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John Templeton and James Stewart Templeton, each of James Templeton & Co carpet makers (the latter grave was originally coloured to look like a carpet) Charles S. P. Tennent and his brother Hugh Tennent and son Hugh Tennent all of Wellpark Brewery (the graves face the brewery) William Thomson, Lord Kelvin; Rev Ralph Wardlaw; James George Wilson
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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.
While there was an earlier hamlet at Laichie and Mortlach, Dufftown as a Burgh was founded in 1817 by James Duff, 4th Earl Fife and was named after him. [7] The town was established to help develop the Earls estate and provide both housing and employment for soldiers returning home from the Napoleonic War. [3]
Militia, dragoons and yeomanry under the command of Sir James Duff The Gibbet Rath executions / ˈ dʒ ɪ b ə t r æ θ / , sometimes called the Gibbet Rath massacre , refers to the execution of several hundred surrendering rebels by government forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 at the Curragh of Kildare on 29 May 1798.
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]