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 494 DUFFERIN d. there shortly afterwards, 22 Dec. 1862, aged 40, after a painftil illness of 16 months. She, who was b. 1807, d. there 13 June 1867, aged about 6o,('') of cancer on the breast, and was bur. at Friern Barnet. V. 1841. 5 and I. Frederick Temple (Blackwood, «//^r- wards Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood), Baron Duf- EARLDOM. FERiN and Claneboye('') of Ballyleidy and Killy- j g leagh [I.], only s. and h., b. 2i June 1826, in the ' ■ Via Maggio, Florence; ed. at Eton; matric. at Oxford MARQUESSATE. f^' ^^ )i ^''i '^44; Pres. of Oxford Union Soc. i847;(') a Lord in Waiting, 1849-52 and I. 1888. 1854-58. He was cr., 22 Jan. 1850, BARON CLANDEBOYE,^) of Clandeboye, co. Down [U.K.] ; Spec. Commissioner to Syria, 1 860-6 1 ; K.C.B., 1 8 June 1 8 6 1 ; K.P., 28 Jan. 1864; Lord Lieut, co. Down, 18 64- 1902; Under Sec. for India, 1 864-66;n and for War, Feb. to June 1 866;F.R.S. 9 Feb. 1865; P.C. 12 Dec. 1868; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Paymaster Gen., 1868-72. He was cr., 13 Nov. 1871, VISCOUNT CLANDEBOYE, of Clandeboye, CO. Down, and EARL OF DUFFERIN in the said county of Down; Gov. Gen. of Canada, 1872-78; G.C.M.G., 26 May 1876; Pres. of the Royal Geog. Soc. 1878-79; Ambassador to St. Petersburg, 1879-81 ; to Constanti- nople, 1881-84; Spec. Commissionerto Egypt, Nov. i882;G.C.B., 15 June 1883. G.C.S.I., 13 Dec. 1884;^) Viceroy OF India, 1884-88; G.C.I. E.June 1887. Oni 7 Nov. 1 8 8 8, he was cr. EARL OF AVA,(') in the province of Burma, and MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA, in the co. of Down and in Burma afsd.; Ambassador to Rome, 1888-91; Ambassador (*) She was an authoress of considerable power, and was perhaps the cleverest and wittiest of three sisters well known for beauty and accomplishments in the world of fashion. "There was no quality wanting to her perfection; and I say this, not prompted by the partiality of a son, but as one well acquainted with the world, and with both men and women." (ist Marquess of DufFerin). Of the other two (i) the well-known poetess, the Hon. Caroline Norton, mother of the 4th Baron Grantley (she m., andly, three months before her death, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Bart.), d. 15 June 1877, aged about 68; (2) Jane, Duchess of Somerset {the Queen of Beauty at the Eglinton tournament), d. 14 Dec, 1884, aged about 74. C") '■^Claneboy ot Clandeboy" is, according to the Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1849), "a quondam territorial name of part of the counties of Antrim and Down." It seems a pity that the spelling of the peerage titles taken (1800, 1850 and 1871) therefrom should not have followed one consistent mode of spelling. ("=) For a list of Peers who were Presidents of the Union Soc. at Oxford or at Cambridge, see Appendix F in this volume. C) He was a Liberal till 1886, and then, as might have been expected, separated from his party, remaining a Unionist. V.G. (') About this time he declined the appointment of Governor of the Cape. V.G. Ava, the ancient capital of Burma, was chosen as in commemoration of the grantee's Vice-Royalty of India. See as to this class of title, vol. iii. Appendix E.