Background
Lord Dufferin was the second son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.
Lord Dufferin was the second son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.
He was a clerk at the Foreign Office, Second Secretary of the Diplomatic Service and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for County Down. Lord Dufferin married Florence Davis, the daughter of John H. Davis, of 24 Washington Square, New York City, in 1893, and had three daughters:
Lady Doris Gwendoline Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (14 December 1895 – 1984), who married Captain Cecil Bernard Gunston Military Cross (1885–1934) of the Coldstream Guards, son of Major Bernard Gunston, formerly of the 5th Dragoon Guards, on 19 October 1922 and had issue:
Hermione Hamilton Gunston (b 1923), who married Lieutenant Colonel Sir Walter Luttrell Military Cross. Lady Ursula Florence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (9 February 1899-?), who married Arthur Swithin Newton Horne, formerly of The King"s Own Royal Border Regiment and Government Secretary of the Federated Malay States (d 1954)
Lady Patricia Ethel Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (20 March 1902-?), who married Henry Russell (d 1937)
Lord Dufferin died from pneumonia on 7 February 1918 and was buried at the Dufferin ancestral seat of Clandeboye, County Down.