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Without a sense of ignorance there could be no desire of knowledge, and without his desire of knowledge man would not be man. George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. Science has cast no light on the ultimate nature of life. But whatever it be, it has evidently fundamental elements which are the same throughout the whole circle of the organic world.
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The Duke of Argyll (Scottish Gaelic: Diùc Earra-Ghàidheil) is a title, created by Letters Patent in the Peerage of Scotland June 23, 1701 and in the Peerage of the United Kingdom April 7, 1892. The Earls, Marquesses, and Dukes of Argyll were for centuries among the most powerful noble families in Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They played a major role in Scottish and British ...
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th and 1st Duke of Argyll KG KT PC FRS FRSE (30 April 1823 – 24 April 1900; styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847), was a British polymath and Liberal statesman. He made a significant geological discovery in the 1850s when his tenant found fossilized leaves embedded among basalt lava on the Island of Mull.
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (S) and 1st Duke of Argyll (UK), KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE, was the second and only surving son, of John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, FRS, FRSE and his second wife Joan Glassel (d. 22 Jan 1828), only dau. and hrss. of John Glassel, of Long Niddry, East Lothian, by his wife Helen Buchan, dau. of John Buchan of Letham.
The Whig politician George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, was born on 30 April 1823. He was educated privately. He succeeded his brother as Marquis of Lorne in 1837 and succeeded the 7th Duke of Argyll, his father John Douglas Edward Henry (1777-1847), in 1847.
Elizabeth Gunning. George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll, GCH, PC (22 September 1768 – 22 October 1839), styled Earl of Campbell from 1768 to 1770 and Marquess of Lorne from 1770 to 1806, was a Scottish Whig politician and nobleman .
