Dooforhim
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Dufferin: Frederick Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), a prominent Anglo-Irish diplomat; Viceroy of India (1884-88)
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- Ulysses 031.30: "I [Mr Deasy] am descended from sir John Blackwood who voted for the union." → Sir John Blackwood (1722-99) was Lord Dufferin's ancestor; he was bribed with the offer of a peerage to vote for the Act of Union in 1799, but he refused and died "in the act of putting on his topboots to go to Dublin to vote against the Union" (according to his descendant Henry N. Blackwood Price in a letter to James Joyce in 1912); his son, Sir James Stevenson Blackwood, the 2nd Baron Dufferin, did vote for the Act of Union in 1800, his peerage allegedly being a reward for doing so
- do for: to kill
- doof: (german slang) stupid (but since when?) - from Low German meanging "deaf"
