Bryan Phillip Darrell Duppa (October 9, 1832 – January 30, 1892) was a pioneer in the settlement of Arizona prior to its statehood.
Life
Duppa, who called himself Lord Darrell Duppa, was the son of Baldwin Francis Duppa and Catherine née Darrell. The Duppa family home was Hollingbourne House near Maidstone, Kent. He was born in Paris, France, in 1832 where his father was a British Diplomat. He attended Cambridge University and learned the classics and five languages.
In the early 1860s he was working in New Zealand on the farm of his uncle George Duppa before leaving in early 1863 heading to California via Australia.
He stated that he had been shipwrecked and wandered through South America for some time before he reached North America and Prescott, Arizona, in 1863. He told John G. Bourke that he had been born at Marseille and that his family served in the diplomatic service.
Duppa founded New River, north of Phoenix, as a stagecoach stop.
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File:Phoenix-Duppa-Montgomery Adobe-1895-2.JPG|The 1870 adobe homestead house of Phillip Darrell Duppa in Phoenix.
File:Phoenix-Pioneer Military and Memorial Park-1850-Phillip Darrell Duppa.JPG|Grave site of Phillip "Lord" Darrell Duppa.
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See also
- History of Phoenix, Arizona
- Pioneer and Military Memorial Park