James Duff

Colonel James Duff (1831 – 22 December 1878) was a British Army officer and Conservative Party politician from Westwick in Norfolk.

Early life Duff was born on 21 July 1831 in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland. He was the son of James Duff and his wife Charlotte, eldest daughter of Sir George Beeston Prescott. In Parliament, Duff spoke on military matters, and was active in getting the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Act 1877 through Parliament. Lt.-Col. Bernard James Petre (1867–1934), who married Hon. Ruby Thellusson, daughter of Frederick Thellusson, 5th Baron Rendlesham and Lady Egida Montgomerie, in 1907. Granville John Berney Duff (1869–1936), who married, firstly, Rangiamohia Te Herekiekie, a descendant of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri, in 1899. After her death in 1908, he married Lilian Mary ( Petrie) Bulwer, widow of William Dering Earle Bulwer and daughter of William Witon Petrie, in 1922. Catherine Basilia Duff (1877–1951)

He died in office in December 1878, aged 47, at his London residence in Upper Brook Street.