Background
The fourth son of Admiral John Giffard, and Susannah, daughter of Sir John Carter, he was born at his father"s official residence, in Portsmouth dockyard, on 4 November 1813.
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George Giffard
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He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, where he was elected to a fellowship in 1832 and took the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law on 4 March 1841.
Career
Giffard entered the Inner Temple, of which he eventually became a bencher, and was called to the bar in November 1840. He obtained an equity practice, and was a leading chancery junior counsel In 1859 he became a Queen"s Counsel, and attached himself to the court of Vice-chancellor Sir William Page Wood.
After an extended illness, he died at his house, 4 Prince"s Gardens, Hyde Park, London.
Membership
When Vice-chancellor Wood in March 1868 became a lord justice of appeal, Giffard succeeded him. And was again his successor on his promotion from the court of appeal as Lord Chancellor, when he also became a member of the privy council.
