10-528: Alexander Duff may refer to: Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl Fife (1731–1811), Scottish nobleman Sir Alexander Duff (British Army officer) (1777–1851), Scottish general and Lord-Lieutenant of Moray Alexander Duff (missionary) (1806–1878), Scottish missionary Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849–1912), Scottish nobleman and son-in-law of King Edward VII Sir Alexander Duff (Royal Navy officer) (1862–1933), British admiral [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
20-576: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl Fife 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 Fife , and, his second wife, Jean Grant. Among his siblings were brothers James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife and Arthur Duff , MP for Elginshire . His sister, Hon. Helen Duff, married their father's cousin, Vice-Admiral Robert Duff . Before his parents' marriage, his father
30-807: The Peerage of the United Kingdom , a revival of the Kilmarnock title held by his great-grandfather. When the Whigs came to power under Lord Melbourne in 1835, Erroll was appointed Master of the Buckhounds . In 1839 he was promoted to Lord Steward of the Household on the decease of the Duke of Argyll , a post he held until the administration fell in 1841. Apart from his political career Lord Erroll
40-685: The Waterloo Campaign . He was educated at Eton . Erroll succeeded his father in the earldom in 1819, aged 18. In 1823 he was elected a Scottish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords . He was Master of the Horse to Queen Adelaide from 1830 to 1834. In 1831 he was sworn of the Privy Council and created Baron Kilmarnock , of Kilmarnock in the County of Ayr , in
50-506: The death of his elder brother, James , in 1809, he succeeded to the title of Earl Fife . In addition to that title, he succeeded as the 3rd 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. Together, they were the parents of two sons and four daughters, including: Lord Fife died on 17 April 1811 at Duff House in Banff . He
60-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Duff&oldid=818748578 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
70-412: Was a Scottish peer and politician. Erroll was the son of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll , and his wife Alice ( née Eliot). His paternal grandfather was James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll , son of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (who was attainted with his titles forfeited in 1746). He became heir apparent to the earldom in 1815 on the death of his elder brother, Lord Hay , who was killed during
80-631: Was also Knight Marischal of Scotland from 1832 to 1846, and Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire from 1836 to 1846. Lord Erroll married Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence , the illegitimate daughter of King William IV and Dorothy Jordan , on 4 December 1820. They were the parents of four children: Lord Erroll died in London in April 1846, aged 45, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William . The Countess of Erroll died in January 1856, aged 54. Lord Erroll
90-475: Was married to Lady Janet Ogilvy (a daughter of the 4th Earl of Findlater ). His paternal grandparents were merchant William Duff of Braco and the former Helen Gordon (a daughter of Sir George Gordon, Shire Commissioner in the Parliament of Scotland ). His maternal grandparents were Sir James Grant, 6th Baronet and the former Anne Colquhoun (a daughter of Sir Humphrey Colquhoun, 5th Baronet ). Upon
100-601: Was succeeded by his eldest son, James . Through his second son, Alexander, he was a grandfather of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife , who married Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay (a daughter of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence , an illegitimate daughter of King William IV ), and George Skene Duff , an MP for Elgin Burghs . William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll , KT , GCH , PC (21 February 1801 – 19 April 1846), styled Lord Hay between 1815 and 1819,
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