Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
| The Duke of Fife | |
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The Duke of Fife with his wife Louise, Princess Royal.
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| Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms | |
| Tenure | 3 May 1880 – 21 January 1881 |
| Predecessor | The Earl of Coventry |
| Successor | The Marquess of Huntly |
| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Born |
10 November 1849 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 29 January 1912 (aged 62) Aswan, Egypt |
| Burial | 28 February 1912 St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and later St Ninian's Chapel, Braemar |
| Spouse |
Louise, Princess Royal (m. 1889–1912; his death) |
| Issue | Alastair, Marquess of Macduff Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk |
| Father | James Duff, 5th Earl Fife |
| Mother | Lady Agnes Hay |
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 British peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra.
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 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 Ireland (and as 2nd Baron Skene in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which title gave him a seat in the House of Lords). He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1880 to 1881, and served on a special diplomatic mission to the King of Saxony in 1882. He was also Lord-Lieutenant Elginshire from 1872 to 1902, and Lord Lieutenant of the County of London from February 1900 until his death in 1912. In 1885, Queen Victoria created him Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He helped found the Chartered Company of South Africa, and served as one of its vice presidents until the 1896 Jameson Raid.
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