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Gifford Long (c. 1576 – 15 December 1635) was an English MP, landowner, and magistrate.
He was caught up in a great purge, when on 22 December 1625, Chancery issued new commissions of the peace to remove justices, in which between thirty and forty percent of J.P.s throughout twenty counties were abruptly dismissed. However, he was among the first to regain office, returning to the Wiltshire commission on 23 February 1626. The Great Purge of 1625: the late Murraine amongst the Gentlemen of the Peace – Alison Wall, University of Oxford.
He married firstly in 1597, Ann Yewe of Bradford, who died shortly after the birth of their second daughter in 1601. His second wife was Amy Wingate, née Warre, (widow of Robert Wingate of Harlington House, Bedfordshire), the daughter of Roger Warre of Hestercombe, and granddaughter of Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham. Long had a further five children with his second wife.
After his death on 15 December 1635, the manor of Rood Ashton descended to his eldest son and heir, Edward, who had married in 1632, Dorothy, sister of Sir Samuel Jones of Courteenhall, Northamptonshire. The descent of the manor continued in the Long family for a further 295 years, until 1930, when it was sold by the executors of his descendant, the 1st Viscount Long.
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