Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife

Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD (10 November 1849 – 12 January 1912), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of Denmark. Fife was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Duff (a grandson of the 3rd Earl Fife and heir ... more

Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD (10 November 1849 – 12 January 1912), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of Denmark. Fife was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Duff (a grandson of the 3rd Earl Fife and heir presumptive to his uncle, the 4th Earl Fife) and his wife, the former Lady Agnes Hay, second daughter of the 18th Earl of Erroll and the former Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence (an illegitimate daughter of King William IV). When his father succeeded as 5th Earl Fife in 1857, he acquired the courtesy title Viscount Macduff. He attended Eton from 1863 to 1866. Fife served as Member of Parliament for the Elginshire and Nairnshire constituency, in Scotland, from 1874 to 1879. On 7 August 1879, he succeeded his father as 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of... less