Lord Dufferin
(1826-1902)

Frederick Temple Hamilton Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, was Governor General of Canada (1872-1878) and Viceroy of India (1884-1888).

Lord Dufferin, an Irish nobleman (his family seat in Ireland was Candeboye) had a brilliant wit and was also a great speaker, writer, courtier and diplomat. The posts which he adorned included British Commissioner in Syria (1860), Under Secretary for India (1864-1866), Under Secretary of War (1866), Governor General of Canada (1872-1878), ambassador to St Petersburg (1879), ambassador to Turkey (1881) and Viceroy of India (1884-1888).

He was also the author of Letters from High Latitudes, an account of a voyage to Iceland on his yacht, the Foam.

[From an album compiled by Elizabeth Van Der Weyer, the American wife of the Belgian Ambassador to the Court of St James.]