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class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;; line-height: 1.5em"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Maurice_Gifford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Maurice_Gifford.jpg/220px-Maurice_Gifford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Maurice_Gifford.jpg/330px-Maurice_Gifford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Maurice_Gifford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="385" data-file-height="481" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="font-size: 100%">Gifford, c. 1900.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Birth name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Maurice Raymond Gifford</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1859-05-05</span>)</span>5 May 1859<br /><a href="/wiki/Ampney_Park" title="Ampney Park">Ampney Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloucester" title="Gloucester">Gloucester</a>, United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1 July 1910<span style="display:none">(1910-07-01)</span> (aged 51)<br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1882–1893, 1893, 1896, 1900</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">Colonel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data">French's Scouts, Canada 1882–1893; Scout, <a href="/wiki/British_South_Africa_Police" title="British South Africa Police">British South Africa Police</a>, 1893; Rhodesian Horse, <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Yeomanry" title="Imperial Yeomanry">Imperial Yeomanry</a>, 1900.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data">Gifford's Horse, Bulawayo Field Force, Rhodesia, 1896.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/North-West_Rebellion" title="North-West Rebellion">North-West Rebellion</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Mahdist_War" title="Mahdist War">Mahdist War</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/First_Matabele_War" title="First Matabele War">First Matabele War</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Second_Matabele_War" title="Second Matabele War">Second Matabele War</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>:<br />— <a href="/wiki/Relief_of_Mafeking" class="mw-redirect" title="Relief of Mafeking">Relief of Mafeking</a><br />— Defence of Kimberly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" title="Order of St Michael and St George">Order of St Michael and St George</a><br /><a href="/wiki/North_West_Canada_Medal" title="North West Canada Medal">North West Canada Medal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company_Medal" title="British South Africa Company Medal">British South Africa Company Medal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_South_Africa_Medal" title="Queen's South Africa Medal">Queen's South Africa Medal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Other work</th><td class="infobox-data">Correspondent to the <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, Merchant Service, general manager of Bechuanaland Exploration Company</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Hon. <b>Maurice Raymond Gifford</b> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George" title="Order of St Michael and St George">CMG</a> (5 May 1859 – 1 July 1910) was a British military officer. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Gifford&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Burnham_in_africa_close_up.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Burnham_in_africa_close_up.jpg/250px-Burnham_in_africa_close_up.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Burnham_in_africa_close_up.jpg/375px-Burnham_in_africa_close_up.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Burnham_in_africa_close_up.jpg 2x" data-file-width="383" data-file-height="266" /></a><figcaption>Gifford (right), <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham" title="Frederick Russell Burnham">Frederick Russell Burnham</a> (middle), <a href="/wiki/Matabeleland" title="Matabeleland">Matabeleland</a>, 1893</figcaption></figure> <p>Born on 5 May 1859 at <a href="/wiki/Ampney_Park" title="Ampney Park">Ampney Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a>, England, he was the son of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Francis_Gifford,_2nd_Baron_Gifford" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Francis Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford">Robert Francis Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford</a>, and the brother of <a href="/wiki/Edric_Gifford,_3rd_Baron_Gifford" title="Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford">Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford</a>. On the completion of his education, he entered the Merchant Service, and was on board the training ship <i>Worcester</i> for three years. </p><p>In 1878, he entered the service of the British Steam Navigation Company, in which he remained until 1882, visiting many parts of the globe. That same year he fought in the <a href="/wiki/Mahdist_War" title="Mahdist War">Mahdist War</a> and served as assistant correspondent to the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a> </i>at the time of the engagement of Tel-el-Kebir.<sup id="cite_ref-lobgengula_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lobgengula-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then went to <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> for 11 years and fought in the <a href="/wiki/North-West_Rebellion" title="North-West Rebellion">North-West Rebellion</a> as one of "French's Scouts" under Lord Minto, earning the <a href="/wiki/North_West_Canada_Medal" title="North West Canada Medal">North West Canada Medal</a> and clasp.<sup id="cite_ref-scouting_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scouting-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Next, Gifford went to <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> and became general manager of the Bechuanaland Exploration Company and soon became involved in the <a href="/wiki/First_Matabele_War" title="First Matabele War">First Matabele War</a>, 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt22sep1897_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt22sep1897-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Second_Matabele_War" title="Second Matabele War">Second Matabele War</a>, 1896, he was part of the Bulawayo Field Force during the Siege of <a href="/wiki/Bulawayo" title="Bulawayo">Bulawayo</a>, raised <i>Gifford's Horse</i>, and lost his right arm to a Nbatabele bullet.