Political Career
Grant Duff participated in the 1857 elections as the Liberal Party's candidate from Elgin Burghs and was elected to the House of Commons. He served as a member of the House of Commons from 1857 to 1881. As a parliamentarian, he took up the cause of education in his constituency and gave regular annual speeches on foreign policy. In order to make these speeches as informative and realistic, he, himself, took trips abroad to study the situation in foreign countries.
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