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24 de feb. de 2007 · Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife was born on 10 November 1849 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland G. 1 He was the son of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife and Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay. 1 He married Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, daughter of Edward VII Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, King of the United Kingdom and Alexandra ...
James Duff, 5th Earl Fife (6 July 1814 – 7 August 1879) was a Scottish nobleman. Duff was the son of Sir Alexander Duff, younger brother of James Duff, 4th Earl Fife and Anne Stein, the daughter of James Stein.
James Duff, later 5th Earl Fife 2a. Hon George Skene Duff, Member of Parliament for Elgin 1847-57, granted the style and precedence of a younger son of an Earl by Royal Licence 2 Jun 1857, Lord Lieutenant of Morayshire (b. 13 Sep 1816; d. 15 Mar 1889)
Succeeded by: James Duff Seat: Duff House. James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, 4th Baron of MacDuff. Born: 1814 Died: 1857 Preceded by: James Duff Succeeded by: Alexander Duff Seat: Duff House. Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, 5th Baron of MacDuff Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, 5th Baron of MacDuff with his wife, Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess ...
Administrative / Biographical History. James Duff was born on 29 September 1729. He was the second son of William Duff (d. 1763), Earl of Fife, Lord Braco of Kilbryde, Viscount Macduff, in the Peerage of Ireland. Like his father before him he was MP for Banff, elected first in 1754, then re-elected in 1761, 1768, 1774, and 1780.
Braemar, Mar Lodge Estate, St Ninian's Chapel - Grave of the 1st Duke of Fife (1849–1912) 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 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British peer who married Princess Louise, the ...
His pecuniary difficulties were worsened by the extraordinary will of his uncle James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (1729-1809), who left all his disposable property to his bastard son Sir James Duff of Kinstair (1755-1839). Fife, who succeeded his father, the 3rd earl, to the entailed estates in 1811, went to law in 1816 in a bid to recover his uncle ...
