Family
Lord Dufferin and Ava married Maureen Constance, second daughter of the Hon. Arthur Ernest Guinness, himself the second son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, on 3 July 1930 at St. Margaret's, Westminster. They had three children:
- Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (16 July 1931 – 15 February 1996)
- Lady Perdita Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (b. 17 July 1934)
- Sheridan Frederick Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (9 July 1938 – 29 May 1988)
Lord Dufferin was buried in the family burial ground of Campo Santo at Clandeboye, County Down where a Celtic cross stands to mark his loss and the earlier losses of the Dufferin family to war. His friend John Betjeman wrote the poem In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava in his memory. His widow married twice after his death, first to Major Harry Alexander Desmond ('Kelpie') Buchanan MC in 1948 (divorced 1954) and second in 1955 to Judge John Cyril Maude QC (1901-1986), but against precedent always used the title she acquired from her first marriage. Maureen, Lady Dufferin died on 3 May 1998 and is buried at Clandeboye.
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