Education
University of Edinburgh. George Watson"s College.
University of Edinburgh. George Watson"s College.
Born at Ingleston near Twynholm in Kirkcudbrightshire and educated at George Watson"s College and Edinburgh University, Carlyle Gifford trained with the firm of West.S. Cook and became a Writer to the Signet in 1905. In 1907 he co-founded the legal firm of Baillie Gifford WS which in 1909 formed and then acted as manager of The Scottish Mortgage and Trust Company Limited. He specialised in Land law and in Stock Exchange rules.
He served on the Boards of Scottish Widows and Edinburgh University.
He helped set up the Association of Investment Trust Companies in 1929 and served as Chairman from 1934 to 1936. During World World War II he worked in the United States where he acted as an agent for Her Majesty Treasury selling British overseas investments.
He lived in Edinburgh and died there in 1975.
