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1 CLOTHES ON FIRE. m SAD DEATH OF HO-N. MAURICE GIFFORD. Bj lelegraph.— Bre«» Asaociation.— Copyright. (Received July 4, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, 3rd July. The Hon. Maurice Gifford, who was undergoing a rest cure at Hoddlesdon, Lancashire, was discovered rushing about, his garden, a mass of flames. Before he died he said he had been cleaning his clothes witE" petrol, when they caught fir© from a lighted cigarette. At the inquest a doctor said Mt. Gifford had suffered from acute nervous prostration. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. [The Hon. Maurice Gifford, C.M.G., fourth son of the second Lord Gifford, was born in 1859. For a time he was an officer of the mercantile 'marine. In the Egyptian campaign he was galloper for Mr. G. Lagden (special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph), served as a scout (with French's Scouts) during Kiel's rebellion in Canada, served in Salisbury's Scouts in the Matabele campaign, commanded the Gifford Horse in the Matabele rebellion (during which he lost an arm), and served under Colonel Mahou in the relief of Mafeking. He commanded the Rhode.sian Horse in the Jubilee Procession.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 3, 4 July 1910, Page 8
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189EXTRA EDITION. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 3, 4 July 1910, Page 8
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