Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-24


and Scientist.
LONDON, April 24.-George Douglas
Campbell, Duke of Argyll, died this morn
ing.
George Douglas Campbell, eighth Duke of
Argyll, was born at Ardincaple Castle,
Dumbartonshire, Scotland April 80, 1923,
and succeeded to his fathers titles April
rs. 1s47, Duke and Earl of Argyll, Mar
quis of Lorne and kinlyre, Earl Of Camp
bell and Cowall. Viscount of Lochow and
Glenilla, Baron Campbell and Baron Of
Lorne Inverary Null, Morven and TRY, in
the peerage of Scotland; and Baron Sun
bridge and Hamilton in the peerage of
Great Britain. His father was thrice mar
ried, but had issue only by his second wife.
OF their four children, the Oldest and
youngest died in youth.
While he was still Marquis of Lorne, the
late duke became known author,
politician and public speaker. At the age
OF nineteen he entered the ecclesiastical con-
troversy then going on in Scotland by the
publication of pamphlet entitled Letter
to the Peers-from a Peers Son. in which
he advocated the independence of the Pres
byterian Church of Scotland. This was
followed by several other essays on the
same subject that brought the young man
to the attention of DR.. Chalmers, by whom
he was regarded as IN important and valu-
able adherent. Notwithst landing the promi-
nent part thus taken by him in this con-
troversy he did not join tho Free Church of
Scotland when the disruption took place.
In 1913 he published critical and histori-
cal essay on the ecclesiastical history of
Scotland since the reformation, entitled
.'Presbytery Examined"
The Duke of Argyll sat i'll the house of
lords as Baron Sundridge and Hamilton, in
the peerage of Great Britain, until 1892,
when he was created Duke of Argyll in that
peerage. He took an active part in poll
tics and was a frequent speaker in the
house of lords from the time he entered it.
In 1851 he was made privy councillor, and
from 1852 to 1855 he held the office of lord
privy seal in the Earl of Aberdecn's cab
net. On the breaking up of that ministry,
in February, 1850 in consequence of the
secession of Lord John Russell and the
appointment of Mr.. Roebuck's committee
of inquiry into the state Of the British army
before Sebastopol, the Duke of Argyll en-
tered Lord Palmerston's cabinet in the same
capacity. In the latter part of 1856 he re-
signed the privy seal and became postmas-
ter general In 1859 he resumed the office
of lord privy seal under Lord Palmerston,
which he again exchanged for that of post
master general in 1860. He went back to
the privy seal again in 1860.
On the formation of Mr.. Gladstone's cab-
net in December, 1868, the Duke of Argyll
was made secretary of state for India,
which position he retained till the downfall
of the liberal government in February,
1874. In 1880, when that government re-
turned to power, he was again appointed
lord privy seal. In 1881 he resigned in con-
sequence of difference with his colleagues
bill. In announcing his withdrawal to the
house of lords he said that he considered
that the bill put the ownership of Irish
property in commission and allegiance,
wherefore he felt compelled to resign his
office. Since that time the Duke Of Argyll
had been an active opponent of the principles
sought to be established for the improve
ment Of the condition of Ireland and Scot
land by the contest for home rule and the
crofter agitation
The Duke of Argyll held distinguished
position as a public speaker None OF the
political orators of the house of lords, it
has been said, not even the Marquis Of Sal
isbury. could approach the Duke of Argyll
in the general force of his grasp and the
elevated strength of his diction; and he sell
dom failed of producing a profound i'm
preston.
Notwithstanding the Duke of Argylls long
and fncessant political activity, he found
leisure for studies in science, metaphysics
and literature, besides the theological SUBJ
jects in which he gained youthful distinc-
ton; and on all these subjects he wrote
and lectured much. He was a frequent
contributor to scientific journals, chiefly on
geology and the Darwinian theory. His
contest with Prof. Huxley, carried on in an
English magazine, concerning the scientific
accuracy of certain Passages of the Bible,
attracted much attention.
The Duke of Argyll is succeeded as head
| of the distinguished family of Campbell by
his eldest son, John George Edward Henry
Douglass Sutherland, Marquis Of Lorne, who
married the Princess Louise, fourth daugh-
ter Of Queen Victoria.