Gen. Sir James Duff, MP

- 1839

• Name	James Duff
  Prefix	Gen. Sir
  Suffix	MP
  Birth	Keith, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Dec 1839	Funtington House, near Chichester, Sussex, England
  Burial	Funtington parish churchyard
  Person ID	I190926	Our Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	James (2nd Earl of Fife) Duff,   b. 28 Sep 1728   d. 24 Jan 1809 (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Margaret Adam,   b. Abt 1728   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F50242	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Basilia Dawes,   b. 12 Mar 1765   d. 1849 (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	12 Aug 1785
  	The entry of the marriage of James Duff and Basilia Dawes in the registers of St. Marylebone Parish Church is witnessed by Dr. and Mrs. Fotheringliam, previously well Unown in Banff
  Children	1. Sir James Frederick (of Kinstair) Duff,   b. 24 Jan 1804, Scotland d. 10 Feb 1837 (Age 33 years)   2. Louisa Duff   3. Sarah Duff,   b. 2 Feb 1806   d. 1883 (Age 76 years)   4. Ann Duff,   b. 1807   d. 1898 (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F78504	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2022

  
  

• Notes

  General Sir James Duff (1752– 1839) was a British army officer, who fought in the Napoleonic wars and Member of Parliament (1784– 1789). Born Keith, Aberdeenshire. Eldest illegitimate son of James Duff, second Earl Fife (1729– 1809), and Margaret Adam, of Keith. His mother, 'of humble status', had 3 children with Fife. They were put with William Rose, Fife's factor. "Fife paid for James's education, army promotions, and for his small Aberdeenshire estate of Kinstair, and made him his constant companion." Commissioned into the army, April 1769. Rose to become General (1809). The most notable, arguably notorious, moment of his army career was his role in crushing the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Knighted April 1779. In 1785, Duff married Basilia Dawes, the heiress to the fortune of James Dawes, who had made his fortune in the West Indies. Along with the marriage came the sugar plantation – the Grange Sugar Estate in Rockwell, Jamaica – and the hundreds of African slaves who were forced to work on it.