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<p>The Duffs of Braco had by far the greatest interest in Banffshire, and carried every election in this period. Only the Gordon family could have offered a serious challenge. William Adam wrote in 1788 that ‘these two families (and indeed the Earl of Fife singly) overshadow all the small and independent proprietors’.<a class='fnlink' id='t1' href='#fn1'>1<span><em>Pol. State of Scotland</em>, 50.</span></a></p>