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    Baron of Macduff is a title of nobility in the Baronage of Scotland. The current baron is The Much Honoured Eric Cotton Dexter, 9th Baron of MacDuff. The...
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    Earl Fife (redirect from Viscount Macduff)
    descent from Macduff, the medieval Earl of Fife. Though in the Irish peerage, the title's name refers to Fife in Scotland. William Duff, 1st Earl Fife...
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    Scotland, "baron" or "baroness" is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, a hereditary title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony...
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    inherited the titles Baron Braco (created in 1735), Earl Fife and Viscount Macduff (both created in 1759), all in the Peerage of Ireland (and created...
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  • Viscount MacDuff and the 2nd Baron of MacDuff. On 17 August 1775 he married Mary Skene (1754–1790), daughter of George Skene, 18th of Skene, at Carriston, Angus...
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    owned huge swaths of land in addition to the estate as the heads of many Scottish Feudal Baronies, including MacDuff, named for James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife...
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    Skene Duff, was Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs. He succeeded as the 5th Earl Fife, 5th Baron Braco of Kilbryde, and 5th Viscount MacDuff on 9 March...
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  • Duibh). There is little doubt that the style MacDuib, or Macduff, derives from the name of King Cináed III mac Duib, and ultimately from this man's father...
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  • Mary de Monthermer (category Clan MacDuff)
    MacDuff, Countess of Fife (née de Monthermer; October 1297 – c. 1371) was an English noblewoman. She was a daughter of Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron...
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    Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, KG, KT, GCVO, VD, PC (10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879...
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  • Mouse (voiced by Jimmy Hibbert) - MacDuff's older brother, who is an inept inventor. He has a habit of calling MacDuff by his real name, which irritates...
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    MacDermot MacCarthy, great-grandson of Cormac MacCarthy, Lord of Muskerry, d. 1616 Cormac (Charles) MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry and Baron of Blarney...
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  • Thomas de Lucy, 2nd Baron Lucy In April 1313, Isabella MacDuff, the widow of Alice's uncle John Comyn, was placed into the custody of the Beaumonts, following...
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    failure of the main MacDuff line, and after the execution of the Stewart Murdoch, Earl of Fife in 1425, the privilege fell back to the second line of MacDuffs...
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  • styled Earl of Macduff until 1992, and then Earl of Southesk until succeeding his father on 22 June 2015 as the fourth Duke of Fife and Chief of the Clan...
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    Grant (daughter of Sir James Grant of Pluscardine, Baron of Luss and Grant), his father's second wife. His father, son of William Duff of Dipple, co. Banff...
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    Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, (/ˈriːθ/; 20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public...
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    (Peerage of Scotland) 3rd Earl of Macduff (Peerage of the United Kingdom) 12th Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird (Peerage of Scotland) 12th Lord Carnegie, of Kinnaird...
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    commissioned the construction of Duff House in Banff. He was later created Earl Fife and Viscount Macduff, also in the peerage of Ireland, by letters patent...
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    and also as Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire, and as a baron to many minor baronies including Macduff, named for James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife by a Crown Charter...
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    title: earl of Northesk. The earl of Southesk also holds the Scottish feudal title of Baron of Kinnaird and is a baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia...
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    Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, PC (/ˈhɔːr bəˈliːʃə/; né Isaac Leslie Belisha; 7 September 1893 – 16 February 1957) was a British Liberal...
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    Esmé William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, GCB, GCMG, CVO, PC (15 September 1863 – 1 August 1939), was a British diplomat. He served as British...
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    Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician...
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    Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in...
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  • Barony (county division) (category Types of administrative division)
    Barony of Dirleton Lordship and Barony of Hailes Barony of Ladyland Barony of MacDuff Barony of Mugdock Barony of Newton Barony of Peacockbank Barony of Plenderleith...
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  • Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn Lloyd CH PC, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Roderick MacFarquhar, Labour politician. Ian MacIntyre, Unionist...
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    O'Higgins family (category Chilean families of Irish ancestry)
    descended from Shean Duff O'Higgins (fl. 1600 C.E.), Gaelic Baron of Ballynary, who was married to a daughter of the royal family of O'Conor at Ballintuber...
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    & Queries, ser. 4, no. 6 (Feb. 2018), p. 19 Bannerman, John (1998), "MacDuff of Fife", in Grant, Alexander; Stringer, K.J. (eds.), Medieval Scotland:...
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    Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, PC, FRS (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a British Royal Navy officer, politician and peer from the...
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