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|image=Norwich Duff sitting very still for a long time as you did to be photographed back then.jpg |caption= |birth_date= {{birth date|1792|8|15|df=yes}} |death_date= {{death date and age|1862|4|21|1792|8|15|df=yes}} |birth_place=9 South Castle Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain |death_place=Bath, Somerset, England, UK |nickname= |allegiance={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |branch=Royal Navy |serviceyears=1805-1862 |rank=Vice-Admiral |unit= |commands= |battles= |awards= |relations=Captain George Duff RN (father) |laterwork= }} Admiral Norwich Duff FRSE (15 August 1792 – 21 April 1862[1]) was a Royal Navy officer. LifeThe son of Captain George Duff RN, and Sophia Dirom, he was born at 9 South Castle Street, Edinburgh. He entered the Royal Navy in July 1805, just before his 13th birthday, serving aboard his father's ship HMS Mars as a midshipman. In October 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar his father was killed. Duff was promoted to lieutenant in September 1811 and was appointed flag-lieutenant to the commander-in-chief in February 1814. He served on HMS Euralyus. He was promoted to commander on 15 June 1814 and appointed to command of the 18-gun brig-sloop HMS Espoir, part of the naval force in the Chesapeake during the War of 1812, and later took part in the attack on New Orleans.[2] In October 1816 Duff was appointed to command of the 10-gun brig-sloop HMS Beaver and sent to the Caribbean,[3] where he assumed command of the 18-gun HMS Rifleman in September 1817. He returned to England in August 1818.[4] He undertook an extensive continental European tour in 1819 of which he kept a journal. He was promoted to Post captain on 23 April 1822. In 1833 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Alexander Dirom.[5] On the 10 June 1833 he married Helen Mary Shoolbred (daughter of East India Company Surgeon John Shoolbred 1766-1831) at Bath, Somerset and with her produced eight recorded children. The couple's eldest daughter, (Helen) Sophia Duff 1834 - 1930, married Boscawen Trevor Griffith (whose name later changed to Griffith-Boscawen) as a result of which Norwich became the maternal grandfather of Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen 1865 - 1946, a prominent British Conservative politician during the early decades of the twentieth century. Another daughter, Henrietta, was a novelist.[6] Duff was promoted to rear admiral on 8 October 1852, and to vice admiral on 28 November 1857. He died at Bath, Somerset, England on 21 April 1862. There is a portrait of him by Sir Henry Raeburn, and a metal plaque commemorates him in Bath Abbey.[7] FamilyIn 1833 he married Helen Mary Shoolbred (1811-1895), daughter of Dr John Shoolbred FRSE of the East India Company.[8] See also
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=szDwGQv6aGno65DbFw%2FefQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=20 July 2009|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} 2. ^http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0854 HMS Espoir 3. ^http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0296 HMS Beaver 4. ^http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1899 HMS Rifleman 5. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}} 6. ^Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800-1900 http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/womenLit/getting_into_print/Duff_L.htm 7. ^www.1837online.com {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205054331/http://1837online.com/ |date=5 December 2006 }} 8. ^http://kittybrewster.com/ancestry/shoolbred.htm External links{{Commonscat|Norwich Duff}}
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