Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1826–1902
Diplomat. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. Governor-general of Canada, 1872–8. British ambassador to Russia, 1879–81; Turkey, 1881–2; special commissioner in Egypt, 1882. Viceroy of India, 1884–8. Became first marquess of Dufferin and Ava in 1888. Knighted, 1861. FRS 1865.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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