Beauchamp Duff

General Sir Beauchamp Duff GCB, GCSI, KCVO, CIE, KStJ was a Scottish officer with a distinguished highly decorated military career in the British Indian Army, rising to political ranks ultimately serving as CommanderinChief of India during the First World War, he was one of the most senior general officers. His role in the disastrous expedition to Mesopotamia was criticised helping to end a long career at the end of the Victorian era.

Duff was born to an aristocratic family in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. He was destined for the army from an early age. Duff was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond before attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from which he graduated in 1874, and thence being commissioned straight into the Royal Artillery. Two years later Duff married Grace Maria, daughter of Oswald Wood of the Punjab Uncovenanted Civil Service. They had two sons and a daughter.

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