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).