Tuesday, 14 January 2014
386 Robert Duff
Constituency : Banffshire 1861-93
Robert came in at Banffshire in May 1861 after the resignation of Lachlan Gordon-Duff.
Robert was a Scottish aristocrat and Freemason educated at Blackheath School. He joined the navy at 13 in 1848 and rose to the rank of Commander.
Robert joined Lowe in the Adullamites. He was a whip from 1882 to 1885 and was briefly Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1886.
Robert was fond of hunting and shooting.
Robert resigned his seat in 1893 to become Governor of New South Wales. After barely 18 months in Australia he became ill from hepatic abscesses and died of septicaemia in 1895 aged 59.
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