the Middle Temple, 1800, practising some years below the Bar; Banister, 1808; Recorder of Bristol, 1812 ; Solicitor Gen., 1S17-19, beiut; knighted, 29th May 1817; M.P. for Eyre, 1817-23 ; Attorney Geu., 1619-24, in which capacity he conducted the prosecution of the Cato street con- spirators and the " bill of pains and penalties " against the Queen Consort Caroline,( c ) B.C., 1824, being made, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas., Jan. 1824 (which office he resigned 3 months later), and being cr. 30 Jan. 1824, BARON GIFFORD OF ST. LEONARD'S co. Devon. He was in Feb. following made Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, and iu April was made Master of the Rolls, which office he held till his death. He vi. 6 April 1816, Harriet Maria, da. of the Rev. Edward Dbewe, Rector of Willand, Devon, by Caroline, da. of John Allen, of Cresselly, co. Pembroke. He d. (of cholera), at Marine Parade, Dover, 4, and was bur. 12 Sep. 1826, in the Rolls chapel, Loudon aged 47. Will pr. Sep. 1S26. His widow d. 26 May 1857, aged 62, at Albury, Surrey. Adinon. July 1857. EE. 1826. ii. Robert Francis (Gifford), Baron Gifford of St. Leonard's, s. and h., b. 19 March 1817 ; sue. to the Peerage, 4 Sep. 1S26; ed. at Triu. Hall, Cambridge ; M.A., 1845 ; Lieut. 6th Dragoou Guards, but retired 1841. Hem. 2 April 1845, at Wootton, under Edge, co. Gloucester, Frederica Charlotte Fitzhardiuge, 1st da. of Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge (Berkeley), 1st Baron Fitzhardinge, by Charlotte, 6th da. of Charles (Lennox), 4th Duke oh Richmond. He A. 13 May 1872, aged 55, at Ampney Park, co. Gloucester His widow, who was b. 15 April 1825, living 1890. III. 1872. J. Edric Frederick (Gifford), Baron Gifford of St. Leonard's, s. and h., b. 5 July 1849 ; ed. at Harrow ; entered the Army, 1S69, becoming Brevet Major, 57th Foot, 18S0, but retired, 1882, having served in the Ashaiitee and Zulu wars and received the Victoria Cross, and having sue. to the Peerage, 13 May 1872. He was Colonial Secretary for Western Australia, (•) Among the issue of his sisters of tho half blood (the two daughters of his father, by the first wife), devolved the representation of any hereditary Barony so far as not affected by the doctrine of half-blood. The heirs of these ladies were (1) James Audley [Lord Audley], then aged 14, s. and h. of Nicholas Audley [Lord Audley, d. 1317], who was s. and h. of Nicholas Audley, by Katharine [aged 27 in 1299], the first da. of John Giffard the 1st Baron ; and (2) John L'Estrange, then aged 21, a. and h., of Fulk L'Estrange [Lord Strange de Blackmere, 1308-24], by Eleanor [aged 24 in 1299], second da. of the said John Giffard. See Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. i, p. 129, where the pedigree is set forth as existing in (1327), 1 Ed. III. Iu right of then- representation of Le Strange, the Barony of Giffard has, sometimes been attributed to the Earls of Shrewsbury (1421 — 1616), but the abeyance has never been terminated. ( b ) Foss's "Judges," but in Stephen's "Nat. Biogr." he is said to be "a general dealer in a largo way of business." ( c ) See vol. iii, p. 62, note " b," for some account of the eleven Counsel, " nearly the whole talent of the Bar," engaged, Aug. 1820, in this celebrated trial.
