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William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (1697 – 30 September 1763), of Braco, Banff, was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Early life [ edit ] Duff was the eldest surviving son of William Duff, merchant, of Dipple and Braco, and his wife Jean Gordon, daughter of Sir George Gordon, Shire Commissioner in the Parliament of Scotland , of Edinglassie ...
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He commissioned the construction of Duff House at Banff in 1740. William Duff, Baron Braco, 1st Earl of Fife, died in 1763 at Rothiemay Castle and was buried in the parish church of Grange, before being moved to the mausoleum at Duff House.
William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, of Braco, Banff, was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.
William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (1696 – 30 September 1763) was a Scottish peer. The son of William Duff of Dipple, in 1719 he married Janet Ogilvie, daughter of James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater. She died in 1720 and in 1723 he married Jean Grant, daughter of Sir James Grant, Bt. He inherited substantial estates from his father on his death in ...
Earl Fife, 1759: William Duff 1697–1763 1st Earl Fife, Viscount Macduff, and Baron Braco: James Carnegie 1692–1730 5th Earl of Southesk: James Carnegie 1716–1765 de jure 6th Earl of Southesk: David Carnegie 1701–1741 5th Earl of Northesk: George Carnegie 1716–1792 6th Earl of Northesk: Patrick Carnegie of Lour 1720–1799: Earldom of ...
Motto. Deo juvante ( Latin for 'With God's help') Earl Fife was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created by letters patent dated 26 April 1759 for William Duff, 1st Baron Braco, after asserting (but not proving) his descent from Macduff, the medieval Earl of Fife. Though in the Irish peerage, the title's name refers to Fife in Scotland.
