George Markham Giffard

Sir George Markham Giffard, PC (4 November 1813 – 13 July 1870) was an English barrister and judge.

Life 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. 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 BCL on 4 March 1841.

While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University on four occasions between 1834 and 1836. He scored 128 runs in these matches, with a highest score of 105 against MCC at Lord's in 1835.

As a bowler he took 7 wickets, on one occasion taking a five wicket haul.

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