Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tuesday 5 July 1910, page 7


THE HON. MAURICE GIFFORD.

FATAL BURNING ACCIDENT.

LONDON, July 3.

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.

A verdict of accidental death was

returned.

The Hon. Maurice Gifford, fourth son of the second Lord Gifford, saw much service as an irregular. He was in the Egyptian campaign of 1864 , he was a scout in the operations against Rich's rebellion in Canada in 1885, and served as a scout in the Matabele campaign in Africa in 1893. Mr. Gifford commanded two troops of horse in the Matabele rebellion three years later. In the relief of Mafeking he

served on Colonel Mahon's staff.