at once began the task of 

 associating educational with evan- 

 gelistic work. He was instru- 

 mental in setting up many schools 

 and colleges. He had much to do 

 with founding Calcutta University, 

 and for a time he editedThe Calcutta 

 Review. At the disruption of 1 843 

 Duff followed the leaders of the 

 Free Church, and in 1851 he was 

 its moderator, as he was again in 

 1873. In his later years he was 

 professor of missions at New Col- 

 lege, Edinburgh, and travelled all 

 over the world in the interests of 

 his work. He wrote The Indian 

 Mutiny, 1858. Duff, who is com- 

 memorated by Duff Hall, Calcutta, 

 died Feb. 12, 1878. See Life, G. 

 Smith, 1879. 



Duff, SIK ALEXANDER LUDOVIC 

 (b. 1862). British sailor. Born 

 Feb. 20, 1862, he entered the navy. 

 Promoted lieutenant of the royal 

 yacht in 1884, he was naval as- 

 sistant to the 3rd sea lord from 

 1905-8, and was appointed A.D.C. 

 to the king on Aug. 21, 1911. The 

 same year he became director of 

 naval mobilisation, Admiralty War 

 Staff, which office he was holding 

 on the outbreak of the Great War. 

 Promoted rear-admiral in 1913, he 

 commanded the 4th battle squad- 

 ron, 1914-17, being mentioned in 

 dispatches and given the C.B. for 

 his action in the battle of Jutland. 

 From 1917-19 he was assistant 

 chief of the naval staff, was pro- 

 moted vice-admiral in 1918, and 

 made commander-in-chief of the 

 China squadron in 1919. 



Duff, SIR BEAUCHAMP (1855- 

 1918). British soldier. Born Feb. 

 17. 1855, the son of Garden W. 

 Duff, of Hatton Castle, Aber- 

 deenshire, and educated at Glenal- 

 mond, he passed through Woolwich, 

 and in 1874 entered the artillery. 

 Having served in 1878-80 against 

 1 the Afghans, 

 I he transferred 

 | to the Indian 

 army. In 1895 

 Duffwasmade 

 military secre- 

 tary to the 

 commander- 

 i n-c h i e f in 

 India, and in 

 1899 was in 



S. Africa, first 

 wiou&Fn, with g ir G 



White in Ladysmith and then on 

 the staff of Lord Roberts. 



Having returned to India, he com- 

 manded a brigade, and was made 

 a major-general. From 1903-6 he 

 was adjutant-general in India, from 

 1906-9 chief of the staff there, 

 being knighted in 1906, and in 1913 

 became commander-in-chief. He 

 was in India when the Great War 

 broke out, and his share in or- 





Sir Beauchamp Duff, 

 British soldier 



Sir M. Grant Duff, 

 British author 



271 1 



ganizing the expedition to Meso- 

 potamia was severely censured by 

 the commission of inquiry. This 

 undoubtedly hastened his death, 

 which took place Jan. 20, 1918. 



= Duff, SlR MOUNTSTUART ELPHIN- 



STONE GRANT (1829-1906). Brit- 

 ish author and politician. Born 

 Feb. 21, 1829. ^^^ r ___ rs ^ 

 atEden,Aber- | 

 deenshire, he | 

 was educated 

 at Edinburgh 

 and Balliol 

 College, Ox- 

 ford, and was 

 called to the 

 bar at the 

 Inner Temple, 

 1854. M.P. for 



the Elgin Elliott & Fry 



Burghs, 1857-81, he was under- 

 secretary of state for India, 1868- 

 74, and for the colonies, 1 880. From 

 1881-86 he was governor of Madras. 

 He wrote many books, chiefly bio- 

 graphical and political, but will be 

 best remembered for his series of 

 Notes from a Diary. Other works 

 include : Studies in European Poli- 

 tics, 1866; A Political Survey, 1868 ; 

 Notes of an Indian Journey, 1876; 

 Sir Henry Maine, a brief memoir, 

 1892; Ernest Renan, 1893; and a 

 biographical notice of Baron de 

 Tabley in that writer's Flora of 

 Cheshire, 1899. He died at Chel- 

 sea, Jan. ]2, 1906. 



