Norwich Duff

Norwich Duff
Born	15 August 1792(1792-08-15) Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	21 April 1862(1862-04-21) (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 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.

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.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=szDwGQv6aGno65DbFw%2FefQ&scan=1. Retrieved 20 July 2009. 
2. ^ http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0854 HMS Espoir
3. ^ http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0296 HMS Beaver
4. ^ http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1899 HMS Rifleman
5. ^ www.1837online.com

External links

• Family tree
• Norwich Duff's Tour of Continental Europe
• Portrait

Persondata
Name	Duff, Norwich
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	15 August 1792
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death	21 April 1862
Place of death	Bath, Somerset, England

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