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General First nameWilliam Edmund
LastnameL'Estrange-Duffin
GenderMale
CountryIreland
Date of birth1843-00-00
Place of birth, Scotland
Date of death1925-07-25
Place of deathDublin, Ireland


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County surveyor for the Western Division of County Limerick, 1874-77, and for County Waterford, 1877-1914. William Edmund Duffin, son of the Reverend William Duffin (d.1882), vicar of Maghera, County Down, and his wife Lucy, daughter of EdmundL?Estrange, of Hunstanton, County Offaly, was admitted to Trinity College, Dublin, at the age of seventeen in 1860 and obtained the BA degree in 1865 and the Licence in Civil Engineering in 1866.

?After graduating he spent a year as a pupil of Sir John and Telford Macneill, then worked for William Lewisin Dublin, then for Charles Galwayon the Central Ireland Railway, followed by two and a half years on the Geological Survey of Ireland. In the spring of 1874 he was appointed county surveyor for the western division of County Limerick, a post which he held until the autumn of 1877 when he was transferred to the county surveyorship of Waterford.

?He retired from the Waterford post in October 1914 to be succeeded by John Kingston Bowenthe following April.After his retirement Duffin lived in Dublin. He died on 25 July 1925 at the age of 82 and was buried in Mount Jerome cemetery. He had married Alice Susie, daughter of the Reverend Joseph Seymour Eager, rector of Drumgooland, County Down, on 1 April 1880. They had at least one son, who died at the age of two in 1884.?

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Archive statistics Career1878 - 1878
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Tournaments Waterford - 1878