Lady Dufferin

Lady Dufferin may refer to anyone with the title Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye or Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.

Some notable women who have been known as Lady Dufferin are:

  • Helen, Lady Dufferin (1807–1867), or Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, song-writer, poet, and society lady.
  • Hariot, Lady Dufferin (1843–1935), or Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, who supported her husband's diplomatic work in Canada and India, where she founded many hospitals for women.
  • Maureen Dufferin née Guinness (1907– 1998), "celebrity" society figure, who married Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava in 1930, and kept the Dufferin name for the rest of her life, though she was widowed and re-married.

Famous quotes containing the word lady:

    “True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank;
    A ferlie he spied wi’ his e’e;
    And there he saw a lady bright,
    Come riding down by the Eildon Tree.”
    —Unknown. Thomas the Rhymer (l. 1–4)