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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.
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 ...
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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.
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.
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George John Douglas Campbell, 8th and 1st Duke of Argyll (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.
