DUCKWORTH, GEORGE HENRY, only son of Adm. Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Bart. GCB MP, and his first wife Anne, only child of John Wallis, Trenton, Cornwall; b. 25 Jun 1782; adm. 28 Apr 1794 (Clapham); KS (aged 14) 1795; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1799, matr. 22 May 1799, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1799 - deprived 2 Dec 1802; Ensign, 39th Foot 18 Jul 1801; Lieut. , 68th Foot 6 Oct 1801; 11th Foot, 7 Nov 1801; Capt. , 60th Foot 24 Sep 1803; 55th Foot 14 Jul 1804; 7th Foot, 23 Feb 1805; 59th Foot, 19 Nov 1805; Maj. , York Light Infantry Volunteers 26 Jul 1806; 67th Foot, 7 Oct 1806; Lieut. -Col. , 1st West India Regt. 16 Jan 1808; 48th Foot, 18 Jun 1808; served in Peninsular War; m. Sep 1806 Penelope, dau. of Capt. Robert Fanshawe, Royal Navy; killed at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811.
Dudgeon, Peter Anthony Ashton, son of John Alastair Dudgeon CBE MC TD DL MD FRCPath FRCP, Prof. of Microbiology Univ. of Lond. and consult. microbiologist Great Ormond St Hosp. for Sick Children, and his first wife Patricia Joan, d. of Gilbert Ashton, Headmaster of Abberley Hall Sch., Worcs; b. 16 Mar. 1947; adm. Sept. 1960 (G); left July 1965; Trin. Coll. Dublin 1967-71, BA; Loughborough Coll. of Education, Cert. Ed. 1972; asst. master, Lockers Park Sch., Hemel Hempstead, Herts, 1972-2006, dir. of studies, head of Geography and ICT co-ordinator, dep. Headmaster 1988-2006; m. 31 Mar. 1973 Pamela Ruth, d. of Donald Ernest Batchen, of Offaly, Ireland; d. 20 Sept. 2010.
Dudley, Frederick Consett, son of John Gardner Dudley, M. D., of Hove, Sussex, by Charlotte Virginia, eldest daughter of Capt. Herbert Maynard, E. I. C. S., of Emberton, Glos; b. Jan. 22, 1874; adm. Sept. 16, 1886 (H); left April 1891; d. at Fort Morris, S. Africa, March 27, 1897.
DUDMAN, LUMSDEN SHIRREFF, only son of Joseph Dudman, Llandygwydd, Cardiganshire, Capt. EIC Maritime Service, and Catherine Welladvice, dau. of James Lumsden Shirreff (IGI); b. 13 Sep 1819; adm. 28 May 1834 (Scott's); left Mar 1837; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1837; BA 1842; ordained deacon 3 Mar 1844 (London), priest 1845 (Canterbury); Curate, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent 1844-6, Herne, Kent 1846-51; Rector of Pitney, Somerset, from 1851; m. 12 Aug 1857 his cousin Mary Anne Eve, younger dau. of James Hales Shirreff MD MRCS LSA, Lympstone, Devon; d. 21 Oct 1878.
Duerdin-Dutton, Tom, son of Thomas Duerdin Dutton, of Westminster; b. June 7, 1892; adm. May 4, 1905 (G); left Dec. 1909; adm. a solicitor Sept. 1916, and practised in Rochester Row, Westminster; served in France with the Queen's Westminster Rifles 1914-5 and 1918-9; in A.R.P. Service at outbreak of Great War II and during Battle of Britain; Sub-Lieut. (Sp.) R.N.V.R. April 9, 1944; Lieut.; released Sept. 1947 and appointed to a command in Sea Cadet Corps; m. May 3, 1944, Mildred Cecil, daughter of Lt.-Col. G.M.H. Ogilvy, K.O.S.B., of Berwick-on-Tweed.
DUFF, HON. SIR ALEXANDER, brother of James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife (qv); b. 1777; adm. Dec 1788 (A. & H. Tayler, ed., Lord Fife and his factor, 1925, 196); in school list Dec 1788; still at school Jan 1792 (Tayler, ed., ibid., 232); Ensign, 66th Foot 23 May 1793; Lieut. in Capt. Powers’ Independent Co. Jan 1794; Capt., 88th Foot Jan 1794; Maj., 28 Mar 1794; Lieut. -Col., 14 Apr 1798; half-pay 1808; Brevet Col., 25 Apr 1808; Maj. -Gen., 4 Jun 1811; Lieut. -Gen., 19 Jul 1821; Col., 92nd Foot 6 Sep 1823 – Jul 1831, 37th Foot from 20 Jul 1831; Gen., 28 Jun 1838; served in Flanders 1794-5, East Indies 1798, Egypt 1801-2; commanded centre column in attack on Buenos Aires 1806; MP Elgin Burghs 1826-31; GCH 1833; knighted 27 May 1834; Lord Lieut. Elginshire from 17 Feb 1848; m. 16 Mar 1812 Anne, youngest dau. of James Stein, Kilbagie, Clackmannanshire; d. 21 Mar 1851.
DUFF, JAMES, 4TH EARL OF FIFE (I), elder son of Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl of Fife (I), advocate, and Mary, eldest dau. of George Skene, Carriston, Forfarshire; b. 6 Oct 1776; adm. Dec 1788 (Tayler, ed., ibid., 196); in school list Dec 1788; still at school Jan 1792 (Tayler, 232) and probably in Mar 1793 (Tayler, 242); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1794; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Apr 1794, Inner Temple 24 Nov 1795; volunteered to join Spanish army 1808; served in Spanish Army with rank of Maj. -Gen.; wounded at Talavera 1809 and in storming of Fort Matagorda, near Cadiz, 1810; succeeded father as 4th Earl of Fife (I) 17 Apr 1811; Lord Lieut., Banffshire 12 Jun 1813 - Mar 1856; MP Banffshire 1818 - 28 Apr 1827; a Lord of the Bedchamber 15 Jan 1819- Mar 1821, 17 Apr 1827- Dec 1834, Aug - Oct 1835; GCH 1823; created Baron Fife (UK) 28 Apr 1827; KT 3 Sep 1827; supporter of Conservative governments to 1830, subsequently a Whig; m. 9 Sep 1799 Lady Mary Caroline Manners, second dau. of John Manners (qv), and Louisa, Countess of Dysart (S); d. 5 Mar 1857. DNB.
DUFF, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1719/20. [Perhaps kin to James Abercromby (qv), adm. same month, whose mother was a Duff of Braco]
DUFF, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 13) Nov 1737; left 1740. [Probably Hon. William Duff, eldest son of William Duff, 1st Baron Braco (I) (subsequently 1st Earl of Fife (I)), and his second wife Jean, dau. of Sir James Grant, Bart.; b. 26 Mar 1724; styled Master of Braco; “a great disappointment to his parents, being a drunken and dissipated youth” (A. & H. Tayler, ed., Lord Fife and his Factor, 1925, 1); restrained by his father by force from joining Jacobite rising in 1745; d. unm. 26 Mar 1753].