Alexander duff upsc
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Biography of Alexander Duff 1st Duke Fife 1849-1912
The Times. 02 Feb 1905.
Her Royal Highness. [his wife] Princess Louise (Duchess of Fife) (age 37) and the Duke of Fife (age 55), were invited to luncheon vith Their Majesties The [his father-in-law] King (age 63) and [his mother-in-law] Queen (age 60) to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Denmark (age 32) left the Palace to-day to rejoin tho Danish Cruiser "Heindal," at Southampton, on his return to Denmark.
Mr. Victor Cavendish, M.P, Financial Scretary to the Treasury, Mr. F. P. Horner, Cormnissionor of Woods and Forests, and Lieut. Colonel R. F. Maunsell, R.A., Military Attache at Constantinople, had the honour-of being received by The King.
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Alexander Duff was born to James Duff and Jean Rattray at Moulin in the Perthshire highlands of Scotland on April 25, 1806. He is best known for his work in establishing the system of Christian higher education in India, which had a major influence on missionary policy and the general development of education. Duff fervently believed that a sound Western education was an ideal “praeparatio evangelica”, causing the native receiver, especially belonging to the higher castes, to become receptive to the gospel.
Duff's father was a tenant farmer and a fervent evangelical. Duff attended grammar schools at Kirkmichael and Perth before going to the University of St. Andrews. At St. Andrews, he was a distinguished student in arts and divinity and helped to found a student missionary society. Duff’s missionary inclination was greatly influenced by the lectures of Thomas Chalmers, the mathematician turned minister from Glasgow, appointed to the chair of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrews. Duff writes of his decisions: “In my closet I said: '0 Lord, silver and gol
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Duff, Alexander (1806-1878)
Scottish missionary in India and missiologist
Duff was born in Moulin, Perthshire, the son of a Gaelic-speaking farm servant. At St. Andrews University he was a distinguished student in arts and divinity and helped to found a student missionary society. As his studies were concluding, the Church of Scotland was preparing to institute its first mission, which would have education at its center, and appointed him superintendent of the General Assembly’s institution at Calcutta. He arrived in Calcutta in 1830, after two shipwrecks. Desiring to influence Hindu society as a whole by producing a core of thinking people who would have change thought patterns and value systems, Duff’s institution offered a complete system of science and letters in English, set in a Christian philosophy with constant use of the Bible. He was crucially assisted by the Hindu reformer Ram Mohun Roy, who gained him acceptability among Hindu parents and, after 1835, by the new status of English as the language of local administration. At the government Hindu College many young Brah
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