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SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY (1816-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:CHARLES GAVAN See also:DUFFY (1816-1903)  , Irish and colonial politician, was See also:born in See also:Monaghan, See also:Ireland, on the 12th of See also:April 1816 . At an See also:early See also:age he became connected with the See also:press, and was one of the founders (1842) of the Nation, a See also:Dublin weekly which was remarkable for its See also:talent, for its seditious tendencies, and for the See also:fire and spirit of its See also:political See also:poetry . In 1844 See also:Duffy was included in the same See also:indictment with O'Connell, and shared his conviction in Dublin and his acquittal by the See also:House of Lords upon a point of See also:law . His ideas, nevertheless, were too revolutionary for O'Connell; a See also:schism took See also:place in 1846, and Duffy See also:united himself to the " See also:Young Ireland " party . He was tried for See also:treason-See also:felony in 1848, but the See also:jury were unable to agree . Duffy continued to agitate in the press and in See also:parliament, to which he was elected in 1852, but his failure to bring about an See also:alliance between Catholics and Protest-ants upon the See also:land question determined him in 1856 to emigrate to See also:Victoria . There he became ir . 1857 See also:minister of public See also:works, and after an active political career, in the course of which he was See also:prime minister from 1871 to 1873, when he was knighted, he was elected See also:speaker of the House of See also:Assembly in 1877, being made K.C.M.G. in the same See also:year . In 188o he resigned and returned to See also:Europe, residing mostly in the See also:south of See also:France . He published The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), several works on Irish See also:history, Conversations with See also:Carlyle (1892), See also:Memoirs (1888), &c . In 1891 he became first See also:president of the Irish See also:Literary Society . He was married three times, his third wife dying in 1889 .

He died on the 9th of See also:

February 1903 .

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Sir Chas Gavan Duffy was my Grandfather from Co-Monaghan born April 12th 1816 and was knighted in 1873,my father emigrated to Canada. However we kept the duffy home in Ballyduffy just outside Balina, witch since has been plowed under. When My grandfather passed on my father took his title and held it till he died in 1975. I was the inheritor of the title Sir Roy Edward Duffy and still hold it.
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