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He left behind him a daughter and two sons, the elder of whom, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, G.C.S.I., was born in 1829. His christian names record the fact that Mountstuart Elphinstone was his godfather. He was Under-Secretary of State for India in Gladstone's first administration (1868–74), and a few months after the defeat of the Liberals in the latter year he visited India for the purpose of becoming better acquainted with the country, for whose government he had been responsible in the House of Commons during the preceding six years. He subsequently published a record of his tour, which is full of information regarding the flora of India. In 1880–1 he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and from 1881 to 1886 was Governor of Madras. He died in 1906. During the later years of his life he published his voluminous *Notes from a Diary*, a work useful to the student of social conditions in the Victorian Age.¹