third time in Paris in 1881, to Louise Hall, and they had four more children. Marriages and children In 1842 Duffy married Emily McLaughlin (1820-1845), with whom he had two children, one of whom survived, his son John Gavan Duffy. Emily died in 1845. In 1846 he married his cousin from Newry, Susan Hughes (1827-1878), with whom he had eight children, six of whom survived. After Susan died in 1878 he married for a third time, in Paris in 1881, to Louise Hall (1858-1889) by whom had two further children. Of his eight surviving children: John Gavan Duffy (1844-1917) was a Victorian politician who served variously as Minister for Agriculture, Attorney-General, and Postmaster-General. Sir Frank Gavan Duffy (1852-1936), was Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1931–35. Charles Gavan Duffy (1855-1932) was clerk of the Victoria House of Representatives in 1901-17 and of the Senate in 1917-20. Philip Cormac Gavan Duffy (1862-1954) a surveyor and civil engineer noted for his work in Western Australia on the Coolgardie water supply, Louise Gavan Duffy (1884-1969) was the joint secretary of the nationalist women's organization, Cumann na mBan, and was an Irish republican present at the 1916 Easter Rising and an Irish language enthusiast who founded an Irish language school, Scoil Bhride (St Bridget)'s Girls School in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin. George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951) was an Irish politician and a signatory to the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. From 1936 onward he was a justice on the Irish High Court, becoming its president from 1946 until his death in 1951. One year before his death, he heard the Tilson Case, in which he applied the ne temere decree to the letter as de Valera's 1937 Irish Constitution gave the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland a "special position". A grandson, Charles Leonard Gavan Duffy, was a judge on the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Death Sir Charles Gavan Duffy died in Nice, France in 1903, aged 86. Works Notes References Browne, Geoff, A Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament, 1900–84, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1985. Duffy, Charles Gavan. Four Years of Irish History 1845–1849, Robertson, Melbourne, 1883. (autobiography and recollections) Garden, Don. Victoria: A History, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1984. Keatinge, Patrick, 'The Formative Years of the Irish Diplomatic Service', Éire-Ireland, 6, 3 (Autumn 1971), pp. 57–71. McCarthy, Justin. History of Our Own Times, Vols 1–4, 1895. McCaughey, Davis. et al. Victoria's Colonial Governors 1839–1900, Melbourne