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English: Photograph of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife (1814-1879) by Victor Albert Prout. ... File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
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In 1824, the General José de San Martin (today the national hero of Argentina and Perú) visited him at Duff House (see external link below). He was succeeded by his nephew, James Duff, the elder son of James Duff's only brother, General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff, who commanded the 88th regiment, the Connaught Rangers, from 1798 to 1810. [2]
The settlement of Doune (from the Scottish Gaelic dùn, "hill fort") was purchased in 1733 by William Duff, who became the first Earl Fife. In 1760, James Duff, the second earl, built a harbour there and in 1783 succeeded in raising Doune to the status of a burgh of barony, renaming it "Macduff" after his supposed ancestor. The 2nd Earl Fife ...
Duff was the son of Colonel James Duff, a retired army officer living in Aberdeenshire, and Jane Bracken Dunlop.He and his twin brother Alan were among the first boys at Fettes College, Edinburgh; he came as a scholar to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1878 and was elected a Classical Fellow in 1883, a post he held until his death.
James Duff was born in Mansfield (now Carnegie), a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] The oldest of four children, he was the son of Rev. Joseph Miller and Margaret (née Morgan) Duff. [ 2 ] His father was a Presbyterian minister for forty years, and his paternal grandfather was the first college-educated doctor in western Pennsylvania. [ 3 ]