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

Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye Francis George Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (20 May 1916 – 13 November 1991), known as Sir Francis Blackwood, 7th Baronet, from 1979 until 1988, was a British baronet and a peer in the Peerage of Ireland. After the extincti ...

, by his marriage to Margaret Kirkpatrick, he was educated at

Barker College , motto_translation = Seek Honour above Rewards , location = Hornsby, Sydney , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia Sydney , pushpin_image ...

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, and the

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, graduating as a

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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), heir apparent 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 as 11th Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye of Ballyleidy and Killyleagh, County Down, and also as 12th Baronet of Ballyleidy, but did not use either title professionally. In 2003 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