Charles Gavan Duffy [SEP] place of death
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".
Additionally, 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.
, later Earl of Birkenhead, also briefly lived in a house on Green Lawn. Former Australian Premier Sir Charles Gavan Duffy lived at Rose Cottage, which still stands on Rockville Street, where his son, Irish politician George Gavan Duffy, was born in 1882.
Highfield United Reformed Church, completed in 1871, is a sizeable place of worship within Rock Ferry and a Grade II Listed building.
Ferry service and shipping.
There are records of a ferry service from Rock Ferry pier to Liverpool from 1709 onwards,