Frederick Temple Hamilton Black-Wood Dufferin, earl of, an English statesman and author, son of the fourth Baron Dufferin and Helen Selina, granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, born June 21, 1826. He was educated at Eton, and at Christchurch, Oxford. He succeeded his father July 21, 1841, as fifth Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye, and was made baron of the United Kingdom in 1850. In 1860 he was sent by Lord Palmerston as British commissioner to Syria, to inquire into the massacre of Christians there. In October, 1862, he married Harriet Georgina Hamilton, who is distinguished as the author of "The Hon. Impulsia Gushington," a lively satire illustrated from her own drawings, describing the tour of a fashionable lady in Egypt. He was under secretary of state for India 1864-'6, and for war 1866-7; was made chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in 1868; was created Viscount Clandeboye and earl of Dufferin in November, 1871; and was appointed governor general of the Dominion of Canada June 1, 1872. He is the author of " Letters from High Latitudes," a narrative of a yacht voyage to Iceland in 1859 (London, 1860), a new and enlarged edition of which was published at Montreal in 1873.