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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.
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.
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]
James Duff was promoted captain and lieutenant-colonel, on 18 July 1780, colonel on 18 November 1790. His regiment was part of the expeditionary force sent to Flanders to campaign against the French as part of the First Coalition (the British contingent under the command of Prince Frederick, Duke of York ).
Grant Duff, James. A History of the Mahrattas. Full text online at ibiblio.org (All three volumes in HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all footnotes and a combined index) A History of the Mahrattas, 3 vols. London, Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green (1826); also more recent editions, ISBN 81-7020-956-0 ISBN 1-4212-2137-3; vol ...
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Secondly, in 1850, he married Eliza Georgiana Duff (d. 1918) – who was 24 years younger than him [2] – a daughter of Sir James Duff, by whom he had a further nine children, including: John. R. D. Tollemache, eldest son by his second wife, who married Eleanor Starnes, a daughter of the Hon. Henry Starnes by his wife Eleanor Stuart.