The New York herald., 1878-11-24

lhat al their cares should be forgos
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Forthse Yonns Lorne the ~hole are gay.
| All hail the returning day
That hath thy triple iustre crovn'd.
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May fortunes smile thee e'-r attend.
Long health, and every youthful grace,
Glow in thy heart and beaueons "i, face
He married Elizabeth the second daughter Of John
Cunning, Esq, of Castle Coole Roscomnon. the relict
Of James, sixth Duke of Hamilton. Her Grace
created peeress of Great Britain in her own right
the an OF May 1876. BY tae title Of Baroness q
Hamilton. of Hambleton, in Ieicestershire. By her
h. Ii .d issue two sons and two daughters
John. the fifth Duke. was field marshal in the
army brave soldier and great and good man. Ha
died i'll Inverary in May and was Inferred at kmun-
1896.
SIXTH DUKE
George william. on the decease Of his mother.
Elizabeth Baroness OF Hamilton in her right. III
1o ne succeeded to the English peerage and to the
hereditary honors OF the family on the death of his
father the thireth Knight OF Lochow, the twenty
nfst MacCailen Nor. the twenty ninth campbell the
III l.6o. married. III 1910 Caroline Elizabeth. daughter
70 the Earl of Jersey. formerly wife to Lord Paee
atterward Marquis of Hastings, whom she divorced
after having numerous family 10 MIN. George
William died without ut Inyerary Castle and
was Inferred at Kmun in 1879
John Douglas Edward Henry. seventh Duke OF Ar
gsll. succeeded his brother George William sixth
Duke 1si? Married, first in ls,2. Elizabeth. dangh
ter of W. Campbell. Esq, of Fairfield who died III
1878; second, il s2o, Joan daughter Of John Glesse
ESQ., who died in lSas: third in 1881, Anne Colqu-
houn daughter of the late John Cunningham. Esq, Of
CraigendS and had issue by his second marriage.
Duke John died in the year lSl7 at Inyerary and
inferred at hiniun.
riGnrH DUKE
George John Douglas Campbell. eighth Duke of
Argyll, born April 81 1923. He married Lady
Elizabeth Georgna. second daughter of George Gre
vile. second Duke OF Sutherland. by whom he had
issue five sons and seven daughters.
PRESENT
John George Edward Henry Douglas sutherland.
his heir the present Duke is the thirty second
Knight Of Lochow and the thirtieth Campbell i'll d-
rect descent. He possesses in an eminent degree the
talents that has long distinguished his family The
high offices he has held under different governments
having been conferred on him not on account OF
his family connections. but as the result Of his
aptitude for business and literary abilities.
which were very early developed. his first work hav
ing been published before he was twenty In 1851 he
was elected Chancellor Of the University of St.
drcws; in 1852 he held the Office Of Lord Prvy Seal
under Lord Aberdeen's administration. On Lord
Palmerston taking the reins of government he was
continued in the Office to the end Of 1855. when
he exchanged it for that OF Postmaster General In
1884 he elected Rector of the University of Gls
Cow. and in September, 1855. he presided over the
twenty fifth meeting of the British Association for
the Promotion of Science, which was held in Glas-
Cow. In 1886 he went out of office. but in the next
year again appointed Lord Privy Seal; this he
held till 1859 In 1850 no reapponted Postmaster
General. In the last administration he held the
highly important Office of Secretary of state for
India. his son. the noble Marquis of Lorne. being his
privat. secretary.
LITERARY RECORD or THE PRESENT DUKE
The present Duke of Argyll is not only statesman
of more than ordinary ability, but has achieved
well earned reputation as man of letters for ha
scientific knowledge, theological lore and antiquarian
research. This is not the time place to express
opinion on his political views or to criticse his
works among the best known of which "A Letter
to the Peers. by the Son of Peer, published in
1922 another in the year 'On tho
Present Position of Church Affairs in Scot.
land Essay the Ecclesiastical History of
Scotland and several others published while ha
was yet Marquis of Lorne. rThe Reign of Law"
originally written i'll Good Words. which
published in 1866. is treatise displaying great
search couched in language alike forcbe tcrse and
eloquent: while his latest published work Iona
is graphic in its descriptive portions that it re-
calls all the principal features of the island to those
who have it. and will create longing de-
sire the part others visit the shrine of st.
COLUMBIA.
rrTLEs or ARGYLL.
Earl Of Argyll; 147o Baron Of Lorne by royal char
ter 1901. Duke of Argyll Marquis of Lorne and Kin
tyre. Earl of Campbell and Cowal Viscount OF
Lochow and Glenila Baron Inverary. Null, Morvern.
and TRY. in the peerage of Scotland 10Th December.
1866, Baron Sundridge of Coombank: May 4, ll16.
Baron Hamilton in the peerage of England: Heredi-
! tary Master of the Queens Households Keeper of
| Dunoon. Dunsafnage and Carick Castles Heritable
| Lord Lieutenant OF Areyllshire.
| THE FAMILY SEATS
Inverary Castle Argyllshire: Roseneath and Ardin-
1 caple, Dumbartonshre; Longnddry, Haddington-
\ shire Halnaker Sussex. and Argyll House. Camden
/ H London. His eldest SON and heir is Hon. John
| George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell.
by courtesy Marquis of Lorne late member of Parla
for Argyll and Governor General of Canada.
| whose career have already sketched