Lord Dufferin was married on 10 June 1908 to Brenda Woodhouse , only daughter of Major Robert Woodhouse , of Orford House , Bishop 's Stortford , Hertfordshire . They had two children : On 21 July 1930 Lord Dufferin was flying with a party of friends from Berck , a small village in France near Le Touquet , back to England when the aircraft crashed outside Meopham , Kent , killing all those on board . The others in the party were Sir Edward Simons Ward , Bt. ; Viscountess Ednam , the wife of Viscount Ednam ( heir to the Earl of Dudley ) and a daughter of Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower , 4th Duke of Sutherland ; and Mrs Loeffler , a well-known society hostess , along with the pilot , Lt. Col. George Lochart Henderson and the assistant pilot , Mr C. D. Shearing . Lord Dufferin was buried in the family burial ground at Clandeboye , County Down
aircraft crashed
Meopham air disaster
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava