Alexander Duff (British Army officer)

General Sir Alexander Duff GCH (1777 – 21 March 1851) was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic era.

[1] In 1793, he was commissioned an ensign in the 66th Regiment of Foot, and served at Gibraltar, in Flanders, in the East Indies in 1798, and under Baird during the invasion of Egypt.

[2] He was made GCH and knighted in 1834,[3] and was promoted full general on 28 June 1838.

[7] by whom he had two sons and two daughters, including: He died at Percy Cross, Walham Green, Fulham, Middlesex in March 1851.

[9] He was Initiated into Scottish Freemasonry in Lodge Holyrood House (St Luke's), No.44, on 30 November 1812.