1st and 4th: Or, a lion, rampant, gules (Macduff) 2nd and 3rd: vert, a fesse dancettee, ermine between a hart's head, cabossed, in chief, and two escallops in base or (Duff)[1]
Creation date
26 April 1759
Created by
King George II
Peerage
Peerage of Ireland
First holder
William Duff, 1st Baron Braco
Last holder
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife
Remainder to
1st Earl's heirs male of the body
Subsidiary titles
Viscount Macduff Baron Braco Baron Skene[2]
Extinction date
29 January 1912
Former seat(s)
Duff House Balvenie Castle Innes House Mar Lodge Skene House Delgatie Castle[3]
Motto
Deo juvante (Latin for 'With God's help')
Earl Fife was a title in the Peerage of Ireland created by letters patent dated 26 April 1759 for William Duff, 1st Baron Braco, after asserting (but not proving) his descent from Macduff, the medieval Earl of Fife. Though in the Irish peerage, the title's name refers to Fife in Scotland.
^Berry, William; Glover, Robert (1828). Encyclopædia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry. Published by the author. p. 477. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
^Lodge, Edmund; Innes, Anne; Innes, Eliza; Innes, Maria (1860). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Hurst and Blackett. p. 244. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
^The Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage, Of Great Britain And Ireland For ... Including All the Titled Classes. Whittaker And Company. 1854. p. PA243. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
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