GEORGE DOUGLAS (8TH DUKE OF ARGYLL) CAMPBELL - FREE FRANK SIGNED - HFSID 81595
Sale Price $144.00
Reg. $160.00
JOHN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL (8th DUKE OF ARGYLL)
The Whig politician and Darwin foe signs a free frank.
Free Frank signed: "Argyll", 4x2¼. Clipped from an envelope
addressed in his hand to "H Minereal/I. O." George Douglas Campbell
(1823-1900) succeeded his father as the 8th Duke of Argyll in 1847. Argyll
was a prominent Whig politician, closely associated with Prince Albert. He
served in the governments of four Prime Ministers: Lords Aberdeen, Russell and
Palmerston and William Gladstone. Offices included Lord Privy Seal, Postmaster
General, and Secretary of State for India. His wife, Lady Elizabeth, was
Mistress of the Robes for Queen Victoria, a politically appointed post in
that era. The Duke broke with Gladstone over the issue of Irish Home Rule,
withdrawing from government in 1874. Actively interested in scientific matters,
Argyll was a leading critic of Darwin's theory of evolution. He wrote
books on topics as diverse as law, economics, and biology. His eldest son,
known as Lord Lorne until he inherited the ducal title in 1900, married Queen
Victoria's daughter, Princess Louise, in 1871. Toned. Irregularly cropped
corners. Otherwise fine condition.
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