Blackwood, Frederick Temple Hamilton Temple, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava ♂
Education
Rector of the University 1890 - 1893.
Birth/childhood
Born 21.6.1826 at Florence son of Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye and Helen Selina Sheridan.
Educated at Eton.
Career
Educated at Oxford University - M.A., D.C.L. and many other honorary degrees.
Politician and diplomat. Baron Clandeboye, 1850. Viscount Clandeboye and Earl of Dufferin, 1871. Earl of Ava and Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 1888.
Rector of the University 1890 - 1893. [St Andrews University]
Publications
Speeches and Addresses edited by Henry Milton. (London: J. Murray, 1882)
Letters from High Latitudes (London: John Murray, 1873)
Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in Ireland (London: Willis, Sotheran, 1867)
etc.
Death
Died 12.2.1902.
Sources
- Peerage
- Who was Who
- DNB