LATE DUKE OF FIFE.
SUCCESSOR TO TITLE AN AUSTRALIAN. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. CAHIO, 31st January. Lord Kitchener has gone to Assouan. Ihe Duke of Fife's body has been embalmed, and the Princess Royal leaves on Friday on board the Nile steamer Hykhos. The journey to Cairo will occupy eight or ten 'days. GIBRALTAR, 31et January. The majority of their Majesties' engagements have been cancelled, but the King has intimated his wish that the Duke's death should not interfere with the receptions at Plymouth and London, where a thanksgiving service will be held on Tuesday. LONDON, 31st January. The Daily News says that though the Princess Alexandra becomes, the Duchess of Fife, the Irish earldom, created in 1759, apparently descends to an Australian, Jekyl Charmers Duff, of Warrnambool, some years ago in the police service, whose sons are in South Africa and India. The Daily Mail states that a eon of the first Earl, named George, died in 1818. He had a son, the Rev. George Duff, whose son, Colonel Daniel Duff, waa employed by the East India Company, and was the father of Jekyl Duff. No property accompanies tho earldom.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 27, 1 February 1912, Page 2
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192LATE DUKE OF FIFE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 27, 1 February 1912, Page 2
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