The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-14
DUKE OF ARGYLE.
PecuIiarities and Foibles of Scotland's
Greatest Nobleman.


George Douglas Campbell, duke of
Argyle, who died on April %, was n
years old. His eldest son, the marquis
of Lorne, who succeeds to the title, is
the husband of the Princess Louise,
daughter of the queen. OF late the
duke has taken little part in public af-
fairs in which he was once a leader.
In the Gladstone cabinet of 1894 he
was one -Qf the chief members and sec
rotary Of state for India. Later he
broke with Gladstone and retired to
back bench in, the house of lords,
whence he arose from time to time
to scold the peers in long letters, care
fully written. Neither Mr.. Gladstone
nor Lord Salisbury pleased him, and
while he sat with the Liberals. he fire.
quently voted with the Conservatives.
The family of Argyle is one of the
most ancient and powerful in Scotland.
| The CampbellS trace their ancestry
back for eight centuries and their
feudS have been the frequent subject
for romance. Their seat is at Inver-
airy, on the northwest coast of the ISL
and. The famous Celtic name of the
house is MacCailean MhoT, from Sir
Colin Campbell, who was knighted in
| 1886. The full name OF the duke was:
George Douglas Campbell, ?. @, K. T.,
K. G., Marquis Of Lorne and Kintyre,
Earl Campbell and CowaI Viscount Of
/ Lochlow and Glenisla. Baron Inverary,
Null, MOVeTn and TRY, Baron Camp
! bell. Earl of Argyle. Baron Of Lorne,
Baron hintyre, Baron Sundridge,
Baron Hamilton, Duke of Argyle Great
Britain. 1922, Baron of LOchOw, Her
editary Master of the Royal Household,
Scotland, and Lord Lieutenant Of Ar
gyleshire.
The dukes first wife was the eldest
daughter of the second duke of Suth-
| erland, who died twenty-SeVen years
J ago, leaving her lord eleven children
| Their fourth son was the late Lord
| Colin Campbell. who died in India,
! husband of the brilliant Lady Colin. -
] After three years Argyle married the
/ daughter Of the bishop of St Adams.
| She died in 1894 and the next year, at
| the age Of p, he married Miss Ina Nc
Neill, once a lady of the queens bed
| chamber.
The duke of Argyle was known in
| America as one of the few leading pol
| iticians in Great Britain who advo-
I Gated the cause of the north during the
/ civil war. The duke was an early and
/ cordial sympathizer with William
| Lloyd GarrisOn's anti slavery views and
! had been all his life an ardent advo-
| cate Of emancipation of the blacks ev-
| eryWhere. He first made the acduaint-
| ance Of Garrison when Garrison went
/ to London in 1910 as a delegate from
/ the American anti-Slavery convention
| but refused to take his seat because
| the women delegates from America had
| been excluded on account of their sex.
| The duke of Argyle is credited with
| saying, before the civil war. that no
/ man in history had, in his opinion, ever
| been truer TO his convictions or more
| Jealous and intrepid for what he be-
| lieved to be truth and right than Gar
! rison.
| Beginning his life very poor, the duke
| of Argyle ended it very rich. He owned
! 10000 acres. His uncles had left the es-
| tate terribly dipped and then there
| were jOintures still. further 10 deDlete
! 1t. In fact, at one time he contem-
plated selling ROseneath, his beautiful
/ historic seat in DUmbartonshire. but
/ his slender means led to saving habits.
which grew steadily upon him, and he
/ had all his life lived so quietly and
| unostentatiously that he gradually
| cleared away debts and at last had q
| splendid income, a large proportion of
! which he saved. His eldest sons wife.
| the princess, receives $50, 600 a year
| from parliament, besides having a mar
J riage portion in cash of $150.O00 The
next son became partner in Coutt's
/ banking house. The third married a
| Manchester woman of fortune and
/ bought an interest in a stockbroking
/ house which does a great deal of bust
/ ness for the Rothschilds. A fourth en-
| tered parliament, and the fifth the
/ navy. One daughter was married to the
| eldest son Of the duke of Northumber-
/ land, with over S1,0O0,00O a year.
The duke began early to write In
| his 18th year he took the house of
| lords in hand, writing to them "A Let
/ ter to the Peers from a Peers Son. -
| Then he wrote a trifie with this title:
ION the Duty and Necessity of I'M
mediate Legislative InterpOsition in
Behalf Of the Church of Scotland as
| Determined by Consider atoms of Con-
! stitutionaf Law" In the same year
he produced "A Letter to the Reverend
| Thomas Chalmers, D. D., on the Pres
ent Position of Church Affairs in Scot
! land and the Causes Which Have led
! to It
The book for which he was most IA
/ nous is THE Reign of Law" but he
wrote many Others among them Pres
| bytery Examined, Iona, The East
ern Question, " 1.-The Unity of Nature, -
Unseen Foundations of Society -
Philosophy of Belief" Organic Evo-
/ luton Cross Examined" and a volume
OF poAgns.
The duke had long been the target
| for good-natured satire even among