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Rh leans received a vote of thanks from the survivors. She made her last appearance in New Orleans in 1838 for the benefit of the orphan boys' asylum. After the death of Mr. Dull' she married Mr. Seevir, a lawyer in that city, and retired from the stage.

DUFF, Peter, educator, b. in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, 16 Feb., 1802; d. in Pitts- burg, Pa., 13 Sept., 1869. His parents emigrated from Scotland in 1803. and settled on a large farm in New Brunswick. Filled with the desire for an active life, he left the farm without the knowledge of his family and went to Edinburgh, where he was educated. His intention was to become a physician, but he finally decided to be a merchant, and returned to New Brunswick, settling in St. Johns, here he soon became prominent, owning many ships and extensive warehouses. Owing to a large fire in 1835, he became bankrupt and went to Pittsburg, Pa., where, in 1840, he founded "Duff's mercantile college," one of the first institutions of the kind in the country, which was very successful, and was carried on by his sons after his death. He published the "North American Accountant" (1847 ; enlarged ed., 18G7 ; 20th ed., 1885).

DUFFEE, Mary Gordon, author, b. in Ala- bama about 1840. She lives on a lonely mountain in Blount county, Ala., dresses in ancient and ec- centric style, and writes under the pseudonym of "Mary Duff Gordon." In May, 1874, she delivered the address of welcome to the visiting Press asso- ciation of New York to Alabama. She has writ- ten a series of papers in aid of the development of southern industries, and numerous poems, among which "Cleopatra" is the best known. Miss Duffee is a member of the American histori- cal and biographical society, of the North Ameri- can geographical society, and the New Orleans academy of sciences, and is also the author of a "History of Alabama," "Guide to the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky," guide-books to Blount Springs, Ala., and to various interesting places along the southern railways.

DUFFERIN, Frederick Temple Hamilton Blackwood, Earl of, British statesman, b. in Florence, Italy, 24 June, 1820. His father was Price, fourth Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye. and his mother, Helen Selina, a granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was well known as a writer of prose and verse. He was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. He succeeded to his father's title in 1841, and was for some years sub- sequent lord-in- waiting to the queen. In 1855 he was attached to the mission undertaken by Lord John Russell to Vienna, and in 1859 made a yacht voyage to Iceland, a narrative of which he published (Boston, 1859). He was sent by Lord Palmerston in 1860 as a British commissioner to Syria to make inquiries into the massacre of the Christians there, and on his return was made a K. C. B. He was under-secretary of state for India from 1864 to early in 1866, and from the latter date was for a few months under-secretary for war. When Mr. Gladstone came into power in Decem- ber, 1868, he was appointed chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in 1871 he was created Viscount Clandeboye and Earl of Dufferin, and in 1872 he became governor-general of Canada. The duties devolving upon this officer are not weighty, being almost entirely limited to the opening and dissolu- tion of parliament ; but there are other duties, more social than political in their character, which are regarded as scarcely less incumbent on the viceroy. While acting in this dual capacity the Earl of Duff- erin secured a degree of popularity never gained by any of his predecessors. In education and all other matters of public concern he displayed the greatest interest, and he was soon known as the ablest orator in Canada. In the summer of 1876 Earl Dufferin, accompanied by Lady Dufferin, made a tour through British Columbia, where a great degree of discontent prevailed, in consequence of a belief that the terms upon which that remote province had joined the Dominion had not been complied with. Earl Dufferin's visit, and his ad- vocacy of the union and the prospective benefits likely to accrue to British Columbia from it. allayed the prevalent discontent, and did much to increase the friendship between the people of the Pacific; coast and their eastern compatriots. He held the office of governor-general of Canada till October, 1878, when he was succeeded by the Marquis of Lorne. On the eve of his leaving Canada he was presented with an address signed by seventy-four mayors, wardens, reeves, and councillors represent- ing municipalities in Ontario. In May, 1878, he was elected president of the Royal geographical society, and in June following he attended the Harvard commencement, when the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him. To Lord Duff- erin may be attributed the credit of first suggest- ing the purchase of the grounds adjacent to Niag- ara Falls as an International park. In February, 1879, he was appointed ambassador at St. Peters- burg, was transferred to Constantinople in May, 1881, and in October, 1882, proceeded to Cairo, Egypt, to settle questions between England and that country arising out of the rebellion of Arabi Pasha. He left Egypt in April, 1883, and was ap- pointed viceroy of India in 1884, an office that he now holds (1887). He is the author of "Narrative of a Journey from Oxford to Skibereen during the Year of the Irish Famine" (London, 1848) ; "Let- ters from High Latitudes" (London, 1860) ; "Con- tributions to an Inquiry into the State of Ireland" (1866) ; "Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in Ireland" (1867) ; and "Mr. Mill's Plan for the Pacification of Ireland examined" (1868). A col- lection of his "Speeches and Addresses" was pub- lished in 1882, edited by Henry Milton. A "His- tory of the Administration of the Earl of Dufferin in Canada" was published by William Leggo (Montreal, 1878).

DUFFIE, Alfred Nattie, soldier, b. in Paris, France, 1 May, 1835 ; d. in Cadiz, Spain, 1 Nov., 1880, He studied at several military academies in Paris, and was graduated at the military college of St. Cyr in 1854 as 2d lieutenant. He served in Algiers and Senegal, and in the Crimea during the war with Russia, where he was promoted to 1st lieutenant of cavalry. He afterward took part in the campaign against Austria, and gained several medals of honor. He came to the United States in 1860, accepted a captaincy in the 1st New Jersey cavalry at the beginning of the civil war, and was