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Duff, Alexander, 1777-1851
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1777-1851
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.