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Alexander Duff (25 April 1806, in Edinburgh – 12 February 1878, in Sidmouth), was a Christian missionary in India; where he played a large part in the development of higher education. He was a Moderator of the General Assembly and convener of the foreign missions committee of the Free Church of Scotland and a scientific liberal ...
22 avr. 2024 · Feb. 12, 1878, Edinburgh (aged 71) Alexander Duff (born April 26, 1806, Moulin, Perthshire, Scot.—died Feb. 12, 1878, Edinburgh) was the Church of Scotland’s first missionary to India, highly influential on later missionary endeavours through his promotion of higher education. Duff was twice shipwrecked before reaching Calcutta ...
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Cette page d'homonymie répertorie différentes personnes portant le même nom et le même prénom. Alexander Duff peut se référer à : Alexander Duff (1777-1851), officier de l'armée britannique. Alexander Duff (1806-1878), missionnaire chrétien écossais ; Alexander Duff (1849-1912), 6e comte de Fife puis 1er duc de Fife, homme politique écossais ;
Alexander-William-George Duff ( 10 novembre 1849, Édimbourg - 29 janvier 1912, Assouan) est un homme politique britannique. Il est titré 1er duc de Fife, Biographie. Fils de James Duff et d' Agnes Hay (en) (petite-fille du roi Guillaume IV du Royaume-Uni et de sa maîtresse Dorothea Jordan ), il étudie au Eton College .
Scottish missionary in India and missiologist. Duff was born in Moulin, Perthshire, the son of a Gaelic-speaking farm servant. At St. Andrews University he was a distinguished student in arts and divinity and helped to found a student missionary society.
Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, KG, KT, GCVO, VD, PC (10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as the Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen ...
Alexander Duff: a Forgotten Missionary Giant :: Donald Macleod. Today, Alexander Duff is largely forgotten, his memory eclipsed by his younger contemporary, David Livingston. Yet when Duff died in 1878, the Times contained a long obituary, Prime Minister Gladstone eulogised him and Scotland mourned as a nation that had lost its noblest son.
