Norwich Duff
| Norwich Duff | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
15 August 1792 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died |
21 April 1862 (aged 69) Bath, Somerset, England |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1805-1862 |
| Rank | Vice-Admiral |
| Relations |
Captain George Duff RN (father) |
Admiral Norwich Duff (15 August 1792 – 21 April 1862[1]) was a Royal Navy officer.
The son of Captain George Duff RN, and Sophia Dirom, he was born at 9 South Castle Street, Edinburgh. He entered the Royal Navy in July 1805, just before his 13th birthday, serving aboard his father's ship HMS Mars as a midshipman. In October 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar his father was killed.
Duff was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1811 and was appointed Flag-Lieutenant to the commander-in-chief in February 1814. He served on HMS Euralyus. He was promoted to Commander on 15 June 1814 and appointed to command of the 18-gun brig-sloop HMS Espoir, part of the naval force in the Chesapeake during the War of 1812, and later took part in the attack on New Orleans.[2]
In October 1816 Duff was appointed to command of the 10-gun brig-sloop HMS Beaver and sent to the Caribbean,[3] where he assumed command of the 18-gun HMS Rifleman in September 1817. He returned to England in August 1818.[4]
He undertook an extensive continental European tour in 1819 of which he kept a journal. He was promoted to Post captain on 23 April 1822.
On the 10 June 1833 he married Helen Mary Shoolbred (daughter of East India Company Surgeon John Shoolbred 1766-1831) at Bath, Somerset and with her produced eight recorded children. The couple's eldest daughter, (Helen) Sophia Duff 1834 - 1930, married Boscawen Trevor Griffith (whose name later changed to later Griffith-Boscawen) as a result of which Norwich became the maternal grandfather of Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen 1865 - 1946, a prominent British Conservative politician during the early decades of the twentieth century. Another daughter, Henrietta, was a novellist.[5]
Duff was promoted to Rear Admiral on 8 October 1852, and to Vice Admiral on 28 November 1857.
He died at Bath, Somerset, England on 21 April 1862. There is a portrait of him by Sir Henry Raeburn, and a metal plaque commemorates him in Bath Abbey.[6]
References
- ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ↑ http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0854 HMS Espoir
- ↑ http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0296 HMS Beaver
- ↑ http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1899 HMS Rifleman
- ↑ Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800-1900 http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/womenLit/getting_into_print/Duff_L.htm
- ↑ www.1837online.com
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