Dufferin and Ava, FREDERICK 

 TEMPLE HAMILTON-TEMPLE BLACK- 

 WOOD, IST MARQUESS OF (1826- 

 1902). British diplomatist and ad- 

 ministrator. Born at Florence, 

 June 21, 1826, son of the 4th Baron 

 Dufferin and Helen Selina, grand- 

 daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheri- 

 dan, he was educated at Eton and 

 Christ Church, Oxford. He suc- 

 ceeded in 1841 to his father's title, 

 an Irish one, and in 1850 was made 

 a British peer as Baron Clandeboye. 

 He went as special commissioner to 

 Syria in 1860 to inquire into the 

 religious massacres, was appointed 

 under- secretary for India in 1864 

 for war in 1866, and was created 

 an earl in 1871. 

 Governor - 

 general of 

 Canada, 1872- 

 78, and vicerov 

 of India, 1884- 

 88, he became 

 ambassador at 

 Rome in 1888. 

 and in Paris in 



1891. In 1888 he was created mar- 

 quess of Dufferin and Ava. 



After an exceptionally brilliant 

 career, Lord Dufferin's later years 



were clouded by his unfortunate 

 action in 1897 in accepting the 

 chairmanship of the London and 

 Globe Finance Corporation, of 

 which Whitaker Wright (q.v.) was 

 managing director, without ade- 

 quate inquiry into its affairs, over 

 which he had no control, but for 

 the disastrous collapse of which he 

 had to share the blame. This and 

 the death of his eldest son, the earl 

 of Ava, who was killed in South 

 Africa in 1900, led to a breakdown 

 in health, and he died at Cland'e- 

 boye, Feb. 12, 1902. See his 

 Speeches in India, 1890 ;" Life, Sir 

 A. C. Lyall, 1905. He was succeeded 

 by his second son, Lord Terence 

 Temple-Blackwood (1866-1918),on 

 whose death the title passed to his 

 third son, Lord Frederick Black- 

 wood (b. 1875). 



Dufferin, LADY (1807-67). Irish 

 song writer. Eldest daughter of 

 Tom Sheridan, and grand-daughter 

 of Richard 

 Brinsley Shei 

 dan, she mar- 

 ried in 1825 

 Commander 

 Price Black- 

 wood. who suc- 

 ceeded his 

 father in 1839 

 as Baron Duf- 

 ferin (d. 1841). 

 She then de- 

 voted herself to 

 the education 

 of her son, the future marquess of 

 Dufferin (q.v. ). In 1862 she married 

 the earl of Gifford,then on his death- 

 bed. She died at Highgate, June 1 3, 

 1867. Her best known poem is The 

 Irish Emigrant, 1845. See Songs, 

 Poems, Verses, with Memoir of the 

 Sheridan Family, ed. by her son. 

 1894. 



Duffy, SIR CHARLES GAVAN 

 (1816-1903). Irish nationalist and 

 colonial statesman. Born at Mona- 



r - - .-, ghan, April 12, 



I 1816, in 1842, 

 i with John 

 Dillon and 

 Thomas Davis, 

 he founded 

 The Nation, 

 the organ o f 

 the Young Ire- 

 land party. 

 M.P. for New 

 Ross from 

 1852-55, he 

 Einott & Fry afterwards emi- 

 grated to Australia. He became a 

 member of the Victoria House of 

 Assembly, 1856, was twice minister 

 of land and works, and in 1871 

 prime minister of Victoria. Knighted 

 in 1873, he died at Nice, Feb. 9, 

 1 903. Besides political writings he 

 published the popular anthology, 

 Ballad Poetry of Ireland, ] 846. 

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Lady Dufferin, 

 Irish song writer 

 By 



urtesy of John 

 Hurray 



