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DUFFERIN — DUFFUS . 191 V. 1841. 5 and 1. Frederick-Temple (Blackwood, after- Earldom. wards Hamilton-Tkmple-Blackwood), Baron Dufferin and ' Clanbove op Ballyleidy and Killyleaoh [I.], only s. and h., !• lo71. b., 21 June 1826, at Florence; ed. at Kton and at Ch. Ch., Marquessate Oxford ; matric., 16 Oct. 1844 ; one of the Lords-in-Waiting, , 000 1849-52 and 1854-58; cr., 22 Janv. 1850, BARON CLANDE- L Ibbii. BOYEjCJof Clandeboye, co. Down [U.K.]; Spec. Commissioner to Syria, 1860-61 ; X.C.B., 18 June 1861 ; K.P., 28 Jany. 1864 ; Lord Lieut, co. Down, 1864 ; Under Sec. for India, 1864-66 ; for War, Feb. to June, 1866; P.C., 1868 ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Paymaster Gen., 1S6S-72; cr., 13 Nov. 1871, VISCOUNT CLANDEBOYE, of Clandeboye, co. Down and EARL OF DUFFERIN in the said county of Down ; Gov. Gen. of Canada, 1872-76 ; G.C.M.G, 26 May 1S76 ; Ambassador to St. Petersburg, 1879-81 ; to Constantinople, 188I-S2 ; Spec. Commissioner to Egypt, Nov. 1882 ; G.C.B., 15 June 1833. Vicerot of India, 1884-88, being cr. (on his return) 17 Nov. 1888. EARL OF AVA('>), in the province of Burma, and MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND ATA., in the co. of Down and in Burma afsd.; G.C.I.E., 1S87 ; G.C.S.I., 1S88 ; Ambassador to Rome, 1888 ; Chancellor of Dublin Univ., 1889 ; Lord Rector of St. Andrew's Univ., 1889. He was also cr. LL.D. of Havard Univ. (Amercia), June 1S78 ; LL.D. of Dublin, 21 Jany. 1879 ; D.C.L. of Oxford, 18 June 1879. Having TO., 23 Oct 1862, at Killyleagh Castle, co. Down, Harriet-Georgiua, 1st da. of Archibald Rowan-Hamilton, of that place, he by royal licence 1862, took the name of Hamilton, to which he subsequently addded that of Temple, before his patronvniie of Blackwood. In 18S9, the Marchioness received the 3d class of the V. and A. [ARcmnALD- James-Leofric-Temtle Hamilton - Temple - Blackwood, b. 28 July 1863, styled, 1871-88. Viscount Clandeboye and from 1888, Earl op Ava, lsts. and h. ap. Lieut. 17th Lancers ; Aide-de-Camp to his father when Viceroy of India.] Family I'&tatcs— Those, in 1883, consisted of 18,238 acres in co. Down, worth £21,043 a year. Principal residence, Clandeboye House, near Belfast. DUFFKYN. See "Aberdare op Duffryn, co. Glamorgan," Barony (Bruce); cr. 1873. DUFFUS. Barony [s.] i. Alexander Sutherland, of Duflas, co. Moray, s. t 1G50 an< ^ °^ William S. of the same, sue. his father 21 Oct. 1626, being then under age, was one of the committee of estates 20 March 1647, and one of the Colonels for arming the Kingdom 15 Feb. 1649, and was cr. by King Charles II. 8 Dec. 1650,(°) LORD DUFFUS [S.] He was Gov. of Perth for the King but was compelled to surrender it to Cromwell in 1651, by whose act "of grace" (1654) he was fined £1,500. He m. firstly Jean, widow of John Sinclair, Master of Berriedale (who d. Sep. 1639), 2d da. and coheir of Colin (Mackenzie), 1st Earl op Seaporth [S-] by Margaret, da. of Alexander (Seton), 1st Earl op Ddnfermline [S.] She d. in childbed 31 March 1648, s.p.s. He m. s econdly (— ), 5th da. of Sir Robert Innes, Bart. [S.], of Innes. She d. s.p. He m. thirdly, Margaret, 2d da. of James (Stewart), Earl op Moray [SJ, by Margaret, da. 0 f Alexander (Home), 1st Earl op Home [S.] He m. fourthly Margaret, da. of ( a ) " Clanebotj or Clandeboy " is, according to the Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1849), " a quondam territorial name of part of the counties of Antrim and Down." It seems a pity that the spelling of the peerage titles taken (1800, 1850 and 1871) therefrom, should not have followed one consistent mode of spelling. ( h ) Ava the ancient capital of Burma was chosen as in commemoration of the grantee's Vice-Royalty of India. See as to this class of Peerage-title, vol. i, p. 79, note " a," sub. " Amherst of Montreal." {") The patent appears to be lost and was never recorded. It is, therefore, impossible to conjecture what was the limitation of the dignity beyond the acknow- ledgement thereof in 1820 to the heir male of the body of the grantee.