Person Duff; Sir; Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant (1829 - 1906) Duff Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff 1829 - 1906 British Male Eden, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 21 February 1829 His house on Chelsea Embankment, London 11 or 12 January 1906 Burial: Elgin Cathedral, Morayshire

York House, Twickenham

Barrister Education: Edinburgh; Balliol College, Oxford. BA (1850), MA (1853) Career: Called to the Bar (1854); MP for Elgin (1857-1881); Lord Rector of Aberdeen University (1866-1872); Under Secretary of State for India (1868-1874); Privy Councillor (1880); Governor of Madras (1881-1886); returned to England (1887); Honours: CIE 1881; GCSI 1887 Elder son of James Grant Duff and his wife Jane Catherine, daughter of Sir Whitelaw Ainslie, surgeon in the HEIC; married (13 April 1859) Anna Julia, daughter of Edward Webster of North Lodge, Ealing Fellow 03/02/1881 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Notes: TR gives date of death as 11 January 1906. At Head of certificate: Certificate of a Candidate of the privileged class for Election International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 21 Feb 1829 - 11 or 12 Jan 1906 NA6623 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/44382623 ad50a777-e12b-48af-8829-6945345bb691