| The history of the Castle Douglas branch of the Firm, which comprises the former Firms of Lidderdale & Gillespie and Patrick Gifford & Co., dates back to the 18th Century to one James Hannay who was in practice in Castle Douglas in 1785 and earlier. Hannay's daughter married a Lidderdale and later a member of the Lidderdale family went into partnership with the first of the Gillespie family to be associated with the firm and Lidderdale & Gillespie was formed. Succeeding generations of the Gillespie family followed, the last of whom retired in 1983.
Patrick Gifford commenced as a sole practitioner in Castle Douglas in 1895 and subsequently took his son, Patrick Gifford, Junior, into partnership. The latter was a wartime Hurricane pilot and has been credited with having shot down the first German aircraft at the commencement of World War II over the Forth. He was unfortunately killed in action the following year. Patrick Gifford, Senior, retired in 1949 and the partnership was then continued by various parties, latterly Messrs A.D. Millar and W.G. Coulthard before the practice amalgamated with Lidderdale & Gillespie in 1985 to form the then Firm of Gillespie & Gifford. The partners from Lidderdale & Gillespie at that time were Messrs G.C.M. Laing and N. Smith.
Geoff Laing and Fred Coulthard continue as two of the partners of the enlarged Firm now known as Gillespie Gifford & Brown with Iain McDonald being the third partner in that office.
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