• 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.
6900• Dufferin and Claneboye, Baron (Frederick Temple Blackwood), of Ballyleidy and Killyleagh, co. Down, in the peerage of Ireland; Baron Clandeboye, of Clandeboye, co. Down, in that of the United Kingdom; and a Baronet; b, in June, 1826; s. as 5th baron, on the death of his father, 21 July, 1841.
6881• Gov.-Gen. of the Dominion of Canada, 1872 to 1878.
6887• The 5th Baron was the celebrated publicist, diplomatist and statesman, K.P., D.C., Lieutenant and Custos Rotolorum of co. Down; Vice-Admiral of the Province of Ulster; Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland; Governor General of Canada, 1872-78; ambassador at St. Petersburg, 1879-81; Constantinople, 1881-84; Viceroy of India, 1884-88; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Italy, 1888-91, and to the French Republic, 1891-96; Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1891-95. He was created Marquess in 1888, and died in 1902. His wife was the eldest daughter of the late Archibald Rowan Hamilton, of Killyleagh Castle, co. Down, and sister of the present owner of that historic seat, Colonel Gawen William Rowan Hamilton.
6908• When Governor General of Canada, the Marquess of Dufferin and his wife Harriet Hamilton visited Chatham, when I don’t know, but they went by our old house at 157 Park St. in a motorcade, and Grandmother Read said “Harriet was her cousin.”
I firmly believe this to be true, as there is too many consistencies to our family history which are parallel to the Killyleagh Castle Hamiltons.
2346• a grandson was killed near Ava in Burma (from whence the title) during the Second World War.
6926• There is a life of Lord Dufferin by Harold Nicholson (Helen’s Tower, 1937).
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