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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.
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.
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, was born 30 April 1823 in Ardencaple Castle, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom to John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll (1777-1847) and Joan Glassel (bef1805-1828) and died 24 April 1900 Inverary Castle, Argyllshire, Scotland, United Kingdom of unspecified causes. He married Elizabeth Georgiana Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1824 ...
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