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Harriet Maria Drewe, Lady Gifford (1795–1816)
Harriet Maria Gifford, Lady Gifford (1816–1857)

1794/5–1857

Daughter of Caroline and Edward Drewe. Married Robert Gifford, in 1816; he was knighted in 1817 and created Baron Gifford of St Leonards, 1824. Widowed, 1826.

Sources

Burke’s peerage 1980

Devon, England, Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1812 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 May 2022)

ODNB s.v. Gifford, Robert

Surrey, England, Church of England burials, 1813–1987 (Ancestry.com, accessed 13 July 2017)

Bibliography

Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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