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Alexander James Duffield (1821–1890) was an English mining engineer, Hispanist and writer.


Life


Duffield was born at Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. He married and emigrated to South America, spending some years in Bolivia and Peru as a mining chemist, and learning Spanish. He had plans, which proved unsuccessful, to introduce alpacas into Australia, several times visited Brisbane, and reported to the Queensland government on labour for the sugar plantations. Subsequently he travelled in Spain and other countries, and for some time held an appointment under the government of Canada.[1]


Works


Duffield published:[1]

Duffield also contributed a note on "The Lost Art of Hardening Copper" to Heinrich Schliemann's Ilios; the City and Country of the Trojans (Leipzig, 1880).[1]


Notes


  1. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Duffield, Alexander James" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Duffield, Alexander James". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.




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