<sup id="cite_ref-lcreswicke_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lcreswicke-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MauriceGifford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/MauriceGifford.jpg/220px-MauriceGifford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/MauriceGifford.jpg/330px-MauriceGifford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/MauriceGifford.jpg/440px-MauriceGifford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="599" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Maurice Gifford, Gifford's Horse, Matabele War 1896</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>, he was attached to the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Yeomanry" title="Imperial Yeomanry">Imperial Yeomanry</a> and was part of the <i>Rhodesian Horse</i>. He participated in the <a href="/wiki/Relief_of_Mafeking" class="mw-redirect" title="Relief of Mafeking">Relief of Mafeking</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt23may1900_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt23may1900-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Gifford&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He married Marguerite Thorold, the daughter of Captain Thorold of <a href="/wiki/Boothby_Pagnell" title="Boothby Pagnell">Boothby Pagnell</a>, on 21 September 1897. Among the presents that Gifford gave to his wife at the wedding was the bullet that cost him his arm. He set it in Matabele gold and arranged it so that the yellow metal formed a double-headed serpent.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt22sep1897_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt22sep1897-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lived at Boothby Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 July 1910, while undergoing a rest cure for nervous breakdown, Gifford met his death from a fire caused by his clothes being set alight by a cigarette.<sup id="cite_ref-londonnews09jul1910_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-londonnews09jul1910-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had been cleaning his clothing with petrol just before the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-sydneyherald05jul1910_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sydneyherald05jul1910-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div><figure class="mw-default-size noresize" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><img alt="A formative photograph of 17 men. Eight stand, seven sit on chairs and two are on the floor." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg/330px-Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg/495px-Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg 2x" data-file-width="609" data-file-height="354" usemap="#ImageMap_523c4e6fbf5034b7" resource="/wiki/File:Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg" /></span><map name="ImageMap_523c4e6fbf5034b7"><area href="/wiki/Byron_Leighton" shape="poly" coords="1,79,10,53,18,49,21,45,17,32,14,30,18,29,18,22,25,18,30,25,35,25,34,33,32,43,34,48,46,51,50,67,43,67,40,69,37,77,38,82,37,89,27,92,19,100,4,93" alt="Sir Byron Leighton" title="Sir Byron Leighton" /><area href="/wiki/Claud_Grenfel" shape="poly" coords="53,66,55,55,67,50,67,48,65,36,62,33,67,30,71,25,73,26,76,25,79,32,83,34,81,40,78,48,81,50,92,54,93,59,83,61,80,66,82,73,85,79,85,85,70,92,52,87,59,74" alt="Claud Grenfel" title="Claud Grenfel" /><area href="/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham" shape="poly" coords="115,88,100,81,99,75,102,71,101,63,97,59,108,50,108,46,105,43,105,35,113,30,122,36,121,50,128,56,130,63,130,77" alt="Major Frederick Russell Burnham" title="Major Frederick Russell Burnham" /><area href="/wiki/Gordon_Stewart_Drummond_Forbes" shape="poly" coords="128,59,126,53,136,48,135,31,145,25,153,31,150,42,150,50,159,54,159,57,154,81,144,78,149,59,139,55" alt="Captain Gordon Forbes" title="Captain Gordon Forbes" /><area href="/wiki/Abe_Bailey" shape="poly" coords="156,88,171,79,167,61,178,56,187,61,185,79,197,84,202,50,191,42,193,24,186,17,178,19,177,31,179,33,177,38,163,46,157,66" alt="Abe Bailey" title="Abe Bailey" /><area href="/wiki/File:Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg" shape="poly" coords="198,85,201,86,217,77,214,61,230,56,230,79,242,89,260,76,259,61,276,60,281,66,294,51,288,30,275,23,273,7,263,7,260,27,247,40,242,45,234,39,233,31,233,16,217,17,215,28,217,34,218,38,208,44,205,49" alt="unidentified" title="unidentified" /><area href="/wiki/John_Weston_Brooke" shape="poly" coords="292,66,298,40,312,30,305,15,317,10,323,11,324,27,328,33,327,87,310,72" alt="Lord Brooke" title="Lord Brooke" /><area href="/wiki/File:Burnham_churchill_jul1900.jpg" shape="poly" coords="10,122,25,92,38,87,38,82,37,69,50,68,58,73,52,88,50,95,59,101,60,124,66,130,62,160,19,145" alt="Major Bobby White" title="Major Bobby White" /><area href="/wiki/Hugh_Dawnay,_8th_Viscount_Downe" shape="poly" coords="80,141,89,123,104,114,105,108,104,99,115,98,115,88,100,83,99,74,101,72,100,61,94,59,83,61,82,67,86,78,86,84,74,91,67,117,67,136,73,144" alt="Lord Downe" title="Lord Downe" /><area href="/wiki/Henry_Edward_Colville" shape="poly" 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Burnham">Frederick Russell Burnham</a>, Captain Gordon Forbes, <a href="/wiki/Abe_Bailey" title="Abe Bailey">Abe Bailey</a> (his son John would marry <a href="/wiki/Diana_Churchill" title="Diana Churchill">Diana Churchill</a> in 1932), next two unidentified, <a href="/wiki/John_Weston_Brooke" title="John Weston Brooke">John Weston Brooke</a>. Seated L-R: Major Bobby White, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dawnay,_8th_Viscount_Downe" title="Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe">Lord Downe</a>, General Sir <a href="/wiki/Henry_Edward_Colvile" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Edward Colvile">Henry Edward Colvile</a> (a year later Churchill as MP would demand an inquiry over his dismissal from South Africa), Major Harry White, Major <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Frederick_Laycock" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Frederick Laycock">Joe Laycock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, Sir Charles Bentinck. Sitting L-R: unidentified, Col. <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Maurice Gifford</a> (who had lost his arm in the Second Matabele War).</figcaption></figure></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Gifford&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-lobgengula-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-lobgengula_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWillsL.T._Collingridge1894" class="citation book cs1">Wills, W.A.; L.T. 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Fatal Burning Accident"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald" title="The Sydney Morning Herald">The Sydney Morning Herald</a></i>. 5 July 1910. p. 7. <q>The Hon. Maurice Raymond Gifford, C.M.G., while undergoing the rest cure at Hoddesdon, a village near Hereford, was discovered rushing through the garden in a mass of flames. Before dying, he said that he had been cleaning his clothes with petrol, when he lighted a cigarette. A doctor stated at the Inquest that deceased had been suffering from acute nervous prostration. 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