List of Famous people with last name Giffard
Louisa Giffard
Stanley Lees Giffard
Stanley Lees Giffard was founder and first editor of a London newspaper, The Standard.
John Giffard
Ursula Giffard
John Giffard
Sophia Elizabeth Giffard
Arthur Giffard
Myllecent Giffard
John Giffard
Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England, was a Royalist leader during the Civil War. Giffard commanded the Devon Pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1634, in which his 3rd cousin the Royalist commander of the Cornish forces Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) was killed in heroic circumstances. Giffard's loyalty to the Royalist cause led to him being proposed in 1660 as a knight of the intended Order of the Royal Oak. He was personally known to the biographer John Prince (1643–1723) who included him as one of his Worthies of Devon. He was buried in Chittlehampton Church, where his small kneeling effigy survives on the base of the monument he erected in 1625 to his grandfather.