Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (6 May 1794 – 21 July 1841) was the third and eldest surviving son of

Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (1758 – 18 November 1839), styled The Honourable Hans Blackwood between 1800 and 1836, was an Irish people, Irish peer and politician. Background Blackwood was the fourth son of Sir John Blackwoo ...

and his first wife Mehetabel Hester Temple, daughter of Robert Temple. He was a

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in the

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and married on 4 July 1825 Helen Selina Sheridan, daughter of Thomas Sheridan, himself the eldest son of the playwright and statesman

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, and had issue: * Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye Lord Dufferin died from an accidental overdose of morphine and was succeeded by his only son. Helen Lady Dufferin was married secondly after his death to George Hay, Earl of Gifford (1822–1862), the eldest son of

George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, (1 February 1787 – 10 October 1876), Hereditary Chamberlain of Dunfermline, was a British people, British soldier and administrator. He served as a staff off ...

on 13 October 1862 on his deathbed. Lady Dufferin died on 13 June 1867.

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