There have been three creations of baronets with the surname Duff, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations are extinct while...
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Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL (22 July 1862 – 20 April 1931) was a prominent Englishman and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best...
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ground Duff, slang term for buttocks Duff baronets, three titles in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom HMS Duff, two British Royal Navy frigates Duff (1794...
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Vivian Duff, 3rd Baronet (3 May 1907 – 3 March 1980) was a British socialite who was Lord Lieutenant first of Caernarvonshire, and then of Gwynedd. Duff was...
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Sir James Duff, 1st Baronet (1734–1815) Sir William Duff-Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1772–1823) Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, 3rd Baronet (1811–1872)...
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had succeeded as tenth Baronet on 1 May 1911, so Duff became known as Lady Twysden. Their son Anthony, later eleventh Baronet, was born on 11 March 1918...
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Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Sutherland; 13 June 1863 – 20 April 1935) was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th...
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heiress of Sir William Dunbar, 1st Baronet of the Dunbar baronets of Northfield (1700). The remainder of the Dunbar baronets of Hempriggs is to heirs whomsoever...
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Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, 3rd Baronet (3 February 1811 – 27 October 1872) was a British civil servant and Baronet of Halkin. He was the husband...
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Sir William Duff-Gordon, 2nd Baronet (8 April 1772 – 8 March 1823), known as William Gordon until 1815, was a Scottish politician. Duff-Gordon was the...
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Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (redirect from Baronet Gordon, of Haddo)
to a special remainder and assumed the additional surname of Duff (see Duff-Gordon baronets for further history of this branch of the family). The Hon....
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daughter of Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Duff (sister of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife) was a sister of Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, the Conservative...
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(died 1815), of the Duff-Gordon baronets James Duff Duff (1860–1940), English translator and classical scholar James Fitzjames Duff (1898–1970), British...
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Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet (1907–1980), British statesman and socialite Mickey Duff (1929–2014), British boxer Michelle Duff, (born Michael Allan Duff, 1939)...
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Earl of Southesk (redirect from Carnegie baronets)
Southesk also holds the Scottish feudal title of Baron of Kinnaird and is a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, has been the...
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Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Austin; 24 June 1821 – 14 July 1869) was an English author and translator who wrote as Lucie Gordon. She is best known for...
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Maureen Dunbar (category Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia)
Garden Duff-Dunbar of Hempriggs had predeceased his father, leaving two young sons, George, afterwards Sir George Duff-Sutherland-Dunbar, 6th Baronet, and...
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David Gilmour (historian) (redirect from Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet)
works, including award-winning biographies of Lord Curzon (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize...
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William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (1697 – 30 September 1763), of Braco, Banff, was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727...
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Lady Caroline Paget (category Wives of baronets)
married Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet, becoming his second wife. Together they adopted one child, Charles Duff (b. 1950). Lady Caroline Duff died on 22 May...
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The surname Duff has several origins. In some cases, it is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Ó Duibh ("descendant of Dubh"), Mac Giolla Duibh ("son of the...
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was a second creation for the seat: see Abdy baronets of Albyns (1660). Sir Thomas Neville Abdy, 1st Baronet (1810–1877) was the son of Anthony Abdy and...
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Elphinstone Grant Duff GCSI, CIE, PC, FRS (21 February 1829 – 12 January 1906), known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff thereafter...
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Duke of Fife (redirect from Earl of MacDuff)
(later King Edward VII) and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Alexander Duff (1849–1912) was the eldest son of the 5th Earl Fife (1814–1879). Upon his...
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In 1763, Grant married Jean Duff, daughter of Alexander Duff, 2nd of Hatton, and Lady Anne Duff, daughter of William Duff, 1st Earl Fife. They had 14...
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1st Baronet (1844–1915) Sir Archibald Leonard Lucas Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet (1884–1918) Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Munro-Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet (1903–1985)...
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1093/ref:odnb/36557. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) "Baronets". The Register. Adelaide: Trove. 27 June 1902. p. 5. Retrieved 21 August...
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General Sir Charles Green, 1st Baronet (18 December 1749 – 12 July 1831) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Northern District...
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Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl Fife (18 April 1731 – 17 April 1811) was a Scottish nobleman. Duff was born on 18 April 1731. He was a son of William Duff, 1st Earl...
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McGrigor, 1st Baronet (1771–1858) Sir Charles Rhoderic McGrigor, 2nd Baronet (1811–1890) Sir James Rhoderic Duff McGrigor, 3rd Baronet (1857–1924) Sir...
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