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Robert 2nd


Died
  
May 13, 1872

Robert Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford

Children
  
Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford

Robert Francis Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford (19 March 1817 – 13 May 1872) was a British peer.

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He was the son of Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and served as an officer in the British Army. He succeeded in the barony on 4 September 1826 and assumed his seat in the House of Lords.

On 2 April 1845, he married the Hon. Frederica-Charlotte-Fitz-Hardinge, eldest daughter of Maurice Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge, 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 Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford, VC (5 July 1849 – 5 June 1911)
  • Evelyn Mary Gifford, (20 November 1850 - unknown), 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 - unknown), 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 - unknown)

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