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  William Gifford - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
WILLIAM GIFFORD (1756-1826), English publicist and man of letters, was born at Ashburton, Devon, in April 1756.
Settling in London, Gifford published in 1794 his first work, a clever satirical piece, after Persius, entitled the Baviad, aimed at a coterie of secondrate writers at Florence, then popularly known as the Della Cruscans, of which Mrs Piozzi was the leader.
Gifford also edited the dramas of Ben Jonson in 1816, and his edition of Ford appeared posthumously in 1827.
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 William Gifford
Gifford remained at Oxford for about four years, part of which time he spent in the celebrated boarding school kept by the Catholic physician Etheridge, whither he had been removed on the compulsory retirement of Bridgewater for refusal to conform.
On Allen's elevation to the cardinalate, Gifford accompanied him to Rome in the capacity of chaplain, and it is said that during this visit he resided for a time in the household of St. Charles Borromeo.
In 1618, Gifford was consecrated coadjutor to Cardinal Louis de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, with the title of Episcopus Archidaliæ (Bishop of Archidal).
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/gifford,william.html   (771 words)

  
 William Gifford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Gifford (April, 1756 - December 31, 1826), critic, editor and poet, was born of humble parentage at Ashburton, Devonshire, and after being for a short time at sea, was apprenticed to a cobbler.
Gifford and Wolcot met in Wright’s bookshop in Piccadilly on 18 August 1800.
Gifford was popularly supposed to have penned the attack on Keats's Endymion, actually by John Wilson Croker, which Shelley and Byron erroneously blamed for bringing about the death of the poet, 'snuffed out', in Byron's phrase, 'by an article'.
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 Descendants of Annaniah GIFFORD
William GIFFORD was born circa Jun 1743 in Shrewsbury Tp, Monmouth Co, NJ.
William GIFFORD appeared in the 1793 NJ census in Egg Harbor Tp, Gloucester Co, NJ, (this was a military census of males between the ages of 18 and 45...
William GIFFORD appeared in the 1793 NJ census in Pittsgrove Tp, Salem Co, NJ, (this was a military census of males between the ages of 18 and 45...
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 Legacy Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Gifford was born on 7 Oct 1794 and died on 14 Mar 1863 in Harrison County, Virginia (Now West Virginia).
Ashel Gifford was born on 5 Jan 1793 and died on 28 Oct 1858.
Margaret Gifford was born on 25 Jun 1802 and died on 30 Dec 1883 in Harrison County, West Virginia.
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 GIFFORD, William (1756-1826)
William Gifford was taught reading by a schoolmistress and learnt old ballads from his mother.
William, who had been taken charge of by his godfather, was sent to school for a short time, then put to farm-work, for which he was not fitted, and at the age of thirteen placed in a small Brixham coaster.
Gifford was a little man, almost deformed, and had long been full of ailments, which may partly explain his sourness of temper.
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 William Gifford
William probably began service with the 3rd New York at Fort Anne that was located eleven miles south of Whitehall, New York, and thirty-six miles south of Fort Ticonderoga.
William is present at this time, in the month of Sept. of 1814, when from the north, about 10,000 British veterans advanced into the United States from Montreal.
William Gifford, in the 89th year of his age, one of the few remaining patriots of revolution.
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 Rips Homepage at www.ripsplace.net - Rip's Genealogy
Elihu Gifford was born in 1747 in Dartmouth, MA.
Caleb Gifford was born in 1764 in Dartmouth, MA.
William Gifford was born on 28 Jul 1758 in Dartmouth, MA.
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 Gifford Foundation History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rosamond Gifford was born in September, 1873, the only child of Mary A. and William H. Gifford.
Rosamond's father was a member of the law firm Hiscock, Gifford and Doheny and was also a district attorney for Onondaga County.
William Gifford died in 1917, and Rosamond inherited an estate worth $1.25 million.
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 William Hazlitt's Essay from The Spirit of the Age, "Mr. Gifford."
