- Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 2nd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
Terence John Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 2nd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
DL JP (16 March 1866 –7 February 1918 ) was a Britishdiplomat and the second son of the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.As a younger son, he was not expected to inherit the title, but on the death of his brother Archibald, Earl of Ava at the
Siege of Ladysmith in theSecond Boer War onJanuary 11 1900 , he became the heir and assumed thecourtesy title Earl of Ava himself before succeeding his father in 1902. He was a clerk at theForeign Office , Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service and aJustice of the Peace andDeputy Lieutenant forCounty Down .He married Florence Davis, the daughter of John H. Davis of 24
Washington Square ,New York City , in 1893, and had three daughters:*Lady Doris Gwendoline Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (
December 14 1895 -1984), who married Captain Cecil Bernard Gunston MC (1885-1934) of theColdstream Guards , son of Major Bernard Gunston, formerly of the 5thDragoon Guards , onOctober 19 1922 and had issue: ::(i) Hermione Hamilton Gunston (b. 1923), who married Lt. Col.Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell MC::(ii) Sonia Helen Gunston JP (b. 1926), appointed TemporaryLady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, and who marriedThomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (d.1964) and had issue includingNicholas John Albert Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (b. 1956)*Lady Ursula Florence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (
February 9 1899 -?), who married Arthur Swithin Newton Horne, formerly ofThe King's Own Royal Border Regiment and Government Secretary of theFederated Malay States (d. 1954)*Lady Patricia Ethel Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (
March 20 1901 -?), who married Henry Russell (d. 1937)Lord Dufferin died from
pneumonia onFebruary 7 1918 and was buried at the Dufferin ancestral seat ofClandeboye ,County Down . Themarquessate passed to his youngest brother, Lord Frederick Blackwood. Two years after his death his widow married again, toRichard George Penn Curzon, 4th Earl Howe , and died onApril 14 1925 .
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