DUFF, Archibald. Entered navy 29 June 1788; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840, V.A. 3 March 1849, admiral on half pay 4 July 1855. d. Braemoriston 9 Feb. 1858 aged 83.
DUFF, Henrietta Anne (dau. of Norwich Duff, V.A.) Author of Virginia, a Roman sketch 1877; Fragments of verse 1880; Honor Carmichael, a study 2 vols. 1880; My imperialist neighbour and other tales 1880. d. of heart disease at 9 Holland road, Hove, Brighton 14 Nov. 1879 aged 37.
DUFF, James. b. Innes house, Elgin 29 July 1831; ed. at Rugby; 2 lieut. 23 foot 15 May 1851, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 4 Nov. 1859 when he sold out; taken prisoner at battle of Inkerman; M.P. for North Norfolk 21 April 1876 to death. d. 36 Upper Brook st. London 22 Dec. 1878.
DUFF, James Cuninghame Grant (eld. son of John Grant of Kincardine, who d. about 1799). b. Banff 8 July 1789; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; entered Bombay army 1805; fought against the Mahrattas 1817–18; resident of Sattara 1818–1823; lived at Eden near Banff 1825 to death; author of History of the Mahrattas 1826. d. Eden 23 Sep. 1858.
DUFF, Mary Ann (dau. of Mr. Dyke of Kilkenny). b. London 1795; learnt dancing from D’Egville; first appeared as an actress at Boston theatre U.S. Nov. 1810; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 3 March 1828 as Isabella in The fatal marriage; played leading Shakesperean parts with Edmund Kean in the United States 1821; retired from the stage at New York 1835. (m. (1) 1810 John Duff of Dublin, actor 1787–1831, m. (2) 1833 Charles Young, marriage dissolved 1833, m. (3) Joel G. Seaver of New Orleans, lawyer). d. New York 5 Sep. 1857. Ireland’s Mrs. Duff 1883, 2 portraits; Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 419–21 (1866).
DUFF, Norwich. b. about 1793; entered navy June 1805; captain 23 April 1822; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, May 1849 to 7 Oct. 1852; V.A. on half pay 28 Nov. 1857. d. Bath 20 April 1862 aged 68.
DUFFY, Edward. b. Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 1840; devoted himself to spreading Fenian principles in Connaught 1863; arrested at Fairfield house, Sandymount 11 Nov. 1865, sentenced to a term of imprisonment, liberated on bail in consequence of ill health Jany. 1866; again applied himself to the organisation; re-arrested at Boyle 11 March 1867, tried 21 May 1867 and sentenced to 15 years penal servitude; found dead in his cell at Millbank prison, London 17 Jany. 1868. T. D. Sullivan’s Speeches from the Dock, 23 ed. part i, pp. 208–10.
DUFFY, John. Ensign 10 foot 21 Oct. 1795; major 43 foot 17 June 1813; lieut. col. 95 foot 21 Sep. 1815 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p., re-appointed lieut. col. of 95 foot 12 Aug. 1819; lieut. col. 8 foot 9 Sep. 1819 to 20 March 1828 when placed on h.p.; col. 28 foot 18 May 1849, col. 8 foot 10 Oct. 1854 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; rose by his own merit without purchasing a single step; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 17 March 1855 aged 76.
DUFTON, William (younger son of John Dufton of Brigham, Cumberland). b. Cumberland; educ. Borough hospitals, London and at Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon at Birmingham 1831 to death; established Institution for relief of deafness and was its sole medical officer 1844 to decease; chief consulting practitioner in midland district for deafness; author of The nature and treatment of deafness and diseases of the ear, and the treatment of the deaf and dumb 1844, another ed. Philadelphia 1848. d. of heart disease at 39 Temple st. Birmingham 17 Oct. 1859 aged 53.
DUFTON, William. b. Northampton 13 March 1830; kept the Philharmonic billiard saloons, Islington, London; played many billiard matches with John Roberts senior; played Edward Green for £1000 at St. James’s hall, London 30 Jany. 1865 gaining by 1001 to 893; entertained at a banquet at Victoria club, London 1865 when presented with a testimonial and 200 guineas; taught the Prince of Wales and many of the nobility; the inventor of handicap billiards; author of Practical Billiards 1867, 3 ed. 1873; present at match between Wm. Cook and John Roberts junior at Gaiety restaurant, London 28 May 1877; poisoned himself with cyanide of potassium at Canterbury tavern, Brixton, London 29 May 1877. bur. Norwood cemetery 4 June. W. Dufton’s Practical billiards 1867, portrait; Illust. Sporting News iii, 356 (1864), portrait, iv, 633 (1865), portrait, and v, 108, 121 (1866), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 2 June 1877 pp. 3, 5.