3-021-726 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Vice-Chancellor Giffard, 1868. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. 'The newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor, George Markham Giffard, is the son of Admiral Giffard. He was called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple Nov. 20,1810. He chose the Court of Chancery as the field of his professional career, and soon rose into a good position and practice as a safe and skilful conveyancer and a sound equity lawyer. His repute steadily advanced in that quiet way peculiar to Chancery Courts till he became a Queen's Counsel, in 1858, and was made a Bencher of the Inner Temple. Mr. Giffard's courteous and amiable disposition, his sterling good sense, and his profound knowledge and experience in equity, render him especially suited for the high appointment of Vice-Chancellor, which he has been just called on to fulfil. He succeeds Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, whose promotion to be one of the Lords Justices, in the place of Lord Cairns, now Lord Chancellor, must be fresh in the recollection of our readers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.