This article is about the Scottish member of parliament. For information about the Scottish missionary to India, see Alexander Duff. Dr. Alexander Duff, D. D. LLD. (1806-1878), was the founder of what is now known as Scottish Church College or the Scottish Church College, Calcutta. ...

Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife

Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, KG, KT, GCVO, PC (10 November 1849–12 January 1912) was a Scottish peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra. Image File history File links Alex_Duff_Fife. ... Image File history File links Alex_Duff_Fife. ... The Garter is the most recognizable insignia of the Order of the Garter. ... James VII ordained the modern Order. ... I have broken it!! ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Her Royal Highness The Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar Duff, née Wettin) (20 February 1867-4 January 1931), was the third child and the eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. ... Edward VII (Albert Edward) (9 November 1841–6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and the Emperor of India. ... This page is about the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom. ...

Early life

He was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, KT, and his wife, the former Lady Agnes Hay, the daughter of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll. As the son and heir of the Earl Fife, he held the courtesy title Viscount Macduff. Edinburgh (pronounced ), Dùn Èideann () in Scottish Gaelic, is the second-largest city in Scotland and its capital city. ...

Lord Macduff attended Eton from 1863 to 1866 and served as a Member of Parliament for the counties of Mairn and Nairn in Scotland from 1873 to 1879. On 7 August 1879, he succeeded his father as 6th Earl Fife, Viscount Macduff, and Baron Braco of Kilbryde in the Peerage of Ireland and 2nd Baron Skene in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He served as Lord-Lieutentant of the County of Elgin from 1872 to 1902, captain of the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1880 to 1881, and served on a special diplomatic mission to the King of Saxony in 1882. In 1885, Queen Victoria created him 1st Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He helped found the Chartered Company of South Africa, and served as one of its vice presidents until the 1896 Jameson Raid. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death. ...

Marriage

On 27 June 1889, Lord Fife married Princess Louise of Wales, the eldest daughter of the then-Prince and Princess of Wales, at the Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace. The wedding marked the second time a descendant of Queen Victoria married a British subject (the first being the marriage of The Princess Louise, the Queen's fourth daughter, to John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll). Two days after the wedding, the Queen elevated the Earl Fife to the further dignity of Duke of Fife and Marquess of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial. ... Her Royal Highness The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, (Louise Caroline Alberta), (18 March 1848 - 3 December 1939) was a member of the British Royal Family and Canadian Vice Regal Consort, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. ... John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, usually better known by his courtesy title of Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known before 1900 (August 6, 1845 - May 2, 1914) was Governor General of Canada. ... Duke of Fife is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, named after Fife in Scotland. ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ...

The marriage of the Duke of Fife and Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, produced three children:

• Alaistar Duff, Marquess of Macduff (stillborn 1890).
• Lady Alexandra Duff, later Princess Alexandra of Fife (17 May 1891-26 February 1959) m. her cousin once removed Prince Arthur of Connaught (13 January 1883-12 September 1938, and had issue.
• Lady Maud Duff, later Princess Maud of Fife (3 April 1893-14 December 1945) m. Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, and had issue.

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Titles and honours

The Duke of Fife received a fresh patent as Duke of Fife and Earl of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in April 1900, with special remainder to his daughters by Princess Louise and their male issue. The result was that he held two Dukedoms of Fife; the 1887 creation (with the subsidiary Marquessate of Macduff) would become extinct in the absence of a son and the 1900 creation (with the subsidiary Earldom of Macduff) would devolve upon his elder daughter in the absence of a son. In November 1905, his father-in-law, now King Edward VII, bestowed the title Princess Royal on the Duchess of Fife and declared that Lady Alexandra Duff and Lady Maud Duff should henceforth hold the title of Princess of Great Britain and Ireland with the style Highness. 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... HRH The Princess Anne, the current Princess Royal Princess Royal is a style customarily (but not automatically) awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldest daughter. ...

Queen Victoria created the future Duke of Fife a Knight of the Thistle in 1881. He received the Royal Victorian Chain in 1902. His brother-in-law, King George V created him an Extra Knight of the Garter. He was also a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and a Privy Counsellor. At the coronation of his father-in-law, King Edward VII, in August 1902, and again at the coronation of George V in June 1911, the Duke of Fife acted as Lord High Constable. In addition to his London residence, 15 Portman Square, the Duke owned two estates in Scotland: Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire and Mountcoffer House, Banff. James VII ordained the modern Order. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ... The Garter is the most recognizable insignia of the Order of the Garter. ... Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... The Lord High Constable of England is the seventh of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Great Chamberlain and above the Earl Marshal. ...

Later life

In December 1911, while sailing to Egypt, the Duke and his family were shipwrecked off the coast of Morocco. Although they escaped unharmed, the Duke fell ill with pleurisy, probably contracted as a result of the shipwreck. He died at Assuan, Egypt in January 1912, and his elder daughter, Princess Alexandra, succeeded to his dukedom, becoming the Duchess of Fife and Countess of Macduff in her own right. The Duke's other titles, including the 1889 creation of the Dukedom of Fife, became extinct. The Duke of Fife was buried in the Private Chapel, Mar Lodge Mausoleum, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs, which can cause painful respiration and other symptoms. ... for the former M/S Braemar, see M/S Regina Baltica Braemar (Scottish Gaelic, Braigh Mhàrr) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, around 58 miles west of Aberdeen, being closest significantly-sized settlement to the upper course of the River Dee. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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