- Morning (London) Post
29 April 1847 p. 6b
DEATH OF THE DUKE OF ARGYLL
We regret to state that this venerable nobleman expired on Monday morning last at his seat Inveraray Castle. The Noble Duke our readers will recollect, has suffered for some weeks past from a bodily complaint, but had partially recovered. Some days back he, however, experienced a fatal relapse, and died as abovementioned. He was attended in his last moments by the Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne, and other members of his family. The deceased nobleman, John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, Duke and Earl of Argyll, Marquis of Lorne and Kintyre, Earl of Campbell and Cornal, Viscount and Baron, &c., in the Peerage of Scotland, and Baron Sunbridge and Hamilton in that of Great Britain, was born December 24, 1777, being the son of the celebrated Field-Marshal the fifth Duke of Argyll by the second daughter of John Gunning, Esq., of Castlecoote, Roscomon, and widow of James sixth Duke of Hamilton. In his earlier years the subject of this notice, then a junior member of the noble house of which he died the representative, entered the army, and served with some distinction under his late Royal Highness the Duke of York and the celebrated Sir Ralph Abercrombie. On retiring from a military life he entered the political world, and was returned as the representative of his native county, with which his connection did not cease until a period of more than twenty years had expired. From the time of his retirement from the Lower House in 1821 down to that of his elevation to the Peerage he led a retired life, and resided chiefly on his estates in Dumbartonshire. In 1839, on the death of his brother, the fifth Duke he succeded to the title and estates of this important branch of the Campbell family.
In politics the deceased nobleman was a Conservative, and for many years opposed all changes with regard to agricultural protection. In the dispute between the members of the Church of Scotland, it will be recollected, he took a most prominent part, and introduced a Bill on the subject, which, however, did not become law. As a patron of literary and scientific societies the Duke of Argyll was well known, and his loss in this respect will be much felt. He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and was a member of various other institutions. He was Heritable Master of the Queen’s Household, Keeper of the Great Seal and of the official regalia of Scotland, &c., Keeper of Carrick and Dunstaffnage Castle, and Colonel of the Argyll and Bute Militia.
The late Duke married three times, viz., first, August 3, 1802, Eliza, eldest daughter of William Campbell, Esq., of Fairfield, Ayrshire, by which lady, who died in 1818, he had no issue; secondly, in 1820, Joan, only daughter and heiress of John Glassell, Esq., of Long Niddvy, East Lothian, who died in 1828; and thirdly, in 1831, Anne, eldest daughter of John Cunningham, Esq., who survives, and who never left his Grace from the moment his complaint attacked him.
The deceased had issue by his second marriage John Henry, born in 1821; died in May 1837.
George Douglas, Marquis of Lorne, born in April 1823. This young nobleman, who, as our readers are aware, married in 1844 Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, has already in public given promise of a brilliant career, and of being a worthy successor to his respected father.
Lady Emma Augusta, born March 12, 1825, and Lady Elizabeth, who died young.
The family of Campbell is one of the most distinguished in Scotland. In 1445 one of its members first became a Peer by the title of Baron Campbell. The Dukedom bears date 1701, and the English honours 1776. The family estates lay in Argyllshire, Dumbartonshire, and Haddingtonshire.
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1777 - 1847 (69 years)
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