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Old Photograph Orton House Scotland
Old photograph of Orton House by Fochabers located ten miles East of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The Wharton-Duff family who lived in this Scottish mansion house have a family tree that can be traced back to William Duff of Dipple and the First Earl of Fife, Lord Braco. William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, born 1696, died 30 September 1763. He was a Scottish nobleman. The son of William Duff of Dipple, in 1719 he married Lady Janet Forbes, second daughter of James Ogilvy, Earl of Findlater and widow of Hugh Forbes, Younger of Craigievar. She died in 1720 and in 1723 he married Jean Grant, second daughter of Sir James Grant of Pluscardine, Bt. He inherited substantial estates from his father on his death in 1722. He was Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1727–34, and was created Lord Braco of Kilbryde in the Peerage of Ireland on 28 July 1735, and Earl Fife and Viscount Macduff, also in the peerage of Ireland, by letters patent dated 26 April 1759, after proving his descent from the MacDuffs, Earls of Fife.
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