Gifford hazarded his first poetical attempts under all the disadvantages of a neglected education: but the same circumstance, together with a few unpruned redundancies of fancy and quaintnesses of expression, was made the plea on which Mr.
Gifford, as a satirist, is violent and abrupt.
Gifford is entitled to considerable praise for the pains he has taken in revising the text, and for some improvements he has introduced into it.
www.blupete.com /Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/SpiritAge/Gifford.htm   (3622 words)

  
 Another Mayflower Descendant - Person Page 22
Patience Gifford was the daughter of William Gifford.
Gifford bought of mistress Sarah Warren of Plymouth, widow of Richard Warren, one half her share in the land at Dartmouth, which by deed May 6, 1683 he gave equally to his sons Christopher and Robert.
William Davol was the son of Thomas Davol and Alyce Elred.
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 Robert Swain Gifford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Robert Swain Gifford was born on a small island called Nonamesset, which adjoins Naushon in the chain of Elizabeth Islands off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts.
Gifford had the good fortune to become the friend and student of Van Beest, whom he took on sketching trips in his father's boat.
Gifford won a metal of honor at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and in 1876 and was one of the founders of the American Art Association.
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 NBAM mounts major Gifford exhibit: 5/18/03
This comprehensive showing, the first major exhibit of Gifford's work in 30 years and the first in as long to concentrate on his prolific production in etching, is drawn from the holdings of the Whaling Museum and from private collections.
While Robert Swain Gifford was never to have a firsthand remembrance of his namesake, Lydia Swain took an active interest in young Gifford's life and circumstances, providing access to a breadth of education and to social connections that stimulated his latent artistic talents and later assisted his rise to national prominence.
By the age of 15, Robert Swain Gifford was expressing his artistic talents by sketching from nature along the shores and wharves of Fairhaven, the town to which his family had relocated when he was 2.
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 The Descendants of Thomas and Hannah (Annable) Bowerman - Person Page 9
     Jabez Gifford was the son of William Gifford.
     William Gifford was the son of William Gifford.
     William married Mehitable Wing, daughter of Jedediah Wing and Elizabeth Gifford, circa 1755.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gifford,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Greenfield, N.Y. A major painter of the American movement known as luminism, Gifford, who was influenced by Thomas Cole early in his career, was celebrated for his atmospheric landscapes.
Gifford, William GIFFORD, WILLIAM [Gifford, William] 1756-1826, English journalist and critic.
Lowell, Mass., studied at Columbia Univ. One of the leaders of the beat generation, he was the author of the novel On the Road (1957), widely considered the testament of the beat movement.
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 Americus Gifford and Descendants-Generation 1
William M. Gifford, (seated)(l-r standing behind him are Benjamin F. Gifford(1892) and Mary Frazier Gifford(1894) seated in front (l-r) John Henry Gifford(1900), Loy Gifford(1902) and James Dewey Gifford(1898).
William M. Gifford born Aug 4, 1848 in Bedford Co. TN and died Nov. 10, 1913 in Cherokee Co. TX.
Amanda Caroline Gifford born 1851 in Cherokee Co. TX and died in 1862 in Cherokee Co. TX.
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 The Descendants of Thomas and Hannah (Annable) Bowerman - Person Page 5
He was the son of William Gifford, Jr.
She was the daughter of William Gifford, Jr.
She was the daughter of John Wing and Experience Gifford.
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 Descendants of William Gifford
GIFFORD was born 1613 in London, England, and died 09 Apr 1687 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA.
Marriage: 16 Jul 1683, Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA Child of WILLIAM GIFFORD and PATIENCE RUSSELL is:
Child of WILLIAM GIFFORD and MARY MILLS is:
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William was a Quaker and his wife, Mary, was a "vagabond" "travelling" Quaker missionary.
It is supposed that he was the William Gifford who in 1647 or earlier was ordered by the court at Stanford to be whipped and banished.
(1) Rachel Gifford; dau of Elijah Gifford and Deborah
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 William Gifford's origins
Further, I see that William Gifford, the immigrant ancestor of many Giffords, is given a wife named Patience Russell.
