Financier and lawyer. Born at Ingleston (to the south of Twynholm in Dumfries & Galloway) and educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, Gifford read law at the University of Edinburgh. He was admitted a Writer to the Signet in 1905. He partnered with Colonel Augustus Baillie (1861 - 1939) to found the eponymous Baillie Gifford, initially a firm of solicitors but later highly successful investment managers, which now manages funds in excess of £223 billion. Gifford died in Edinburgh. In his memory, his wife Sophia gave a generous endowment to the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
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