Richard Gifford
1724/5–1807
Clergyman. BA, Oxford University, 1748. Curate of Richard’s Castle, Herefordshire; morning preacher at St Anne’s, Soho, London; chaplain to John, marquess of Tweeddale, 1758. Vicar of Duffield, near Derby, 1759–1807. Rector of North Ockenden, Essex, 1772–1807. Published Outline of an answer to Dr Priestly’s disquisition (1782). Friend of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802).
Sources
Letter from C. H. Tindal, 1 January 1880
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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