James Duff, fourth earl of Fife

(1776-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fife, James Duff, Earl, 1776-1857 NRA: Duff, James (1776-1857) 4th Earl Fife, Major General LBT ID: LdFife4 VIAF ID: 103600085 LOC ID: no2009204193	B/BAP: 1776-10-06 DIED: 1857-03-09
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Son of the third earl (d. 1811); after study at Westminster and Oxford he fought at the Battle of Talavera, was Major-General in the Spanish Army, and was Tory MP for Banffshire (1818-27).
REFERENCES TO James Duff, fourth earl of Fife: Lord Ossulston to Thomas Creevey, 31 July 1815 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleugh, 15 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1814-15 Found 1: ¶ 33 Chapter VIII 1819 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ 15 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter II. 1805-1809. Found 1: ¶ 29 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XI: 1815-16