Note also that Philip was undoubtedly the father of John Gifford, master of the iron works at Saugus (Lynn), MA, but there is nothing in New England to tie John and William together, as would be expected if they were brothers.
It does seem likely that the William Gifford who was the son of "Anthi" (Anthony) Gifford, of Dublin, gent., was probably the one who married Elizabeth Grant in 1636 at St. Martin in the Fields.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Gifford
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On Allen's elevation to the cardinalate, Gifford accompanied him to Rome in the capacity of chaplain, and it is said that during this visit he resided for a time in the household of St.
The latter work, begun by Dr. Reynolds, Gifford completed and edited.
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 Gifford, William - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
GIFFORD, WILLIAM [Gifford, William] 1756-1826, English journalist and critic.
The Gifford Lectures and the Scottish personal idealists.
CEO of the Year: Maxim's Jack Gifford created an amazingly prolific product-development team--now he'a adding to it by acquisition.(Interview)(Cover Story)(Statistical Data Included)
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However, the only William Gifford so apprenticed was the son of "Anthi Gifford of Dublin, Gentleman", who married Elizabeth Grant in 1636 at St. Martin in the Fields.
Continuing on: "The next record is unexpected: 'William Gifford, for taking his wife without orderly marriage, forasmuch as there were many circumstances in the action that did alleviate the fault, is only fined fifty shillings, the Court abateing the fine in extent of it respecting the premises -5 March 1683/4"- Gov.
"(4756) William Gifford was early a proprietor of lands at Sandwich, and early joined the Quakers; being fined a number of times for not taking the oath of fidelity, and for "seditious utterances" against the King.
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 GIFFORD, WILLIAM (1756... - Online Information article about GIFFORD, WILLIAM (1756...
WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. Ger.
character, and before he was thirteen William had lost both parents.
fortune, the bulk of which went to the son of his first benefactor, William Cooksley.
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 Gifford Genealogy Researchers
Descends from Isaac Gifford who was born in New Jersey in 1745.
Isaac was the grandson of Isaac Gifford of Huntingdon County, PA.
Descends from Americus GIFFORD of Smith/Bedford Co, TN.
staff.kutztown.edu /gifford/genealogy/gifford/researchers.asp   (249 words)

  
 Descendants of Mary Gifford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gifford, Gideon 31 M Farmer TN Mary 28 F TN William H. John F. Sarah 6 F TN Jane 1 F TN Thomas Buckingham born about 1800 lived on the east side of what is now Thompson lane in east Hartsville, having bought five acres from Gideon Gifford in 1846.
The court case mentions that George Gifford resides in Trousdale Co., Tenn. in 1875.
The oldest child, William Gifar (sic), 19, is a farmer.
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 Palgrave Chronology
Dawson William Turner, their only surviving son, is born in December (dies 1885, B.A. and M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, headmaster of the Royal Institution school, Liverpool, and author of numerous school history texts).
He is named for the father's friend William Gifford, editor of the Quarterly, who is named godfather.
Gifford wins gold medal for classical verse and becomes captain of the school.
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 Gifford Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Notes: John Gifford was a Colonel in the Army.He got grants of Agharn and other lands in County Cork, by patent dated 28 September 1656 (possible 1666?).
He was a free Burgess of the Borough of New Ross, County Wexford, and was the ancestor of the Giffords of Agharn.
William's birthdate is given in www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cricha/index.htm as "about 1663".
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 William Gifford — Infoplease.com
McGinnis, Timothy Scott: George Gifford and the Reformation of the Common Sort: Puritan Priorities in Elizabethan Religious Life.(Book......
With the Grain of the Universe: the Church's Witness and Natural Theology: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University......
Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and the boundaries of politics in American thought.
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 (Jabez GIFFORD - William GIFFORD )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mary GIFFORD (9 Oct 1669 - 25 Oct 1689)
William GIFFORD (Jr.) (16 Feb 1656 - 1739)
William GIFFORD (Abt 1615 - 9 Apr 1687)
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