M. E. Grant Duff
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (21 February 1829 – 12 January 1906), known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff thereafter, was a Scottish politician, administrator and author.
He served as the Under-Secretary of State for India from 1868 to 1874, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1880 to 1881 and the Governor of Madras from 1881 to 1886.
He was born in Eden, Aberdeenshire, on 21 February 1829 to the distinguished British historian James Grant Duff.
He had his education at Grange School and Balliol College, Oxford and graduated in law from the Inns of Court.
He practised and taught law for a short time before starting a political life and entering the House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs.
His abilities won him government positions and he was Under-Secretary of State for India, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and Governor of Madras.
On his return from Madras, he retired from politics and served in various art and scientific societies.
He travelled extensively and wrote voluminously.
His performance in politics and administration has received mixed reviews during the 1880s
a politician of brilliant promise and scant performance, of wide information which he seemed to turn to much account, of abilities which would have made the fortunes of half a dozen men and of which he made little enough.
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire and a Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India.
He died on 12 January 1906 at the age of 76.
Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff
Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff (25 December 1870 – 12 January 1944) was a poet, writer and high society hostess.
She published her memoir "A Victorian Childhood" in 1932 with Methuen Publishing.
She was the eldest daughter of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff and Anna Julia Webster.
She was the author of "A Victorian Childhood", which was published in 1932, under the pen name Annabel Jackson.
In 1894, she married in Frederick Huth Jackson, a partner in the private bank, Frederick Huth and Sons.
They had one son, Frederick who married Helen Vinogradoff, daughter of the distinguished historian Sir Paul Vinogradoff, and three daughters: Konradin, later Lady Arthur Hobhouse; Anne, later Anne Fremantle; and Claire, later Countess de Loriol Chandieu.
Arthur Grant Duff
Sir Arthur Cuninghame Grant Duff, (23 May 1861 – 11 April 1948) was a British diplomat who was Minister to several countries.
Evelyn Grant Duff
Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff( 9 October
1863 – 19 September 1926) was a British diplomat who was stationed in Iran at a key moment, and was ambassador to Switzerland.
He was the second son of M.E. Grant Duff( later Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff).
He passed the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services in 1883 and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1888.
He served in Rome, Tehran, St Petersburg, Stockholm and Berlin before a post in London 1899 – 1903.
He was Secretary of Legation in Tehran 1903 – 06.
In the summer of 1906 there was no minister( ambassador) in post – the previous minister, Sir Arthur Hardinge, had left in 1905 and the new minister, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, although appointed in December 1905, did not leave England until September 1906 – so Grant Duff was the senior British diplomat in Tehran when, during the Persian Constitutional Revolution, about 12,000 men took sanctuary(" bast") in the gardens of the British Legation in what has been called a' vast open- air school of political science' studying constitutionalism.
The Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, was outraged by Grant Duff's hospitality towards the" bastis" which, however, inadvertently expedited the Constitutional Revolution.
Grant Duff had already been appointed to be Councillor at the Embassy in Madrid and he took up that post in late 1906.
While in Madrid he negotiated the purchase of land at the corner of calle de Núñez de Balboa and calle de Hermosilla for a British Embassy Church.
Building did not start until 1923, and it was dedicated as the Church of St George in 1925.
In 1910 Grant Duff was appointed Minister to Venezuela, but he did not take up the post; he was Consul- General to the Kingdom of Hungary, in Budapest, 1911 – 13 before his final post as British Envoy to the Swiss Confederation, 1913 – 16.
He was appointed CMG in 1911 and knighted KCMG in 1916 on the termination of his mission in Berne.
In 1900 he married Edith Florence Bonham, elder daughter of Sir George Bonham, 2nd Baronet( who was British Envoy to the Swiss Confederation, 1905 – 09).
She was appointed a Lady of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1916 and CBE in 1918 as" Founder and Organiser of the Bread Bureau for Prisoners of War."
She founded the" British Legation Red Cross Organization" through which the many British expatriates in Switzerland helped wounded soldiers in French and British hospitals.
Shiela Grant Duff
Shiela Grant Duff( 11 May 1913 – 19 March 2004) was a British author, journalist and foreign correspondent.
She was notable for her opposition to appeasement before the Second World War.
Lady Sybil Grant
Lady Sybil Myra Caroline Grant ("née" Primrose; 18 September 1879 – 25 February 1955) was a British writer and artist.
She was the eldest child of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and his wife Hannah de Rothschild.
Apart from her artistic work, in later life she became notable as an eccentric.
James Grant Duff
James Grant Duff (8 July 1789 – 23 September 1858) was a British soldier and historian from Scotland, who was active in British India.
Joseph J. Sullivan (vaudeville)
Joseph J. Sullivan was a blackface comedian and acrobat in New York.
He composed the song" Where Did You Get That Hat?" and first performed it in 1888.
It was a great success and he performed it many times thereafter.
Nancy Baron
Nancy Baron is an American rock singer who was active in New York City in the early 1960s, known for the singles" Where Did My Jimmy Go?" and" I've Got A Feeling".
Robert Paul Smith
Robert Paul Smith( April 16, 1915 – January 30, 1977) was an American author, most famous for his classic evocation of childhood," Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing".

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