Dufferin, Marquis of, and Earl of Ava, statesman and diplomatist; held office under Lord John Russell and Mr. Gladstone; was in succession Governor-General of Canada, ambassador first at St. Petersburg, then at Constantinople, and finally Governor-General of India; has since acted as ambassador at Rome and Paris; is a man of literary as well as administrative ability; (b. 1826).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Duff, James Grant * Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan