[Hew Scott's Fasti Eccl. Scot., vol. iii. pt. ii. pp. 513, 555, 608; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Cat. of Library of Advocates, ii. 680.]
DUFFERIN, Lady (1807–1867). [See Sheridan, Helen Selina.]
DUFFET, THOMAS (fl. 1678), dramatist, was originally a milliner in the New Exchange, London, who unfortunately took to play-writing. He obtained some notoriety by burlesquing the rhymed tragedies with which Dryden, Shadwell, and Settle entertained the town. As literature, his productions are beneath criticism. He is best remembered by ‘The Mock Tempest,’ acted at the Theatre Royal in 1675, and written in opposition to Dryden and Davenant's alteration of Shakespeare's ‘Tempest,’ which was then in its full run at Dorset Gardens. of this travesty Sir William Soames, in his version of ‘Boyleau's Art of Poetry,’ 1683 (reissued as ‘revised by Dryden,’ 1710), wrote:
The dullest scribblers some admirers found,
And the Mock Tempest was a while renown'd:
But this low stuff the town at last despis'd,
And scorn'd the folly that they once had priz'd.
Duffet wrote also: 1. ‘The Empress of Morocco, a farce’ (anon.), 4to, London, 1674, satirising Settle's tragedy of that name; followed by ‘An Epilogue spoken by Witches after the mode of Macbeth,’ ‘perform'd with new and costly machines.’ 2. ‘The Spanish Rogue,’ a comedy in verse, 4to, London, 1674. This, the most indecent of his plays, is appropriately dedicated to ‘Madam Ellen Gwyn.’ 3. ‘Beauties Triumph, a masque [in verse]. Presented by the Scholars of Mr. Jeffery Banister and Mr. James Hart, at their new Boarding School for Young Ladies and Gentlewomen, kept in that House which was formerly Sir Arthur Gorges, at Chelsey,’ 4to, London, 1676, a curious lesson in what was then considered high moral culture. 4. ‘Psyche Debauch'd, a comedy,’ 4to, London, 1678, a travesty of Shadwell's tragedy. To Duffet is ascribed the authorship of the anonymous comedy entitled ‘The Amorous Old Woman. … Written by a Person of Honour,’ 4to, London, 1674 (afterwards reissued with a new title-page, ‘The Fond Lady,’ 4to, London, 1684). He also wrote a paltry volume of ‘New Poems, Songs, Prologues and Epilogues … set by the most eminent Musicians about the Town,’ 8vo, London, 1676, and a broadsheet ballad, undated, called ‘Amintor's Lamentation for Celia's Unkindness.’
[Baker's Biog. Dram. (1812), i. 210–11, ii. 25, 53, 194, iii. 52, 186, 293; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. xii. 63; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
DUFFIELD, WILLIAM (1816–1863), still-life painter, born at Bath in 1816, and educated in that city, was the second son of Charles Duffield, at one time proprietor of the Royal Union Library. At an early age he displayed a decided predilection and talent for drawing. Mr. George Doo, the engraver, having been struck by Duffield's highly elaborated pen-and-ink sketches and faithful copies of his engravings, offered to take him as his pupil without a premium. A few years later he placed himself under Lance, and was noted for his unremitting attention and assiduity as a student of the Royal Academy. After completing the usual course of study in London, he returned to Bath, and later on proceeded to Antwerp, where, under Baron Wappers, he worked for two years. In 1857 he resided at Bayswater, and died on 3 Sept. 1863. In 1850 he was married to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. T. E. Rosenberg of Bath, and a painter of fruit and flowers; she was a member of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours.
[Ottley's Dictionary of Recent and Living Painters and Engravers; Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists.]
DUFFUS, Lords. [See Sutherland.]
DUFFY, EDWARD (1840–1868), Fenian leader, was born at Ballaghaderreen, county of Mayo, in 1840. In 1863 he gave up a situation and devoted himself to spreading Fenian principles in Connaught, becoming in fact ‘ the life and soul of the Fenian movement west of the Shannon.’ He was arrested 11 Nov. 1865, with James Stephens, Charles J. Kickham, and Hugh Brophy, at Fairfield House, Sandymount, but after a brief imprisonment was released on bail in January 1866, in the belief that he was dying of consumption. He again applied himself to the organisation, was rearrested at Boyle on 11 March, tried 21 May 1867, and sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. He was found dead in his cell at Millbank prison, 17 Jan. 1868. The concluding sentences of his speech delivered in the dock before conviction have been inscribed on his tomb in Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin.
[T. D. Sullivan's Speeches from the Dock, 23rd ed. pt. i. pp. 208–10; A. M. Sullivan's New Ireland, 6th ed. p. 264; Webb's Irish Compendium, p. 160.]
DUFIEF, NICOLAS GOUÏN (1776?–1834), French teacher, a native of Nantes, was born in or about 1776. His father, a knight of the order of St. Louis, served during the revolution as a volunteer under the French princes in Germany; his mother, the Countess
