Iseult Frederica Grant Duff (1882 - 1957)

Born 16 Mar 1882 in Ootacamund, Madras, India [uncertain]

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Died 1957 at about age 74 in Deben registration district, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Iseult Frederica Grantduff was born on 16 Mar 1882. She was the daughter of Mountstuart GrantDuff and Julia Webster. She was baptized on 2 Jun 1882^[1] in Ootacamund, Madras, India.

She died on 2 December 1957 in Aldburgh, Deben, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.

• Her father was the (British) Governor of Madras between 1881 and 1886, and she was accordingly born in British India. As a young woman she returned to India to undertake missionary work there, but her own Christian faith perished during the First World War, after which she made her way back to England. She then studied and qualified as a psychoanalyst. When she was 75, her partner having become confined to her bed through arthritis, the two of them ended their own lives.

Sources

1. ↑ "India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGX2-K57 : 5 February 2020), Iscult Frederica Grantduff, 1882.

• Duffs - "The daughters of Alexander Duff of Braco and Grant Duffs" in "The Book of the Duffs by Henrietta and Alexander (Alister) Tayler, printed privately by T & A Constable in Edinburgh 1914, and made available (partially) online by the Internet Archive "Wayback Machine" in 2009: pages 491-501, here, in particular, 498
• "The Peerage" genealogy website created and curated by Darryl Lundy
• Iseult Grant Duff (1882-1957) in "Women Psychoanalysts in Great Britain" by Brigitte Nölleke
• Her Death Certificate. Death Certificate data (selection):

• Registration District : - Deben
• Registration SubDistrict : - Wickham and Woodbridge in the County of East Suffolk
• Year of Registration : - 1957
• Nbr. In register : - 132
• When died : - Found dead on 2 December 1857
• Where died : - 58 Saxmundham Road, Aldeburgh
• Name : - Iseult Frederica Grant Duff
• Sex : - Female
• Age : - 75 years
• Occupation : - A spinster. A lady’s Companion and a daughter of the Right Honorable Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff G.C.S.J.
• Cause : - Aspirin poisoning self administered. Did take her own life
• Cause certified by : - Certificate received from Norman ?Ba___ coroner for Suffolk (southern district). Inquest held 4 December 1957
• When registered : - 5. December 1957
• Registrar : - ?Victor P. ?Dunne