John Francis Blackwood, 11th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (born 18 October 1944), is an Australian architect and a peer in the

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. The son of the 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (reverted) by his marriage to Margaret Kirkpatrick, he was educated at

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, and the

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, graduating as a Bachelor of Architecture.''

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'' volume 1, 2003, p. 1197 In 1971, Blackwood married Annette Kay Greenhill, a daughter of Harold Greenhill. They have two children, Freya Jodie (born 1975) and Francis Senden Blackwood (born 1979),

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to the peerage. Blackwood went into private practice as an architect in

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, and by 1984 was listed as ARAIA.''Debrett's Handbook of Australia and New Zealand '' (1984) p. 85 In 1991, he succeeded his father to become the 11th

Baron Dufferin and Claneboye Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, of Ballyleidy and Killyleagh in County Down, Northern Ireland, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 30 July 1800 for Dame Dorcas Blackwood, widow of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, Member of t ...

, of Ballyleidy and Killyleagh in the

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, and also as 12th Baronet of Ballyleidy; however, he did not use either title professionally. In 2003, Lord Dufferin was still living in Orange, New South Wales.

Arms

The arms of the head of the family are

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ed ''Azure a Fess Or in chief a Crescent Argent between two Mullets of the second and in base a Mascle of the third; for supporters Dexter a Lion Gules gorged with a Tressure flory counterflory Or; Sinister an Heraldic Tiger Ermine gorged with a like Tressure Gules''. The crest is ''On a Cap of Maintenance Gules turned up Ermine a Crescent Argent'' out of the Coronet of a Baron. The motto is “Per Vias Rectas”, meaning “By straight ways”.Dufferin and Claneboye, Baron (I, 1800)
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Blackwood, John Francis 20th-century Australian architects 21st-century Australian architects Australian peers Dufferin and Claneboye, John Francis Blackwood, 11th Baron John Francis Clandeboye New South Wales architects People educated at Barker College University of New South Wales alumni Living people {{UK-baronet-stub