DUFF, SIR EVELYN MOUNTSTUART GRANT (1863-1926), British diplomatist, second son of the Sir Mount stuart Grant Duff, the administrator and diarist, was born on Oct. 9, 1863. From 1888 he was on Foreign Office service in Rome, Tehran, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Stockholm and elsewhere. In 1913 he was made minister at Berne, a post which acquired great importance with the outbreak of war in 1914. Grant Duff had the responsibility of furthering friendly relations between the British and Swiss Governments, and of mitigating the difficulties arising out of the blockade. He was the object of a violent news paper campaign instigated by the Germans, and was accused of taking observations of Friedrichshaven from the neutral Roman shorn. This propaganda was officially contradicted by the Swiss Government. In 1900 he married Edith Florence, daughter of Sir George Bonham. Lady Grant Duff gave invaluable assistance in organizing the Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de Guerre (British Section). Sir Evelyn resigned in August 1916. He died at Bath on Sept. 19, 1926.
D U F F, SIR MOUNTSTUART ELPHIkSTONE GRANT (1829-1906), British politician and writer, was born at Eden, Scotland. He was educated at Edinburgh and Oxford, and in 1854 was called to the bar. He sat in parliament as the Liberal member for the Elgin Burghs from 1857 to 1881, being under secretary of state for India from 1868 to 1874 and for the col onies during 188o-81. He was governor of Madras from 1881 to 1886. His writings include Miscellanies, Political and Literary (1878) ; Studies in European Politics (1886) ; Memoirs of Henry Maine (1892) ; Renan (1893) , and Notes from a Diary for the years 1851-1901 (14 vols., 1897-1905) .