Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . is also the author of a History of Alabama, Guide to the MammothCave, Kentucky, guide-books to Blount Springs,Ala., and to various interesting places along thesouthern railways. DUFFERIN, Frederick Temple HamiltonBlackwood, Earl of, British statesman, b. inFlorence, Italy, 24 June, 1826. His father wasPrice, fourth Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye,and his mother, Helen Selina, a granddaughter of Richard Brins-ley Sheridan, waswell known as awriter of proseand verse. Hewas educated atEton, and atChrist Church,Oxford, but leftthe universitywithout takin
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . is also the author of a History of Alabama, Guide to the MammothCave, Kentucky, guide-books to Blount Springs,Ala., and to various interesting places along thesouthern railways. DUFFERIN, Frederick Temple HamiltonBlackwood, Earl of, British statesman, b. inFlorence, Italy, 24 June, 1826. His father wasPrice, fourth Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye,and his mother, Helen Selina, a granddaughter of Richard Brins-ley Sheridan, waswell known as awriter of proseand verse. Hewas educated atEton, and atChrist Church,Oxford, but leftthe universitywithout takinga degree. Hesucceeded to hisfathers title in1841, and was forsome years sub-sequent lord-in-waiting to thequeen. In 1855he was attachedto the missionundertaken byLord John Russell to Vienna, and in 1859 made ayacht voyage to Iceland, a narrative of which hepublished (Boston, 1859). He was sent by LordPalmerston in 1860 as a British commissioner toSyria to make inquiries into the massacre of theChristians there, and on his return was made a. ~#s K. C. B. He was ander-secretary of state for Indiafrom 1864 to early in 1866, and from the latter datewas for a few months undersecretary for Mr. Gladstone came into power in Decem-ber, 1868, he was appointed chancellor of the Duchyof Lancaster, in 1871 he was created ViscountClandeboye and Earl of Dufferin, and in 18?2 hebecame governor-general of Canada. The dutiesdevolving upon this officer are not. weighty, beingalmost entirely limited to the opening and dissolu-tion of parliament; but there are other duties, moresocial than political in their character, whicfa areregarded as scarcely less incumbent on the acting in this dual capacity the Karl of Duff-erin secured a degree of popularity never gainedby any of his predecessors. In education and allother matters of public; concern he displayed thegreatest interest, and he was soon known as theablest orator in Canada. In the summer of 1876Earl Dufferin, accompani
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