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He was the son of Douglas Walter Campbell and his wife, Aimee Marie Suzanne Lawrence. His paternal grandfather, Lord Walter Campbell, was the third son of the 8th Duke of Argyll. Through his father, he was the nephew of Queen Victoria's daughter Louise, who married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, the fourth Governor General of Canada.
George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll was a Liberal politician and natural historian. He wrote on a diverse range of subjects, from ornithology to geology.Argyll was one of the scientific figures opposed to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. While not opposed to evolution in general, Argyll believed that there may have been several creations and that life on earth ...
But the execution of Charles (January 30, 1649) by Cromwell’s Independents horrified the Scots and ruined the alliance. In desperation, Argyll allowed the Covenanters to invite Charles’s son to Scotland and on January 1, 1651, crowned him King Charles II. The defeat of Charles II in England in September 1651 caused Argyll to submit to Cromwell.
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Argyll held various government posts as a whig including Privy Seal four times and Secretary of State of India from 1868 to 1874. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and interested in scientific progress, although opposed to the theory of evolution.
26 de abr. de 2022 · Son of George, Marquess of Lorne and the former Lady Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, and was styled Earl of Campbell from birth. In 1847, when he was 21 months old, his father succeeded as 8th Duke of Argyll and he assumed the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, which he bore until he was 54.
• Personal and business papers of family members, 16th – 20th centuries, including personal correspondence of the Marquess of Argyll and Margaret Douglas, 1660 and 1673, papers of the 8th Duke of Argyll relating to his term as Secretary of State for India, 1860s-70s, and letter books and press cuttings of the Marquis of Lorne (later, 9th Duke) as Governor General of Canada, 1878-1883.
When George John Douglas Campbell 8th Duke of Argyll was born on 30 April 1823, in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell 7th Duke of Argyll, was 45 and his mother, Joanna Glassel, was 26. He married Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Duchess of Argyll on 31 July 1844, in Trentham ...
