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LACHLAN Gordon-Duff was a hard-working and much-liked character who enjoyed caricaturing his kind. Born into an old Banffshire Jacobite family - he traced his origins to Adam Duff of Clunybeg in 1590 - he was imbued by his mother, Lydia, in the notion of public service as an end in itself.
While his impeccable vowels enunciated an education gained at Eton and Sandhurst, he was never slow at employing the native Doric. However, challenged once during a council meeting that he was a landed Tory of the old school, he retorted: "Tory, yes. Landed, yes - if you count 13 acres as 'landed'."See the full content of this document
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Colonel Lachlan Gordon-Duff
His ability to think out of his conventional upbringing won him the political friendships he readily u...
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